The beautiful humming bird that shimmers when the sunlight shines on its beautiful illuminating feathers!

This is some bullshit www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/06/gates-idea-washington-square-park/

"Until 2015, when an article appeared in his local newspaper claiming he was about to win the equivalent of a Nobel prize or Fields medal, Montaclair was an unremarkable teaching instructor who liked to write fantasy books, many about vampires, in his spare time."

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Bubbles are REALLY evil; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/05/07/d... #Pluralistic 1/

Here's a historical comparison that's illuminating: Enron vs Worldcom. Both were monumental frauds, the CEOs of both companies died shortly after the frauds were discovered, but they have very different legacies. 3/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/05/07/d... 2/

I'm record saying that every economic bubble is terrible, but some bubbles *do* leave behind a salvageable productive residue while others leave behind nothing but ashes; indeed, this is the thesis of my next book, *The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI* us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 1/

If we can acknowledge that removing cognitive load from students also has effects on their ability to learn, this is a catastrophic educational infrastructure.

A student who sets out to write a research paper will now encounter chatbots who will offer to do their work in their word document, in their learning management system, in their email, in their web browser, and in certain library database interfaces.

i hate all of this shit

INCREDIBLE

Personally, I think it was a bad idea to put a living corpse in charge of everyone’s health.

"Much to the dismay of dermatologists," is a really understated way of saying that RFK Jr. wants to dramatically increase the cancer risks of children who don't really understand that they're setting themselves up for a lifetime of health problems, including the risk of death, for cosmetic reasons.

Wow. Study this chart!

Just realized I never posted the bonus picture… Bonus picture:

granted i’ve only lived in LA for a decade but this has to be the worst combo of media literacy and political messaging i’ve seen here

Hmm ‘93, I think? 🤔

It’s true

Jorts don’t step on my sandwich. Jorts stop walking on my neck. Jorts don’t pee in the sink. What happened to freedom

Behaviores Report: 100% goode! Btw, Beatrice WAZ heer todaye plenty times butt just coudnot get footadge

Ludo demonstrates the joys of his favorite chair

I’d watch Matthew Rhys in anything, but Widow’s Bay with Stephen Root (& Diana Dale Dickey is killing it) is a delightful horror comedy so far 🤌

But for the tactical success of the Venezuela decapitation raid, the US almost certainly would not have gone to war with Iran. But it turns out that doing a "Venezuela" in Iran did not go as Trump hoped.

When you’ve lost Mr Bone Saw…..

literally only the good surveillance AI is the one on my phone that tells me what the bird is

The fight so far is focused on three fatal shootings, but prosecutors in Minneapolis have opened criminal investigations into 14 additional cases of potentially unlawful behavior by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge.

LISTERS: A genuinely great documentary about two stoner brothers who spend the year on a birdwatching quest. Funnier and better made than anything else I’ve seen all year.

little sis went platinum ☝🏻

"so Tucker, why did you agree with Donald Trump before you publicly suggested that he was the Antichrist" "uhhhhhhhhhhh he's a witch"

So while Tucker comes off as a liar in regard to his own string-pulling insiderness, he also comes off as a naive fool in regard to Trump. I think TC is in earnest. I think he's been truly spellbound by one of the world's dumbest and most transparent people who he says wields "supernatural power."

Tucker seems to actually want the public to think that it's entirely coincidental that his son ended up working for JD Vance. Tucker had nothing to do with it. Tucker, the man who asked Hunter Biden to pull strings at Georgetown to get that same son admitted. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...

After waxing rhapsodic about how much he loves JD Vance, a man he knows incredibly well...he's then asked about his son working for him. Tucker immediately says "huh, none of my business" and then shifts to bloviating about American civilization. Truly unhinged.

I know I'm coming late to the Tucker Carlson/NYT interview discourse, but I need to talk about this stunning moment of weirdness because I think it reveals an important TC tic--the gap between reality (he's a swampy insider) and image (just a truth telling guy, asking the tough questions).

getting into the elevated den is a delicate procedure requiring grace and precision

Imagine acting like you actually enjoy the place you're elected to govern.

This man has shepherded some of the most blatantly white supremacist decisions in the history of the Supreme Court, which is saying a lot. Not interested in his crybaby efforts to clean up his tracks.

Subject of photo weighed in at 21.3 pounds today. Wife describes vet as “resigned.”

A first thought is that this hollowed-out, fading old crank needs to be in assisted living. A second thought is that having surrounded himself with an adiministration servile, ass-licking sycophants. the White House is, in fact, an assisted living facility.

Remember: www.lawdork.com/p/justice-th...

He also said the ballroom would cost taxpayers nothing. Also that Mexico would pay for the wall. All lies.

This is the new gerrymandered map the Tennessee House Speaker — a Republican — says that Republicans will try to pass. The lone Tennessee Democrat in Congress would be gerrymandered out of a seat.

Eugenics. The word you’re looking for - and isn’t spoken in the story - is eugenics.

I see that Matt Taibbi, who just lost the defamation case he filed against Eoin Higgins for criticism of his hackery, is one of the featured speakers at FIRE’s “Soapbox 2026” “celebrating free expression, fearless debate, and the courage to dissent.” Very free. Oh, no doubt.

There’s no scientific basis to many of the public health concerns some critics have with solar development, an expert told ProPublica. “People try to come up with a rationale to justify their dislike of things they dislike for other reasons.”

These are your final words to the world and everyone’s squinting at it because of the poor handwriting.

The GOP’s outreach to Mexican-American voters is going great.