Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

sorry we didn't know the nude screaming bacon guy was going to stray off topic

does anyone know why the Outlook calendar represents the *actual* time of meetings with tiny dark blue rectangles, while the enormous light blue rectangles with the actual meeting info in them don't actually match the times? Has it always been like this? It feels insane

the rise of software like chatgpt combined with the prevalence of sans serif fonts online is a perfect storm for people called Alan who like to shorten their name

typical press conference, using it as an excuse to talk up his achievements

Some of those that work forces Aren't the same that cite sources

welcome to today's key theme

of course he wouldn't be able to make Father Ted today, his brain is a half-eaten blancmange full of hate chunks

Broderick Smith's Big Combo ... Gordon Lightfoot ... Dan Fogelberg ... Bruce Hornsby ... Bonnie Raitt ... Suzanne Vega ... the list goes on

Politicians like Shorten or tech bros like Bell should just stay out of the education sector. Just because you were successful in one domain doesn't mean you have a clue about another. Nothing suggested here has anything to do with knowledge creation, which is one of THE core missions of unis.

I feel real bad for everyone who's been struggling to care for a delusional family member, watching whatever progress they've made get annihilated by ChatGPT in an afternoon.

There's a fixed belief in centrist wonkism that all progressive policies are sugary chocolate Christmas sweets that mummy and daddy can only give out on special occasions and that any conservative idea is definitionally sensible, kitchen-table stuff everyone wants and knows they need

I don’t know Waleed, so take this with a pinch of salt. But what his latest piece *looks like* is celebrity logic refined (but not altered) by a PhD. Celebrity logic loves broadcast media: a one way flow of information from them to hoi polloi. The information flows down, and from a great distance.

I don't think I can keep watching free to air AFL next year if I'm listening to Brayshaw and watching Eddie's failsons ... and I'm certainly not paying for it ... they should really try to cast the net wider than 2 or 3 Melbourne suburbs

Well then, we all look forward to the conservatives ending: - Negative gearing - Franking credits - Corporate subsidies - Mining fuel rebates

It should not be possible to be this wrong

Ezra Klein has the opinions of a guy who's life is under no threat whatsoever from anyone. The platonic ideal of a centrist.

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Donald, King probably of all the Kings, actually: HODL WAGMI BTFD!"

odd choice to call out core coalition constituencies like landlords, franking boomers, agribusiness, job police agencies, and the mining industry. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

Holy shit classdojo give me a chance to miss you

"so why wait? buy these glasses and you can show off that significant cognitive disadvantage *today*"

Sounds like they have a really good handle on how all this will go down, very cool

changing a few system fonts is the OS upgrade equivalent of a mechanic tightening your hand brake and cleaning the wheels

My TV's user interface has Carey Mulligan smoking a broken cigarette

At Avid Reader! @damonyoung.com.au interviewed by @joanneanderton.bsky.social about Immortal Gestures, followed by introductory poetry by @shastradeo.bsky.social , preceded by short readings by salon panel of young writers (some from my classes:)

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

It’s actually impressive the lengths this guy will go to avoid understanding the actual causes of problems. He truly is the ultimate consultant

Again, you don’t get Nazis in charge without a prolonged period of enthusiastic collaboration. It should be very clear now who has been collaborating, and how friendly you should be to them if you meet them.

How it started. How it’s going

KASH PATEL: I want boots on the ground! I want every nook and cranny in a 200 mile radius scoured ... *vengaboys ringtone plays* uh huh... uh huh... ok we'll come get him

I see nepotism is alive and well in the AFL commentary scene

look Charlie Kirk started, maintained, & promoted turning point usa’s professor watchlist I’ve been on it for over a decade and until this year I was the *only* UVM professor on it which means his life’s work = my death threats

good piece www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹

One thing the media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made jarringly clear is how scared they are of the people in power now who share his extremist beliefs. In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.

"paint me like one of your French girls"

it is my contention that half a pack of leftover chips you forgot about tastes far superior to a full pack of chips you just bought

I wonder what the Teams Team's Team Teams messages are about right now?

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.

RFK: (like you pitch shifted a 56k modem down) We had an acceptable amount of cannibalism when I was a child. We would regularly go to school and cut off our fingers to serve to each other. It only became an issue in the 90s, with SSRIs.

"back in my day guns were safe", I shout to nobody in particular at the annual family bbq, wondering why a couple of my close older relatives are a no-show again this year

Every time they wheel old Davros out of his Shady Acres bunker for a bit of a whinge, it reminds everyone just how much Australia has actually moved on from his tawrdy, mediocre shit.

Glou Wine Bar in Collingwood - the bar that donated all of the drinks VS used during our federal election campaign - had Nelson Alexander reach out to ask if they could have their Christmas party there. Their response is marvellous.

wrote a little bit about the greatest to ever do it

Your conscience is now Hamas

anyone else feel that the worst functionality in a mobile phone (at least my android one) is the actual phone part of it ... the contact list is clunky and I finish every call with my ear having turned the damn flashlight on