Melissa

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Gray's Papyaya Broadway & 72nd is the best!

Gosh, thanks, Google (whose algorithms have long pushed users toward extremist content, because profit is everything and humanity is nothing, to Google).

This narcissistic attitude that sees a vote as a curated extension of your personal brand or a version of a celebrity endorsement is going to be the death of this nation.

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnnnnnnnng john silver's gift card

Oops

This is the bad place

soap is the show to watch

a man in a suit and tie is drinking from a blue mug that says good on it Alt: a man in a suit and tie is drinking from a blue mug that says good on it

I just heard "mansplaining" defined as "correctile dysfunction." I spat out my coffee.

From Stephen Colbert

Connor... Ronald Reagan and Pope JPII were both *shot* in 1981.

There were 125 DOJ-cited *domestic* terrorism incidents recognized in the 80s alone.

Oklahoma and the Olympics Bombing were in the 90s.

We're the SAME AGE. You should know this.

i'm sure this will spread just as far as the original

The moon is beautiful tonight

The White House landscape now matches our national political one.

Elites and institutions have not “collapsed.” They have not “changed their tunes.” They have not “failed.” They are not “cowards.”

They were and are simply been focused only on their own self-preservation and profit.

Nothing has changed. They simply made a cost benefit analysis, and fascism wins.

Listen, fighting the good fight is hard. Keeping the faith up day in and day out is hard. Staying above the fray is hard.

BUT!!

We’re all adults here and there are no rules saying you can only buy a cake on your birthday.

Go to the store and get a little cake. It will get you back in the game.

What Two Judicial Rulings Mean for the Future of Generative AI Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models?

Two recent decisions in cases against Meta and Anthropic may seem like clear wins for AI companies that train their models using copyrighted books and articles—but the truth is far more complicated, Alex Reisner writes:

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Concentration camp jobs posted on Indeed. I wonder if they’ll start advertising that the uniforms are being made by Hugo Boss:

www.indeed.com/cmp/Critical...

Shout this!

Aww the fur baby runs and jumped in my lap after it thundered.

Jeffrey Blehar at NRO: On Thursday night, just as we were heading into the holiday weekend, the New York Times broke the biggest news of the month: It turns out that I got a far better score on my SATs than New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Okay, maybe that wasn't your primary takeaway from the Times' revelation that a young Mamdani had applied to (and been rejected by) Columbia University as a "black/African-American, but given that it won't have any effect on his likely victorious campaign, it's worth savoring the fact that the man got dinged by a school where his father has tenure as a professor.

Maybe my expectations are unreasonably high for humans, but I find it very difficult to imagine thinking this, let alone thinking to publish it. The “savor” speaks volumes.

Love to have everyone mad at me specifically because library services are underfunded. My darlings, after the zero-ing out of federal support hits the state library and they decimate the funds we have for that whole category of things, you will remember today's Unacceptables with fondness.

This thread is wild

OMG.

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?

It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

Happy 4th of July. 🍦

A photo of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart in a blue suit, holding a mic

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose multimillion-dollar ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, has died at 90.

Saw F1. It was beautiful.

Woah. Fierce cut-down of the junior justice by the next-most-junior justice.

Barrett giving Jackson the back of her hand: