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incidentally the whole point of stuff like having a federal dept of health and human services is instead of each of us all figuring it out on our own, we all chip and and hire the best scientists in the world to do our research

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

submitted 5 days ago • 96 comments

"Your health records will be on the block chain." "Everyone will live in the Metaverse." "All art will be NFTs." "Generative AI will replace the need for humans." We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.

submitted 5 days ago • 76 comments

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

submitted 5 days ago • 1028 comments

I'll send a free signed/personalized copy of my book MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios (assuming you want one ack no worries if not eep) to the first 20 people who respond here (or on Twitter) Saturday w/ a photo of them buying something from their local on #independentbookstoreday

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 10 days ago • 858 comments

Walz: Here in Minnesota, freedom means several things. It means freedom from hunger and poverty. That means freedom to worship or not. It means the freedom to be who you are anyway you choose, and that is a birthright..

submitted 10 days ago • 150 comments

A great read. I'm a broken record about on the point that companies generally love this arrangement. It allows them to offload dreaded long-term costs (employing smart people who do basic research, which often takes years or decades to monetize) to universities and the federal government.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Why is this man such a freaking jackass with no actual curiosity in learning about anything since a worm ate part of his brain? Again, we’re in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder, the guy who thinks your value is in your “health” and “normalcy,” at age 60 tried to take home a road kill bear cub to eat, then got distracted drinking all day, and then didn’t want to leave it in his car so he staged a dead bear murder scene because he hates people who rent bikes…

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

it just often hits me in the gut that the entire federal government of the united states, one of the largest and most powerful organizations in history, is currently being run by about two dozen people whom you could not trust to competently wash a car

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

Sunday morning April 20, 2025 Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov #AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw

submitted 14 days ago • 279 comments

I spoke with the legendary Delroy Lindo for #Sinners about Blacula, why people need to stop comparing Ryan Coogler and Spike Lee, the dangers of assimilation, and the doors he hopes this film opens for future artists. An honor. www.slashfilm.com/1837633/delr...

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

submitted 15 days ago • 268 comments

Many are comparing contemporary America to 1930s Germany and 2nd century Rome, but there's a better historical analogy: 1970s Jonestown.

submitted 15 days ago • 164 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 17 days ago • 58 comments

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 17 days ago • 610 comments

Pretty sure RFK jr just has no idea what either autism or vaccines actually are

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

The projection is off the charts here

submitted 17 days ago • 1807 comments

If you’re accusing anyone on social media of doing literally anything “for clout” or “for likes,” please load your pockets with stones and walk into the ocean.

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submitted 20 days ago • 38 comments

Anyone who primaries Schumer should emphasize that if they beat him, he'll stop posting on social media.

submitted 23 days ago • 36 comments

Politicians obsess about precisely where they stand on issues but voters tend to care more about how they make a stand.

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

The other countries should put a 100% tariff on Teslas and luxury vacations from Harlan Crow

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments

Disney could save a lot of money by releasing the TRON soundtracks and skipping the whole making-a-movie part.

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

Lots of lies have had dire effects on the economy — "you can afford this much house" or "pets dot com is worth a kajillionty dollars" — but it sure seems like "Donald Trump is a good businessman" may end up as the most expensive lie in modern history

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Very soon the people who blew off or outright denied the obvious threat posed by Trump for the past few years will start acting as if they didn't help bring this about. We need to be absolutely merciless in our scorn for these people. They should never be able to live down their complicity.

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

Wall Street dipshits quickly realizing that gleefully yelling slurs and sexually harassing subordinates doesn’t pay their country club fees

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

These are precedented times. The cradle of liberty has witnessed the revolutionary spirit of generations of Bostonians. Boston has taken on tyrants before, and we’ll do it again. #boston #silencedogood #nokings #resist

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

The past two months have been the "Dark Knight" ferryboat scene except the ferries are universities or law firms and they blow each other up before the Joker even finishes his instructions

submitted 28 days ago • 28 comments

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

submitted 28 days ago • 311 comments

If you're protesting this weekend, know your rights when interacting with law enforcement, including immigration agents.

submitted 29 days ago • 39 comments

Trump’s new Smithsonian EO singles out the National Museum of African American History and Culture, pushing for a whitewashed version of history. @shalisemyoung.bsky.social lays out what’s at stake—and why this hits especially hard.

submitted 30 days ago • 13 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 30 days ago • 1035 comments

good on you, Tufts 👏🏼👏🏼

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The joke character giving supreme power to a hammy fascist was another one of those This Man Does Not Miss moments.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1946) Never was a truer thing said, in my humble experience, and it applies to almost every aspect of life.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 31 days ago • 156 comments

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

submitted 31 days ago • 564 comments

This looks like a "win probability" graph from a game where a team builds a huge lead then blows it in the last few seconds

submitted 31 days ago • 105 comments

Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.

submitted 31 days ago • 319 comments