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a few years ago I talked to some admins here (different university) about student harassment of faculty and they listened politely then did nothing so that's fun

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

#goals www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Fascists are really shit at two things: economics and warfare.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

I rarely regret not drinking anymore, but these fuckers sure make it a challenge.

Reminder that support for war crimes on TV was Hegseth's only qualification for the job; it's the only reason Trump knew he existed.

Secretary of War Crimes is the job he was auditioning for during his career as a drunken talking head on Fox.

Has Russia lost Moldova? Why the bitterly contested election in a "faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing", matters a lot

Looks like Putin's attempt to bully Moldova has failed. With 90% of votes counted, the pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has a 20 point lead over the Russian-funded Patriotic Bloc open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

OpenAI Needs A Trillion Dollars In The Next Four Years Shortly before publishing this newsletter, I spoke with analyst Gil Luria, Managing Director and Analyst at D.A. Davidson, and asked him whether the capital was there to build the 17 Gigawatts of capa...

Premium newsletter: Based on my estimates and analysis, OpenAI needs one trillion dollars in the next four years to build 17GW of data centers and other commitments, with at least $500 billion needed for company operations. There is not enough capital to do this.

www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

YouTube video by KuntsVEVO The Kunts - Prince Andrew Is A Sweaty Nonce (Official Music Video)

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Just sink the fucker, claim it fell down the stairs/out of a window/got lost on its way to see Salisbury cathedral.

Really, Google Gemini can do everything? Then let's see it fuck off

And, I fucking guarantee you, he's never done a stroke of manual labour in his life. I'm not stating this is the only metric by which we should measure someone's value to society. But to hear the fucker carp on about slavery without his ever breaking so much as a fingernail makes my piss fizz.

I'm guessing, is that Lauren Bacall?

Do not comply in advance.

Apple Pulls The Savant From Its Release Schedule Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

I guess we should thank Donald Trump for making the relationship between fossil fuels and fascism explicit.

It's all a grift. He's just admitted to making sixteen million dollars out of his last shakedown, so he's after some more.

YouTube video by Charalanahzard 5 Secret Ways to Use ChatGPT Like an AI Pro (2025 easy prompt guide!)

It’s time to wake up — if you aren’t using ChatGPT to optimize your work (and your life!) you’re getting left behind. Watch this for 5 simple, lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that geniuses use!

youtu.be/IS65dBNlng8

Also hi actual Black renewable energy expert here in the space of electric grid management and what we in the industry call EDR or DR (Demand Response). If you want to know the impact AI Data centers are making on the power grid in various ISO’s across the country follow this thread.

One of the greatest acts of national myth creation is that the English are genteel, civilised creatures: the archetype being the fictitious English country gentleman (which is a construct based on an idealised view of the chivalric knight). Whereas the reality is, we're a pack of fucking savages.

Oh! What's the rest of the system?

Country with bullet vending machines makes preventing autism a priority Headline by Sarah Amero A country that distributes bullets like they’re chocolate bars has decided that eradicating autism is one of its top priorities, it has been reported.  The USA, where you can p...

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

Great Alien Replacement Theory.

It occurs to me that many of us now are operating simultaneously in three temporal spaces.

The first two are the day-to-day time (business as usual) and planetary time (impending doom) I mentioned here.

The third is political time between them, where we sense a more immediate threat of rupture.