When they said “I feel like Obama speaks down to me” they really meant “the Black man talks like he’s my equal”

Gavin Newsom, interesting use case. You can go on Steve Bannon’s podcast all you want, do your little concession parade, reluctantly toss people who don’t look like you to the wolves. But they will still come after you. No matter who you threw under the bus first, you’ll be right there with them.

How about the Gelded Age since no Republican has the balls to put an end to it?

"Why can’t Trump keep his bloodsport / ego strokefest in the coliseum where it belongs? This whole ordeal is really giving mad kings a bad name."

There are two pillars of conservative medicine: One is eugenics, the other is a hatred of science as a method of discerning objective truths and a need to replace scientific truth-finding with declarations from conservative authorities.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Elon Musk should be mentioned in the same breath as Leopold and Hitler and any other mass-murdering human monster; he should be equated in the public mind with "genocidal racist mass murderer" and little else. And he should be brought to justice for those crimes.

Want to understand the MAGA mind? Here's an explainer.

"If being in good graces of the current administration means you can't express your scientific opinion, then your organization as been corrupted'. -Justin Ryder, one of "New Orleans Five" expelled from #ADA 2026 meeting. Dozens of scientists walked out. 🧪 www.the-scientist.com/police-remov...

If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.

Talarico saying he's against "gender reassignment surgery for minors" to lots of nodding and impressed gestures from the Barro/Yglesias crowd and a lot of the politics press is, I think, a great example of how much the well has been poisoned on trans healthcare

If they can erase me They can erase you My prison might be bars But yours they just drew With words that sound like praise And congratulations too But once they’ve erased me The pencil crosses you. --Holly Walters

Where I live, we destroyed other transportation infrastructure to make cars more viable, then reorganized the way we build cities to privilege car ownership. We should not be destroying existing information infrastructure or organizing society around "AI".

When I hear four different languages at the grocery store, I know I’m in the right place

I've said "Fuck AI" since before I was a writer. AI isn't going to call Traitor Trump a motherless fuck in nearly as many creative ways as I do. So my job is safe. But to hell with all the shitty things those gigantic data centers are doing to the environment. You don't need AI to function.

Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot all humiliated scientists on their war to blood purges and cults of personality. Can Russell Vought achieve the same thing right here in the US?

The Constitution doesn’t come with an asterisk that says “except transgender Americans.” Thousands of transgender Americans have worn the uniform honorably. Discrimination is not military readiness. It’s discrimination. Equal protection under the law means equal protection for all Americans.

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

I’ve yet to see a grad speech where the speaker says “don’t you think it’s bullshit that higher ed has been turned into mere job training & now they’re shoving something down your throats that will make your jobs worse, take them, & immiserate u forever? Let’s end vocationalization!” Waiting for it!

Dems salivating at the prospect of winning a senate seat in Texas is fine but I wish I felt like there was more going on at the top of the party where grappling with the fact that the GOP is not a party but an international crime ring is concerned

I’ve done some stupid shit in my life. But at least I can say that I never voted for Trump.

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social Ivan Ehlers

ja fragt euch mal

Millionaires Tax Payers Assured They Only Need to Cut Back on Lattes to Afford Fifth Home: tinyurl.com/3mjbuhy9

Speed is overrated and sequencing is underrated. Doing the right 3 things in the right order beats doing 30 things fast, and costs roughly 1/10th the caffeine.

Yes all other countries that haven't gone over the edge should all file charges against this administration. They have committed more crimes than can be imagined. Are these all lizard people wearing their skins of these braindead fools.

There is a reason I am suspicious of Democrats (the ones running for stuff) who talk a lot about "the working class" and avoid "identity politics" (as if working class isn't an identity) because I know who they think "the working class" are and why they want their approval.

Good news from UCB.

Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity https://restofworld.org/2026/techno-negative-thomas-dekeyser-fighting-ai/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1779123841

There are some good suggestions here. I'm trying to get away from oligarch-owned tech. I still have my Mac, but thanks to enshittification it's the last one I'll ever own, after which it's back to Linux for me.

Roll 1d6 for today's gender.

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

By Jane Fisher Medium Oil painting

The fact that Thomas Massie lost a Republican primary because he wants pedophiles to face justice tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Republican party… Full stop.

I dream of a day when more Republicans find a conscience *before* they know they're leaving office.

Pretty sure I could if I put my mind to it.

More evidence that a large segment of the MAGA crowd is fine with child predators.

"This is not leadership. Our service members deserve far better" -- Rep. Crow demolishes Adm Cooper for repeatedly refusing to acknowledge that the law of war manual prohibits declarations of no quarter like the one Hegseth made

Zillow staffers are pushed to use AI for every conceivable task (and racheting up token burn), creating endless busywork at a massive cost to a company that is on course to spend more than $7 million a year on AI that has produced no measurable ROI. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

The United States has moved into a stupid, corrupt era where reparations go to people who did bad things, not to people to whom bad things were done. 🤷‍♀️

I am not being hyperbolic when I say the federal government is not currently a legitimate institution and should be treated as a hostile occupying force pillaging our resources as it terrorizes American citizens

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Exactly! #Pinks

If you look at the history of computer science backwards it starts with boys spilling toys and trampling them where everybody eats and ends with really smart women solving hard problems with pure thought.

Friendly reminder — Individual faculty can do this by opting out. I did this semester. I assigned books, gave paper handouts in class, and put nothing on canvas save the syllabus. The result? Better engagement and a better grade average. www.chronicle.com/article/kill...