I've been posting at least since 2019, maybe 2016 (old twitter search sucks) that "it would be better for our politics and our society if more business and political elites went to prison. Not fines, prison"

Very cool. Great work America.

Two of my Trumper friends - from childhood - routinely complained to me about how America has screwed them over: One calling from his boat, the other from his in-ground pool. You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume

Haven’t listened to this in awhile. The lyrics resonate a bit more now for me.

At the gender reveal party and the flames aren't pink or blue, but a flaming eye screaming in Black Speech

Researchers using the JWST have confirmed the first supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole (~7.8 bly away) ejected by and racing away from its host galaxy at 3.43 million km/h, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars. More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157... #Astronomy

This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally. It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug! Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.

I’m curious where this kind of overconfidence comes from. To me, most likely case is still that Republicans hold the senate, the MAGAfication of the judiciary continues, and threats to the rule of law escalate.

*staring into the vastness of creation* you got any games on this?

two things are true: in a remote setting, on a dark night, the deep sky is a truly profound experience that has influenced human philosophy, faith and religion for countless generations and that experience got absolutely rinsed by the first RCA 10 inch television

Since congress passed a law saying the Epstein files must be released in their entirety how much trouble could leakers inside the FBI get into really? Before, sure, there might have been some legal jeopardy. Now, though? Maybe your job is at risk but that’s the most, right?

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

I have heard a few “all politicians are corrupt” here in Texas. Clearly cope for dealing with the fact their politician is comically corrupt. It’s vaguely encouraging that they feel the need for the cope.

Was at the liquor store earlier today, and... what

This is a good use case. It’s not a substitute for knowing what you are doing but it’s a good assistant.

I feel like we should introduce these terms to circulation as we see the introduction of this position to every strategically important industry

I think that "obesity" gave a lot school yard bullies and classist assholes cover to pretend they were actually public health heroes, and they are devastated that an actual treatment for obesity takes that away from them.

So what's our plan for how we stop everyone from becoming a conspiracy theorist? Because it seems like these days a good 60% of the population believes conspiracy theories

This imagery is very apropos for conservative evangelicals. For them Jesus is just a sacrifice born solely for the purpose of dying. His life and teachings are irrelevant to them.

This imagery is very apropos for conservative evangelicals. For them Jesus is just a sacrifice born solely for the purpose of dying. His life and teachings are irrelevant to them.

They find that RoPE (the positional encoding used in most modern LLMs) has a fundamental flaw. It entangles "what" (content) and "where" (position) information. They propose PoPE (Polar Coordinate Position Embeddings), which eliminates the what-where.

Well... yeah.

I’m definitely old because when the presents are handed out I’m relieved when I don’t get many presents and they are all small.

Marsy Christmas! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-red-plan...

I honestly don’t know how the US recovered from the civil war because we haven’t had a civil war yet and I’m already almost consumed with a desire for revenge.

Stopped in the Richmond Target this evening and shared it with the descendants of African slaves, Asian refugees, English settlers, and Hispanic immigrants - all doing that most American of activities: last-minute Christmas shopping. That's the America I swore an oath to support and defend 🇺🇸

The Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, said, “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.”

If you want my corn, gentlemen, you’ll have to meet my price

Elon found a way to make his Nazi cesspool worse. Amazing.

Classification by @proptermalone.bsky.social

Drove into Oklahoma with my dad and brother. Dad said "You may feel something as we cross the border." ??? "We'll probably get dumber just being there, because OK is full of hillbillies" This was amusing because North Texas seems the same to me. There is a hillbilly hierarchy, apparently.

Tapping the sign

By “trust,” they don’t mean that a lot of the public considers them reliable, accurate, and capable. They mean individuals who personally agree with their politics find it appealing, screw everyone else. See also: RFK Jr. “Trust,” “free speech,” “censorship” — so many valuable concepts distorted.

It was entirely predictable but if Kamala D. Harris randomly conjured up a battleship on a wholly unrealistic timeline with weapons not actually in production with the same cost as a carrier, these guys would be hurling slurs not seen since reconstruction, instead it’s just:

Christmas Eve Sky (contrast amped up a bit)

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites

there is a reason that Trump is striking out in front of his own district court judges and that the Heritage Foundation is imploding. it's because this isn't true. people have been saying this for years. they were right for Gettier case reasons.

Truth. I get a lot of productive use out of LLM coding but I feel like I’m tapping into my deep experience writing code every minute of the process. It frees me from the easy stuff, writing loops and functions, and lets me focus on the hard stuff of design and complexity management.

Hey Republicans parents: you’re apparently wasting your money on school. Your kids will make iPhones.

Hey! You omitted our blood libel from your report!!

So it sounds like Bari Weiss thinks if someone commits a crime against your child you get to have the government sexually abuse an unrelated third person.

We know that birds can sense magnetic fields for navigation. But how does that work? Do they have little magnets wired up to their brains? The most likely answer is 1000X times weirder than that, and involves quantum spin. Let's talk about 'cryptochromes' & magnetic sensing.🧪

When liberals are in power again in the US, we need to get comfortable killing--not arbitrarily, but still quite a lot. Russian troops rampaging through Ukraine? Help the Ukrainians kill them. Nayib Bukele? Drag him to the US, dead or alive--and if the latter, put him on capital trial.

i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight

This could really blow up into, like, a two day story.

This will be used as the casus belli for war with Canada.