I’m gonna be so transparent: I saw the pull quote from what Raskin said and rolled my eyes and kept moving. But I actually listened to the whole clip and it’s so obvious what he’s trying to do; we should be BEGGING for other Ds to make that same rhetorical move.

I watched a very informative video about hacking AI and the key point made was that they are primarily statistics models. Given enough dice rolls, even with the "guard rails", the LLMs will spit out almost anything they're trained with. And they're trained with stuff like Reddit.

wake up babe, new units of measurement just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

speaking of writing, my current contract as a writer at a tech company is up on 12/26 and i don't know if they're renewing me yet so if you are looking for a writer please let me know. i can write a coherent sentence and i've never been romantically entangled with any major political figures

And I know very well that there are wonderful men out there, but I also know, WHOEVER you are: that there is literally not a SINGLE WOMAN IN YOUR LIFE whom has NOT been subject at one time or many to attempted sexual coericion by a would-be mentor or coach or boss. Not fucking ONE.

These men were not clever, careful, nor coy about it! I have oodles of correpondence from older men who intially wanted to foster my work, work they apparently admired, shift to claiming if I would not sleep with them, that suddenly they did not feel they could continue to support my trajectory.

the seven little words every woman wants to hear: "baby don't worry. it's not a worm"

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

"rip to prometheus's liver but i'm different"

Problem: AI needs massive amounts of power to thrive. Nuclear makes lots of power. Nuclear takes a long long time to do safely. Proposed solution that I'm sure will have no unpleasant consequences: Use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants.

What this reveals is that for most people in charge right now “AI” is less useful as a technology than as a piece of language to shift a conversation in whatever direction they need it to go. In one minute it will propel a new economy; in another it’s the reason for a recession.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

I wonder what it feels like to be a female student in his classes right now. I hope @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social is investigating.

Lotta rocks getting turned over and we haven't even turned over the big one yet.

Important to remember: If the worst of the Epstein stuff had already been released, there would be no reason for Trump to keep fighting it. If he’s trying to stop it, there’s a reason why.

This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke... Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

one argument thats always struck me as funny is the one about people coming to america to drain the budget of our many social services. such as free university, free healthcare, UBI, etc. you know, all those things we dont have

I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.

wake up, eat breakfast, go back to sleep, I think my cat has the right idea.

The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.

Yet another example of how LLMs are antisocial products that promote antisocial behavior. Seems like a lot of people view their work as "solving the problem of me, personally, having a blank page" while not giving a shit about what it means to be part of a community and what we owe each other

Oven makers pimping their “interactive color touch screen” and all I really want is a big freaking knob. Do you know how many computers I want in my oven? Zero. I want zero computers in my oven.

Larry H Summers, previously president of Harvard and economist etc etc, notes that "getting her to be good probably requires more firmness than (he) enjoys" These men are just disgusting. Disgusting.

I think November might not actually exist in any real temporal reality. Like, 11/15? No. It was October 31 yesterday and tomorrow is December 1. That's how this works.

that people use AI technologies in their work and explain that it saves them precious time that they can devote to other more urgent tasks tells me less about the wondrousness of the technologies and more about the overextension and immiseration of workers.

Blending Family and Governance, Richard III has his nephews imprisoned in the Tower of London and later murdered. Blending Family and Governance, Agrippina the Younger marries Emperor Claudius and later poisons him. Blending Family and Governance, Louis XIV remarks “L'État, c'est moi”.

What if "Wag the Dog" but with a real war.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

[clapping hymnal on back of pew] Me: [chanting] Unam Sanctam II, Unam Sanctam II- Other parishioners: Unam Sanctam II, UNAM SANCTAM II Bishop: [beating altar] UNAM SANCTAM II, UNAM SANCTAM II, UNAM SANCTAM II!

Never ending soup and salad (threatening)

Always watch Hunt for Red October

Goodemorning Gonzobongos! Yu will be habby to heer i hav bin a bit rambunctshioyse todaye

completely artless, ignorant hogs who only socialize with other artless, ignorant hogs in 1% wealth social circles, suggesting everyone wants a robot that can take over creating art for them so they can optimize their productive workday. this is the pitch.

This has been a very effective theatrical tactic on the right: collapsing the female-dominated HR structure (which developed explicitly to minimize employers’ obligations under civil rights law!) into a synonym for anti-discrimination law itself.

In the words of a very cranky welfare state scholar who once spoke at a grad seminar of mine: you all need to study history, boys and girls. Neat periodization of technological revolutions hides the messiness of historical contingency.

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

I mean, this whole framing is ridiculous. “Canny Swiss diplomats hit on clever way to secure policy aims with the President: give him a bribe.”

I'm really sad about Todd Snider

Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.

Accepting gold bars is literally what Robert Menedez is in jail for right now.

I would listen to the pope’s movie podcast.

An important thing many corruption stories get wrong is that what's stolen isn't "taxpayer money" it's collective governance

What is it with this man and building things that catch on fire