The Pedantic Professor

Trump and Congressional Republicans gave ICE $75 billion to wage a campaign of terror on American streets.

Meanwhile, Republicans cut funding for child care, health insurance, and hospitals.

i saw a tiktok about how wanging chung in childhood is a sign of outdated gender norms and i can't stop thinking about it

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

Screenshot of a recent Instagram post from the account of child model Lincoln Fox showing a photo of a five-year-old in a brown shirt and blue pants with the caption, "I booked a cool gig! Can't wait to share it with you guys."

A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...

Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny

Your scientists were so preoccupied with stopping the pass that they never considered stopping the run

With Claude pushing chat and Open AI pushing a code assistant no less.

The Death of Direct File Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration

Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

"Gladys Mae West overcame huge barriers to contribute to [GPS] technology. She was one of many women of her generation whose talents helped propel the cold-war tech boom in the US. Programming some of the most powerful computers of the time, West pushed the horizons of computation & communication."

Epstein called Peter Thiel J.D. ’92 a 'great friend' Documents from 2014-2019 suggest a close relationship between the two men, who frequently coordinated meetings with Silicon Valley figures and global leaders.

“Great friend”:

“Stanford alumnus and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel ’89 J.D. ’92 frequently met with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who lent financial support and taxation advice to Thiel…”
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1)
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Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."

A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.

Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

*sigh* here we go again. Your phone is not listening to everything around you 24/7 for advertising purposes. *If* you have voice activation on for the assistant, the mic is listening for the activation phrase: the processing power for listening for a single specific phrase is much lower.

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction

Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.

"From January to October 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, including 20 infants, were arrested and detained by U.S. immigration authorities. " www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

I was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole.

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Men aren’t born with a propensity to commit acts of sexual violence. It is socialized behavior, often learned through abuse itself. Take fraternities and hazing as one example. The slightly older students beat the younger ones and the cycle continues year after year. Sports teams, armies, the same.

"When in doubt, draw a distinction."

Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.

This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.

I will post them one at a time. Ready?

Defund ICE.
Disable the grift.
Disempower the Epstein class.
Defy authoritarianism.
Discredit Trumpism.
Deconstruct MAGA.
Defeat the GOP.

Thank you for your attention to these matters.

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site 'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

The guy who vibe coded a crypto rug pull scientific error detection and got coverage in Nature is back with a vibe coded ai social media network, with similarly crypto intentions… getting coverage from major outlets.

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Have we hit even 5% of the Epstein files yet? Nope. Have we seen the key docs that the act sponsors asked for on an expedited basis? Nope. Yet we have journalistic nitwits talking about the "end phase of the production." Ridiculous.

For the first time, white births in the U.S. have dropped below 50%.

This white nationalist administration saw this coming. That’s why Trump calls immigration an “invasion” and believes diversity is a “threat”.

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Seeing that photo of Obama putting the Medal of Freedom on Tom Homan circulate again. It's fake. Homan did get a civil service award during the Obama administration, but it wasn't the Medal of Freedom, it wasn't a medal (it was a certificate), and Obama didn't present it to him in person.

Four people (including a brown-haired Mark Norell) on ladders remove model skull from Apatosaurus mounted skeleton

Hmm, sounds like we need a refresher. The issue of whether everyone's favorite long-neck is called Brontosaurus or Apatosaurus (or both) has *nothing* to do with which skull was historically included on museum mounts! 🧵#FossilFriday

'Melania' Is a Horror Movie The first lady is trapped, and she doesn’t seem to know it.

“Watching ‘Melania’ fills you with a profound and despairing claustrophobia” as the first lady traipses “from limo to limo, private jet to private jet, just to get to identically fancy rooms full of identically sycophantic people,” @petridishes.bsky.social argues.