I’m sure if Biden posted late one Sat night that he wanted the governor of Louisiana to rush a hospital ship to Greenland for a serious medical emergency in their populace at a time when we had no hospital ships available and there was no emergency the media would also ignore it.
[Exit Murderer.]
An image of a quotation from Marcus Aurelius' MEDITATIONS which reads: "52. You are not compelled to form an opinion about this matter before you, not to disturb your piece of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you." Beneath the quote, diagonal pink type has been applied which reads; Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take
I keep seeing so many people on social media obsessed with having a take, in times of crisis. Hell, I've done it too. But remember: You DON'T have to have one.
It's ok to say I have no idea. Also, see image:
i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one!
I’m just saying, if Our Lord does return in the next few weeks, I do not think it will go how the Christian Nationalists think it will.
It’s the kind of position that you have to take when you really, really want sex to be a strict binary and you’ve figured out that focusing on chromosomes or genitals won’t get you the clear, no-exceptions divisions that you want.
This is the foreign policy equivalent of intentionally standing in front of someone’s car so you have an excuse to shoot them and say you were in danger.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
This aged well. Note the author.
I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change
It’s going to be a wild day when the US Congress gets around to reading Article 1 of the Constitution and finds out that they are supposed to be in charge what tariffs we impose and whether we go to war.
Look people, I'm not "white," "heterosexual," or "male." I'm just NORMAL. I am a NORMAL person. And I resent you NOT-NORMAL people assigning labels to me. There don't need to be any words to describe who I am because I am NORMAL. Why is that so hard to understand?
I think this is exactly right. I mocked this mindset in a comment I made in on MetaFilter almost 14 years ago.
Poster which shows color photo scene of moving, a room with boxes and clothes sitting on the floor, a chair, and the end of a bed (white rails forming a headrest and a mattress with a red cover). The text of the poster is: "Impact (small logo top left)," "According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election." "The mass relocations in 2025 due to safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws nd policies have largely impacted conservative states across the country."
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
The facts and analysis are fine, but rewrite this entire thing.
My editor’s notes on my current writing project are kind of rude and annoying.
(I am my editor.)
A rocky outcrop in the centre of the scene, with boulders and pebbles scattered around. In the distance, some gently rolling hills, and endless sand. All under a butterscotch sky.
You live in a time when you can see on your phone high-res photos taken over the weekend by a nuclear-powered rover on Mars.
LLMs break our ability to conclude when there is proof of effort. We make high schoolers write essays and do math assignments not because we care about essay or because we don’t know the problem set answers, but because the effort trains them in a certain way. We read customized cover letters as an important signal of interest, because it has traditionally been hard to make a good one, and you could only do it for so many jobs you applied for. Gatekeeping is inevitable, and when the old mechanisms stop working, other measures will step in, like relying on the prestige of the candidate’s institution or their connections to decide who to hire, or what papers to cite or publish.
I think about this a lot with LLMs and education and also publishing. The hope that by undermining failing or unfair systems, LLMs will destroy the hierarchies and unfairness seems... naive. The result will likely be the opposite. jessicahullman.substack.com/p/zeynep-tuf...
There are a lot of answers to this query from people who have obviously never tried durian, which tastes like slime scraped from the bottom of a rusty dumpster.
"Bedford Borough Council holds no authority over the Council of Nicaea and was not responsible for the creation of the moon 4.53billion years ago."
Reporter: Do aliens exist?
Obama: *chuckles* Technically no, a time ghoul is from Earth. Just not today’s Earth
Not thrilled about living in a state where all the largest university systems are determined to make sure no conservative students are ever exposed to information that would challenge their assumptions.
NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
adairsofair commented on instagram: In elementary school we weren't allowed to wear hats and in 3rd grade this boy, Joey, came in with a hat on and we were all like "Joey ur gonna get in trouble!" And the teacher told him to take it off but he said he got a really bad hair cut so the teacher and him went out in the hall and then they came back in and she said "Joey is allowed to wear a hat today"
laughing so hard I might cry at this random instagram comment
You don’t need to assume. It’s right there in the text.
I’ve told my son if there’s a walkout at his school and he wants to participate that we are on his side. Most of my heroes spent some time in jail. He can do a little bit of in-school suspension for a good cause.
And this is where I tap the sign, “Texas government is not Texas. These kids are also Texas. Also, Greg Abbott can eat a dick.”
Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
I don’t even know how I wound up buying this album. At the time I was an earnest Bible major who only listened to Christian music. But here’s an intense, gifted pastor’s kid with Something To Say. I listened over and over.
William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.
The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
