Brian Cubbage

“A big part of the high stock prices is not a reflection of high future growth,” he said. Rather, it is a sign that A.I. is expected to boost productivity and shrink employment. “The firms all think they’re going to shed a lot of labor, and that’s why the profits will be high,” he said. And while the construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence is fueling economic growth now, these centers, once built, employ skeleton staffs.

The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

Gameday voting on which school has the most faculty in the Epstein Files

Surely no English writers before 1996 depicted the realities of the English class system! Thanks JKR for going where Henry Fielding and Charles Dickens feared to tread!

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

This is the kind of thing that gets lawyers sanctioned when they use AI to write legal briefs…

Besides getting better at reading in whatever other language you are reading, struggling with writing in its original language is an education in the opacity of language and meaning that is different even than reading difficult works in English like Ulysses. It certainly keeps one humble!

You’ll need a good dictionary and will use it often, it will be really frustrating and slow at first, and you will miss a lot of things. But stick with it! There is nothing quite like grasping a well-written sentence or verse in the original for the first time.

Make yourself read works in their original languages rather than depending on translations. I mean, trying to read Mishima after two weeks of Japanese on Duolingo isn’t happening, don’t even try it, but if you have a decent basic foundation in a language already? Take a shot!

The 1962 film of The Manchurian Candidate is far superior to the novel.

so it seems the big deal comedians had with "cancel culture" is that we plebes didn't pay them to shut up

What makes this work is that I think for many in MAGA world this really is describing a hellscape that they actually do think justifies a military response.

Some days it’s like we are living in a nightmare simulation trained exclusively on Vico’s New Science

Remembering Our Dead This site memorialises trans people who have passed away, as a supporting resource for the Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR).

Transgender Day of Remembrance tdor.translivesmatter.info

These are folks who have never seen a list of names for TDOR and noted that up to half of them are folx from Brazil.

Yes, over and over again for thirty years! But as Kang (or was it Kodos?) said, “the politics of failure have failed: it’s time to make them work again”

the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?

The other time a judge was a woman in Kansas (I think) named Driskell who filed a rambling handwritten five or six page complaint on notebook paper against “Homosexuals.” Not specific queer people: “Homosexuals.” *All* of them.

Trump’s lawyers join the august company of Crackpot Kansas Lady

In many years of drafting, and reading, federal complaints, this is only the second time I have seen a judge *look at* a complaint before the defendants filed responsive pleadings, and the first to strike under Rule 8.

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8.

Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

Coming to all networks in late night: An hour of the Trololo Guy singing to a ten-foot-tall poster of Charlie Kirk, every night

Une commission d'enquête de l'ONU accuse Israël de vouloir "détruire" les Palestiniens.

✏️ Le dessin du jour, par Coco

from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."

What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

NYT screenshot: "On Capitol Hill, Representative Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana, said he would use his congressional authority to seek immediate bans for life from social media platforms for anyone who “belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk.” “I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked,” he wrote on X. “I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination. I’m starting that today.”"

on the one hand this reads as nakedly authoritarian and all that. on the other hand it reads as a drunk guy stumbling through a public park yelling that this land is his plantation, damn it, and his rules