i feel moral revulsion now when I see news stories broken by the New York Times, even when they’re significant pieces of news. How to take something seriously when it comes from the place that publishes a thing like “have women ruined the workplace” while abetting genocide, fascists, pedophiles?

look, I'm sure they meant well, it was just another huge and inexplicable violation of all journalistic principles that favored very identifiable political interests in a very particular direction, this just happens, it's an accident

Anyone have a good US source for food-grade potash?

The reason the emails read like hot garbage is because they don't have to worry about being judged. These are not men who have ever poured over an email out of fear of not being taken seriously or not being treated professionally.

government by the rapists, of the rapists, for the rapists

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

dynasties are a symptom of democratic failure - maybe high barriers to entry into politics - maybe poor information about all candidates-> name-recognition problem - maybe something else! but definitely not a sign of merit, fairness, or accountability

not interested in a kennedy heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a pelosi heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a cuomo heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a clinton heir for the same reason i’m not inter

I am deeply dismayed at how consistent and small the cabal who have engineered where we are now has been basically from Nixon to Bush to the present.

There was a lot of gossip. Not because they were both very old, and famous. Not only because both used the same pronouns. Mostly because they were different species. How do they do it? "Like everybody else," the heir to the Elven throne said. The dragon smiled. "With love, care, and enthusiasm."

The ISU is a deeply embarrassing organisation, wdym you can't write one! single! sentence! about one of your athletes without using GenAI #GPFigure

At this point just rooting for more than 2 of 12 men to skate clean…

Well I didn't think The Fresh Market in Framingham would survive, and apparently it has now closed. Best wishes to the people who had been working there, not their fault that their employer leased a cursed location.

Realizing the "we poisoned you all with lead for decades" generation was immediately followed by "we fucked up teaching you how to read, now you're bad at it and hate it" generation to be followed by "Mandatory AI will fry your cognition" generation. Well, shit. www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Nah, there's just a relay in his head that flips open, refusing to let him say the words, "... land that I love." He hates urban America and has contempt for the rural rubes who voted for him. He lives in an AI-mediated fantasy ginned up by his handlers.

and what ICE is doing is not "immigration enforcement"

Can you guess what these are? Hint: Luisa Weiss

"A world-wide revolution in cheap, non-polluting, locally controlled electricity everywhere across the globe ... except for the United States." - The International Energy Agency, just last month.

Hell is not punishment enough for Andrew Wakefield.

Catherine Connolly, who I used to meet cycling around Galway, was inaugurated as the 10th president of Ireland today. She's already making the right people uncomfortable

This article is required reading. When I was writing my space opera trilogy a few years ago, I decided never to use the word "race" to refer to alien species. I used "species," "peoples," "civilizations," etc. I've also tried to stop saying "human race" in casual conversation.

Found myself wondering if digital humanities scholars have a good or even just plausible metric for cultural distance — more specifically divergence between two colonies of the same colonial power, or between the colony and the origin country.

It's remarkable how AI generated images have gone from remarkable and visually attractive to repulsive AI slop in just a few years.

get to know your mutuals! list 10 random things you like Pairs skating (can't do) 90s New England folk-rock artists The Commonweal Road cycling (can sorta do) Claire Ptak's egg-yolk chocolate chip cookies FreeBSD Grilled sandwiches Valrhona Guanaja The Middle Kingdoms Helsinki

OK, new Mikrotik wireless router installed and configured, and every device is back on the network (with WPA3 even!) except for the ones that always have to manually rejoin.

Grey Eye Glances' "Perfect Plan" is another 90s song that's just the right length for a free skate. Might even work choreographically, although if there's a story it's a depressing one.

Having just replaced my wireless router with a new one, now stuck on wired (or cell) until my ISP's ARP cache times out.

You do not need to be working with people who's whole goal is to wreck the United States. Who have already destroyed our medical research infrastructure, literally ripped the core right out. Who have said at every turn they want to deprive Americans of life, liberty, and prosperity.

America stood up to Donald Trump on November 4th, you these assholes said, "Sit back down and let your betters tell you what to do." Fuck y'all.

Too many of "our" Democrats can't talk about LGBTQ+ issues without being agitated to "have to be on the side of those people." They can't talk about supporting the poor without apologizing to the rich because they might not be able to buy that fourth vacation home. I want proud people.

If the Senate Democrats were in charge at Yorktown, after days of bombardment, the British Commander sends out his emissaries to surrender, the Democratic leadership then sends out their emissaries to surrender, making for an awkward meeting.

Apparently, at least in this font, the only difference between an en dash and a minus sign is that the minus sign has slightly more padding around it, whereas the en dash snugs right up against whatever is adjacent to it.

This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.

There are two kinds of people: those who seek to minimize hassle, and those who seek to minimize mess.

Made "Knerken", a cardamom-flavored cookie from Luisa Weiss' CLASSIC GERMAN BAKING. Right now they don't look so appealing (and might be slightly off on the aspect ratio) but we'll see how they taste. Brown butter is the only other flavor.

Presidentialism itself remains a major problem in the US constitutional order. Whether it's the main one is hard to say, since it boasts such an embarrassment of riches in fatal constitutional defects

But I really do agree that ultimately it is about the mechanisms of horizontal accountability which is weaker in presidential systems. But more parties and a shift away from plurality would like improve from the US baseline.

Trump, Noem, Rubio, Lewandowski, Houman, and everyone else involved are accessories before and after the fact to crimes against humanity. Nuremberg 2 is on tap.

People sometimes comment about how rigidly gendered pairs skating is, but I think that's kind of missing the point. Pairs is by necessity already using athletes who are one if not two standard deviations from the mean. There's a reason it's the poster child for human sexual dimorphism.

One of the reasons why Finland is the happiest country in the world is that the public broadcaster Yle sends a live feed of the first 8 weeks of a pack of puppies every fall. It’s already the fifth edition of ”Finland’s most therapeutic live feed”. This is what I call value for my tax money

Choosing an economic path on loans that lead to increased housing prices by over-borrowing, higher interest rates and incredible sums in interest repayments, severely lowering equity growth, and crowding debt markets in order to achieve very little improvement for housing is a bonkers policy choice.

It's a week into November and I have my windows open. Don't try to tell me that climate change isn't real and *in our faces right now*.

Thread. A useful way to think about the Heritage Foundation is as a veil of respectability for modern Nazis.

Ok, catching up on the rest of the #nhktrophy #gpfigure, starting with the pairs FS, and just aching for Daria and Michel. Not going to improve their standing with the Dutch fed with this performance.

New England is currently importing ca. 471 tCO2 for $76,000 an hour.

This weekend I'm baking something where cardamom is the principal flavor, so obviously I wasn't going to use the old jar of pre-ground cardamom in the cabinet. At first I tried doing it with mortar and pestle, but after half an hour (I need two teaspoons!) I gave up and used the grinder.

We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but... The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us. "Fear is the mind killer" "Fear is a path to the Dark Side" etc. Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.

If you have insurance in the USA, statins are free, which is about as affordable as you can get, until the ghouls succeed in overturning the little-known ACA provision that requires it (because the same provision also requires coverage for PrEP).

With a running time of 3:20[1], "Light up the Ice" (the theme song to #worldfigure 2017) is exactly in between the required music times for actual skating music. [1] Based on the YouTube video taken from the TV broadcast of the live performance at the Finnish Sports Gala, which is still up.