What is it with scammy jerks like the following. The accounts eventually seem to get deleted but can they scam enough cash to make their repeated resurrections under different names profitable enough for the effort?

Sarah Kendzior in her usual excellent form. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

"I'm a mathematical constant and my partner is an exponential function she insists we get differentiated but I am worried should I agree?"

Epstein's Eugenics Project: How the Billionaire Promoted His Racist Ideas Through Intellectual Circles With @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Fine was criticizing a comment by Palestine born Nerdeen Kiswani who didn't say to ban dogs. I've known people from the "Global South" where dogs are often regarded as dirty diseased animals who belong in the streets, not homes, and shudder at dogs licking people. www.trtworld.com/article/3eb4...

Thomas Drake writes about how oligarchic pathocracy is becoming world rule. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...

Just as the state has a monopoly on violence (it can imprison and execute people while citizens can't) the state also has a monopoly on sin and defying God in order to keep that power out of the actions of citizens where it should be punishable.

#VidSource liv.waycott www.tiktok.com/@liv.waycott 2023-7-13 www.tiktok.com/@liv.waycott... The Internet Ice Cream Challenge was to stage doing outrageous things with ice cream. wjbq.com/shuckins-lob... bsky.app/profile/852d...

18 ft gold leafed statue of Trump destined for his Doral property held hostage by sculptor Alan Cottrill until paid by the group of 16 cryptocoin entrepreneurs who commissioned it to promote a coin. “I can’t trust them to pay me” www.alternet.org/trump-gold-s... www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

9. We’ve become so used to all this that we hardly notice it. But isn’t it extraordinary? Almost everyone wants one thing, and almost everyone who represents us – whether in politics or the media – wants the opposite. Yet we tell ourselves we live in a democracy.

Gregory Bovino has been called "commander at large" but that's not a real rank in the Border Patrol. He still wears the 2 silver star insignia of a Sector Chief Patrol Agent which at GS-15 is equivalent to military O-6 (colonel, captain) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory...

#VidSource I had to check that the video of Trump nearly wandering off the red carpet after his helicopter landed at Davos was real and not AI enhanced. Its real, posted by the White House 8:34 AM Jan 21, 2026 x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

New favourite example of scalar implicature

The Philippine Airlines preflight video is a whole telenovela. 🤣

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

China now dominates global production of renewable energy technologies. It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match. www.science.org/content/arti...

“When a person does well on the LSAT, you can also infer things about their ability to persevere at difficult work, or to manage stress. When a large language model does well on the LSAT, you can infer only that it can do well on the LSAT. This is a particular problem for higher education”

FBI freezes out Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from joint investigation of Renee Good shooting. FBI won't give BCA access to any evidence, blocking it from investigating so that the FBI is now the sole investigator. dps.mn.gov/news/bca/bca... www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Stephen Miller sure comes across as an unhinged psychopathic Nazi here who thinks the louder he talks the easier his position is to understand. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

I posted the below in response to a post by @dan401w.bsky.social dan replied something like "how can the cat be stupid if it guesses right" I asked if he watched the video I linked. He blocked me. bsky.app/profile/a-be...

I posted the below in response to a post by @dan401w.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/dan4... dan replied something like "how can the cat be stupid if it guesses right" I asked if he watched the video I linked. He blocked me. bsky.app/profile/a-be...

I think Trump wants to show he is better than Putin. Trump can invade Caracas and oust Maduro. Putin couldn't invade Kyiv and oust Zelenskyy.

It's been, uh, a while, but I have a new newsletter out, based on some conversations here, about the irreconcilable experiences of LLMs that different groups have had and how that all boils down to afordances and how 'AI' is a terrible name and an even worse UX metaphor.

Me and the fellas beating the toxic masculinity out of each others souls

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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...

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párek v rohlíku (sausage in a roll) is a Czech style hotdog sandwich where you take a long narrow bread roll, excavate a lengthwise hole almost all the way through, fill the hole with ketchup, then shove in a skinny hotdog sausage. #hotdog www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkST...

Q: Why did Donald Trump bury Ivana on one of his golf courses? A: So he could still cheat on her.

So, how are things going over on the right?

Hello, 28th precinct, I was just yelling slurs at a bunch of people on a public sidewalk and some little skater kid snatched my transitions lenses and when I tried to chase him I fell flat on my face. Yes I’ll hold

Thanks, New Yorker

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

Sorry but it's hilarious that he's absolutely calling ABC out for being bitchmade for his earlier shakedown and telling them he's gonna do it again. He even says "they gave me". Lol. Not even "they were forced to pay."

John Oliver on ABC caving in and suspending Kimmel. Excellent www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPT...

Penises and fingers share a common genetic heritage. (gift link)

If Trump Isn’t Dying, Why Is He Being Treated Like a Make-A-Wish Kid? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qxW...

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

As @m-b-petersen.bsky.social told me a few years ago, "anyone can believe the truth, but only loyal members of the group can believe something that is blatantly false." www.salon.com/2021/08/08/a....

The more outrageous the lie, the more it becomes a badge of group loyalty to assert it. Because there’s zero chance anyone who wasn’t in the cult would repeat it just because it makes sense.

Going to do the trite thing and note that if Biden did this, it would have been the top story for days.