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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Why what happened

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
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"the FBI director used taxpayer funds in a government shutdown to fly his country singer GF to sing at a Hulk Hogan-founded wrestling event aired on Fox Nation" is not the flashiest Trump-era headline but pound for pound it can compete with any contender

“OH NO! NO WAY! OH MY GOD! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!”

Davis Schneider’s dad posted a video of the leadoff home run from his point of view

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin The mayoral candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.

What exactly is leftist about African studies? Or does leftist serve as a stand-in for … something else.

It is literally a front page headline that a sitting second term President understands that the Constitution bars him from a third term.

The Grokipedia entry on “race and intelligence” says that sub-Saharan African IQs average “around 70,” and are largely genetic in nature. It also cites Mankind Quarterly, a white nationalist pseudoscience journal.

The stars were plentiful, and in the aftermath of the lunacy, one of them stood in the Dodgers' clubhouse, still trying to process what happened. Will Klein, the last man out of the Dodgers' bullpen, a reliever who had topped out this year at two innings and 36 pitches, threw four innings of one-hit ball and struck out five on 72 pitches. The last of them, an 86 mph curveball, induced a swing-and-miss from Tyler Heineman and a scream from Klein, who understood what had been asked of him and knew he'd delivered. Games don't become classics without efforts like Klein's -- and he had an admirer who wanted to acknowledge that. Into the Dodgers' clubhouse strode Sandy Koufax, his eminence of Dodgers pitching, who, at 89 years old, looked no worse for the wear at 12:48 a.m. Koufax walked up to Klein, stuck out his hand, looked him in the eyes and said: "Nice going."

This must be what it’s like to meet Odin when you enter Valhalla. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Measles kills people

Joe Rogan is confusing measles with chicken pox

This isn’t true

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling

It would be nice if we had media outlets that could place this moment's fascist propaganda in the context of historical fascist propaganda, telling people what it meant then and what it means now. That would be nice.

I wasn’t watching. How is that not a fumble?

Paul with the turnover buffs

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

hope you're prepared for me to talk about Max Bredeson whenever a fullback is mentioned for the next 30 years

Illegally funneling. Only Congress can make that kind of appropriation. The absence of that single word in all these stories is in all seriousness playing a big role in this nation’s downfall!

during the 2016 campaign, the Boston Globe ran a scary mockup front page of what a world where Trump was president would look like, and it’s pretty tame compared to a random Friday morning’s headlines now

The White House was three buildings connected by two walkways and Trump decided unilaterally to obliterate one of those buildings and one of those walkways to build a ballroom paid for by donations given by companies and people looking to curry favor.

Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups AND Terry Rozier has been arrested by the FBI for alleged illegal gambling, sources tell ESPN. ESPN Bet on the sCREEN

Heat should also get Damian Lillard with an un-torn Achille. Only fair.

The Heat gave up a lot to get Terry Rozier, they should be compensated...

The league knew he was under investigation before the trade was approved, Heat get at least 3 first rounders

these should all be mass-produced. every single one.

May her memory be a blessing

Borges is not the only Social Security official to raise concerns about the safety of data under the U.S. DOGE Service, which was launched by billionaire Elon Musk to cut costs across the government.

This is what I mean when I say traditional media can't handle the right's bad faith. In no way was DOGE made to simply trim government spending. It was made to nullify Congress and take a hatchet to programs that ran afoul of the regime's agenda. That media can't say this reinforces the bad faith.