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Stellar Selections | Best Books 2025 Throughout the year, LJ’s expert reviewers consider thousands of books, reading titles across a myriad of genres and subjects. These are the nearly 800 works they judged as the best, most notable, sig...

My heart is beyond full. When the Tides Held the Moon just made it onto @libraryjournal.bsky.social’s Best Books of 2025! I’m honored to see it included among so many incredible titles! 😭

www.libraryjournal.com/story/Stella...

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Screenshot of Vance tweet: “Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.”

The night before the EU is expected to announce fines against X, JD Vance is already out running defense:

I really don't want the rainbow coalition of fascism

Sen. Kelly: Read the boat strike memo into the Congressional Record Legislative immunity was made for this moment

Sen. Mark Kelly said he has read the Justice Department's classified legal rationale for destroying alleged drug boats and that it should be released.

If he truly believes the public deserves to know, he should read the memo into the Congressional Record.

Why We Should Stop Talking About 'Bus Stigma' Obsessing over trying to serve different economic classes on mass transit misses the point.

Do you find yourself in conversations with people who like to talk about how "they would never ride a bus" or who worry about "bus stigma"? I was just reminded of this 2017 article of mine, which tries to blow all that nonsense away. Hope you find it useful.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

What happens when ChatGPT cites to a real case but misstates what the case stands for? That doesn't fly for Judge Behm in Michigan. The court says that while a litigant could make the same error based on faulty reasoning, LLMs can't, because they can't reason.

And while a litigant might get away with similar overstatements because they could, perhaps, reason their way to showing how a case's stated holding might extend to novel situations, an LLM does not reason in the way a litigant must. To put it in a slightly different way, LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11. When an LLM overstates a holding of a case, it is just piecing together a plausible-looking sentence

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

fukuyama predicted this

Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years.

unbelievable. the canonical example of an illegal order in the Law of War Manual is "an order to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!

If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.

Books We Love Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.

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Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

Elon Musk's poison hall of mirrors
from @cwarzel.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

“This is the final post-truthification of a platform that long ago pivoted toward a maxim used by the journalist Peter Pomerantsev to refer to post-Soviet Russia: Nothing is true and everything is possible.” — www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

FITCH: PEOPLE WITH LOW CREDIT SCORES ARE FALLING BEHIND ON THEIR CAR EMI PAYMENTS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE 6.65% OF SUBPRIME AUTO LOANS ARE OVER 60 DAYS LATE, THE HIGHEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED

oh you GOD DAMN THINK?

What piece is this from?

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

This is so so so much worse than you think it is going to be - absolutely phenomenal reporting by Sirin Kale & Lucy Osborne

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

“A central theme of his campaign was that winning was only the beginning. This is why his team is seemingly making this two month transition process as public facing as possible.”

@premthakker.bsky.social breaks down Mamdani’s plans to make his winning agenda a reality.

🔗 zeteo.com/p/zohran-mam...

"overwhelming defeat" is when you lose by a point and a half (historically narrow) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

the Fascism Knowers all fleeing the country to whine from foreign lands was just another type of elite capitulation. i hope they enjoy their employment elsewhere because i am disinclined to offer it back to them should they return.

Opinion | Nancy Pelosi Is an American Political Giant

i think this is a pretty good take on pelosi, who is unquestionably one of the most consequential house speakers in the history of the institution

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

jay jones has a winning message for 2026: [REMOVED FOR VIOLATION OF TOS]