incredible levels of nominative determinism in this story

Now, mark.

The real freakin trolley problem is that we don’t have any mass transportation in this dam country

Turns out this is also true of students

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

Timely poetry from Donald Rumsfeld. www.trashberg.com/p/the-rumsfe...

...to chuck all that out and *explicitly* start a war against another MENA state over a WMD issue and lobby for the U.S. to join-- which it does! Wow. The tinder you've thrown on the bonfire of domestic (and global) antisemitism is astounding. Almost hard to believe even Bibi and his compatriots...

Not DC, but I work for a major metro daily @chicago.suntimes.com and a public radio station @wbez.org, and my employers and colleagues have been the very model of supportive of my service in the National Guard

I'm willing to bet this insert was actually produced by the print syndication service, King Features. They advertised a "Summer Fun & Entertainment Guide" for delivery to clients in May. Here's a page from the 2023 version. Notice not only the formatting, but the byline...

The Papal Bulls

looks absolutely nothing like him. An insult to Jim Davis.

The Pope, z”l,

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

Incredible work from @szreports.bsky.social

Shout out to whoever made this citation-filled comment in the Oxford Mail comments section. Really here for it.

logging in and logging out are technical processes, while logging on and logging off are social processes

LET'S GO

The basic problem with Shor and acolytes is that his entire approach to political targeting is built on the idea that voters are making decisions individually, based on their personal beliefs and preferences, and thus you can sample how voters react to an ad or message and see if it's good

The Always Disappointing League strikes again

This is our Project 2025

Once again, I have never been more afraid to be a Jew in this country and it has absolutely nothing to do with student protests

The @chicago.suntimes.com is doing great work under Chicago Public Media ownership and I am proud to give them my money instead of any of the billionaire-owned publications.

begging fact-checkers to stop using 'lacks evidence' if its implication, that evidence could be provided later to validate the statement, is also false

I'm sorry, Chicago, but the donuts you're selling are pączki, not pączkis. Just one is a pączek, not 'a pączki'

Saying "data doesn't lie" is like saying "words don't lie."

This is a fascinating discussion to read. My take - it's 'have' - it's "[a quantifier of] years have passed", where the quantifier of years is "less than ten". Try removing the ten-clause: "less years has passed" grates because 'less' is an adjective here, not a noun. The only noun is 'years'

By far not the most important thing here, but I cannot stop reading the link as railroads dot dot dot gov. A url with an ellipsis

Deleted my post because it was wrong. Severino v. Biden established that the President has the authority to fire members of appointed boards under the Take Care Clause. As a result, President Biden dismissed Sean Spicer and Russ Vought (!) from Boards of Visitors caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dc-...

Shockingly, the slashing of the NIH indirect rate is illegal goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

Kendrick wins sportsball, collects flag, Uncle Sam etc en route Racist team goes boom. NYT notices Trump sucks Organizing seems to be ramping up Time to create something new and more whole to replace all this rot, loves. They don’t get to win. Let the new chapter of this place begin.

At an agency that does statistics - they might as well delete pages containing 'mean', 'variance', and 'kurtosis' at the same time

@reuters.com claiming the exact opposite of what she said as @mtsw.bsky.social notes, they like Trump and want to help him rule us like a king

- "Anyone imperiling others violating our laws." - "...we indicted an economist who worked at the Fed for economic espionage for the Communist Chinese." - "be very aware" - "acting against our American people in every way" I've never seen a lawyer who writes like this

Seems like no coincidence that @schatz.bsky.social is personally active on here and taking meaningful action IRL; ditto @beyer.house.gov whose capable DCoS @fritschner.bsky.social has been thoughtful and active on here despite everything

I could fix her

*All the way to the end*

Does Amtrak send its conductors to Yelling School or are they just born that way

One reason I think it’s important to continue to highlight the disparity on our streets is that most people just don’t see it. Despite it being obvious to some, so many people don't have clarity because we have done such an incredible job of normalizing this imbalance.

Dungeness Council worries that a rusty house in the shadow of an enormous working nuclear power station will ruin "the character, the vernacular, and the essence of Dungeness" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A lovely example of power generated scaling as the *cube* of the windspeed! 6 m/s wind delivers about twice as much power as 5 m/s wind. Explanation below

I’ve been re-reading Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and I was struck by this passage: “The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity.”

This frequent design choice only makes sense if people think of bike paths and footpaths as leisure venues, where curves are more attractive and scenic and interesting to ride. But I don't want interesting, I want efficient

Lots of people who vote Republican know that their beliefs aren't rooted in facts. We need to be asking why they want to identify as right-wing so much that they're willing to ignore the facts, and what we on the left can do to change that feeling

The explanation of the diversion to Aktau ("for fog") for Azerbaijan 28243 makes no sense - the video shows the plane landing fast and with its right wing dropped; the FR24 track shows really poor speed and altitude control. You can see speed increasing during a series of dives - phugoid motion

And so from the vantage of success, a mathematician wants to say "why do we make kids do all this boring stuff and not the beautiful part!" And they forget they had to do all the boring stuff first in order to develop fluency.

Kazimir Malevich's black square, allegedly the first abstract painting

Man I love it when muppets ride bikes.

You know they're dead serious about cyclist safety because they spell Burke-Gilman wrong in three different ways. It is spelled correctly right in the center of their header image