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One subtle thing I mislike about this era of politics is the increasing use of the word "punishment" to mean "retaliation." If you confuse those two, you are accepting the legitimacy of a mafia state.

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The Oathkeepers were ostensibly founded to encourage law enforcement and military to refuse unlawful orders. To prevent a tyrannical government from attacking its own citizens. Wonder what they’re up to these days.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Just remember that Trump and all his consiglieres confidently told us over and over again that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was *never* coming back to the US, to get us to demobilize, give up on politics, and internalize the idea that everything is futile.

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

New piece! Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats. An actually data-driven analysis of some stale conventional wisdom. Alt title: Matt Yglesias is wrong about Democrats and Abrego Garcia🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 45 comments

If you think that “TACO” couldn’t possibly work, have you heard of “Let’s Go Brandon?”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

submitted 43 days ago • 686 comments

Regarding the discourse last week over whether we need more sprawl development to end the housing shortage: There's no reason why greenfield/brownfield development within existing metro regions can't look more like this than like McMansion sprawl. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/c...

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

@mcuban.bsky.social is backing skylight.social, the TikTok alternative that won’t be banned or sold this week. Probably.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

🇺🇦🙏

submitted 89 days ago • 19 comments

Norfolk State is down 25 but living and dying for every point, you love to see it

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

How did the US become a land of opportunity? In a new paper, we show that the country's pioneering role in mass education was key to its rise in intergenerational mobility from 1850 to 1950. "America's Rise in Human Capital Mobility" with Harriet Brookes Gray & Hugo Reichardt

submitted 110 days ago • 10 comments

El plástico no es reciclable amigas, dejemos la bobada. ttps://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-recycling-definition

submitted 132 days ago • 3 comments

Normalize calling your first cousin’s kids “nephews” and “nieces.”

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being so popular that when your older brother tries to trade your island like a baseball card, your subjects rise up in support of King Fred.

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

Kenya's real GDP is 20x what it was in 1993. Real per capita GDP is 10x. Amazing.

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

A century ago, Catalan Renaissance Man, Santiago Rusiñol led an expedition to Ibiza and found a trove of 2,500 year old Phoenician artifacts.

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

A simple experiment you can do is buy a server, set up a website with nothing on it, then look at the access logs. All day, every day, there are random systems just blasting vulnerabilities at every device on the internet. Analysts call it "background noise", executives call it "cyber attacks".

submitted 196 days ago • 160 comments

"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years" Mark Twain

submitted 196 days ago • 0 comments

Spent a few minutes skimming through the Wikipedia bios of the “Kids in the Hall” and good God. Most critics would be content to pan the movie in the Baghdad Times. The documentary was completed and the DVD is available on Amazon for $6.

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I’m sorry. Why are we rebuilding Tropicana Field when we could be announcing the Montreal Raies Diables?

submitted 214 days ago • 0 comments

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

submitted 215 days ago • 29 comments