I feel like we are living in the “Thiel and Andreessen Show”, and too many people have no idea.

John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of”

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They’re like emergency responders who put on their siren and rush to the scene whenever Black people are trying to get representation

Him admitting this to a gathering of *law enforcement officials* really lays bare how much law and justice are nothing more than a mirage in this country

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

The stuff I write about is so nuts that I find myself quadruple-checking the facts with pen and paper. For example, in 2020 Andreessen Horowitz led a $12 million investment round in the Clubhouse app (at a $100M valuation). It had 1500 users. It reached $4 billion valuation in 2021, then...poof.

no surprise that an institution that has always been highly solicitous of privilege and power would look suspiciously on those amendments and that project

If you aren't into games, here is a great example of what was going on (and still is in many games) Someone swapped the skins of Batman and Catwoman in a game. His butt and chest are constantly lit, the camera follows them. Hers are primly in shadow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUWB...

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

If they release the pitbull from the leash, and it immediately clamped itself on your neck? No one would believe the owner if they then said, "Oh my! I didn't know he was going to do that! My bad!🤡" That's why I find the collective feigned ignorance of people all over this country so silly.

"how did the Russian navy decay?" "first of all, you must understand it was all very very stupid"

ANNABELLE'S SERPENTINE DANCE (1895) was part of Edison's first projected film screening. Edison had resisted projecting-- why charge a nickel for a whole show when people were paying that per film via peepshow machine?-- but demand was too great.

Only mode of transport in the US is CAR

Also: the purpose of scholarship is (broadly) for more people to know more things about the world, not for there to be more things in writing about the world. Scholarship is a conversation, and a lens, for *people*. More, faster publications will mean more noise, and less getting read/discussed.

“This is not an effort to rededicate the nation to Christ, or even to God. It's an effort to deceive the country into thinking it was always meant to be dedicated that way.”

Science is incredible, more science please

The redistricting wars feel like the whole of modern American politics: Trump picks a stupid fight, wages it idiotically, Democrats fight back and win, then some other American institution suddenly chimes in to hand the win to Trump anyway for being a very special boy and everyone gets mad at Dems

SOUTH CAROLINA — @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social: “Why is it when you have a 75% white district that’s not racial, but you have a 45% Black district that is racial? There’s no way the numbers bear this out… I never thought I’d see the day the Supreme Court would be so openly partisan.”

I guess he was trying to get ahead of things by calling Biden sleepy

I 100% trust those who say this is a terrible idea in terms of legal tactics. I 100% agree with those who say THIS court will never apply the law to benefit Dems. But I also think this may be clarifying politically (tho am cognizant that SCOTUS is using every opportunity for pro-fascist fuckery).

Harris/Walz would’ve won if those fucking establishment consultant hacks had just gotten out of the way and let them say “These freaks are weird!” every day for three months and you’ll never convince me otherwise

It is genuinely amazing how perfectly Trump timed the wheels to come off right before a national election. 13/10 political self-destruction here. One of the GOATs of regime insta-suicide.

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

They didnt give it away? JOKES pitchfork.com/news/red-hot...

Is The Deads Kennedy a thing?

Sounds like a Kojima character

The cycle of a gamer continues.

You don't want to harm your enemies. You want them to be less harmful. The Buddhist mette tradition makes this explicit: the wish extended to enemies isn't that they suffer, but that they be free from the dispositions that make them dangerous.

What would even be the point of the House and districts if each district is supposed to mirror the preferences “the rest” of the state as a whole…???!

when i was in grad school MIT Medical told the girlfriend of one of my lab mates that her STROKE symptoms were stress

Vaguely related I used the plot of smokey and the bandit to tell a story about senior party high jinx to the table in my college dining hall many many years ago. One guy was so thoroughly convinced that I had to break it to him I was bullshiting and using a movie plot

This Comedian is… (takes off sunglasses) Unleashed

This is a great idea! I bet if we all just wrote to these corporations, explained that we too would like to have our gasoline paid for so we too could take a Great™ American™ Road Trip™ all of these companies would gladly cut us a check. Shell can just pay in Premium Unleaded if that's easier?

Yes

He who lives by the sword, etc www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I watched fuckin Popeye cartoons from the thirties on tv as a kid and I just knew they were old, but children also think EVERYTHING older than them are “old” - when I see photos of the grownups around me when I was a kid I can see now that they were all relatively young! That’s how time works!

Ah yes, I was a big fan as a kid.

Oh hey, guess what else real scientists (as opposed to Man Scientists who tried to block this research because menstrual blood is too “messy and hard to collect”) discovered (thread): - 84 unique proteins that only show up in menstrual fluid which can: - reduce inflammation - repair cells

My friends, we are going on a bold new adventure today. I present to you……. DISCOUNT GROCERY STORE CEVICHE

People broke up with Target and realized they didn’t miss it. Customer trust is a hell if a thing to regain once lost.

I got hella radicalized on this researching the YWA Iran-Contra episode. A worse-than-watergate scandal that no one disputed on the merits, it just never got framed as a scandal so the public assumed it was a nothingburger.

ok i chuckled www.epicfurious.com

These weird freaks focused on sperm counts of young men and under babied families. Sickos.

I present: a tiny rant news.chanda.science/archive/who-...

The Trump administration is hosting an event on the national mall this Sunday to "give thanks for God's providence, reflect on our nation's story, and rededicate America as One Nation under God." Well, about that ...

"I don't like guacamole." - magnificent, no response required. "I don't like guacamole because of the mayonnaise" - ok I definitely need to say SOMETHING "Maybe I'd like guacamole better if there weren't any beans in it" - ok now I just regret being a part of this conversation

yeah, people are super primed to believe that we're in an era of extraordinary technological progress, to the extent that they will believe that things innovated decades ago are somehow brand new (if the right people say so)... historical literacy is critical to quality media coverage