the thing about bari weiss is that she is so inept that she literally couldn't even get fired correctly, and everyone who respects her has a hamster wheel where a human brain goes

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

Not to dunk on Reuters, but all news outlets should drop "crackdown" as a tidy way to refer to unconstitutional authoritarian repression. "Crackdown" implies enforcing laws on lawbreakers. That's not correct. Moderate Repub quoted says it's "a violation of rights" and "militarizing neighborhoods."

Was very close to fighting someone from another office over a Teams message this morning before looking them and realizing they are about 60. Remembered the below tweet and chose peace instead. Be proud of me.

nothing condemns Our Times more than the fact we appear to have *mostly democratically* elevated to power some of the most stupid assholes who have ever lived. something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes

As everyone knows who has ever written a book or manuscript review, summarizing a text is essential work. It’s the first step of an analysis. If you haven’t summarized the text there is no way I believe that you have understood it.

Getting a lot more people on this list for sharing antisemitic lies about the Talmud over the past couple of days. Reminders: 1. The entire Talmud is public and freely available online. This Anyone claiming to know about "secret" or "hidden" Jewish teachings from it is lying to you.

What prompts are best to shout at writers to get them to write what I want?

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

Sam Altman cries eight deliciously bitter tears for each dollar donated to Pivot to AI now that's *effective* altruism www.patreon.com/davidgerard

Seeing how major "enterprise" computing companies work from the inside shows why things like "vibe coding" become popular. Things like "does any customer want this?" or "does this work?" are not actual considerations.

I see it everywhere in my current company. People are pushed to deliver more and more, especially productivity tools that don't go to production that no one actually cares about. 99% of those are vibe coded bullshit that doesn't work, but ticks off a task on a goal sheet for when bonuses are paid.

When I worked at IBM, at one point I was working on a feature to optimise AIX using dynamic cacheing. The feature did the literal opposite of what it was meant to -- slowed things down. It still got shipped, because that was the target. It was just turned off and undocumented.

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

btw the bosses who want employees to be instantly reachable and commandable on their devices, 24/7, work day or not, are the same ones who want people to stop working remotely because "our in-person culture is so important"

This is just gutter white nationalist agitprop from Stephen Miller. A good time to read our deep dive into Miller's ideological fanaticism (see below)

You will be visited by three spirits: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail.

I can *100% assure you* that if this report found that trans people & "wokeness" tanked the Harris campaign, the DNC would release it in a heartbeat

it's like, buddy, guys, fellas, pals you can just make schlock not only is it not illegal, I'd actually VAST prefer it if you went, "THIS GAME'S ABOUT KILLING SHIT AND GETTING GOLD...ANDD BIG FAT TITTIES, GOBLIN TITTIES, EVERYWHERE" at least that would be honest, goddamn

In Pennsylvania, contamination from fracking is layered on top of earlier waves of pollution from coal mining, manufacturing and oil drilling.

I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.

you can tell how untouchable those ppl in the epstein files are by the way they all jus casually allowed ppl to take photos of them with him, at his place, with victims and so on. all this censorship around it isn't to protect them from justice it's just to spare them a bit of embarrassment.

A little thank you 🐾🤍

Important thread from a former NYT staffer breaking down how the paper's genocidal anti-trans crusade is directed, top down, from the highest levels of the organization. Stop putting bullets in the gun that's killing us. Boycott the New York Times.

It’s like “oh women have to be sexually available to men or else the men will destroy the fabric of society” damn ok

“The left needs to give men dating advice” is such a stupid and unserious take and I keep seeing it everywhere. it’s just another version of the “male loneliness epidemic” discourse

I know I said I was going to stop being angry about politics all the time but apparently politics took that as a challenge

From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.

I hear this but actually my #1 gear is that the Dems are going to focus *exclusively* on this cosmetic shit and ignore things like defunding ICE/CBP, aid to Israel, voting reform, putting controls on AI and online betting, checking the power of billionaires, etc.

I shouldn't laugh at this, but you know they were so mad there weren't any black people in there that they had to falsify information to include us.

As many have commented, this information (luckily) doesn't exist. The information gets dumped as soon as you return your book. Which is another reason to thank your librarian.

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

the only truly safe data is the kind that is not collected

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

The world is actually FULL of technologies that were created and then went away because they sucked and no one wanted them. it happens all the fucking time. The idea that as soon as they're here we all just have to learn to live with it and find a use for it is just stupid tech industry propaganda.

Want a vote to impeach Trump? Bondi? Patel? Make a committee investigate or draft articles for you? Appoint managers Johnson doesn't want? Repeat after me: "Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2(a)(1) of Rule IX, I rise to give notice of my intention to raise a question of the privileges of the House."

*taps sign* Any individual member of the House can force a vote on impeachments and anything impeachment-related.

They totally threw Bill Clinton under the bus with photos of him being inappropriate with teenagers in the files. I'm a big fan of him being thrown under the bus I just think we all know there's a whole more folks who can fit under that bus.

It really seems like “electable” means “someone who occupies a privileged position in the social hierarchy and espouses policies that won’t upset the donor class.”

In fact, if you look at the people that get described as lacking this quality of electability, it starts to feel like a dogwhistle. What made racist sex abuser Andrew Cuomo more electable than Zohran Mamdani? What made anti-abortion misogynist Henry Cuellar more electable than Jessica Cisneros?

What is electability? It’s not experience, because Hillary Clinton and John McCain had that and lost their elections. It’s not baseline sanity, because Harris had that and lost her election. It’s not wealth, because Romney had that and lost his election.

I love this, a perfect little illustration of how “electable” has become, to centrists and the pundit-brained, this quality somehow wholly divorced from the ability to convince people to vote for you.

Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one

It's still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It always will be. It's still the Department of Defense. It always will be. It's still the Gulf of Mexico. It always will be.

remembering watching how Occupy Wall Street protestors were treated and thinking back then that damn things would get pretty bleak over the following decades if we didn’t address inequality and here we are lol they basically don’t need most of our money bc they have the big spenders

Ah that's a nice worst kept secret in publishing you have there, sure would be a shame if it was revealed just before Christmas

There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office. And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.