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Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
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My favorite part of this is that they said, "decent-sized (30-45) pound monkey." 💀
December 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My favorite part of this is that they said, "decent-sized (30-45) pound monkey." 💀
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the united negro college fund is unconstitutional... but not the ku klux klan?
not the proud boys?
not ice?
fuck all the way off with that old bullshit.
not the proud boys?
not ice?
fuck all the way off with that old bullshit.
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
the united negro college fund is unconstitutional... but not the ku klux klan?
not the proud boys?
not ice?
fuck all the way off with that old bullshit.
not the proud boys?
not ice?
fuck all the way off with that old bullshit.
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Literally the only good thing that has ever happened in Fremont, Nebraska
December 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Literally the only good thing that has ever happened in Fremont, Nebraska
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This calls out something I had been trying to place: “Constitutional sheriffs” appear to be trying to return to feudalism, with themselves as the local knight-in-charge.
People always yell at me when I say it's important to keep up on what's going on in the rural US, but it truly is if you want to understand larger cultural forces, and if you're not familiar with the constitutional sheriff movement, this is a good primer.
The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff
How Richard Mack led the rise off the constitutional sheriff movement, one of the most serious threats to American democracy since the Civil War.
barnraisingmedia.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This calls out something I had been trying to place: “Constitutional sheriffs” appear to be trying to return to feudalism, with themselves as the local knight-in-charge.
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Putin is Trump. Trump is Putin.
"Indeed, Trump's National Security 'Strategy' is entirely consistent with the goals of both Putin’s Russia and China’s authoritarian regime, both of which have long viewed the weakening of the Western alliance as a key part of their effort to displace the US as the leading power in the world."
Make America Weak
Trump is systematically undermining America's interests at home and abroad.
www.publicnotice.co
December 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Putin is Trump. Trump is Putin.
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Those roving patrols and racial targeting that Kavanaugh allowed?
This is what they led to.
www.propublica.org/article/immi... (from Oct)
This is what they led to.
www.propublica.org/article/immi... (from Oct)
December 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Those roving patrols and racial targeting that Kavanaugh allowed?
This is what they led to.
www.propublica.org/article/immi... (from Oct)
This is what they led to.
www.propublica.org/article/immi... (from Oct)
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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He is promising, on camera, to break his oath to the Constitution by illegally and unconstitutionally usurping the exclusive authority of Congress. Sprinkle in a little 'blowing up the Union' to boot
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
He is promising, on camera, to break his oath to the Constitution by illegally and unconstitutionally usurping the exclusive authority of Congress. Sprinkle in a little 'blowing up the Union' to boot
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“National security concerns” isn’t a magical incantation. There have to be real, plausible national security concerns.
A swarm of drones becoming undetectable by flying through an offshore wind farm is not plausible. Laughably so.
Even if radar had trouble there, how’d they get to the wind farm?
A swarm of drones becoming undetectable by flying through an offshore wind farm is not plausible. Laughably so.
Even if radar had trouble there, how’d they get to the wind farm?
Burgum claims "national security concerns" created by wind turbines are detailed in a "classified report" & pertain to "radar interference," adding that "if you wanted to attack a population center on the east coast our country, you would send a swarm of drones right through one of these wind farms"
December 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“National security concerns” isn’t a magical incantation. There have to be real, plausible national security concerns.
A swarm of drones becoming undetectable by flying through an offshore wind farm is not plausible. Laughably so.
Even if radar had trouble there, how’d they get to the wind farm?
A swarm of drones becoming undetectable by flying through an offshore wind farm is not plausible. Laughably so.
Even if radar had trouble there, how’d they get to the wind farm?
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It's becoming ever so hard to distinguish Trump's envoys from Putin's envoys.
December 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It's becoming ever so hard to distinguish Trump's envoys from Putin's envoys.
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Using your voice recordings in perpetuity (not sure about the "no suing" thing) was standard in non-union contracts for years before AI became a thing.
In a post-AI world, it's extremely unwise to give use of your voice in perpetuity on any contracts.
In a post-AI world, it's extremely unwise to give use of your voice in perpetuity on any contracts.
December 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Using your voice recordings in perpetuity (not sure about the "no suing" thing) was standard in non-union contracts for years before AI became a thing.
In a post-AI world, it's extremely unwise to give use of your voice in perpetuity on any contracts.
In a post-AI world, it's extremely unwise to give use of your voice in perpetuity on any contracts.
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"We have to make redactions to protect witnesses"
... Also bad actors already got access to the private DOJ website with all the witness information?
... Also bad actors already got access to the private DOJ website with all the witness information?
“bad actors gained unauthorized access to a private DOJ website” is not the kind of thing you want to say when a lot of your work has to do with witnesses, confidential informers, and undercover agents…right?
Crowd poll, who thinks they got hacked and who thinks they’re lying
December 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"We have to make redactions to protect witnesses"
... Also bad actors already got access to the private DOJ website with all the witness information?
... Also bad actors already got access to the private DOJ website with all the witness information?
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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So make no mistake, they are all still grievance drifters and white nationalist garbage ready to plunge this nation into unilateral fascist hell, they just don't want Trump or anyone aligned with him to be the ones in charge.
"More than a dozen Heritage Foundation staffers departed the [MAGA septic] tank and are set to join Advancing American Freedom, a conservative advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence." www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence’s Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures
The former vice president’s political group is poaching top officials from the foundation amid growing ideological fights within the conservative movement.
www.wsj.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So make no mistake, they are all still grievance drifters and white nationalist garbage ready to plunge this nation into unilateral fascist hell, they just don't want Trump or anyone aligned with him to be the ones in charge.
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Protection as in, "Nice island you got there -- be a shame if anything happened to it"
Greenland Envoy Gov. Jeff Landry: "Look, the United States has always been a welcoming party. We don't go in there trying to conquer anybody and trying to take over anybody's country. We say, 'Listen. We represent liberty. We represented economic strength. We represent protection.'"
December 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Protection as in, "Nice island you got there -- be a shame if anything happened to it"
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The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
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the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.
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SQUARE ENIX
Square Enix aims to have AI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027, which seems like it'd be hard to achieve without laying off most of your QA workers
Square Enix is partnering with an AI research lab at the University of Tokyo to "improve the efficiency of game development processes."
www.pcgamer.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
SQUARE ENIX
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Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
December 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Because "disruptors" have typically never done ANYTHING. They re-invent the wheel; they lie and cheat, and make shit up, and we need to stop pretending that "disruption" is a net positive, or that "disruptors" are anything but grifters
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Because "disruptors" have typically never done ANYTHING. They re-invent the wheel; they lie and cheat, and make shit up, and we need to stop pretending that "disruption" is a net positive, or that "disruptors" are anything but grifters
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“.. some engineers argued for mechanical handles,” but “Musk’s directive was clear: Virtually everything in the new vehicle — including the doors — should be controlled electrically ..
“.. 15 people have died in crashes where Tesla doors wouldn’t open ..”
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
“.. 15 people have died in crashes where Tesla doors wouldn’t open ..”
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
December 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“.. some engineers argued for mechanical handles,” but “Musk’s directive was clear: Virtually everything in the new vehicle — including the doors — should be controlled electrically ..
“.. 15 people have died in crashes where Tesla doors wouldn’t open ..”
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
“.. 15 people have died in crashes where Tesla doors wouldn’t open ..”
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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"The agreement left open a huge chasm for them to potentially use everything without me being compensated for it"
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"The agreement left open a huge chasm for them to potentially use everything without me being compensated for it"
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He just said that he received paperwork that suggested Mihoyo would have the right to do whatever they want with his voice over work, and that he would have no right to sue them for whatever they used it for.
Hoyo creator DreddHound is going live with his interview with Welt's VA Corey Landis in literal moments, to share Corey's side of things.
I recommend tuning in, just to have more context to everything that is goin' down re: him losing his role.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qaE...
I recommend tuning in, just to have more context to everything that is goin' down re: him losing his role.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qaE...
Houndcast Episode 28 Featuring VA Corey Landis | Honkai Star Rail
YouTube video by DreddHound
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
He just said that he received paperwork that suggested Mihoyo would have the right to do whatever they want with his voice over work, and that he would have no right to sue them for whatever they used it for.