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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
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Many of us in the MECFS community started warning in 2020 that COVID was going to be a mass disabling event. It was, and it continues to be.
December 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Many of us in the MECFS community started warning in 2020 that COVID was going to be a mass disabling event. It was, and it continues to be.
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.
December 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.
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Just read this in a paper:
"Women were not investigated due to practical reasons"
"Women were not investigated due to practical reasons"
a woman says but i thought you were smart in front of a locker
ALT: a woman says but i thought you were smart in front of a locker
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Just read this in a paper:
"Women were not investigated due to practical reasons"
"Women were not investigated due to practical reasons"
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Oh look, two people who would fail my 2nd year undergraduate biostatistics class.
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Oh look, two people who would fail my 2nd year undergraduate biostatistics class.
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excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
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In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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I swear to god. The problem with Trump isn’t his weight or whether he had a gay encounter. The problem is that he’s a fascist, corrupt criminal.
Get it together, people. If you’re going to protect people and form coalitions you have to do better and show you are an ally.
Get it together, people. If you’re going to protect people and form coalitions you have to do better and show you are an ally.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I swear to god. The problem with Trump isn’t his weight or whether he had a gay encounter. The problem is that he’s a fascist, corrupt criminal.
Get it together, people. If you’re going to protect people and form coalitions you have to do better and show you are an ally.
Get it together, people. If you’re going to protect people and form coalitions you have to do better and show you are an ally.
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Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
A Collision with Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
wrd.cm
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
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We lived with asbestos for decades - it was too hard and big to tackle - but now we take it seriously - which is good and as it should be.
But we already know, conclusively, that Covid is bad. Bad for kids, bad for everyone. Potentially fatal. Just like asbestos. But we do nothing.
It’s criminal.
But we already know, conclusively, that Covid is bad. Bad for kids, bad for everyone. Potentially fatal. Just like asbestos. But we do nothing.
It’s criminal.
More than 70 ACT public schools closed over health fears from asbestos-contaminated children’s play sand
More than 70 ACT public schools closed over health fears from asbestos-contaminated children’s play sand
Education directorate closed schools for assessment and cleaning despite assessing health risk as ‘low’
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More than 70 public schools in the ACT were closed on Monday as fears grew over children’s play sand products that may contain asbestos.
The territory’s education directorate decided to shut their doors after it found “widespread” use of coloured play sand products sold at Kmart and Target, which were recalled on the weekend. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
We lived with asbestos for decades - it was too hard and big to tackle - but now we take it seriously - which is good and as it should be.
But we already know, conclusively, that Covid is bad. Bad for kids, bad for everyone. Potentially fatal. Just like asbestos. But we do nothing.
It’s criminal.
But we already know, conclusively, that Covid is bad. Bad for kids, bad for everyone. Potentially fatal. Just like asbestos. But we do nothing.
It’s criminal.
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
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emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari
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I hope all nonwhite Americans are taking note of the vile racism coming out of mainstream conservative mouths in the wake of the Mamdani victory. The masks have fallen.
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I hope all nonwhite Americans are taking note of the vile racism coming out of mainstream conservative mouths in the wake of the Mamdani victory. The masks have fallen.
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after the broadcast, my partner emailed a group of CBC managers and union reps to ask—in light of the quirks & quarks coverage—why it was OK to force us back to the office with no mitigations, especially when our son was too young to be vaccinated.
several months later, she received this reply:
after the broadcast, my partner emailed a group of CBC managers and union reps to ask—in light of the quirks & quarks coverage—why it was OK to force us back to the office with no mitigations, especially when our son was too young to be vaccinated.
several months later, she received this reply:
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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after the broadcast, my partner emailed a group of CBC managers and union reps to ask—in light of the quirks & quarks coverage—why it was OK to force us back to the office with no mitigations, especially when our son was too young to be vaccinated.
several months later, she received this reply:
after the broadcast, my partner emailed a group of CBC managers and union reps to ask—in light of the quirks & quarks coverage—why it was OK to force us back to the office with no mitigations, especially when our son was too young to be vaccinated.
several months later, she received this reply:
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FUCK WHY DID YOU GUYS LET ME TRY THIS IVE NEVER BEEN SO STRESSED IN MY FUCKING LIFE
Ok I gave this “baseball” thing another shot and maybe it’s not so bad
November 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
FUCK WHY DID YOU GUYS LET ME TRY THIS IVE NEVER BEEN SO STRESSED IN MY FUCKING LIFE
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An Air Canada flight right now
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An Air Canada flight right now
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I’ve read somewhere that climate is a political loser and we should pivot to abundance so
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I’ve read somewhere that climate is a political loser and we should pivot to abundance so
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“Let them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a job”
First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality.
Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work.
Third, no one should starve to death.
First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality.
Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work.
Third, no one should starve to death.
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
“Let them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a job”
First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality.
Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work.
Third, no one should starve to death.
First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality.
Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work.
Third, no one should starve to death.