i would like even a tenth of this wrath for the people revoking civil rights and poisoning people for profit

Alex Karp, Palantir CEO and the world's most punchable nerd

a society which allows dorks like this to Sephiroth post on main without dunking their head in a toilet and stuffing them in a trash can has stumbled dangerously close to a fatal precipice

they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

My folks are German American midwesterners and I don’t like it when they put a LOT of sugar into things that are usually vinegar based. Super sweet bread and butter pickles, sugary Cole slaw, etc. Tastes like death

They think you're stupid.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Corporate centrists are absolutely obsessed with the idea that defeating fascism is dependent on extremists “coming to their senses” when in reality the people moving away from Trump are becoming more extreme and will radicalize their followers if material conditions aren’t addressed.

unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can

Get a hold of the guys from Knowledge Fight

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

*exasperated sigh* I don’t know Herman. Was it whales?

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

the pope is correct about the war bc he is correct on the merits and not because he is the pope likewise Trump is wrong about the war on the merits and not bc heads of state should never criticize religious leaders or engage in blasphemy which is actually fine thank you for coming to my ted talk

This is a very very good tweet by Pope Leo.

Are you mad at me

When the 1,000-year history of Minneapolis is written, I hope a few paragraphs will be spent on the unintended effect of ACORN’s destruction. To this south sider, it was the most effective & grass roots north side progressive organizing effort ever, and its loss is felt more each year.

what i think about the vibecession nonsense is that the charts and numbers dont matter if fundamentally we are dealing with broken systems that are meant to funnel money upward

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Between this and Sotomayor's recent dig at Kavanaugh, I'm getting the sense that Callais (the Voting Rights Act case) will be an absolute disaster and the liberals have given up trying to mitigate the damage.

kinda funny how Republican voters are inarguably happier when a Dem is president. they don’t actually want to be in charge of shit, they want to roll coal and whip themselves into a frenzy over wholly imaginary liberal tyranny. now they’ve caught the car and it fuckin sucks

Breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department moves to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in major Jan. 6 cases.

So glad this story is gaining traction & wanted to highlight that @andrewdeck.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org broke the news that NYT/Guardian/USA Today were blocking IA earlier this year. Encourage all to read: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

Happy 40th to “open up your fruit cage”

What the fuck is a non-private school

It's the Prices, Stupid Consumer sentiment is at an all-time low because prices are at an all-time high. Consumer sentiment isn't broken, popular government data is just incomplete

The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...

It makes complete sense that the Evangelical-Mormon megareligion is converging on “Christianity is about sending AI-written corporate emails everyone ignores, but about Christ”

Pope Leo plz excommunicate the entire US until Trump crawls on his knees in the snow from Koblenz to Prague or whatever

Sounds so Shakespearean