Death will not release you!𓅽

actually it's worse that the Republican Party, while worshipping a corpse-emperor, has a lot of relatively young politicians

Epstein was able to torment, scheme, intimidate, and buy his way out of almost all repercussions under Alex Acosta. Hundreds of traumatized victims treated like trash. But hey now, can't have anyone talking about anything that happened behind the scenes with Epstein's plea deal!

Trump Administration Moves to Destroy Satellite That Monitors Greenhouse Gases The Orbiting Carbon Observatories have been a game-changer for agriculture and climate science. Now, NASA is under pressure to terminate them.

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This is something that needs to be stopped. Destruction costs far more than the cost of reconstruction and relaunching. So, what do we do? Who can take the reigns on this in congress? What republican congresspeople of agricultural states will join us?

But without him, we don't get @charliejane.bsky.social amazing review of Transformers 2, which I think makes all his movies worth it, as long as I never have to watch another. gizmodo.com/michael-bay-...

[PERSON WHO IS NOT A LAWYER AND DEFINITELY IS NOT A RAPIST VOICE] Well according to the California Penal Code 243.4, what you incorrectly describe as "rape" is actually sexual battery-

Alex Acosta is the most under-reported part of the whole Epstein saga (because he's the part that makes Trump look guiltiest)

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

Is sea level around the US accelerating? If you actually do the analysis, instead of just repeating talking points from decades ago, the answer is yes.
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@hendrixandrogue

For the [uk] businesses who are saying “I’m going to keep selling to the US, it’s not us that pay the tariff”, here’s how I predict this will go for you:

Customer orders and doesn’t read your beautifully written, crystal clear bit on additional charges.

(1/2)

Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds Lawyers hail jury’s “clear message” to Big Tech; Meta will fight verdict.

A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state's wiretap law, by collecting data from the app without user consent.

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

I feel like the specific needs and challenges are… need: support in holding the center for the “human” in humanities, and challenge: orgs like the AHA blindly buying into the myth of AI inevitability

Hamed AleazizNicholas Nehamas By Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas Aug. 5, 2025, 4:51 p.m. ET On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program. “PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.

🚨WHOA. According to @haleaziz.bsky.social, the Trump admin was actually going to implement the ICE "bounties" it has repeatedly said were false, offering $200 per arrest leading to a rapid deportation — and only walked the plan back after the New York Times got a copy of the memo.

Derrick seems to agree and explains it in the thread I think.

There is clearly a “family values” undercurrent in this anti-homeless policy agenda. It’s choose your abusive partner or parent or go to jail/coercive treatment. It’s an uncomfortable topic for the left who notoriously want to “reclaim” terms such as “family values” as if they were ours (?) IYKYK

For decades, the GOP has treated American democracy and the constitutional order the way early game testers treat video games—looking for exploits to circumvent the rules.

This is disgraceful trash. Shame on the AHA and any historian who goes along with this.

Generative “A.i.” is controlled by billionaires. If you use that tech, you let billionaires control the information you absorb.

We saw Grok go Nazi. What prevents a billionaire from corrupting any other LLM?

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

I'm not sure that's the right look for the horse, or Pete.

Secretary Pete Hegseth wearing a blue sport coat with low-rise blue jeans.

Led Zepplin in low-rise blue jeans. They've styled them with open shirts, chambray Western shirts, and denim jackets.

Britney Spears in low-rise jeans.

A horse in low-rise jeans.

Low-rise jeans have to be styled differently. There are many groups who have worn them stylishly in the past, so you have to find the original images to understand their cultural language. Those groups don't include people who wear classically cut sport coats.

The DoD Rapid Response team on Twitter writes: "The Secretary of Defense has great jeans." The attached photo shows Sec. Pete Hegseth wearing a blue sport coat, white button-up shirt, blue jeans, and a big buckle Western belt.

I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵

he should let us sweat for a week then come back with an Archduke Franz Ferdinand fashion thread

uh the menswear guy hasn’t posted since this

General Mills Sued for Racial Discrimination and Retaliation - UNICORN RIOT Former employee is suing General Mills for racial discrimination and retaliation over speaking out about racist Black History Month literature.

NEW: General Mills Sued for Racial Discrimination and Retaliation

As corporations across the United States gleefully regress back to their racist roots with the second Trump term, a fired worker in Minnesota is fighting back.

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a) The president can't unilaterally federalize DC; Congress would need to repeal the Home Rule Act. Have fun trying to convince the parliamentarian that this doesn't actually require 60 votes in the Senate
b) Statehood please

I hope our troops are real excited to bivouac on the National Mall without port-o-potties for a month or two

Anonymized LinkedIn post NON REGRETTABLE > 5% I don't care how "cracked" your team is. If your team is bigger than 50 people and your annual non regrettable attrition is less than 5%, you're not doing a good job of increasing talent density. This applies to every sub-team that's > 50 people (including engineering). For context, a very large and spectacularly performing public tech company has 10%+ non regrettable attrition in their engineering team, which is widely regarded as one of the best teams on the planet. TLDR you need to raise the bar every year by weeding out the bottom 5%+. Period.

Get in losers, the bosses are bringing back stack ranking

HHS further constrains certain vaccine advisers to the CDC, limiting their input in evidence reviews | CNN In a further jolt to the process of reviewing and recommending vaccines at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another group of outside advisers to the agency was abruptly sidelined thi...

They really won’t stop until every expert has been removed from any aspect of vaccination in America.

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A disconcerting number of high status people upended their worldviews because other people did not affirm that status in the way they thought appropriate.
And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.