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Wow.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH

Stack of books: The Payback, Ninth Life, Moonflow, The Sovereign, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, The Stainless Steel Rat, The Scapegracers, The Witch Roads, The Age of Miracles, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

One day your TBR is fine, the next day it is out of control.

Omg, this is beyond psychotic. The level of dehumanizing hatred you must feel towards someone to do this to children is jaw-dropping.

This is the sort of stuff that requires truth and reconciliation tribunals—there’s no crime here, but it demands public accountability.

I got tired of studies saying historians were one of the top professions that could be replaced by AI. It just didn't sound right to me.

Librarians, curators, and teachers all score as much less "replaceable", and lawyers score much, much lower still. And I think I figured out why. /1

My conspiracy hill I will die on is that Google has deliberately worsified search results so the AI summary looks better by comparison.

One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions. Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders. This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement. Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.

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Botstein Releases Letter to Bard Community, Defends Connections to Epstein as Important for Fundraising - The Daily Catch Bard President Leon Botstein on Tuesday morning released a statement to the Bard community explaining his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.

also i'm sorry but if you chase down someone for SIX YEARS and only manage to get $150k and some laptops, and maybe a secondary donation from another pedophile, have you actually really done fundraising successfully www.thedailycatch.org/articles/bot...

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Now that was a halftime show!

We are watching the ad-free version and instead they just cut like six random seconds out of the middle.

It’s really obvious that a lot of humans have been cut out of this coverage. Drones instead of human camera operators, etc.

Clearing a sidewalk only to pile up a six-foot mound of snow at a crossing is a waste of time. I saw a woman pushing a baby carriage *on* Father Hurley because she couldn’t get over the snow hump. Clear the corners!

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them

I have spent fifty years rolling my eyes at conspiracy theories where all the elite rich people are in a secret evil gang, and thrillers where everyone remotely important has the same Dark Secret, and now sodding look.

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university

1. History of medicine
2. Databases
3. Victorian literature
4. History of philosophy
5. Shakespeare’s conedies

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

We all get that this is the same as doing nothing, right? It's not weak, it's NOTHING.

ICE aren't following the legal restrictions they already have! If you don't take their money away or, heaven forbid, actually have consequences for the laws they've already broken, they will ignore all of this.

In Weak Job Market, Middle Managers Increasingly Forced to Feign AI Success Amid all the hype, companies need human-centered AI that helps workers. Policymakers must protect labor at every level, writes Diana Enriquez.

In dozens of interviews, sociologist, UX researcher, and interaction designer Diana Enriquez finds middle managers forced to "feign AI success" in a weak job market—for instance, pretending error-free drafts came from AI tools that actually failed.

STATEMENT REGARDING DETENTION OF STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE MEMBER IN MINNESOTA JANUARY 24, 2026 I was notified today, January 24, 2026, that a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member has been detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the state of Minnesota. Tribal leadership is actively working to locate the individual, gather accurate information, and coordinate with the appropriate authorities to secure their release. At this time, details surrounding the detention remain limited. I urge the public to refrain from spreading unverified information while this matter is being reviewed. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will continue to advocate for the protection of our citizen's rights and will provide updates as appropriate.

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month.

Statement from Standing Rock:

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

oooh noooo someone who was born outside the imaginary line on the map is your neighbor now. it’s the end of the fucking world! GROW UP!

a typewritten note that reads: they're not distractions. there's just lots of horrible shit going on at once. you can walk and chew gum at the same time. you're an adult.

Trey for short

why

The Origins of the Word "Moron" Are Actually REALLY Sinister It's much more than just a casual insult.

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one.

It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

Sounds like a bunch of sketchy companies get rich contracts, then build a bunch of data centers and an unsafe nuclear reactor. Maybe half a mile of rail.

Photo of a snow-covered street with tire tracks

Germantown, MD