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a man with long hair is making a funny face with the word nah below him ALT: a man with long hair is making a funny face with the word nah below him

hope you're right; don't think you are

it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops:

this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.

If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...

A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Once more for those in the back: bush v gore, decided 25 years ago next week (12/12), was the 21st century’s original sin.
Everything that has gone wrong for the US, and by extension the world, stems from that corrupt and shameless decision. #scotus

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

The new US National Security Strategy reads better in either the original Russian via which it was dictated or the 1930s vintage German in which it was based. It makes Putin and Stephen Miller the architects of US foreign policy. The big loser? Our allies. The big winner? China.

Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring of Daniel Penny to Its Investors

Wow, somehow I missed the news that Marc Andreesen's investment firm hired the guy who choked a homeless man to death on the subway. Their explanation for doing so is facially absurd, so you have to assume they're just symbolically endorsing vigilante violence.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

The United States has long handled the problem of maritime drug smuggling by using the Coast Guard to intercept boats and to arrest people. That echoes how it works on land: Police officers who believe people are dealing drugs arrest them, and if they are convicted, they serve time in prison. They are not executed. It would be a crime if officers instead simply gunned down suspected drug dealers in the street. Similarly, a military force is not allowed to target civilians, and being a suspected criminal does not make someone lose civilian status. In peacetime, targeting a civilian is murder. In an armed conflict, targeting a civilian is a war crime.

Notable absence of hemming and hawing and “critics say” bullshit here. The NYT is getting closer and closer to calling t murder. Good on ya. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/trump-boat-attacks-killings.html

Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...

Shipwrecked and not using any communications equipment.

This is a crime against humanity. Everyone involved should be prosecuted for murdering stranded civilians in cold blood.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

Text: Entrance Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you are. With your eyes, which in their weariness barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold, you lift very slowly one black tree and place it against the sky: slender, alone. And you have made the world. And it is huge and like a word which grows ripe in silence. And as your will seizes on its meaning, tenderly your eyes let it go . . .

Happy birthday in eternity, Rainer Maria Rilke

"you have made the world. And it is huge
and like a word which grows ripe in silence."

(tr. by Edward Snow)

Jacket used in Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech painting

This merits a pic of the actual jacket used to model for the painting. On display at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.

one of the last, feeble limits on campaign spending is poised to fall.

No "two different realities" bullshit. One side is calling for release of the video, and the other is not.

SCOTUS Allows Texas to Use Racially Gerrymandered Map in 2026 Midterm Elections Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, has granted Texas’ request to stay a lower court ruling blocking it from using a heavily gerrymandered congressional map the state legislature passed at the behest of President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

i'm sorry, do words mean anything anymore or naah?

sure, blame the kid. she won't have any therapy issues.

a man riding a skateboard on a bridge ALT: a man riding a skateboard on a bridge

programming director, cbs news

Starbucks to Pay $39 Million in Landmark N.Y.C. Labor Law Settlement

Starbucks settles New York City worker scheduling violations. "Fast food employers must give workers regular schedules..., must provide schedules 14 days in advance and cannot reduce hours by more than 15% without ‘just cause or a legitimate business reason’." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

only the latest evidence that her editor didn't like her.
"sure, let's do it your way."

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

an important read for at least 2 reasons:

1. shows how big tech operates on intuitions and vibes and not rigorous research

2. this is a masterpiece in how to breakdown complex scientific concepts in simple language and elegant pros that captivate the lay reader

taranis.ie/datacenters-...

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm. How it all began.

"She can be heard screaming as agents attempt to handcuff her. 'I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me,' she shouted after agents forced her to the ground. 'This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'”

Gift link:
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Moreover how often do you really look at a clip you’ve recorded? you’ve traded your enjoyment of the moment for something rarely if ever viewed.

It’s not even a big ask - the guy isn’t intimidating in the slightest.

O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."

cleanse for a tuesday in december.