"They said the job was to train Ai."

unfortunately, it appears that at the top of maslow’s hierarchy of needs is Posting

As a principled libertarian, I mostly ignore it when Trump sics the FBI on his critics, threatens broadcasting licenses, and celebrates the murders of protesters. But when a few kids at NYU criticize Jon Haidt, well, that's where I draw the line.

Elon Musk is going to buy Christopher Nolan and rename him Xtopher.

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

To win in November, Democrats will have to stop focusing on elitist issues like the price of gas and start talking more about things that really matter to regular Americans, like viewpoint diversity at Ivy League schools.

Who was persecuted more: Jesus or Donald Trump? It depends who you ask.

Hey libraries! You don't have to either ignore genAI or promote it! You can resist! Anything less is a violation of our Code of Ethics and Bill of Rights.

Slightly diminish a book The Hitchhiker’s Roadmap to the Galaxy

This

Put the Pope on the blockchain. by Andrew Yang

Sources close to Byron Noem say the South Dakota insurance salesman and father of three remains devastated after being outed as having married Kristi Noem.

I'm going to start calling the past decade "The Spellplague."

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Christ preached forgiveness, mercy, and peace. A guy who beats his girlfriends and has four gin-and-tonics before breakfast says we should kill for Jesus in Iran. For busy church-goers, it’s hard to know who to believe.

This is a danceoff. If you see this, post a dance.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Editor's Note | To properly allocate resources for Iran War reporting, we will be sunsetting coverage of: - Trump's crypto bribes - Trump's real estate, golf, and hotel bribes - US military strikes on Venezuelan fishing boats - Alex Pretti and Rene Good - Data theft by DOGE - the Epstein files

Put the Strait of Hormuz on the blockchain. by Andrew Yang

I can't compete with this.

Curious about Donald Trump’s objective in Iran? Throw this sheet pan spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks!

In this Ohio diner, a cleric is what you become when you don't have a high enough charisma score to be a paladin. But they do know this: Iran should stop being a theocracy, just like the United States.

CBS, Fox, the Washington Post, and Twitter are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires and soon CNN will be too. Here's why American media has a liberal bias problem.

I gave up Bluesky for Lent and then we went to war and things were crazy and wow that was harder than I expected.

Americans bewildered as release of Epstein Files leads to resignations and criminal investigations in democracies around the world.

Complaining that following the Constitution will stop you from doing the thing you want to do is... an admission that what you want to do is unconstitutional. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution. You are violating that oath, Rep. Alford. Time to go home and let someone else do the job.

It just struck me that newspaper comic strips were sort of proto-posting: you come up with a joke every single day and eventually you either mellow out or become completely insane

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

I never thought dismantling the federal government would be so stupid

Kinda feels like this should be a bigger scandal. I know that every day there are a dozen things that should be a scandal. But this one should be bigger.

Donald Trump and the Republicans are threatening to destroy representative democracy while killing civilians, taking massive bribes, destroying alliances, and exploding costs. That's why it's so critical that the Democrats find candidates who are inspiring enough to get me to vote.

i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.

Age verification? I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

As a principled libertarian, I voted for Trump and supported all of his attacks on free speech and civil rights until it became clear that Trumpism had no political future

Yes, we then voted for Trump and we now defend him regularly. But that was just to own the libs

Whether it's Donald Trump taking bribes from terror-sponsoring foreign governments, Donald Trump plotting to rig the 2026 election, or Donald Trump posting a video of the Obamas as apes, both parties must do better.

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

It’s now woke to be against going to Epstein island and creating nonconsensual sexual content of kids Welcome to woke 2, everyone. The mind virus lives.

Bezos has the resources to make WaPo into the BEST sports outlet and BEST science outlet and BEST place to get trusted news without feeling any sort of negative financial impact but is happy to turn it into Quillette because he’s lost whatever creative spark he had and turned into a vapid dullard

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

The Incredibles

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

Wow, the White House is so shaken by the turn in the public mood that they thought Chuck Schumer might actually rise up and "seize this moment" to get meaningful concessions. That's how panicked they are. They thought Chuck Schumer would do something.

Again, there is no legislative fix for the magnitude of the authoritarian crimes being committed daily. Everyone is just pretending at this point: bsky.app/profile/mcop...