very funny republicans care more about confederate statues than bulldozing part of the White House
October 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
very funny republicans care more about confederate statues than bulldozing part of the White House
I remember a senior engineer at Twitter once commenting on how sf was lacking in strangers who would do you a random kindness. Glad to see it hasn't changed 🥰
A UC Berkeley professor who was attacked during Pride Weekend in Dolores Park said he wished a bystander had offered to call the police or help him get medical support after the incident.
Gay Berkeley professor was attacked during Pride Weekend in S.F. He says no one stepped in to help
A UC Berkeley professor who was attacked during Pride Weekend in Dolores Park said he wished a bystander had offered to call the police or help him get medical support after the incident.
bit.ly
July 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I remember a senior engineer at Twitter once commenting on how sf was lacking in strangers who would do you a random kindness. Glad to see it hasn't changed 🥰
Would love to blame solely situation bad republican governance, but unfortunately it is human nature to discount rare events and underprepare for disasters
In 2018, Kerr County debated installing flood sirens, but the $1 million pricetag was considered too high. “Trying not to raise taxes,” a commissioner said.
And this year, the Texas Legislature didn’t pass a bill to help fund outdoor sirens.
Free link:
www.wsj.com/us-news/offi...
And this year, the Texas Legislature didn’t pass a bill to help fund outdoor sirens.
Free link:
www.wsj.com/us-news/offi...
Officials Pushed for Better Warning System for Years Before Deadly Floods
A sheriff in 2016 recalled pulling ‘kids out of trees’ in summer camps as leaders repeatedly discussed installing a siren system, but didn’t do so.
www.wsj.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Would love to blame solely situation bad republican governance, but unfortunately it is human nature to discount rare events and underprepare for disasters
Lmao republican cuts to healthcare cause voters to swing right, does this mean the Texas floods could cause a rightward swing too link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Politics of Rural Hospital Closures - Political Behavior
Who do citizens hold responsible for outcomes and experiences? Hundreds of rural hospitals have closed or significantly reduced their capacity since just 2010, leaving much of the rural U.S. without a...
link.springer.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Lmao republican cuts to healthcare cause voters to swing right, does this mean the Texas floods could cause a rightward swing too link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reminds me of how potato graham said that we're going to fail the turing test not because computers get that smart, but because humans get that stupid
NEW: People are being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — and even ending up arrested or jailed — after becoming fixated on ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into psychosis.
futurism.com/commitment-j...
futurism.com/commitment-j...
June 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reminds me of how potato graham said that we're going to fail the turing test not because computers get that smart, but because humans get that stupid
UH OH... ate an apple and found half a worm... time to drink bleach...
June 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
UH OH... ate an apple and found half a worm... time to drink bleach...
lmao zohran won with a wealthier whiter coalition and Cuomo had the unions and working class, Leninist vanguard theory remains undefeated www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Most Detailed Map of New York City Mayoral Primary Results
See neighborhood-level election results from the first round of the mayoral race.
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
lmao zohran won with a wealthier whiter coalition and Cuomo had the unions and working class, Leninist vanguard theory remains undefeated www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The chenoweth stat makes no sense. So if 3.5% is militantly for something and 94% very against, how does the 3.5% win? Does the side supporting 1/6 not count as a 3.5% movement?
June 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The chenoweth stat makes no sense. So if 3.5% is militantly for something and 94% very against, how does the 3.5% win? Does the side supporting 1/6 not count as a 3.5% movement?
Revolting that students are cheating this much, but understandable. I remember one of the first books I had to read was De rerum natura, by Lucretius, and so obviously irrelevant to the messages I’d gotten about college being a ticket to a middle class life.
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Revolting that students are cheating this much, but understandable. I remember one of the first books I had to read was De rerum natura, by Lucretius, and so obviously irrelevant to the messages I’d gotten about college being a ticket to a middle class life.
Amazing that Aaron Swartz caught a federal charge and committed suicide after downloading JSTOR’s archive, and OpenAI can scrape the whole internet and get away with it
May 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Amazing that Aaron Swartz caught a federal charge and committed suicide after downloading JSTOR’s archive, and OpenAI can scrape the whole internet and get away with it
This is pretty much the opposite of what happened during the Cold War, which was an outpouring of funding into fields like anthropology, so the us could better court allies against the Soviet Union. More proof America is currently ruled by idiots
Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed.
Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs:
• Africana Studies
• Asian Studies
• Disability Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Women's/Gender Studies
And…
• Spanish
Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs:
• Africana Studies
• Asian Studies
• Disability Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Women's/Gender Studies
And…
• Spanish
April 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is pretty much the opposite of what happened during the Cold War, which was an outpouring of funding into fields like anthropology, so the us could better court allies against the Soviet Union. More proof America is currently ruled by idiots
First fruit fly of the season! Spring is here!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
First fruit fly of the season! Spring is here!!!
Can't believe orson Scott card was right about taking over the world by blogging
I’m not mystified by it at all. It’s part of the techno-fascist agenda. Curtis Yarvin has insisted that existing scientific institutions must be cremated in order to facilitate a regime change. These people believe that old elite institutions must die and be replaced by new, loyal institutions.
of all the things the administration is doing, i am a little mystified by this effort to completely destroy the science, technology and medical research sector in the united states
April 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Can't believe orson Scott card was right about taking over the world by blogging
this is all very interesting in the same way that getting cancer is interesting
April 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
this is all very interesting in the same way that getting cancer is interesting
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America voting for Trump… AGAINo mm
April 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
America voting for Trump… AGAINo mm
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Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
April 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
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it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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Yesterday & today’s anti-Hamas protests *in Gaza* have barely made a dent on news coverage.
But they should be covered seriously & noted by every publication & person working on 🇮🇱🇵🇸.
Here’s my best guess on why virtually every commentator on 🇮🇱🇵🇸 is ignoring this: 🧵
But they should be covered seriously & noted by every publication & person working on 🇮🇱🇵🇸.
Here’s my best guess on why virtually every commentator on 🇮🇱🇵🇸 is ignoring this: 🧵
March 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Yesterday & today’s anti-Hamas protests *in Gaza* have barely made a dent on news coverage.
But they should be covered seriously & noted by every publication & person working on 🇮🇱🇵🇸.
Here’s my best guess on why virtually every commentator on 🇮🇱🇵🇸 is ignoring this: 🧵
But they should be covered seriously & noted by every publication & person working on 🇮🇱🇵🇸.
Here’s my best guess on why virtually every commentator on 🇮🇱🇵🇸 is ignoring this: 🧵
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My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example
March 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example
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I have many strident critiques of Signal (primarily around Moxie's decision to embrace centralized infrastructure that wasn't designed to be resilient and survive), but if you share that fucking Yasha Levine / Counterpunch drelk about Signal being a honeypot you're a fucking fool and doing cop work.
March 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I have many strident critiques of Signal (primarily around Moxie's decision to embrace centralized infrastructure that wasn't designed to be resilient and survive), but if you share that fucking Yasha Levine / Counterpunch drelk about Signal being a honeypot you're a fucking fool and doing cop work.
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I feel the thing people don't get is that primaries are dumb but Democratic primary voters in high-salience elections are basically the optimal high-information voters in public choice theory. They will make the best decision possible, whether or not that's good enough is a different question lol.
March 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I feel the thing people don't get is that primaries are dumb but Democratic primary voters in high-salience elections are basically the optimal high-information voters in public choice theory. They will make the best decision possible, whether or not that's good enough is a different question lol.
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B of A: “.. 2025 tax refunds are running 53% below 2024 levels through week 4 of tax season, per Treasury data." 🇺🇸
March 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
B of A: “.. 2025 tax refunds are running 53% below 2024 levels through week 4 of tax season, per Treasury data." 🇺🇸
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.