Academic articles from authors using large language models are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Everyone in the federal government and the media only has one job and it's frantically running around and trying to hide evidence of the president's many crimes. They are so tired and all they want is for him to at least pause the crimes for a minute but he keeps on doing new ones

As others have pointed out: Trump was selling MERCH for this place not that long ago. Almost like public pressure has shifted their sense of what they can get away with.

This began with rage at the idea that progressive game and comics creators might be able to speak against "the boss," when "the boss" was unemployed college-age geeks and gamers. Then it became rage at liberal schoolteachers speaking against "the boss," when "the boss" was rightwing *schoolboys*. >

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

remember how Kimmel went for them? it's going to be even worse

"We have had more than a decade of anti-cancel culture commentary insisting that the most important thing is the character of the speech system—its empirical openness—rather than whether the government specifically is the one doing the censoring." (from February 2025)

I think Trump is clearly outrunning the system's tolerance for authoritarian consolidation but also the system's tolerance for authoritarian consolidation is worryingly high

Congratulations again to every major media editor who tried to sell Peter Thiel’s fake Appalachian messenger boy as a Reasonable Empathetic Conservative www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/jd-v...

say what you will about Andrew Tate, but his decision to not have a chin likely saved his life in that fight. Just one of those uppercuts would've killed Bruce Campbell.

All of them are so stupid! They are all so convinced they have the smartest bestest genes, but they're dumb as shit! It's so insulting!

I totally agree with this view. If someone wants to pursue this path they should have every opportunity to but mandating it as an alternative is grotesque.

Billionaires installing regime censors everywhere is probably bad

Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong

I'm not so easily shocked these days, but it might actually be shocking that the vice president of the United States is as violently, smugly, publicly racist as he is.

Is Vance a big mother honorer?

I want to be clear: 60 Minutes has mot been as relevant in the past 15 years as it has been on the CECOT story. It has been leading coverage since MARCH.

Not super interested in debating Erika Kirk's decision to become media darling after her husband's death. There's no accounting for grief and you'd probably do the same thing if the world was thrust at your feet. A lot easier to hate her because she's a fascist monster.

I've been really worried about this bias in the more social uses of AI, and didn't even think about how it would be in medicine too.

Perhaps we could find a librarian who wanted to rap about cecot.

she only meant free speech for people like her

I think this change in Ezra's tone is a good sign... hopefully we will assertively normalize some people up to the wall.

Not sure what the "theater kid" discourse is, but the would-be autocrat of America is the biggest, messiest theater kid who ever lived.

Maybe I don’t have enough of a sense of history and I should know better, but I have been surprised in my adulthood that: 1. Charlatans are incredibly easy to spot 2. People love charlatans

"Peak of evolution" is in itself a contradiction in terms. It is irritating that we let idw people get away with the "attacking sacred cows" pose for any amount of time.

I am sorry, but I am from the Midwest. Apologizing is my culture, and I am tired of his attacks.

BlueSky seems to think that this was a request for celebration and the Streisand effect is it backfiring. Someone risked their job to post this because they want you to know.

These debates always assume that liberalism is the natural state for men, and that's not the case! You can't throw a rock without hitting someone looking on the state of men. We should be having debates about whether excessive freedom has harmed men and they need to be under matriarchal control.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

5% of the population generates 50% of healthcare spending. The GOP solution to cutting healthcare spending in half is to simply let that 5% die. The only flaw in their reasoning (aside from a total lack of ethics and morality) is that sooner or later nearly everyone ends up being part of that 5%.

Free speech begins and ends with a group of powerful fancy friends to say slurs.

Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.

She is the first person I remember like that, but it seems to be more common now.

I've seen this makeup trend on a lot of people where it looks like you don't have eyes. I thought it was maybe a way of covering up aging, but she isn't old enough to lose her eyes out of necessity.

Western civilization will collapse as long as Musk, Miller, et. Al are free men.

it’s sort of incredible to me that vance has apparently decided, of his own free will, that it’s his job to be even more viscerally unpleasant and personally charmless than spiro agnew, and that he seems to sincerely believe this will one day make him president

I feel like Kevin McAllister should know how to pack. He solves a lot more difficult problems.

😢🚨✊ “This document proves if the FBI had done its job in 1996, Epstein’s decades-long sex trafficking operation could have been stopped at the outset... the FBI’s negligence allowed Epstein to continue abusing hundreds of girls and young women for nearly 25 more years.” thehill.com/homenews/adm...

It's fun how every pundit completely misread the anti incumbent anger in the post COVID inflationary period as everyone suddenly loving racism

The road to the White House is through the Wiener's Circle.

Idk that higher wages for the lowest earners is contradicted by an increase in homelessness. In essence higher wages make un/underemployment even more expensive and life harder for people unable to work/work as much. The rising tide lifts all boats, but if you don't have a boat you drown.

I actually disagree with this. It's a lot easier to have a troubled family member living in some of your space when space is affordable and plentiful. You'll give your brother more time to get his shit together if he is living in your basement than your spare bedroom than your couch.

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

One of my many problems with people framing antisocial behavior as punching up is that people basically never punch up they punch at people who can't punch back. For every murdered health insurance CEO there are tens of thousands of customer service representatives being screamed at.

"do you have an unusual medical belief or do you just think that fat people are physical manifestations of sin and your reaction is so extreme that you will do literally anything to communicate the abhorrence of that sin to you"

Hence why it's "wellness" not "health". WELLNESS is ritual behavior the signal that you are not fat and that you will not become fat, or that if you are fat, you are very sorry and working to become not-fat in the most torturous possible way. Health is boring unsexy doctor stuff. They hate doctors.