Firehose Sipper

This is a very Nazi thing to say, actually.

The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something t…

The ever insightful @mmasnick.bsky.social on how DJT is like an LLM, and should be treated as such. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/t...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

The year is 2154. The cryogenic unfrozen head of Supreme Lord Emperor King Emperor Lord King Donald Trump surveys the ruins of what was once a great nation. Looking at the barren land and the piles of corpses, Trump Head mutters two angry words:

"Biden's economy."

Who's the 'Camp Auschwitz' guy and other alleged Jan. 6 neo-Nazis that Trump pardoned? Photos of the bearded Robert Keith Packer wearing a hoodie with the Nazi SS skull and Auschwitz 'Work Brings Freedom' slogan went viral after Jan. 6

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The administration says it cares deeply about fighting antisemitism, which is why it’s defunding and attacking colleges.

I’m old enough to remember when, three months ago, Trump gave full and unconditional pardons to the “Camp Auschwitz” guy and assorted other violent men who openly praised Hitler.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

No offense to Ryan Seacrest intended

Random thought: Vivek Ramaswamy is the Brian Dunkleman of DOGE.

When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

The fact that we are also making lists of Jewish professors proves the harmlessness of our registry of autistic children.

by Linda McMahon and RFK Jr.

The whole thread is worth a read but this particular post is 💯

I will never understand how the whiniest, thinnest-skinned man to ever hold the office of POTUS is seen by *anyone* as emblematic of any sort of “masculinity” one might hope to emulate.

I have never seen a bigger baby in public office.

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

In addition to being wonderful human beings who do many of these things, the autistic people I've known:

✅Don't have brain worms
✅Don't take steroids
✅Don't play with animal carcasses
✅Have not driven their spouses to suicide
✅Are not actively trying to kill thousands of American children

Good.

‘There’s simply no way for us to get people back to the US from a prison that I visited and was able to leave.’

Goodbye IRS Direct File, Hello Inefficiency It takes the average person over 9 hours and costs $160 to file taxes each year. IRS Direct File meant it didn't have to.

In January, Musk declared that the IRS must provide a way for people to file their taxes online for free. Once he discovered that already existed, then he decided that it must be killed, because it is evidence that government worked well under Biden.

Please repeat over and over:

“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”

—Gov. JB Pritzker

“which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation”

The American people built a way to file taxes for free and now they're burning it down to enrich the predatory tax-prep industry who helped Trump get elected. Hail to the thief.

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

“To a very sad degree, Supreme Court justices and members of Congress are already complicit in this experiment in state terror. They might find their way back to an America in which their offices have meaning, but only with the help of we the people.”

“Trump is illegally disappearing people. He is proposing abducting Americans. He must be removed from power. He no longer has authority.”

And honestly that’s the weak version of what Democrats should be saying.

This is correct. You do to nazis what the people of Italy did to Mussolini. They were right to do it and they set an example.

Forget tariffs — Beijing is already choking off US exports on the sly China juices trade war with nontariff barriers targeting MAGA-friendly U.S. export sectors.

“A tariff, you can just pay it, and things just get more costly,” said Ben Lilliston, director of rural strategies and climate change at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. “But this is a full restriction on your ability to send product to that country.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Everything about this timeline makes me feel like someone time-traveled to 1985 and handed you-know-who a copy of the 2015 edition of Gray’s Sports Almanac

It’s surreal how fast the United States has fallen into a dictatorial regime.

Checks and balances are gone, the president disappears innocent people into foreign prison camps, words get banned, and the Overton window shifts at light speed.

I honestly wonder these days when they will come for me.