Wow! I’ve been seeing lots of “rumor has it” type comments about what might have been going on there, and kind of dismissing them as the conspiracy theory fringe, but after reading this, I guess I have to admit that it would be really hard to speculate more wildly than Epstein et al wildly crimed.

I think you’re a sucker if you believe Scouting can please its trans customers and Hegseth at the same time. If they had decided to choose the side of their trans customers, they would have told Hegseth to go pound sand.

Scouts Will Abandon D.E.I. Policies Under Agreement With Pentagon, Hegseth Says

The Scouts changed their name from Boy Scouts and adopted those diversity and inclusivity policies to expand their customer base, because they were going broke after the many CSA scandals damaged their brand. Will they fade away after pandering to the MAGA 1/3?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

Due to a little vocal stumble by the person giving the sermon today, my takeaway is probably going to be “The Kingdom of Kevin.”

🎯🎯

2. The moral of the story, when correctly framed, isn’t “sometimes people are so evil that the temptation to kill them is hard to resist”; it’s “sometimes helping one group of evil people because you hope they’ll hurt another group of evil people turns out to do more harm than good.” MAGA is evil.

Opinion | War and Peace Cannot Be Left to One Man — Especially Not This Man

I agree with everything in this opinion piece except the framing of the story: “in the seventies, a group of evil people mysteriously seized power in Iran, and have been bothering the world ever since.” He leaves out the CIA-sponsored coup that started it all. 🧵

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/o...

My first thought was certainly “because Elon Musk really loved Heinlein’s fiction,” but I guess the real reason is vacuum cooling instead of water cooling and solar energy that doesn’t cover up the entire planet.

3. …for the real “goals” of evolution, long term survival and future reproduction, because those two things, like the future in general, can’t be sensed, counted, or taken into consideration when making decisions or “decisions” about how to act.

I’m no philosopher, but the two ideas I take away from this article are that symbols can’t “contain” meaning any more than our brains can contain little chairs that we use to think about chairs with, and that “meaning” turns out to be about how primary reinforcers are just approximate proxies… 🧵

He’s in his 70s. I am 66, and I can testify that if I tried to wrestle a teenager to the ground and subdue them, I might well come out of it with a serious injury. Nowadays I can get a sprain that hurts for weeks just by stumbling slightly. I’m not saying what he did was right, just a reality check.

A great explanation of how meaning that can be thought about, not just acted on, can evolve out of reflex-like behavior control mechanisms.

“Wie kein anderer Politiker“ stimmt eigentlich 😉

My granddaughter has a ball python. They make great pets for kids, compared to other snakes and lizards. They are cuddly (well, it’s really because they’re tree-climbing constrictors, but it works).

I read more about it and it looks like Scouting America has indeed submitted to the mighty Hegseth in return for some financial and in-kind support from the DOD. I know one ten year old girl who won’t be participating anymore.

“Tony, congratulations. I’ve done many ghastly things to many women and girls, but I’ve never driven one so deep into despair that she actually set herself on fire.”

What does the DOD even have to “officially put Scouting America on notice” about? Is he confusing it with a branch of our military or something?

Can you imagine a world in which the Pentagon was just like “fine, whatever, Anthropic, we weren’t planning to conduct mass surveillance of Americans or build Skynet anyway.”

2. …are, but also protection from the existence of individuals with darker skin whose exact identity and location is unknown by the government. You can’t have both without an apartheid regime.

We all have to address the elephant in the room: we can either have meaningful voter ID, or the freedom not to have the government issue everyone a national ID that can only exist if the government knows exactly who every citizen is. White people want privacy from the government knowing who they…

2. …conquer “us” to force us to adopt those ideals. We invented them and struggled and fought and died to implement them because they seemed so much better than what we had. Oh yeah, I must have forgotten the idea that only White people are smart enough to invent and adopt good new ideas 🙄

Trump’s Foreign Policy: Resurrecting Empire

If the grand ideals of Western Civilization are so good for people, why do they have to be forced down everyone else’s throats by violently conquering them, instead of just spreading naturally the way Pokémon and Rock n Roll have? After all, nobody had to…

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

If Ellison takes over WB, every perso should stop buying/subscribing/watching everything WB. At some point we've got to collectively prioritize human rights over being entertained. While you're at it, stop watching CBS, stop reading its site and posting its links on social.

Stop watching. People lived somehow before TV. They made their own stuff instead of buying it. They learned to play an instrument and made their own music. They read aloud to their children. They invited their neighbors over for coffee or dinner and gossiped. They joined the Elks or a softball team.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

I guess people have been warning us since about 1774 that if anyone doesn’t have rights, we also don’t have those rights, but we just wouldn’t listen, and now ICE is doing this kind of thing to “even to White people.” Surprised?

“I like Trump because I feel like he really sees me.” Yes, baby, con artists need to be able to see people as they actually are in order to successfully manipulate them.

“Die Reichen begreifen nie, daß es auch Arme gibt.”

Fontane, “Vor dem Sturm”

The rich never can quite grasp that there are also people who are poor.

Which is a funnily self-canceling idea. There never could have been love of the United States if you had to inherit it from your parents, nor an American Revolution, because our founders would have been genetically in love with their European countries of origin. We become patriotic by learning.

She believes in Lamarckian evolution through the inheritance of acquired characteristics.