The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom
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The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom
I feel like there's a substantial portion of the country for whom "supporter of free speech" just means "talked a lot"
"The subject in custody turned out to be a pretty cool dude and has been released under the Bro Code."
I have never signed a friend's 50th birthday card with a message like "Happy Birthday you prolific pedophile!" but then again none of my friends have turned 50 yet, so I can't be too smug about this.
That's interesting, I've always wondered about that
"I and a large group of parents whose kids died of cancer have been working on this for five years," she told me....The process, she added, "is profoundly broken." www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...
GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually
Slightly tangential: I think "defend this increasingly-guilty looking person" is actually a pretty good basis for an improv game.
I wonder if a bit of the dynamic here is also that the birthday letter was released by Congress instead of being a scoop by one specific outlet, which let NYT and every publication to run with it without getting territorial.
Yeah they should consider whether bike lanes impact parking availability, a thing that has never occurred before
Did WSJ hedge about whose signature it was?
Never thought I'd look at a picture Donald Trump drew and think "this would upset me less if he'd made those breasts a lot bigger"
"I've never known Trump to be much of an artist" is so funny, it's a sketch consisting of 4 lines!
Massachusetts instituted a millionaire's tax and literally The Monopoly Man is moving here
Interesting to think about the difference in context of the "democratization of media" narrative during the rise of social media. Nominally individuals are given more voice but maybe harder to coalesce mass movements due to fragmentation (not sure how to square this with e.g. arab spring, though?)
Those Earth Day pictures are stunning, I wasn't really aware of the scope of that. Also "Congress closed for the day, and two-thirds of its members spoke at Earth Day events."
if i heard a dog talking in rfk jr's voice i'd think, Well obviously that's pretty amazing but it's not like, earth shattering
Our institutions have adopted a practice where anything supported by a major American party must be treated as if it's at least 50% correct, which means that when a major party is controlled by a group doing utterly indefensible things, all our institutions fall silent and pretend it's not happening
Coal power plants are worthless when they don't have coal in them.
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
“Ethical concerns” is not just a euphemism here, it’s wrong. A concern is apprehension about something uncertain. There is nobody concerned about the ethics here, because there is nothing uncertain. It’s indisputably illegal and unethical; people either care or they don’t.
Maybe his son should be monitoring whether he's reading too much qanon online
I also think there's some difference between "He's doing X which is probably illegal" and "He says he's doing X but is not because doing X is a legal process which has not occurred"
Cool stuff, great industry
This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
Maybe I'm being ableist, but I'd prefer the HHS secretary not always sound like he's actively dying.
Everyone knows that if you ask an undercover cop if they're a cop, they have to tell you, but few people know that police aren't allowed to read any signs unless the signs say "Police take notice"
I hope the entire interview was inexplicably done via Ring camera
That's great- I work on some bits of that in my day job, cool to see it running in the wild
Nice! You're running it off of your phone?
They got the couch from Seinfeld for some reason
Let's talk about *how we can know* that crows understand geometry. 🧪 The study from Univ. of Tübingen faculty on two male carrion crows (Corvus corone) trained to select "outliers" from a set of shapes in exchange for a food reward. The set member that doesn't "belong" is called the "intruder".
I literally thought Scotch-Irish just meant people from Scotland and Ireland until your post just now. Thanks for prompting me to look it up!
I think instead of "no idling zones" we should have "idling zones" and see who wants to live near them. Then think about why that's the default.
He disappeared for a few days to solve a caper
Ugh this was even worse than I expected
It's sort of a Schrodinger's Cat situation and we haven't opened the box yet.
For Boston folks, might as well read ahead of time www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
not here for a good time or a long time, but a secret third type of time
🚨🚨🚨 "The Trump administration is preparing an immigration enforcement blitz in #Boston in the coming weeks, according to a current administration official and a former administration official. … The clampdown could come soon after a similar surge in Chicago in September." #Massachusetts #bospoli
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
People on bikes fear that without protected bike lanes, people in cars will “completely kill” them.
This article fills me with rage and sadness. Kids are on wait lists like this because their treatment is failing or doesn't exist. They are desperate for hope. And they can't sit around waiting for adults to figure things out.
You may have seen this story blowing up about Will Smith using AI to generate fake audiences to promote his latest tour, but the truth is more complicated. The audiences are real, but the footage was manipulated: first by Will Smith's team and then, without permission, by YouTube itself.
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
Lotta good options here
Time to take up smoking!
What are the "best crime cities"?
Maybe it's like in the same way that an art critic actually loves art
The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off
Burning a flag will never be as offensive as draping it over his coffin will be.
Yep. The number one destination of Californians leaving the state is...blue cities in Texas, which the TX government is systematically denying political power. Someone moving from the Bay Area to Austin isn't turning TX's Congressional delegation blue, especially after this month's gerrymander
The next two orders are the ones addressing "cashless bail." Let's be clear: What the Trump admin wants is a system where wealthy people can get out on bail and less wealthy and poor people have their lives ruined by being unable to afford bail and be stuck in jail while fighting charges.
Thanks!
Is "you're only prosecuting me for this random crime because I happened to be burning a flag" a viable defense?
Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.
Vance isn’t just wrong about WW2, he’s wrong about how wars end in the contemporary world. Since WW2, almost every war has ended with a ceasefire, not a peace treaty that resolves the underlying issues. This was documented by @tanishafazal.bsky.social 1/4 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For 6+ seats I'd look at kia ev9. I don't have any direct experience though.
It was like "there was a guy who was on some sort of drugs" or "there were people hanging out around some building for unclear reasons" but nothing happened.
Last weekend I was talking with a Republican who goes to Manhattan for work periodically. I asked a lot about why he perceives it as so dangerous, and every example he provided just seemed to end with "it seemed like things were about to go down", but nothing actually *happened*.
Why own Intel stock yourself when the government will do it for you?
It’s pretty simple: - AI is driving electricity demand up - The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built - When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
Oh no they just achieved AGI so they shut down hiring
Everyone saying "this is news?!" is missing the funniest part which is that *she* thought that the RNC chair needed to be told this. Like she thought his reaction was going to be "oh wow, we got her on our side!"
Agreed, the only exception being the random "release the MLK files" stuff that was transparently a distraction away from Epstein.
Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely. That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles. Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.
Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC
"Liberals already ruined it" shows the plot here. These aren't impartial law enforcement officers protecting all citizens. They are partisan paramilitary militia, terrorizing domestic opponents.
I'm missing something, how would it have impacted the Senate?
Gotta say I'm a huge fan of the idea that there's a "deep state" that spent decades and countless resources installing a shadow government that controls all the "alphabet agencies" and bends the US government to its malign will and it has finally broken cover to smack a cop with a hoagie
Tbh I hope ICE spends most of its budget this way
My three-step proposal for Storrow Drive: 1. Dig a tunnel underneath Storrow Drive. 2. Move the road into the tunnel. 3. Fill the tunnel with cement.
Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words
It's wild to me that there are that many people willing to listen to a Ted Cruz podcast. Beyond my comprehension.
This is the way: ebikes replace car trips (or cars altogether) kids love to be the star of the show, and families get to inhabit their cities together. And no parking worries once you get where you're going #EbikeRevolution Safe streets make this possible! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/m...
the problem with Joe Rogan is not that he tells people to vote Republican, it's that he instills values in them that lead them to reactionary politics. you need people who will instill better values in young men _and then you need the party to reflect those values_
Also leaded gas while we're listing Thomas Midgley, Jr's greatest hits
CFCs
Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her
Speaking as a DC resident: statehood now. It is absurd that Trump can do this in our city.
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Even by the standards of this discourse, this is one of the worst arguments I have ever seen
hah wow I didn't even notice on first reading that it got the message wrong.. another example of how proofreading is different from writing!
My youngest flipped the switch and started pedaling on her own last weekend and it has been very exciting
Whoa that's clever, just looked it up. I'd be curious to learn more about the power constraints for these- the www.inkcase.com/inkcase-for-... seems to have a battery, maybe it's using Bluetooth or something?
what?
One thing that changed my thinking a bit: automatic transmission means you have a free hand to use a phone, so the impact of smartphones would likely be more pronounced in countries with more automatic transmissions (e.g. US, Canada) compared to, say, EU counterparts.
Yeah the reason I had to try it myself was that the awful output *was* somewhat believable (though I thought it unlikely for current state of the art). But that's why I wouldn't hand off the task- I can't trust the output!
I like how this is a dinner being hosted, like did JD Vance send out invitations "You are cordially invited to my pedophile coverup dinner"
FWIW actual Gemini output isn't as bad as that screenshot (not sure which LLM that was?) That said, this isn't a task that I'd ever hand off to automation.
love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes
starting to think maybe RFK Jr. was telling the truth in the hundreds of podcasts and speeches he did about being anti-vax and then lied that one time in front of Congress
These people can only conceive of win-lose situations, and so they forgo win-win arrangements in favor of lose-lose arrangements
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
Mulaney bit about this very ad (and L&O): www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Im4...
Had no idea NFC could power things like this, that's incredible.
Trump should address his connections with Jeffrey Epstein directly to the country, in a televised national address that historians will later dub the "And I'd Do It Again" speech.
Basically Lucille from Arrested Development saying "I could never pay an English-speaking-person that little, they’d starve!"
Is this typical of community feedback? I have no idea.