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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 7h

More Republican hysteria about weather (not, alas, climate).

www.someweekendreading.blog/gop-war-on-w...

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16h

wow what happened to the "free state of florida" smh

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 10h

…Are they going to ban UFOs from that airspace as well? 🤣

Matt F✈️🌈🇫🇷 @typevolant.com · 10h

The airport next to Maralago now says on the FAA National Airspace System status website that it is closed to weather modification aircraft.

What in the hell???

nasstatus.faa.gov

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks for the kind words!

More LLM/AI critiques on my blog:

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Occasional tart thoughts of a grumpy old retired scientist, your humble Weekend Editor.

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 12h

"Incoherent rage" is the best-fit description for them.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 12h

Just cited @bcmerchant.bsky.social in a blog post 2 days ago.

Had no idea you were here, or I'd have tagged you.

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A Few Wise Words on LLM AIs from Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow has a few (unfortunately) wise bits of advice on the nearing LLM AI bubble collapse.

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 13h

... and the unicyclists dressed as Darth Vader in a kilt, with flamethrower bagpipes. Don't forget those.

www.unipiper.com

Portland's Unipiper: a unicyclist, dressed in kilt and darth vader cape/helmet, playing bagpipes where the drones spout flames.

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 15h

She can't even make up her own insults?!

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 19h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 15h

Just... stunningly, venomously racist.

kate conger @kateconger.com · 15h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 17h

Those are, in the words of screenwriter @johnrogers.bsky.social , rules 2 and 3 of crime:

Rule 2: "Punishable by a fine" means "legal for a price".

Rule 3: Nothing stops until a rich white guy goes to jail.

buttondown.com/kungfumonkey...

Cons & Heists 101: Orientation

Thanks for waiting around, folks. The trial rolled right into prep -- I did the concept meeting for the season premiere of this season of LEVERAGE:REDEMPTION...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 17h

Today's blog post:

A little girl demonstrates on video how to break zip-ties, in her words "in case you get kidnapped".

www.someweekendreading.blog/in-case-zip-...

Just in Case Your Hands Are Zip-Tied

Just in case your hands are zip-tied for some reason… probably don’t wear loafers.

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 18h

Salt the earth, eh? As in Rome and Carthage?

Have I got a shirt recommendation for you! :-)

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Ceterum censeo…

Somebody asked me about a t-shirt they saw. Now, why would anybody do that?

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 1d

Just needs the Unipiper riding by on his unicycle in Darth Vader costume, playing the Darth Vader theme on flaming bagpiples.

(The "Keep Portland Weird" sign in the background is apparently a favorite.)

www.unipiper.com

The Unipiper

Surprise someone with a birthday visit from The Unipiper!!

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry to hear this happened to you.

Unsurprised, but sorry.

Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 1d

US political violence is very much a right-wing phenomenon. Multiple studies bear this out.

The Jasko, et al. study below is particularly impressive. But even the Cato Institute agrees that it's mostly right-wing.

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Is Most US Political Violence Left or Right?

Is more political violence in the US perpetrated by the left or the right?

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

the article in the QT is solid & if you’re cis & don’t get exactly how grim headlines like “supreme court poised to overturn conversion therapy ban,” please know that the international council for the rehabilitation of torture victims (ICRT) considers conversion therapy torture.

because it is.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 1d

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 2d

In the Talmud, R Tarfon advised a sense of perspective. While we are obligated to do the work, it is too big for anyone to finish:

"You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” — Rabbi Tarfon, Pirkei Avot 2:16, Talmud

www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot....

Pirkei Avot 2:16

He [Rabbi Tarfon] used to say: It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it; If you have studied much Torah, you shall...

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 2d

An odd thought:

Billionaire-level wealth is like Sauron's ring, in that it tempts you with visions of great power, but ultimately corrupts you with bone-deep moral rot.

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 2d

Scenario:

(1) Elon and his disciples live on Mars.

(2) Disgruntled physicists are kidnapped and given power to mess with the core of Mars.

What could possibly be the conflict there...

Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 2d

One wonders what the laws of Canada say about witchcraft?

In essence, that's her complaint: witchcraft.

Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · 2d

Today's blog post:

A few wise words on the LLM AI bubble collapse from Cory Doctorow. A detour to the industrial revolution & a look at the US Beveridge curve. Learned new automation terms: centaur and reverse centaur. And an accordion/bagpipe hybrid.

www.someweekendreading.blog/doctorow-on-...

A Few Wise Words on LLM AIs from Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow has a few (unfortunately) wise bits of advice on the nearing LLM AI bubble collapse.

www.someweekendreading.blog

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