I know this all too well. Though somehow I managed not to overthrow Venezuela.

Came here to say the same. Wasted, and also like a vampire has been drinking his essence everyday for a year. Any moment now he might crumble into dust.

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23.

She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24.

Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method."

It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

Oh shit, there’s two spellings. We’re both right!

Wouldn’t that be penuspexy?

I’ve always thought of this as the “Blank Generation,” from the Richard Hell song. They would have been teenagers when that song was written in the late 70s.

Or you could call them Generation X, because Copeland’s novel was about people born between 55 and 65, though today we don’t use it that way.

If it does happen that Ted Cruz is named for the Supreme Court, reporters will need to call out the gross, incestuous connections. First, nearly half the SC would then come from George W Bush's legal team contesting the 2000 election: Cruz, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. 1/

laundry list of ai-related opinions:
1) llms do work and sometimes writes good code
2) ai is not llms. ai is neural networks. "training neural networks" works so well it's baffling
3) "the singularity" is an easy concept and if you scoff at it you're being tribalistic or deliberately obtuse

I'm really sick of liberals and centrists thinking that compromise is something you start with instead of something you end with

This is a heinous violation of rights in Kansas. No government can simply take your ID, there is no legitimate reason for it

Highlighted text: “ “That’s what the Chinese and Russian secret services realised – that the easiest vulnerability of the British establishment is the royal family,” says Lownie. “There’s no scrutiny. They’re greedy. They’re short of money.” And in Andrew’s case in particular, “they’re kind of immoral because of the way they’ve been brought up. And they mixed with lots of important people.”

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The distorted spiral galaxy at the center, "the Penguin", and the compact elliptical galaxy at the left, "the Egg", are locked in an active interaction. A near- and mid-infrared image from the Webb Space Telescope.

Epstein files document reveals DEA investigation of he and 14 others for trafficking narcotics [stupéfiants], from 2010 through the date the note was redacted, in 2014. Nothing in the English language press about this, naturally!

Fortunately, that idea is so far-fetched that not only will we all be dead, but the sun itself will have gone supernova by the time it arrives.

total and complete adulation (all good) all the time, or he is flooded with unbearable shame (all bad). There's a lot more to it than that, but I recommend Otto Kernberg, Heinz Kohut, or James Masterson if you're interested in learning more.

He also isn't able to hold on to the idea of himself as a whole object, with good and bad aspects, for very long. He can only have part object relations, meaning that he can only experience others as all bad or all good. Likewise, he experiences himself that way, and this is why he needs (2/x)

Most theoretical constructs of narcissism would say that he doesn't really understand that other people exist, and in many ways *he* doesn't really exist, either. He isn't able to have full, integrated object relations (see another person as a whole entity, including good and bad parts). (1/x)

Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin's Wealth Manager, FBI Source Claimed in Newly Released Epstein Files Jeffrey Epstein managed money for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, among other powerful world leaders, one confidential source claimed in FBI testimony

As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story.

And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law.

It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real.

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“I know you (MAGA) are disappointed that we won’t let Trump make every decision, and instead reserve rights to a dysfunctional congress, but you’re going to thank us for limiting presidential power after you lose the next election big time.”

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself.

A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

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Given who trained up Assad’s father’s secret police, you might say it is literally the same as Nazi apologism.

Triumphs over fascism and a dissertation committee in the same year, you love to see it

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.”

This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate."

#TrumpSyndicate

And his face and neck. Looking like end stage congestive heart failure.

Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job

Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.