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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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1/9

BBC, Sky, all UK media - you NEED to do better.

This isn’t “balance”.

Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!

Stop it!

9/9

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

So happy to see this continue! Love your enthusiasm and am very glad you’re feeling better again!

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

This does say a lot about how much time our politicians are spending on Twitter, and I don’t think it’s a great sign of where Britain’s elite is.

Starmer did not tweet about the murder of Melissa Hortman (an elected official) and her husband.

1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models. The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.

This is very good.

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not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?

NYT is in on it. That's why they banged on about Claudine Gay for days but won't cover this. It's a fundamentally racist and transphobic institution.

(Not criticizing the author of this thread. Just stating what I believe to be a fact.)

SeunKuti, also at Glastonbury making incredible points here

to fee the world, we EUROPEANS WESTERNERS THE WHITES need to free ourselves from NAZIS / Right wing extremism, from fascism, from imperialism!!!!!!!!!!

DriveThruRPG delisted a tabletop game about revolutions over “hateful” politics Rebel Scum's censorship reveals the limits of Roll20's apolitical guidelines.

Roll20, which owns DriveThruRPG, told Rebel Scum's designer (@9thlevelgames.bsky.social) that allowing their "hateful content" and political speech on its platform constituted a "slippery slope."

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

anyways please watch this edit that sent me into hysterics and now I need to redo my makeup

Historians and political scientists spend decades trying to determine the influence of money in politics and Musk just tweets out "I bought the election"

Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Someone on Twitter writes: "Derek would you ever consider doing a thread on how transmascs can dress well and have clothing that helps hides hips and stuff? Only advice I've gotten are straight leg jeans and a boxy shirt"

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard

Landmark Report Finds Major Flaws in the Cass Review “These issues significantly undermine the validity of the Cass Review’s recommendations, such that the Review fails to fulfil its aims as commissioned and should not be used as the basis for policy.”

1. A landmark study has found major flaws in the Cass Review.

Almost two dozen researchers have published their takedown of Cass in the BMC Medical Research Methodology journal.

This review was cited over 100 times by the HHS report.

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2 panel simpsons meme Panel 1: 2 people sit at a desk facing each other. the person behind the desk is in front of a Eurovision logo and is telling the other person "Maybe gay people watch Eurovision; we dont know. Frankly, we dont want to know. it's a market we could do without." Panel 2: Cut straight to that same man stood outside the Eurovison Factory with a "out of business" sign hanging over the closed gate - "well, that's the end of me" he says to nobody in particular

Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits

Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.

I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."

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I don’t think I’ve made a worse financial decision in my life than developing good taste

tech bro is short for technically broken