The fact that Trump isn't universally thought of as extremely racist is one of the biggest press failures of the past decade

Very occasionally I hope that hell is real

Wisconsin's Congressional delegation gives Republicans a net +4 in about as near a 50-50 state as there is in the country

Virginia is under hostile occupation by a majority of its residents apparently

Quite literally what Wisconsin's Assembly Speaker said after the 2018 election, when Democrats swept the statewide offices

Answer Pct. Yes y 51% No 49 Virginia Redistricting Results › >95% of votes in Source: Associated Press Roanoke Alexandria Richmond Norfolk Virginia Beach Yes No 60 70%

choice for the long run. However, the result of the tournament was that the highest average score was attained by the simplest of all strategies submitted: TIT FOR TAT. This strategy is simply one of cooperating on the first move and then doing whatever the other player did on the preceding move. Thus TIT FOR TAT is a strategy of cooperation based on reciprocity. The results of the first round were then circulated and entries for a second round were solicited. This time there were 62 entries from six countries (23). Most of the contestants were computer hob-byists, but there were also professors of evolutionary biology, physics, and computer science, as well as the five disciplines represented in the first round. TIT FOR TAT was again submitted by the winner of the first round, Professor Ana-tol Rapoport of the Institute for Advanced Study (Vienna). It won again. An analysis of the 3 million choices which were made in the second round identified the impressive robustness of TIT FOR TAT as dependent on three features: it was never the first to defect, it was provocable into retaliation by a defection of the other, and it was forgiving after just one act of retaliation (24).

Trying to come up with Worst And Most Obscure Columbo and I think my answer is French Stewart

Interesting - the early weeks of the yes campaign had more bipartisan messaging but they switched to an anti-Trump angle, which worked better www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

All the more amazing given that Virginia held a voter referendum and Texas didn't

screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

How a Janet Jackson song crashed laptops for 9 years In 2001, Microsoft support employees made a shocking discovery: Janet Jackson's hit, "Rhythm Nation," could cause laptops to crash. New details have now come to light showing what was done about it.

God I love stories like this.

'Rhythm Nation' used to crash hard drives.

The Atlantic, May 2026 cover: "My quest to find America's best free bread"

New recession indicator just dropped

You don't always get to choose whether you're in a knife fight or a gun fight. But if you're in a gun fight, you had better bring a gun

What universities need aren’t more young Republicans or islands of conservative thought. What they need, in every department, are more skeptics and iconoclasts and people with a capacity to change their minds intelligently. Selecting for those virtues, particularly in faculty hiring, is a long-term task.

Bret Stephens loves the Yale report, and has this to say about "what universities need." I have good news, Bret!

we all know I have no life, so:

Flu Fighters

Setting aside the substantive reasons why vaccination is extremely important for combat readiness etc: since when is enlisting in the military supposed to enhance your personal freedom? wtf are we even talking about here?

A still image of Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed (1994)

Darker Runways, the long-awaited new Daft Punk album

Yes, and it will only breed (further) contempt among administrators as they learn to take a dim view of the reasons why the faculty who remain at their institutions in fact remain

this is awful for many reasons, but IHE's framing suggests a frictionless market for academic labor where tenured faculty who dislike the terms of their job can leave for "bluer pastures" anytime. This recodes a functionally collapsed market for humanistic expertise in terms of free market fantasy

Continually amazed at iOS's inability to learn a single thing from the autocorrections I consistently undo

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

omg they are such beautiful babies

Also this:

In what sense does this count as a record? No interesting or even meaningful one, I don't think

Remember when Trump requested a selective recount of Milwaukee County and Dane County in 2020? And remember the result?

"Five-year plan for garbage bins" is the weirdest nyc flex

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

This is both

(1) some of the most important SCOTUS reporting ever, and

(2) far too generous to the Republican justices in framing of many pieces and omissions of Trump-era developments

What is striking to me about these is that the Justices candidly admit they are imposing their will without understanding the merits of the case.