I listened to the whole exchange between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, and to the original "Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way" column, and among the takes this piece is the best I have read. Long-ish, so set aside a bit of time. (Disclosure: I have been on Ezra's show...)

Kid-at-xmas levels of excitement (did I wake up at 5am - yes I did!) #RubinFirstLook

The Virgo cluster is an inspired choice: three-cheers for Sinclair Smith and his 1936 observations of it which helped Zwicky conclude there must be invisible #darkmatter out there! 🤓 🔭🧪

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Y’all Alt NPC is creepy and sus AF and has a huuuuuuge platform and everyone should be deeply questioning and skeptical about what they’re doing. I’ve personally had them blocked since they arrived here. Think twice about following them.

This may be a good time to re-read Jeffrey Winters’ landmark study of oligarchy in which he explains why “ruling” oligarchies (e.g. the Mafia Commission) tend to devolve into “warring” oligarchies of the kind that defined medieval Europe.

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

Countless listeners have told us that this story from Bryan Stevenson made them cry and gave them hope for our country's future.

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eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

FYI, folks from Bluesky. Reporters at The NYT, among other news organizations, are now generating a giant wave of accountability stories about the new Trump era. Reading these stories, sharing them, is a form of accountability as well. It is a form of participatory democracy too. Substance matters.

“Nobody said anything on the campaign trail about attacking legal immigrants.” Lady, they were trying to incite pogroms against legal Haitian immigrants in Ohio.