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Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

Trump snubbed as U.S. Women’s Hockey Team declines State of the Union invitation Olympic champions opt out of high-profile White House moment, citing scheduling conflicts

NEWS: The gold medal–winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team has declined an invitation to attend Trump’s State of the Union.

This comes after Trump was heard telling the men’s team he’d begrudgingly invite the women’s champions or risk impeachment.

Netflix's 'America's Next Top Model' docuseries doesn't let Tyra Banks off easy Netflix's new docuseries unpacks how the hit modeling show made for "good TV" for its creators and devastating consequences for its participants.

Netflix's new docuseries unpacks how the hit modeling show made for "good TV" for its creators and devastating consequences for its participants.

I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.

We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.

RFK Jr. is a disgrace.

GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity.

Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale.

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Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

I know dems are sensitive to politicize the fbi but director using position and government resources to party in Italy while parent of high profile celebrity continues to be mia seems likes a scandal

2026 has my atheist ass out here going "Man, the Pope is on fire lately"

It's kind of wild because if people could just talk about Israel as a normal state doing normal state things and committing normal state crimes we would be in a much better place, but instead they have to put its existence and Jewish validity on trial every time.

A brilliant article that everyone commenting about Iran should read. The Iranian government is not your friend, and never will be, unless you happen to be a clerico-fascist enthusiast of mass torture and mass murder. But weirdly, many in the West who claim to be on the left seem to support it.

Very, VERY Doug Ford’s Toronto to ensure that the bars will be open for an 8 AM hockey game but not the TTC. Get as drunk as you like but you gotta drive there first.

Zelensky introduces new sanctions on Russian shadow fleet President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Feb. 21 that Ukraine is imposing new sanctions targeting the captains of Russia's shadow fleet.

⚡️Zelensky introduces new sanctions on Russian shadow fleet.

President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Feb. 21 that Ukraine is imposing new sanctions on Russia's shadow fleet.

"We will continue to consistently impose sanctions... against everyone who helps Russia earn money for war," he said.

I don't think I've seen a statement like this before: Why Warner University Stands Against Student Use of AI warner.edu/why-warner-u...

And/or divorce football from higher education. Let them license the school name and pay a royalty, fine.

But at some point we have to stop pretending that college football either supports or is functionally constrained by the “college” bit

This is simply obscene. The NCAA should impose caps on coaching salaries.

Thinking about Them! again. A perfect marriage of Atomic Horror meets the fear of the Specter of Communism.

The allegory works well as it is subtle (more subtle than Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and is based on a fun creature feature script.
Classic Americana, even if I am an Ant in disguise.

MAHA was always a con. It was always about the ego and ambition of a drug-addled narcissistic fraud.

Levying taxes by unilateral executive action is the singular centuries old most fundamental example of something that's absolutely and inherently illegitimate in the Anglo-American constitutional tradition.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

SNF agora and the AI buildings mentioned in this piece are our on campus neighbors. You know in the building full of mold that keeps trying to burn itself down with HVAC that literally never works correctly and a roof that leaks. No one cares.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Again, I cannot emphasize enough: do not go to the US even if you're privileged enough to have never been scared or worried of a border crossing in you're life. Do not go ESPECIALLY for something as optional & outrageously expensive as GDC.

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Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

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“Capable LLMs require a logic of dominance and of disregarding consent of the people producing the artifacts that are the raw material for the system. LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation”

Another great sad cartoon from @deadder.bsky.social

New career goal: be a bartender at a busy airport.

Can we stop calling things "AI-powered" for God's sake?! AI doesn't power anything. It is a net consumer of power in every sense of the word. It sucks up resources, both human and otherwise, and gives nothing back.

My latest in @thebulwark.com

True story: A guy I know tried to use AI like this. He works shift work. His AI had him turn up on his day off and had him almost miss a day he was supposed to work

YouTube video by The Bulwark Trump is Leading America’s Global Collapse (w/ Robert Kagan) | The Bulwark Podcast

In this video Robert Kagan, who publishes in The Atlantic, explains how dangerous Trump is.

Kagan: "Trump is taking us back to a world that looks like the world that was leading into WWII - a multipolar world where everybody is fending for himself."

This isolationism destroys America in the end.