Kristin | First Impressions Podcast

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

Labubu is what a French person calls a small injury

PACER and CM/ECF are a Threat to National Security and Must be Urgently Overhauled Why Congress must finally act to urgently and properly fix PACER/CM/ECF.

Well, PACER was hacked again, probably by a nation state: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Luckily, our blog post from 2021 still holds up. If only we could have known this might happen. free.law/2021/10/05/p...

Dear Senator Cassidy,

With your grotesque vote, you held the power of 100,000 doctors.

With that power you were obligated to the Hippocratic oath 100,000x.

With your willful weakness, you shattered that oath 100,000x.

You are harming countless Americans & there’s a special place in hell for you.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Classic blunders
-Getting involved in land wars in Asia
-Going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line
-Trying to contact researchers in Europe during August

It’s okay! I am not usually a comedy movie person and it got a few big laughs out of me. There are some weak points but won’t annoy you to death. There’s some fun classic Naked Gun wordplay.

More than four out of five Americans, 83%, said they were concerned about the cost of groceries, with 46% saying they were very concerned. Some 47% said they were worried about being able to pay their rent or mortgage, 64% said they were worried about affording an unexpected medical expense. About 48% said they believed they would have trouble affording an unexpected $500 bill without borrowing. One in four said it would be "very difficult" A quarter of those surveyed said they spent at least three hours a day worrying about their finances and ability to afford basic necessities. Another 25% of respondents said they or someone in their household had skipped meals in the past year in order to make ends meet, and 26% said they had fallen behind on their monthly bills over the past year.

Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

It has spawned 4 spinoff versions and I will never stop watching every single season of every show

“I have the FBI in my family!!!!!!”

if anyone wants to my hero and possibly be the first with a potential all timer reaction video, i highly recommend grabbing a nice hi res vid of below deck s12e9 (latest one) around 38:30. the absolutely trashed lady yelling “you’re assholes, i hate you, they’re democrats, democrats!!”

Read the excerpt below the photo link.
Then the whole piece at sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...
Then buy her books if you haven't already.

I wish millions more had her books and read them already.

Tom ended up being a friend of our family and we once received a Christmas card from him. On the front was a nativity scene with Joseph and Mary and the baby Jesus. On the back was a note from Tom saying "Of course we were kind of hoping for a girl". Funny man.

My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."

love to feel the white hot shame of perspective after i get grouchy

awesome fact i just learned is that anton chekov owned a revolver that he never actually fired

Me: haha wow, you are so scrappy! feisty, some would say. you must think you're a big dog lol

Shih tzu: It seems by your outfit that you’ve mistaken timidity for professionalism. Plainness for decorum. So it’s no surprise you’d mistake bravery for confusion. I know exactly how big I am.

A little late to be asking this but how do you pronounce Ghislaine

@realDonaldTrump I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!! 2.14k ReTruths 8.64k Likes May 26, 2025, 8:27 AM

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.

There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

you know it’s a load-bearing component of the social safety net but I feel like I’m still learning HOW load-bearing. I didn’t realize until Trump started plotting to cut it that it’s like …. literally the only way we have nursing homes

one thing i feel comfortable in predicting: the national economy’s increasing reliance on gambling will surely not have disastrous consequences

i miss the days when you could go viral for saying chuck norris could out-pizza the hut

And rain (and rain) will make the flowers…. growwwww

My daughter has started getting into musicals so of course she’s going through the rite of passage all tween and teen girls go through: wanting to dramatically take a bullet for the rich but class conscious aristocrat who could never love you, the daughter of unscrupulous innkeepers

Rumeysa Özturk’s release has been ordered, but her detention shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

Trump’s targeting of students like Özturk is an attack on free speech and our most basic rights, plain and simple. And every Democrat should have been treating it that way.

Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

This is such a disaster. And the silence of the so-called papers of record on the dismantling of American science is indefensible.

Meeting up with my friend in a bit to see what she thinks about the artwork for the wine festival poster I’m making for her 🍷