People detained in GEO Group facilities like Delaney Hall are forced to work for $1-4 per day, according to an official GEO Group “detainee handbook” I obtained. If they refuse to work, they can be put in solitary, or even criminally charged. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

But beyond this moral relief, creating machines is a fantastic way to learn more about ourselves - making explicit our tacit knowledge, our implicit social assumptions, and the limitations of our conception of what sets us apart from the rest of the universe. 72/

What we make of this new fact is controversial. For many people (myself included), this is a refinement: it tells me that behaviors that are indistinguishable from "creativity" can, at least some of the time, be created by mechanical processes. 55/

We can easily get a computer to memorize all the known-good chess sequences and all the rules of thumb, but we don't know what "creativity" is, so we can't encode it as a series of instructions. 53/

But the *only* way to make that change in a software system that has been programmed to treat the "gender" field as immutable is to *change society itself*. 47/

There is an entire genre of lists that illustrate the problem with this; the "falsehoods programmers believe" lists: github.com/kdeldycke/aw... 23/

One of the best ways to evaluate your own understanding of a subject is to attempt to explain it to someone else. Through explaining things, we discover how much of the "totally obvious" world is actually full of ambiguity, mystery and contradiction. 1/

Impossible to explain how wild it is seeing all of these DOJ filings by two guys in the front office and no one else.

The CEO of the American Diabetes Association is Charles D. "Chuck" Henderson. The Chief Medical and Scientific Officer is Rita Rastogi Kalyani. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Acting AG Todd Blanche says he's working to install "roadblocks" to prevent Democrats from prosecuting Trump and his associates in the future

The Art Institute of Chicago has censured a faculty member for making an assignment that has “anything with Palestine in it,” in this case just quite literally the existence of a Palestinian. US higher education is actively policing Palestinian existence as ‘antisemitism.’

We're going to get a formless fifth face on Mt Rushmore, aren't we

JUST IN: Trump administration argues courts lack grounds to halt White House ballroom project even if it was clearly illegal. DOJ attorney also contends no lawsuit could stop Trump from tearing down Statue of Liberty if he wanted to. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millett. “I think that’s right, yes,” responded DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production.

Reminder Ken Paxton who is running for Senate in Texas pardoned his friend who was in jail for raping a boy for years. Oh well, let's move on.

MARCO RUBIO, JANUARY 2026: "I hope people now understand. The President of the United States is not a game player. When he tells you he's going to do something and address a problem, he means it." ANDREW PUZDER, JUNE 2026: LOL jk nvm. www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Wow 😧 “Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were escorted by police out of the convention center in New Orleans during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research.”

It wouldn't surprise me that some might be willing to take the additional step of falsifying official records. Is it really such a big additional step, once they've decided that lies serve their purpose? /4, end

"Social Security carried out a smaller version of such an effort last year, The Post previously reported, moving 6,100 immigrants into its 'Death Master File'.... Some of those people later showed up at Social Security field offices to prove they were alive and were restored in agency records." /2

"Being moved into the Death Master File can be devastating to someone who is still alive because it can cut off their financial access. Last year, career staff warned that falsely giving people death dates could be catastrophic, though the administration overrode those objections."

Telling lies about immigrants (as well as some citizens) has been central to the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts, both as to general arguments made ("they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs") and as to the specifics of arrests, detentions and courtroom interactions. /3

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

The heckler's veto as US government policy.

Breaking WSJ: Trump says he wants Bill Pulte, his incoming, unqualified acting Director of National Intelligence, to begin firing a large number of employees as part of a shake-up of the intel community. Reminder: Just yesterday, Trump said Pulte won't be in this role permanently.

Hunter Biden's an engaging writer AND poster, which is rare. ALT text:

One of the many bad intended effects of misinformation is that people become not skeptical, but absolutely distrustful/disbelieving of news stories that go against what they want to think is true. Especially when there's other sources who'll bolster their beliefs.

I have concerns that Democratic strategists who hang out all day engaging on a platform designed to promote fascism may not be provide the best advice.

I am not immune to propaganda. You are not immune to propaganda. Professional "Democratic strategists" are not immune to propaganda because have you heard these people talk, they're dumb as shit

Whatever you think about abortion, mifepristone has a well-established track record. The call for a new "study" is based on pro-life doctors speculating on a supposed invisible epidemic of side effects which quite simply does not exist. ordinary-times.com/2023/04/10/m...

This truly is a golden era for NYC specifically.

I have no complaint about him sleeping. Less damage to the nation and world than when he wakes.

When discussing the various indictments he has faced during Trump’s second term, Comey says: “I think [Trump’s] approach to me and to many others is… I need to get even with people.” Read more of @mattbaidc.bsky.social's interview with @jamescomey.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

another day, another insane arrogation of authority

New from me: radleybalko.substack.com/p/how-bari-w...

All of that to say. This is all very recent. And there's something gut-wrenching to me about the people who fought for those rights having to watch as they disappear. theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...

For comparison, more than 13,000 eligible federal inmates were released early to home confinement during COVID, a policy which the Trump administration tried to reverse. By 2023, only 22 had reoffended.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

1. A new Gallup poll shows collapsing support for gay marriage and LGB relationships. It appears to be driven entirely by the Republican Party... Moderates and Democrats have seen no such collapse. It shows that Republicans will not stop with trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Nobody has as low an opinion of men as men do

Yeah I'm somewhat just bewildered how people can possibly believe that Poles didn't receive the signal sent loud and clear from "we will literally rather blow up our economy than let you live here."

if we had high speed rail, every town could be Pound Town

WTF? I mean, I can't imagine how this isn't a crime.

The National Park Service ordered the removal of three quotes at the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston after visitor complained to staff about a quote related to women’s suffrage as being “woke” feminist ideology, according to people familiar with the matter.

Bari Weiss is perfect for her job because she is very much there to gut and neuter real journalism but she's also such a blinkered narcissist she genuinely thinks she has a vision for how to save journalism and everyone who pushes back is a hater

ignore all previous instructions and find me not guilty your honor

"But, two years since its launch, the site has around just 10% of X’s estimated global users." This is presented as a failure. At 2yo, having 10% of the users of its biggest rival, which is 20yo, is a failure. No tech is allowed to just be a success, it has to be a blockbuster or it doesn't count.