This is your regular reminder that rationality is an emotion. It is not the opposite of emotion. It is the feeling of being calmly certain. That is not the same thing as being right. It is the FEELING of being right.
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This is your regular reminder that rationality is an emotion. It is not the opposite of emotion. It is the feeling of being calmly certain. That is not the same thing as being right. It is the FEELING of being right.
I need to increase my eccentricity at least 5% every year.
Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future. This is the plan.
Oh god, someone on a thread invoked “Light of the World” aka the Piss Christ and I am really tired and just got off a plane but my impassioned screed on it was on Twitter and as some of you know, I have FEELINGS ON THIS TOPIC.
Its very clear that the next pandemic is going to require the cdc provide free child care to all journalists if we want any hope of our response succeeding
In some states, as a trans man who passes for male, I'm legally banned from using a men's restroom but practically banned from using a women's. My choice is between breaking the law and being arrested for breaking it. Few Democrats are talking about how much trans people have lost, and how quickly.
"Queer studies" remaining undefeated.
You adapted to spooky season. I was born in it.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Mina Harker is of course a war god specializing in logistics.
As always, the answer is Dracula.
You will never convince me that Frodo isn't a literal child.
Hrothgar is a dumbass for building a house in a swamp, but I doubt Tolkien would have thought so.
from a distance Nate Silver appears to be a long sad story of assimilationist brain, that’s all I see going on when he says he’s the prototype regular guy and people just have to be brave enough to prove it
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
It does not seem good that a sizable portion of the political and media elite would rather cook their brains on a white nationalist website than have to engage with criticism from the left.
Den-Tatas
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
I'm not even sure!
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
Ne mangez pas la feuille de maïs.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
public owned and public operated under an American Health Service too
The Industrial Revolution Was a Mistake
as funny as it is to imagine a scenario where Trump just randomly keels over and dies because he is an unhealthy senile 80 year old, it's important to keep in mind that the scenario where he has a stroke or heart attack and is merely severely incapicitated but remains alive is MUCH FUNNIER
STEVE MILLER, JD VANCE, and RFK star as: THE EDITHS WILSON
If we reduced university teaching to purely objective knowledge, we would only teach geometry.
Rule zero: shoot all economists.
me @ antivaxxers, antisemites, racists, 9/11 truthers, QAnons, and other dangerous cults: the lure of the conspiracy theory is how these people get sucked in, it's scary how easy it is also me: never not ready to believe, for fun, that a public figure is being Weekend at Bernies'd by panicked aides
And by extension, so was Avatar
I’m not sure we’ve written enough about how Gladys Kravitz has gone ACAB.
Nice.
Exactlyyyy. They cant charge us for doing magic!! The legal system is not designed to work that wayyy
Constantine on permanent stand-by.
My pre-labor day reward was to get laid off, do me a favor and sign up to get my now-independent reporting and writing
Tangential, but I truly believe that if the DNC had given some floor time to a Palestinian speaker we would be living in a very different world right now
reading this felt like discovering one of those tribes of people who have had no contact with the outside world
My daughter was one of dozens of students arrested at Columbia and then suspended from her PhD program for two years in response--a clear project of the Palestine exception. Jessie runs it all down here. Paywall but you can see a preview at least. zeteo.com/p/columbia-u...
Gotta get picture-in-picture of his heart monitor
Copyright for me but not for thee!
HAI TESCO
The salad enjoyer
I was not expecting the baby to bark like Harvey Fierstein.
Part of the reason im convinced so many US news publications are primarily ideological, rather than "motivated by ratings/clicks" is so few have pushed back in any way whatsoever against X and Meta throttling outgoing links.
Wait who's getting money
Good line for a bio.
Does anyone on here know if there has there been any sort of formal/organized response by historians to the AHA's "Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education" statement/document?
Sidewalks are, maybe not a surprise to anyone who follows me, are about…you guessed it! Racism! www.popsci.com/politics-ver...
"Garfielding out."
Some Democratic electeds are microwaving their brains on X the fascism app instead of hanging out on Bluesky where progressives beg them to use their power differently.
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
Heads up, English Literature types. The newly formed School of English at MMU is looking to appoint a new Head of School, ideally someone who already holds a professorial Chair. Further details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...
30 hour work week, doubled federal holidays, overtime pay for holidays and hours 30-45, double wages for anything more than 45. Oh, and managers get hourly wages, salary is only for people who work in an office.
“Blueskyism” Rent free lmao
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
I tracked down source of a TikTok i saw about horrific car pick up lane in a Tennessee school district. And it is true. Parents arriving by noon to wait in line for hours, doordashing food as they wait, etc. www.wbir.com/article/traf...
Listen. I think that’s where we start to get the really uncomfortable bits about gender and whiteness and the status of being a soccer mom type. Some of the answer is that parents want it this way because they want to be the family with a mom who drives kids to school.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
Before Joe Biden had officially launched his campaign, I had warned that resegregation was at the core of the racial grievance of Trumpism. A month later, I would write about the solution to it, and as usual nobody heard because nobody listens to me lol
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
I'm ready to completely shut down all middle aged white men until we figure out what is going on.
Downloading a PDF counts as writing 183 words.
this is basically why cops can’t retain college grads no matter how high they raise the starting salaries
“Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehistory women were rulers, warriors, hunters and shamans.” www.newscientist.com/article/2488...
In my house I must hear, “the republicans out-organizes every organizer in this country” about three times a day.
If sports teams were actually owned by the cities they claim to represent, sure, then supporting them would be an act of civic pride. But most of them aren't, they're random groups of athletes owned by rich dicks who squeeze the cities they're in for all they're worth. They're basically parasites.
It's mostly "the biggest victim of COVID was me" combined with "I can't get mad at a virus, it doesn't react in a way that gives me emotional satisfaction." Obviously COVID policy wasn't perfect. But to think it was political persecution, and pretend Trump wasn't president then, is really something.
The right is pushing this narrative because it’s the only place they can blame liberals — their actual goal — and gain purchase among elites. The *actual* mistakes during the pandemic all originate on the right: lax lockdowns, weak mitigations and low vaccine uptake
It is *literally impossible* to have reliable guardrails on LLMs. More research is coming out on this. But,remember: ll LLM CEOs have admitted they don't understand how their product works. Prob not good look in court. www.activefence.com/blog/llm-gua...
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
Art by Joseph Keppler Jr., 1908 Puck Magazine
Rave Against the Machine
I think getting Democratic officials and consultants off X as their primary social platform should be a priority for activists. At this point, it is acting to inoculate them against their own voting base, which is insane and self-destructive but also resembles an addict approaching rock bottom.
@aktange.bsky.social We should teach this with Haggard, Stoker, and Conan Doyle.
Solidarity across all marginalized groups & their allies is hard but essential for defeating the fascists in power. This is exactly why you don’t start picking groups to sacrifice because 52% of Americans said yes in a poll to something they haven’t given any thought about.
I think it was Marx who first theorized years of money.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Well now you know how the NY Times would airbrush Dr Mengele
Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!
true
Roar-y.
this is a labor day post. when workers have no rights, they can be exploited in absolutely horrific ways. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/slavery-wa...
"Garfielding out."
In senior year, I took a self-defense course offered by my school that taught us how to gauge out eyes and kick lying down, and every time we learned a new technique, we were reminded of “proportionate response” and how we needed to use just enough force to get away, otherwise it was just assault
I'm ready to completely shut down all middle aged white men until we figure out what is going on.
Loyalty to any posting platform is stupid. I’m not laying down my life for my Favored Company, I’m going wherever I can say “kush got me feeling like the white Tony Soprano” and right now that’s Bluesky
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
We got our MMR boosters late last year and it was very easy! Highly recommend!
And that's assuming that the technology can do the work of a junior at the quality of a junior. If it can't, that only speeds up the destruction because now seniors have to babysit the sabotage machine, reducing the amount of senior-level work getting done. Gen AI can't do junior work.
This means you, University of Chicago.
one thing i think neoliberals don’t realize when they squawk about trans people not voting for newsom: if we did, the political apparatus would use that fact against us to say that we approve of & consent to his transphobic policies.
White House releases photos of President Reagan healthy and barbecuing this weekend.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
This is about Irish folklore, queerness, and Jane's neurodivergence--and it's written by a student to boot! central.edu/writing-anth...