Butlerian Jihad
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I lost my job, my kids have measles, and there’s no toys under the Christmas tree this year. But at least now there aren’t any black wise men in my town’s manger display.
December 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and there’s no toys under the Christmas tree this year. But at least now there aren’t any black wise men in my town’s manger display.
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Rewatching “It’s a Wonderful Life” and one thing that stands out is the Baileys are amateurs at managing the Savings & Loan, a point they acknowledge and joke about. But of course, their goal is not to extract money from the community but to invest in its people.
December 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Rewatching “It’s a Wonderful Life” and one thing that stands out is the Baileys are amateurs at managing the Savings & Loan, a point they acknowledge and joke about. But of course, their goal is not to extract money from the community but to invest in its people.
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What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?
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"As an American reporter living in Beijing, I’ve watched both China and the rest of the world flirt with cutting-edge technologies involving robots, drones and self-driving vehicles. But China has now raced far beyond the flirtation stage," writes Keith Bradsher: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
China's Clean Energy Push is Powering Flying Taxis, Food Delivery Drones and Bullet Trains (Gift Article)
China’s experiments in clean energy can feel like living in the future. Even when things don’t quite work.
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
"As an American reporter living in Beijing, I’ve watched both China and the rest of the world flirt with cutting-edge technologies involving robots, drones and self-driving vehicles. But China has now raced far beyond the flirtation stage," writes Keith Bradsher: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
When climate change takes a flavor from the world.
My in-law family has told me about the tiny, intense pink shrimp that were harvested in stormy seas in Maine winters.
Now warming oceans have reduced the shrimp population to almost nothing, and the fishery has been officially closed.
My in-law family has told me about the tiny, intense pink shrimp that were harvested in stormy seas in Maine winters.
Now warming oceans have reduced the shrimp population to almost nothing, and the fishery has been officially closed.
New England’s shrimp fishery to shut down for the long haul after years of decline
Fishing regulators are extending a shutdown for New England’s historic shrimp fishing business, effectively shuttering an industry that fell victim to warming oceans.
www.pressherald.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The Bondi Beach massacre could have been a lot worse if Australia's gun control laws did not make owning semi-automatic assault-style rifles almost impossible. Here is a video of one of the shooters using a bolt-action hunting rifle.
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The Bondi Beach massacre could have been a lot worse if Australia's gun control laws did not make owning semi-automatic assault-style rifles almost impossible. Here is a video of one of the shooters using a bolt-action hunting rifle.
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Netflix should adopt the tagline "We are the least evil."
December 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Netflix should adopt the tagline "We are the least evil."
I’ve been thinking about this lately. All “conservatives” are guilty, there are no innocents.
December 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I’ve been thinking about this lately. All “conservatives” are guilty, there are no innocents.
The latest Epstein photos released by House Democrats
December 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The latest Epstein photos released by House Democrats
The Trump/Miller/Vought triumvirate is what it is. I’m more interested in what Democrats, when (or if) they regain power, will do. Will they reverse wholesale, or will they pick and choose? That will reveal a lot about the permanent government and the so-called “Deep State”.
December 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Trump/Miller/Vought triumvirate is what it is. I’m more interested in what Democrats, when (or if) they regain power, will do. Will they reverse wholesale, or will they pick and choose? That will reveal a lot about the permanent government and the so-called “Deep State”.
"AI’s rise has upended the world of images in less than three years. Yet what we are experiencing today is likely only a beginning. As models grow more powerful, the boundary between photography and synthetic imagery will continue to dissolve.
Images Under Influence: How AI Has Slipped Into Our Everyday Photography — Blind Magazine
While remaining unsettling, AI has quietly infiltrated the very practice of photography, influencing aesthetic choices and visual narratives.
www.blind-magazine.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"AI’s rise has upended the world of images in less than three years. Yet what we are experiencing today is likely only a beginning. As models grow more powerful, the boundary between photography and synthetic imagery will continue to dissolve.
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
Here are a few things I’ve learned about how authoritarians exercise power. ( Sounds like David Brooks has finally read George Orwell's 1940 review of "Mein Kampf".)
Opinion | The Season of the Wolves
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Here are a few things I’ve learned about how authoritarians exercise power. ( Sounds like David Brooks has finally read George Orwell's 1940 review of "Mein Kampf".)
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How we’re still going to mess this up: by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
How we’re still going to mess this up: by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer
Conspiracy theories are an easy way out, the fact that Americans freely voted for this monster is much more frightening and depressing than any conspiracy theory.
So retro that people are bringing up Russian bots again as a reason why people are bigoted dickheads as opposed to accepting that polls show that at least 30% of people are just always like this and always will be
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Conspiracy theories are an easy way out, the fact that Americans freely voted for this monster is much more frightening and depressing than any conspiracy theory.
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So retro that people are bringing up Russian bots again as a reason why people are bigoted dickheads as opposed to accepting that polls show that at least 30% of people are just always like this and always will be
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
So retro that people are bringing up Russian bots again as a reason why people are bigoted dickheads as opposed to accepting that polls show that at least 30% of people are just always like this and always will be
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A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes
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The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'.
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How ICE Spies On WhatsApp
ICE’s HSI division gets contacts from the WhatsApp account of a fake ID dealer and has little trouble identifying them, according to warrant.
www.forbes.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Miller and Vought are the ones ruling the USA. They are stinky and vile.
October 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Miller and Vought are the ones ruling the USA. They are stinky and vile.
I’m doing it because he’s freaking out the business-as-usual power elites and driving establishment members of his own Democratic Party bananas.
Opinion | Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I’m doing it because he’s freaking out the business-as-usual power elites and driving establishment members of his own Democratic Party bananas.
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Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed
While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed