Like, am I elite because I think he's absolutely insane?

Reading the Alex Karp diatribe I cannot help but wonder: why are billionaires always complaining about "The Elite"? He has unimaginable wealth and power far beyond the imagination of an adjunct professor or journalist making $75k/yr. He is The Elite. There is no one more 'elite'.

Every morning at 6AM the dudes next door try to get their pickup started for about 20 minutes straight and I just want to go over and say "look, just take it to a shop, I'll pay." And then they finally get it going and I fall back asleep and forget it ever happened. Until the next morning.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

A lot of Americans think that posting opposition on social media means a lack of culpability. That's not how it works. We are at war, we pay for it, we allow it, we're complicit.

I can’t believe that we’re on the brink of nuking Iran because a smart Black man in a tan suit once made fun of a reality tv host.

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

Sad story about a researcher who dared to teach science that ran contrary to the diktats of a racist regime: www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

I think we need an intervention. Whatever that's called in geopolitical terms. Ah, turns out it's called "an invasion". Yeah. We need that I guess.

Happy "Threatening Genocide On Twitter Clone" Day.

My partner and I are disprove your hypothesis. Full disclosure: I am the runner.

Cake

WSDOT not only makes the roads ok but makes life online tolerable. All hail @wsdot.wa.gov

A chocolate cake

Happy Friday, I made cake to help myself stave off dread and disappointment

Absolutely. That spite is purely at the finance department, not any of the people with whom I actually interacted, but it is real and powerful.

I am now 6 months into an absolute struggle to get a small honorarium for a talk that I gave at a UK University. At this point it's just the principle that if I'm going to wake up and be on-camera at 2AM, I should get paid for it.

Trump is fighting a ‘boomer war’ in Iran: a relic unpopular with anyone under 60 | Stephen Wertheim To see this war as archaic, the last squawk of the Middle East hawks, is at once maddening and hopeful

Boomer war www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In a healthy democracy the government would have collapsed by now and instead we've got at best just over 7 months to know if there will be electoral consequences and until january for them to start to take effect

Gosh a parliamentary system sounds nice.

I mean, if those humans are inside a massive SUV then the built environment is quite accommodating.

Me vs Genoise batter, Round 5. Again, I am vanquished. It's just hard as hell to get right.

I feel pretty good paying my city and state taxes. I feel a hell of a lot less good paying my federal taxes. I do know that some of it filters down to institutions and work that I truly value but a hell of a lot of it goes to murder and destruction.

The ‘self-deportee’ hounded out of the US to Mexico: ‘There are days when I feel literally insane’ Abel Ortiz lived in LA since he was a newborn. The Guardian filmed him as he left after 38 years. Now, we catch up with him in Mexico City, fired up and grieving in his new life

"Norteado": www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Well, no longer have to wonder what it felt like to be Italian in 1936. i guess I can wonder what it feels like to have trains, much less trains that run on time.

The world energy shock is coming The US and Israel's illegal attack on Iran will provoke a global economic catastrophe

www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

I'm embarrassed to admit that I was wondering about the Sloth

Anyone know the specific milepost at which the slide is located?

Chuck Norris has died. He is survived by 20 years of memes about how Chuck Norris was cool, and 80 years of public record about how he wasn't.

I seem to have fallen asleep for a few hours, what horrible thing has [the US/President/Americans/Humanity] done now?

A screen showing the default tipping scale for a GoFundMe campaign, which is 16.5%

The default "tip" for gofundme is 16.5%

Just gotta let the dumb stuff roll off your back.