@zalester.bsky.social
25, angry with the current world. Every day is another journey to disappointment.
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Imagining that the climate battle is about *information* -- that those who have good information will act; that those who aren't acting must be lacking information -- has been utterly disastrous for decades now, but advocates & pols can't seem to break out of it.
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Imagining that the climate battle is about *information* -- that those who have good information will act; that those who aren't acting must be lacking information -- has been utterly disastrous for decades now, but advocates & pols can't seem to break out of it.
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Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
If I was working at OU, I would just start handing out 100's to every student and stop writing comments.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
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If we’re going to make post-Trump constitutional changes, I’d prefer something like this - drawing a bright line under certain executive limitations that were presumed to exist before Trump, separating the DOJ further from the president, limiting pardons, and killing unitary executive theory dead
I wrote my anti-Trump constitutional amendment. Honestly, a fun exercise
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If we’re going to make post-Trump constitutional changes, I’d prefer something like this - drawing a bright line under certain executive limitations that were presumed to exist before Trump, separating the DOJ further from the president, limiting pardons, and killing unitary executive theory dead
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By Dan Hollaway’s own standards, it should be acceptable to let all the air out of his tires and then drone strike him while he’s waiting for AAA
Pete Hegseth will face prosecution for real war crimes, not imagined ones, so there's no problem.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
By Dan Hollaway’s own standards, it should be acceptable to let all the air out of his tires and then drone strike him while he’s waiting for AAA
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They called her out by name in their social media posts and called her "mentally ill" -- I bet she has a hundred angry emails by now, at the very least.
The other thing is that this is an instructor in graduate school, so no protections and even more consequences potentially to a career. I’m betting she’s getting threatening emails now too. All incredibly scary to someone new without support.
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
They called her out by name in their social media posts and called her "mentally ill" -- I bet she has a hundred angry emails by now, at the very least.
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Getting a zero because you didn't do the actual assignment is woke oppression now I guess.
Here’s the TPUSA version of events at OU.
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
Not surprisingly, they lie about what happened — she wasn’t flunked for quoting the Bible; she never even quoted it — and accuse the instructor, whom they name, as being “mentally ill”
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Getting a zero because you didn't do the actual assignment is woke oppression now I guess.
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He scammed over 1,000 people, most of whom were not wealthy - veterans, farmers, teachers, nurses, small businesses owners. Some lost everything. But he’s a rich Republican, so Trump let him get away with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
He scammed over 1,000 people, most of whom were not wealthy - veterans, farmers, teachers, nurses, small businesses owners. Some lost everything. But he’s a rich Republican, so Trump let him get away with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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Markwayne Mullin says he doesn't believe detailed reporting about Pete Hegseth murdering people at sea because "we're doing alleged sources, nothing has been verified ... I doubt very seriously that took place." (Bash points out that *Republican* leaders are planning to investigate.)
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Markwayne Mullin says he doesn't believe detailed reporting about Pete Hegseth murdering people at sea because "we're doing alleged sources, nothing has been verified ... I doubt very seriously that took place." (Bash points out that *Republican* leaders are planning to investigate.)
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Trump refuses to take responsibility for terrorism happening on his watch
November 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Trump refuses to take responsibility for terrorism happening on his watch
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Mark Kelly: "When I heard the secretary say that they're gonna pause immigration from third world countries, I take that as a message that they don't want brown people coming to the US. And I find that disturbing."
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Mark Kelly: "When I heard the secretary say that they're gonna pause immigration from third world countries, I take that as a message that they don't want brown people coming to the US. And I find that disturbing."
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So the administration's position is:
- that he was radicalized only after arriving in the US and
- that the vetting process (which was all Biden's responsibility) was a failure?
I know we shouldn't expect consistency, but come on.
- that he was radicalized only after arriving in the US and
- that the vetting process (which was all Biden's responsibility) was a failure?
I know we shouldn't expect consistency, but come on.
National Guard shooting suspect radicalized in US, homeland secretary says reut.rs/49O8CV8
National Guard shooting suspect radicalized in US, homeland secretary says
U.S. authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members in Washington, D.C., was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Sunday.
reut.rs
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
So the administration's position is:
- that he was radicalized only after arriving in the US and
- that the vetting process (which was all Biden's responsibility) was a failure?
I know we shouldn't expect consistency, but come on.
- that he was radicalized only after arriving in the US and
- that the vetting process (which was all Biden's responsibility) was a failure?
I know we shouldn't expect consistency, but come on.
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Walz on Trump calling him the r-word: "We all know both as an educator & parent that using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought 3 decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better. But this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior."
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Walz on Trump calling him the r-word: "We all know both as an educator & parent that using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought 3 decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better. But this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior."
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Mark Kelly on the Trump/Hegseth boat strikes: "If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them."
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Mark Kelly on the Trump/Hegseth boat strikes: "If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them."
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Kelly: "We say, 'follow the law,' and this is their response? These are not serious people. This is meant to just intimidate us. We're sticking up for the Constitution here and the rule of law and they're saying these folks should be executed for doing that. He's not gonna stop me from speaking out"
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Kelly: "We say, 'follow the law,' and this is their response? These are not serious people. This is meant to just intimidate us. We're sticking up for the Constitution here and the rule of law and they're saying these folks should be executed for doing that. He's not gonna stop me from speaking out"
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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In November of 2016, I wrote about Trump's "radical evil," as Hannah Arendt saw it, "which involves making human beings as human beings superfluous.”
In his first term, he welcomed a pandemic because he was more interested in wooing Xi. Today, it's just non-stop kidnapping and murder.
In his first term, he welcomed a pandemic because he was more interested in wooing Xi. Today, it's just non-stop kidnapping and murder.
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
In November of 2016, I wrote about Trump's "radical evil," as Hannah Arendt saw it, "which involves making human beings as human beings superfluous.”
In his first term, he welcomed a pandemic because he was more interested in wooing Xi. Today, it's just non-stop kidnapping and murder.
In his first term, he welcomed a pandemic because he was more interested in wooing Xi. Today, it's just non-stop kidnapping and murder.
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“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
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This is why CEO pay needs to be so much higher than their employees, see
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is why CEO pay needs to be so much higher than their employees, see
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A trillion-dollar company going super-cheap on producing a mechanical-sounding dub with no human touch, aura, or spark involved.
It's insulting, anti-consumer, anti-creative, shameful, and just damn embarrassing.
Also... I can't trust anything that pronounces "finger" as "fin-jer."
2:12 in, BTW.
It's insulting, anti-consumer, anti-creative, shameful, and just damn embarrassing.
Also... I can't trust anything that pronounces "finger" as "fin-jer."
2:12 in, BTW.
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A trillion-dollar company going super-cheap on producing a mechanical-sounding dub with no human touch, aura, or spark involved.
It's insulting, anti-consumer, anti-creative, shameful, and just damn embarrassing.
Also... I can't trust anything that pronounces "finger" as "fin-jer."
2:12 in, BTW.
It's insulting, anti-consumer, anti-creative, shameful, and just damn embarrassing.
Also... I can't trust anything that pronounces "finger" as "fin-jer."
2:12 in, BTW.
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
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We got gen-AI dubs from Amazon and gen-AI subs from Crunchyroll, but if you torrent a fansub that real people worked to translate, code, and stylize, you're the piece of shit.
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
We got gen-AI dubs from Amazon and gen-AI subs from Crunchyroll, but if you torrent a fansub that real people worked to translate, code, and stylize, you're the piece of shit.
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Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
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America has gone full Nazi and it’s time to call out those accountable: Democrats not getting on board purging around a dozen trans athletes from the NCAA
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
America has gone full Nazi and it’s time to call out those accountable: Democrats not getting on board purging around a dozen trans athletes from the NCAA
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline