I also think NYC is a very good place to do this because of the diversity of the city’s industry and other things going on

UCLA in the ranks of institutions that stand up—and prevail. And another [non-Scotus, of course] federal judge in the ranks of those who stand up for rule of law. Courage and principle are contagious. Stand up, and support others who do.

This dude goes on for a while after this but uh this is one of the weirdest things I’ve read in a bit “In the quiet of the night” what is going on here the beret vigilante is more normal

Incredible (and if you have never seen GWAR you are underestimating how funny this is)

I still do not think people understand how extreme Ross Douthat and his ilk and allies are. This is stuff he is deliberately laundering through this paper.

While America is a big place, I don’t think such people understand how big those bombs are. The Trinity test (shown in “Oppenheimer”) was big enough to be detectable across the continental US and even Canada.

Look, death threats are not funny at all but what a combo, what a range.

We really need to find a way to get it into these pundits’ unbelievably thick skulls that a lot of the things they think are completely wrong.

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

Almost like this isn't really about what we want at all: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Where are the cartographers for social equality when you need them? This crazy map has put India, China, Japan, SE Asia, ME, and more up against Greenland.

The media's infatuation with horse race politics — the "will this help or hurt at the polls? — over "is this authoritarian nonsense" has got to be one of the worst aspects of modern media.

I love this article where the man disproportionately responsible for streaming enshittification laments the "terrible consumer experience" he built, then proposes that the solution is more of the same kind of terrible mergers that turned everything to shit (the journalist mentions none of this)

If the journalists and news companies you rely on did not make clear prior to last year's election that these were the stakes in last year's election, I would urge you to reconsider your media diet.

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

A major test for Eric Adams.

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Bari Weiss’s Free Press is blaming universities for a shooting that was done by someone who attended one semester at the university. Weiss is making campuses across the country less safe. And will do so with the weight of CBS behind her.

I would actually appreciate this because their actual pivot is to blaming universities again even though the guy didn’t even go to one (he went to a technical trade school ironically of the type they want to promote vs universities)

Honestly I think it actually would do well too because people genuinely don’t know who they are and it’s a really weird group. There was coverage of incels and people are more aware of that.

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

There is something really funny about being confident enough while the other candidates are bickering viciously about you to just instead pick a fight with FIFA

The other clue is literally nobody else has a signature that looks like just zigzagging their hand up and down violently like a seismograph

This is kind of the Michael Scott Paper Company from The Office “Can you crunch those numbers again?” “It’s a spreadsheet … there’s no crunching.” “Just do it please.” “Crunch. Yeah it’s the same.”

Fischer Black used to say the markets look a lot more efficient from the banks of the Charles than the banks of the Hudson.

I have become a bit of a broken record about some of this university stuff for this reason. I don’t think people realize how bad things are and certainly not just universities.

We are SO EXCITED that Anil is staying on with us at STAT! Excited to see another Begley fellow become STAT staff. Anil's been indispensable in covering what's been going on at the NIH this year; give him (and STAT) a subscribe/follow

Nice question. I would like to know too.

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One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

What an irritating and childishly written article.

I’m also annoyed. I am not a lawyer. I do think lawyers need to spend way more time thinking about how a lot of non-lawyers essentially consider the entire profession, if you can call it that, a colossal fraud. It’s all so slow, so incompetent, so made up, it’s nuts. It’s just fake.

People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.

This is my biggest gripe with the whole field of AI safety. Safety people are strangely uninterested in ethics (different area) and are completely uninterested in, say, a currently deployed regression-based system doing bad stuff in hospitals. They are exclusively interested in sci-fi hypotheticals.

This is a mistake.

New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

Update: At least three other high-ranking officials in CDC have also resigned. “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health,” one of the officials said in a note to staff.

I finally yelled at it enough.

Yes. And the fact people think it works this way is a huge weapon.

Poor states are poor because they elect Republicans—it’s not that they elect Republicans because they’re poor. Here we see that in action.

I don’t understand this article at all. What kind of priorities are these? The first half are things Trump hates and the second half are things Trump loves that make zero sense for this. So are these the old priorities or the new ones?

This WaPo piece about the Airbnb/DOGE guy who is now the head of design in government ignores that: *DOGE fired the actual talented design people in government, including Social Security! *IRS had a beautifully designed tax filing system that DOGE killed *USDS already did online passport renewals

It would be a huge step forward for the colossally stupid Tom Nichols and his irredeemable ilk to stop whining about things no Democratic politician says. Nobody uses these words except people like Tom to complain about them incessantly. The following is a lot of what people actually say.

I hate them with the heat of a nova, I literally hold my breath walking past it because it smells so nasty and the place is down the block from me. I don’t understand it at all.

Have any prominent elected Dems committed to dismantling ICE if/when they reclaim power? Because that frankly seems like an absolute bare minimum at this point. You can't just have a massively funded armed gang of hard-right stormtroopers embedded across the country & return to normal.

Manhattan (1979), apropos of nothing.