Mon Mothra

I mean Trump specifically not the rest of the ghouls

Half the stuff Trump is doing has “just once before I die” vibes

Make-a-wish ass presidency

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.

sincerely, i think the only way this works out is to shift the overton window left enough that Bulwark types have a party

i think this is actually possible, incidentally, especially because pro/anti-tech is going to be a faultline after Trump. pro-defense, pro-AI, pro-private sector as the “right”

Not at all thrilled with a federal officer looking this scared while pointing a gun at a press photographer. These guys are on the ragged edge of just gunning down a crowd

“Hello yes I would like to pay with card”
“Oh sorry we only take Visa cards issued by chase”
“Ok bye”

(This is not going to last because consumers will REVOLT at the idea their Mastercard doesn’t work everywhere with a Mastercard sticker, and it will lead to the dreaded Abandoned Cart)

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

the chicago ICE guys are way too willing to brandish pistols at random civilians

Its kinda wild to me that ppl are watching an admin whose entire shutdown strategy is to lock itself in a house that its set on fire bc they think thatll own the libs & are going "yep these are guys that can rig a national election in the third largest country on earth by both landmass & population"

Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”

People need to realize their ideas about past "middle class prosperity" are mostly nonsense.

He always looks like the photographer told him exactly when and how he’s going to die immediately before the photo

This is the kind of rhetoric certain to move people visiting the uhhhhhhhhh national agricultural library website

Progress bars are a nightmare and every product I’ve worked on that had one mostly just generated support tickets where nothing was wrong but the progress bar just didn’t move the way the user expects it to

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

We appreciate the classics here

Our politics are not non-material, but they are post-proletarian. And the mass intelligentsia or PMC—the people who do the essential work of maintaining the complex systems that sustain modernity—are the revolutionary class against a staid political order that cannot uphold modernity.

Ok so the I’m pretty sure this is me just looking at the characters through a modern lens but did you get a kinda “bisexual polycule” vibe from the group of characters

Emotional support ordinance

Episode 1 was about tarrifs

There’s still no evidence that Trump knows what a dog is or does

its so fucking funny that this is all over a european style socdem who wants to pilot a city run grocery store

When you just take a little peak inside the ark of the covenant

Not even close to the point but since my job is in a weird liminal space I’ve been reading ML papers a lot and I’m increasingly curious about how exactly these models handle optics. has it actually learned some statistical approximation or the physics along the lines of a knowledge based potential?

This is about James Watson

Live your life so when you die people are like “wow what a great person in addition to their material accomplishments” rather than “RIP Asshole”

A least weasel. It fits in the palm of the hand.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Probably not healthy for the movement that it’s bad manners to force that issue