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Just had my longest-ever gap in a "hey, it's that guy!" moment: seeing Jon Gries in White Lotus and placing him as Laszlo from Real Genius. (Upon looking at his IMDB page I realize I've seen him in other things between, like Napoleon Dynamite, without placing him.)

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

The really weird, but also quite telling, thing about the DOGE email chaos is that it's been more than a day and the White House hasn't resolved it. With a single post, Trump could make it abundantly clear whether he wants the email obeyed or not, and whether Musk's word-via-DOGE is "law" or not.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

I would really like to understand better how this happened, because I would have thought that if there was one thing transformer models would be good at, it would be not blatantly contradicting themselves within a very short context window.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

This is why I told my Rep's office that his reason for supporting Connolly--that it was his turn, and that AOC should just wait for hers--makes me think I should support a primary challenger, though he's been good in the past.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Just an unbelievable own goal that the party—and specifically Pelosi, who had great strengths as Speaker—put an ancient and not nimble messenger in this key public committee spot instead of @Aoc who is absolutely one of the best comms people in entire party.

submitted 19 hours ago • 137 comments

And ye maye aske yowerself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And ye maye aske yowerself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And ye maye tell yowerself, 'Thys nys nat my fayre castel!' And ye maye tell yowerself, 'Thys nys nat my swift goshawk!'

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

what people who don't play games don't understand about him paying other people to do things which he imagines himself as having done then fumbles remarkably badly in ways apparent even to total beginners when he takes control with his unearned confidence is that's all he's ever done with everything

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Good statement of Cornell's guiding principles by president Kotlikoff. "In a time when most paths to higher education were closed to women, to non-Christians, and to people of color, Cornell’s founders were determined that Cornell would open its doors to all." statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025022...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

i said it many times before the election. american businesses are not prepared for the transactional nature of a trump presidency

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

submitted 4 days ago • 289 comments

"I am surprised by how thoroughly the Democrats and, more generally, leftists and liberals have ceded internet culture, as a whole, to the right." www.garbageday.email/p/you-can-ne...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Good Lord, spare me the smort takes about how “The Long Live the King nonsense is just a distraction from what’s really IMPORTANT” etc. Faith in regimes has suddenly collapsed over much less. Besides, if what’s really important was really important, Trump wouldn’t have a career in the first place.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

If there is one single thing that the United States stands for, it is that Americans owe no allegiance to kings.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

New scholarship alert! Listeners' Choices Online, forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review. james.grimmelmann.net/files/articl...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I am deeply honored to be named a Sloan Fellow this year. Thank you to my students, collaborators, and colleagues for making all of our work in @socialfutureslab.bsky.social possible. And thank you to the Sloan Foundation for your support of science and early career scientists in these times.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

"One intelligence officer said he had seen targeting mistakes that relied on incorrect machine translations from Arabic to Hebrew." apnews.com/article/isra...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I hesitated to share this because it is so chilling, but I think it needs to be seen The most revolting post from a official government social media account I've ever seen

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

The United States is currently being run by a criminal gang that hates the United States.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Some dude: back then, people didn’t just take pills for everyone Me, a person who reads historical newspapers: that’s true, they sometimes used suppositories, electric shocks, and radium treatments

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

when the target is a country, not a corporation, there are other words you can use www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

"…we’ve now found ourselves amid another shift in mass communication. One where algorithms successfully replaced ink and airwaves. … We are now either influencers or influenced. Trump and his cronies understand this acutely. The Democrats, clearly, still do not." www.garbageday.email/p/you-can-ne...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I don't see any good reason why college & university presidents shouldn't respond to this with an emphatic and unified "absolutely not." At the very least, the presidents of rich privates should not comply, and should be loud about it. There's no scenario where complying here reduces risk later.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

If the Democrats aren’t interested in working with protests, then when the massive protests do come, they won’t be interested in working with the Democrats. There is going to be an opposition party with immense grassroots support. But it doesn’t have to be the the Democratic Party.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

These dorks who’ve played Metternich in wargames think that they’re doing a super clever great power realpolitik, letting Russia absorb Ukraine while planning to absorb Canada, Greenland, and Panama. They’ve convinced themselves that instead of doing a Munich… they’re doing a Molotov-Ribbentrop.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Actually this is cool - they're afraid of SH lawsuits - which I assume means Delaware Caremark claims. Bc post merger it's expected that there will still be public SHs. And the public SHs are already furious about the merger and suing - they could add "illegally bribed to get it done" to the claims

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

It should be a source of profound embarrassment that a bunch of FedSoc lifers are taking a more vocal and principled stand against the corrupt Eric Adams deal than most elected Dems.

submitted 10 days ago • 247 comments

Me, a rando who reads obscure tech-nerd blogs, wow the NNSA is really under-resourced and struggling, given how immense its responsibilities are. You, a genius: mass layoffs! computer.rip/2025-01-20-o...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 10 days ago • 1087 comments

Yet another moment (how many have there been this week?) when we find out if a third rail of American public life—in this case the US press’s sacred conception of itself—really is electrified or if instead it’s actually perfectly well-insulated as long as you grab it from the right side.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics... All of this. All. Of. It.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

It really does seem like no one on the Trump team that drafted the order ending the de minimis exception for Chinese imports realized that there were millions of packages already in transit under the old rules. As usual, just astonishing levels of incompetence on display.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

submitted 10 days ago • 466 comments