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That one, yes… the Carnegie scientist you don’t want to listen to but know you probably should. There’re more important things to worry about now, but I like that I answered some burning questions.
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Some folks are born made to wave the flag Hoo, they're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail to the chief" Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord

Booooo tomato tomato

no… no, they can’t possibly be… oh my god, they wouldn’t… they can’t be… YES, THEY ARE PLAYING FORTUNATE SON

The billionaire push for LLMs hovering up everybody’s IP and content really puts the whole “Property is theft” thing on solid ground since our ownership of intellectual property is clearly just theft of their future profits.

After moving here I came across a city council meeting late at night on public access TV, in the middle of some presentation with a chart of concentric circles centered on the port, a 3 mile radius just about at our house, and comments about which circles marked regions of complete destruction.

Just watched LAPD launch tear gas at peaceful protesters live

Alexandra Petri's first article for The Atlantic. Gifted for you. So glad to see her back. #uspol #humour “How much can possibly happen when I’m on parental leave?” Alexandra Petri asked five months ago, on January 10, 2025. A lot, it turns out: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Pasadena still going strong

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

"outdated"? how about oh... DISPROVEN @npr.org ?

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

to be clear: when they write "Democrats" they actually mean Third Way and a guy who was a Deputy Mayor 25 years ago

After moving here I came across a city council meeting late at night on public access TV, in the middle of some presentation with a chart of concentric circles centered on the port, a 3 mile radius just about at our house, and comments about which circles marked regions of complete destruction.

What an incredible time at the Long Beach #NoKings protest today!

What an incredible time at the Long Beach #NoKings protest today!

hell yeah brother

Look at downtown LA right now

Thread.

LOLOLOLOL: "The issue here actually isn't the "child" (dummy) rushing across the road, it's that the Tesla doesn't recognize the Stop sign on the bus."

Turns out those Farsi speakers at Voice of America were more than just woke DEI hires to be casually discarded on a whim

"mix it up" bsky.app/profile/adri...

This genre of "If we hit the self-destruct button the earth, then the three people I don't like will finally lose their jobs" is getting quite old.

One of the greatest, most disturbing quotes I've seen in a long time www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

This too:

I actually don't think it's accurate to say 'Trump isn't releasing Mahmoud even though the court said he had to' Trump isn't releasing Mahmoud *because the court *didn't actually say he had to The judge could & should have done so, but didn't I'll explain storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

hen mazzig is a fascist shitbag who was a paid propagandist for the israeli government and uses his queer identity as a cover to police anti-israel thought in left spaces and his tel aviv institute is specifically intended to promote positive news coverage of israel so of course msnbc has him on

"May I submit to the justices on the 9th circuit that maybe they didn't really officially receive orders, either."

wow, fuck this guy

I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

if you show a high likelihood of success on the merits of your PI or TRO, your reward would be to pay the costs of the government as if you had lost

I don't know what I'm more depressed at here - the fact that social media is feeding me advertisements about joining US Border Patrol, or the fact that just the "hiring incentives" to join the Border Patrol are as much as a substantial portion of my yearly salary as a tenure-track professor.

Even though it's tiring, I think it's essential to consistently point out that this is illegal.

The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration gives data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials, documents obtained by AP show.

We have this one a little twisted. Totally reasonable. But, folks have been pushing for this category for several years. Believe it or not, the idea is that traditional country would favor more women, people of color who are often pushed out of country and into Americana/folk country.

The combined 2024 budgets of NSF, NIH, and NASA were around $80 billion, or 100x this package. It makes sense for other countries to try to capitalize on the idiocy that has captured our government, but it's important to remember the sheer scale and irreplaceability of the US research enterprise.

The billionaire push for LLMs hovering up everybody’s IP and content really puts the whole “Property is theft” thing on solid ground since our ownership of intellectual property is clearly just theft of their future profits.

My royal we is raising questions already answered by my royal we.

Here, have some genuinely great news: In a unanimous decision, SCOTUS rules in favour of disability protections, and a reasonably low standard of proof for disability-based discrimination.

I think we call this white people affirmative action.

Put this on a billboard.

Heed the words.

BREAKING: New poll verifies that most Americans are not Republicans.