They say a tech conservative is a liberal who was mogged by AImaxxing

Make Kevin Hassett look not that bad impossible challenge possibly met

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Follow up question: do you understand the English language?

FIFA looking wiser every day

Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...

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HUGE congratulations to my @wired.com colleagues for this well-earned 2026 Hillman Prize for our coverage of DOGE! www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.

Famously, he was kept from fighting in Vietnam

Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

Journalists planning to honor Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner have a choice:
A. Party with the dictator, wear fancy clothes and network to boost their careers.
B. Stand up for democracy by staying home.
They’re going to choose A. It looks terrible now. It will look worse to history.

It has all gone exactly to plan

Plans change after all

All good!

Yeah, but the first one was a joke

iOS: Dictation generates phantom image attachments when dictation stops · Issue #10301 · bluesky-social/social-app Steps to Reproduce Title: iOS: Dictation generates phantom image attachments when dictation stops Body: Summary When using dictation in the Bluesky iOS app, stopping dictation — either manually or ...

Turns out the Random screenshot thing is a known bug. Looks like a fix has been developed… Hopefully it will make it to the public version of the app soon. issue is use of voice software with the app on iPhone.

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Sure but there’s no math in that one

GELBACH SAYS HE TOTALLY CONTROLS HIS OWN SOCIAL MEDIA USE

We are now as far away from 1926 as 1926 was from 1826

#Perspective

Excellent content

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

It's not just one thing — it's another thing | TechCrunch This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it's almost a guar...

Extraordinary piece of writing…love what the author did here

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It is DEEPLY important to get non-millionaires, non-tech-industry-hacks, and non-Wall-Street people onto Boards of Trustees of Colleges and Universities. I've seen @syed.nyc in action in the Working Families Party and hope you'll vote for him if you're a Wesleyan grad.

Jokes on them!

Does give you license to complain

Quite a scene

I mean, you can drink and do those things at the same time

When I was born, my mother told her parents via telegram

So I won't weigh in on the legal ethics of it, but I can say this: New York has the strongest press shield law in the Nation, and there is zero chance that disciplinary authorities, even if they were so inclined, would be able to discover Liptak's and Cantor's sources.

None.

Tomorrow they will invite Viktor Orban

I thought about deleting the post, but I have decided that this is my new flourish

The Mark of Jonah

At first it hurts, but after a while, it’s numb

What could go wrong

All future District Court rulings must be stayed by the court issuing the ruling until after the next midterm