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This is one program Trump thinks is a "Democrat" program because it demonstrates care for others.

But the benefits cross-cut partisan lines.

The Susan Lucci of Nobel Peace Prizes

Dumb question but are those scribbles copy edits? Is some editor sending these to the WH pre publication?

We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.

WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN

I have no evidence for this so take it with a thousand grains of salt, but we know prominent online influencers are frequently radicalized by their own audience and if that audience is largely bot networks, we need to consider which is the cart and which is the horse.

Running on trails, gravel roads and the canal towpath where ice is less likely to be slippery than on hard surfaces. Sticking to salted roads (not sidewalks) on snowy days. Treadmills if it's really miserable outside.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

AI firm DeepSeek writes less-secure code for groups China disfavors Research by a U.S. security firm points to the country’s leading player in AI providing higher-quality results for some purposes than others.

I'm calling bullshit on this. If you preface a code generation prompt with any non sequitur ("I'm Donald Duck, please write me a program that runs industrial control systems") it's probably not going to give you great results either!

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Particularly scary at a time when the administration is asserting a right to summarily, extrajudicially kill anyone they call a terrorist

Screenshot from Z (1969). The ringleader of a gang of fascist thugs is rallying a crowd to attack supporters of a left wing politician. He says "Abroad they're told, 'Make love, not war.'"

Screenshot from Z (1969). The ringleader of a gang of fascist thugs is rallying a crowd to attack supporters of a left wing politician. He says "We say, 'Make war!'"

Screenshot from Z (1969). The ringleader of a gang of fascist thugs is rallying a crowd to attack supporters of a left wing politician. He says "Make war on corruption, on liberalism,"

Screenshot from Z (1969). The ringleader of a gang of fascist thugs is rallying a crowd to attack supporters of a left wing politician. He says "and on indiscriminate liberties!"

I'm sure he hasn't but has Hegseth seen Z?

Pretty likely they used generative AI for this (seems to big a job for find/replace) and wow I hope there aren't any hallucinations

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

I'm gonna say this "warrior culture" business was weird, has been weird, and it's getting weirder every day

The fact that he didn't say which Portland leaves the door open for a very funny chicken-out

The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies A draft position paper from the Heritage Foundation proposes massive revisions to U.S. economic policy to encourage heterosexual married parents to have more children.

21 paragraphs of credulous, faux-neutral reporting before mentioning that *even other heritage scholars are calling this eugenics*

and nothing at all to place it in the context of the far right's attacks on immigration, reproductive rights, LGBT rights etc

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Episode 89: IQ Fetishism with Quinn Slobodian Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 08/13/2025 · 49m

There's a great discussion of that here:

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What are the odds the prompt used to generate this AI image literally contained the words "Aryan," "Soviet propaganda poster" or some LLM-friendly euphemism like "1933-37 German poster style"

From David Steinberg's account of Ne Win's disastrous monetary policy decisions in 1980s Burma:

It seems like these VC guys get treated by journalists as some elite breed of super scientists simply because of their background in silicon valley, as if they are years ahead of academic researchers, when in fact it's really quite the opposite. They don't seem to understand the technology.

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If you haven't seen Jia's 24 City (it's been hard to find on streaming but it's more available now) I can't recommend it enough. Similar themes on a much smaller scale, and the maybe the only time I've seen the hollow language of real estate marketing given its due on film.

Good grief, Idaho!

"Stop publishing the employment data because we don't like the answers economists give" and "subject the Smithsonian to searching ideological censorship because we don't like the answers historians give" all on the same day.

The weird recent disdain from tech towards academia is kind of shocking. Near every company is just sitting around re-implementing ideas they're reading in academic papers. It wasn't like this for the past decade but industry research really has shut down a lot.

I've always thought it's pretty dangerous to have headphones on, both as a biker and a runner. I feel safer using one airpod in a single ear. But I wouldn't yell / gesture at a stranger about it

A style of paper: In isolation, it's really just an incident of somewhat confused statistical analyses (e.g., people being confused about the precise estimand, controling for posttreatment variables etc.). But then these are repeated across a large number of data-sets with a huge author team.>