Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Writing tip: Make the perfect the enemy of the good. Then it's way hotter when they fuck at the end of the book.

"I’ve never completely freed myself of the suspicion
that there are some extremely odd things about this mission." (HAL 9000)

a picture is, it turns out, worth a lot more than a thousand words

"There is no Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, Steve Bannon, or Trump Organization in an era where white collar crime is prosecuted with anything close to the vigor of the lowest-level drug cases in a major US city."

Stacy Mitchell has the best command of this subject. She explains how Amazon's ability to match any discount absolutely shreds competitors trying to give you a lower price. To hide these powers from nosy reporters, Amazon shuts off the magic algorithm during holiday shopping season and Prime Day.

Oh. My. God.

Jay Bhattacharya has truly decimated opportunities for early career scientists; I knew it was bad, but I didn’t realize just how bad.

What a catastrophic failure of leadership.

This thread is truly one of the scariest things I’ve seen in a long time. Jay is dismantling US science 😢

TBH I am still sometimes annoyed by that one, after all these years.

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told.

These fools are about to be absolutely fuckass mad, just infuriated and offended beyond all belie, when they find out that truth does not consist in a proposition corresponding to facts but rather is a disquotational device used for blind ascriptions.

Congratulations! You both look lovely.

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?

Here it is.

Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

Once upon a time there was a ruler who made a bad decision. All the courtiers and servants knew it was a bad decision, but they put into effect the bad decision, for the ruler had already made and proclaimed the decision. And when it turned out to be a very bad decision indeed, those courtiers and servants were sacked by the now “furious” ruler.

The decision of a Prime Minister

Only one person decided to appoint Lord Mandelson

The Empty City blog

emptycity.substack.com/p/the-decisi...

The author, smiling, among the branches of a blossoming cherry tree.

Cherry Blossom Dude (during Katori Jinkosai, middle of last week).

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

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

Yes! He's so compelling. He's terrific in "The End of the F**king World" (seriies).

What’s really scary about this memo is that it projects these changes to earth systems as emerging from increasing the amount of CO2 in the air to 500ppm, but we’re seeing them already at 430ppm CO2.

Meta really leaning into the getting data about, and images of, children angle, then.

I think yes is far more likely than no, even though I don't know what there is to say. (I have no insider perspective.) I liked your recent post about your experience in the writing trade because it described from the writer side something I recognise as a viewer.

Thank you! I like Graeber a lot too. I've got a stalled paper on the evolution of exchange that was helped by reading him. (Stalled because I'm trying to finish the hostility book.)

Trump Threatens to Kill Thousands More Iranians in Unnerving Tirades In a blunt warning, Senator Chris Murphy tells us that “everybody in that chain of command has to think hard” about carrying out such a hideously inhumane order, which he described as “war crimes.”

If Trump bombs power plants in Iran, the humanitarian crisis will be horrific. Experts tell me to expect water shortages, closed hospitals, many deaths.

“We’ve never had a US president so proudly promise to commit war crimes," Sen Chris Murphy says. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2087...

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

Hello there!

Critical comments can be pure gold. Some of my most useful reviews have been ones that led me to make significant changes that I was sure made the papers better,

So ... uh ... when do the 'checks and balances' kick in?

Are you going to impeach the president today? No?

Then you do, in fact, support making a whole civilization die.

Something from Ray Charles' "Modern Sounds in Country Music"?

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New Empedocles just dropped.

Maybe the real borg was the Chuckles we ate along the way.