Time for Mamdani and Obama to go to a baseball game with the Pope. Let’s just blow this whole thing wide open.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

I think I got sent a MAGA opinion poll

Yes

an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera . ALT: an elderly woman is sitting at a table in a restaurant and looking at the camera .

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

Daredevil loves killing off its best characters. There’s a reason death is rare in comics: because it’s useful plot-wise to keep interesting characters around rather than the short term rush of killing them off

Touch grass

me: it would be nice if people liked my posts

/post goes viral

me: oh shit

You need to be rich first though

Nope, Democratic leadership in Congress sucks too

It's really something to be living through the worst President, the worst Supreme Court, and the worst Congress all at once

Cover of Michael Shermer’s book CONSPIRACY, in which the word is spelled out as jumbled letters connected by thin red lines against a white background, evoking notes and clippings strung together on a board

i always take a moment to appreciate good book cover design

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..

We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.

And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!

1/

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

I just want to say that I have known and become friends with many Iranian people over the years. They are funny and lovely with an astounding history and culture that includes some of the best humanity has to offer in terms of architecture, philosophy, art, and food. It doesn't have to be this way.

Genuinely, one of the best insights anyone has given me on the US is that the rest of the world does not understand it is actually two countries. The first is a Western advanced liberal democracy. The other a theocratic, impoverished, violent and corrupt third world country.

If you can’t sack your demented, insane president are you even a democracy?

Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

Cherry blossoms in Japan.

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

I can’t wait to see him dragged in front of Congress

There hasn’t been a liberal Supreme Court since 1969, 30 years before most Americans were even born

Take A Sexy Picture of Me by CMAT

I think about this one all the time

This country is determined to kill me via sheer rage.

This baby's next chemo treatment is supposed to be TOMORROW. It's $2,000. That means they're $950 short.

Can we raise $950 today to help a 3-y/o live, for the love of all that's holy?

gofund.me/fd86ecc06

I hope these Boomers pull a Ginsburg and refuse to retire and croak right after the 2028 election, quickly followed by Roberts.

The last time the Supreme Court had a clear liberal majority was in 1969. Almost 60 years ago.