Okay I'm feeling like a damn fool today so I'll contribute to the Machine Learning Discourse, Pat's standard rule of false dichotomy* nonwithstanding:

Describe your favorite course as though NY Mag just found it. *Modern Algebra.* How modern can it be when it stops around 1910? Students learn useless things like how to build an unsolvable quintic polynomial, all while writing papers about it in this very unserious liberal arts "math" class.

Since #Thanksgiving is this week, here's your mandatory listening, Alice's Restaurant www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57g...

What are the mitzves of Thanks Giving, a festive meal, to eat the turkey bird, to hear the story of thepilgrim, to watch the football game. And some say to argue with an uncle.

I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

this is pretty good but it still does not touch upon my crackpot theory about MALLRATS, which is that it's structured like a shakespeare comedy www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

Did, uh, anyone notice that when Carville claims in his NYT piece that “defund the police” was bad that the link takes you to an Appeal story about why ”fund the police“ was bad? Any editors, perhaps?

One of the more interesting twitter fights I ever got into was when anti abortion laws were starting to ramp up, some folks who i don't know how well meaning they were, started posting herbal abortifacient recipes. To which my response was a not at all measured NO DO NOT EVER DO THAT 30 tweet rant.

Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals! www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

ICE agents tell citizens they don't care their citizens because citizenship doesn't mean anything in a world with racial and demographic profiling and no warrants or other 4th amendment protections. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Q1: Which is heavier: a kilogram of gold or a kilogram of feathers? Q2: Which is heavier: a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? Q3: Which is heavier: an ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers? (1/4, answers in next post)

NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office. President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports: boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...

So I was talking to Zooey and webcomics came up and I am realizing that I used to devour webcomics as a teen but haven't read them in years. So bluesky, what are your fav webcomics I should get into? I like fantasy, sci fi, gaming, slice of life, comedy, supernatural, and interesting art.

I think we’ve all missed some obvious clues From New England, has unholy appetites, doesn’t appear fully human? RFK Jr is a Deep One hybrid

If Ryan Lizza can't write this, then someone else should.

Does anyone know any good near-future and/or cyberpunk fiction?

So yes, #POTUS IS giving the military ILLEGAL ORDERS! And I think even #SloppyPete knows this bc every tweet he sends announcing a “kinetic strike”, he makes sure to say it was Trump who gave the order. Anyone wanna tell him abt the #JustFollowingOrders defense? www.rawstory.com/trump-boats-...

Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned

Okay. Y'all owe me. Here it is.

Off topic, but how come I didn't know (or maybe forgot) that Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly are married?

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

I have zero tolerance for the “well, I guess we have no choice with immigrants but to deport them or lock them up if the paperwork goes wrong”

this thread is unbelievable

NEWSWEEK: “Chinese immigrant found hanging in ICE detention with his hands and feet tied behind him… Chaofeng Ge died 4 days after entering ICE custody in Pennsylvania… deaths in ICE custody have gone up under Trump…” www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”

CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using XZV Baby Loungers Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Suffocation and Fall Hazards; Violates Mandatory Standard for Infant Sleep Products www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

Considering starting going on a campaign where if you're about accessibility but you only talk about alt text and you still post videos without at least video descriptions (but ideally a descriptive transcript) you're still not doing good enough. Because—not to be a jerk—you aren't.

I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season

More than 500 people met at a Raleigh church. | Opinion

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth. This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg says "justice requires" him to continue contempt inquiry into Trump admin. “I certainly intend to find out what happened on that day,” Boasberg said of the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights. He plans to begin hearings on Dec. 1. New, at Law Dork:

Open to advice on what to do with a dead pheasant in one’s yard (in town)

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

In 1994, OLC said that Aircraft Sabotage Act applied to foreign officials shooting down civil aircraft suspecting of smuggling drugs, warning that US officials helping could be aiding and abetting crimes. Would OLC say it's fine now, even if US itself shot them? Or does the NIAC only reach boats?

Why the fuck didn’t any other reporter on Air Force One that night call Trump out for his disgusting remark? Why the fuck didn’t any other reporter on Air Force One defend this female reporter? And why the fuck did it take 72 hours to hear about Trump’s disgusting & cowardly insult?

Charlotte mothers are uniting to ensure the safety of children as they return home from school, amidst the terrorizing presence of ICE GOONS in their city.

the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.

#3157 A helpful tutorial

i don't think you need to get significantly more elaborate than this: in a world on fire, where multiple total wars are actively raging and the climate is getting more and more unstable, people will flee. you would flee. i would flee. accept this and fix your heart, or die

NEW: Avelo’s ICE flights have been a fiasco, internal documents show. Serious safety lapses, poor planning, mechanical issues, an emergency landing — and they’re not even making as much money as they hoped they would. From me for @prospect.org: prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

“Anarchist militants have waged terror campaigns in the United States and Europe, conspiring to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization through their brutal attacks,” the [US State] department said. archive.is/202511151850...

Back in April, ProPublica interviewed flight crew from GlobalX, another ICE airline. “They never taught us anything regarding the immigration flights,” one said. “They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled...” Is this a disaster waiting to happen? www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Alice Wong died of an infection 💔 Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

Calling all allies! **Mass call TOMORROW (11/17)**

Between Trump's incomprehensible gibberish, Cassidy's "plan," Rick Scott's "proposal" and other bits & pieces being tossed around by various GOP electeds, it's difficult to tell what exactly they're talking about.

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t. There’s some kind of lesson here