The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind
real "just kidding, unless......." energy here
The Onion wants to make us submissive slaves to the New world order.
Correct.
tim apple finally realized he couldn't compete with tim onion
Empire of AI wins the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction
Omg???????
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...
About that Clarence Thomas speech...
Here's what the justice was really saying. And a guess at why he sounded mad.
Spoiler: He might not be getting his way in the Slaughter case.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A bunch of college dropouts are running companies that claim to do what scientists have made very clear is not scientifically possible to do. It’s early 20th century eugenics pseudoscience all over again. We just need to regulate AI—which is exactly what we’ve done with every other risky new tech
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
“Hey, I wonder what’s going on on Bluesky let’s fire it up!…”
It's interesting to me that a story about online rape networks doesn't seem to have broken through?
The story's inception was instigated in part by Gisèle Pelicot's rapes. Her husband drugged and and raped her and then invited dozens of other men to rape her while she was drugged.
Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center.
Why the AI backlash has turned violent:
It's pretty telling that every single aspect of LLMs runs the gamut from "maybe mildly useful if you're extremely lazy or time crunched" to "apocalypitcally horrifying"
It made him the man he is today!
Thank you for talking openly. It means a lot.
I'm definitely with you that Anki enthusiasts can be extremely annoying, though. It's a really useful tool I can't imagine learning without, but it's not everything. I think of it as the weight training to my Olympics of reading/watching fun stuff
So let's say you're trying to learn "wrench," but every single time you see it in print you've forgotten it, vs Anki, which will say "you are about to forget wrench!! here it is!!!!"
And second, the main problem is that if you see a word you don't know *at the wrong time*, you won't remember it. You'll just keep looking it up again and again and be annoyed with yourself.
Depending on how difficult you find each word, you'll see the words less and less often over the lifetime of the card, that's kind of the whole point of SRS over normal flashcards!
Not to be too pedantic but this assertion also shows the author doesn't have a complete handle on spaced repetition and there are two glaring errors to me: Even if you put cards for "boy" and "wrench" in your deck, you will NOT see them just as often.
plus, super unfortunately i'm a middle aged adult and i can't learn a new word forever after one encounter like my kids can, grumble grumble
like man i very much prefer reading over anki but if i only see a top 5000ish word every 18 books it's gonna take a while for it to stick. the amount of input required is so high because of that pesky power law distribution of vocab
it's also a way to artificially boost frequency across the board if you don't spend most of your life in the target language. if you only spend an hour a day reading or listening to the language, it's just gonna take you longer to encounter even medium-frequency words every 12 year old knows.
screenshot of homer simpson saying "this has gone on just long enough!"
senate dems bringing articles of impeachment
The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I always apologize that facebook seems to be the only place this video is left on the internet but...Amber Ruffin's Twitter On Paper is evergreen. www.facebook.com/AmberMRuffin...
Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ became a cesspool of corruption.
Bondi will be remembered for blocking the release of the Epstein files, weaponizing the DOJ to go after Trump’s political opponents, and handing out merger approvals as political favors.
Good riddance.
A lot of young men right now, religious and secular, are enticed by a worldview that says they are endowed with special skills and authority. They’re interested in a framework that says women should serve and not be heard or even really considered beyond how they affect the men around them.
There’s something very silly but also deeply insulting about having to have a 15 year-old boy lead prayers, songs, and even sermons or communion lessons on behalf of fully-grown women.
Male supremacists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd want women to “shut up.”
I wrote about this and the abuser politics on the right.
www.liberalcurrents.com/abuser-polit...