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A ballistic vest meant to stop a bullet “is definitely going to keep you safe from a sandwich thrown at you," Sean Dunn's defense attorney argued.

When I said I would try to see things from another person’s point of view ONLY if their POV is based in objective reality, this is why.

The reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically.

Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.

a whole class of people who treat slick pundit takes that run against the truth as a pathway toward enrichment and prominence, rather than saying true things in ways people will understand (which is what I see the job as)

Та все добре, то було більш, ніж півтора роки тому. Кажу ж, *минулого* разу, як я хотів потрапити на їхній концерт. Тому на той концерт, понад півтора роки тому, я не потрапив, свої квитки віддав друзям.

Але вчора - потрапив. Колись це мало статися

Ну шчош. Минулого разу, як я хотів потрапити на концерт Zwyntarя, мене мобілізували за декілька тижнів до дати концерту
Але колись це мало статися 🙂 дякую за виставу

The infamous "loony left is right behind you neil" cartoon from the Daily Express, showing Neil Kinnock shocked by his "troops" of offensively caricatured black, Irish, gay and "communist local council" people.

Whenever I hear about the decline in standards from the old days of Decent Conservatism this is the first image that comes to mind. The man who drew this was given an OBE.

FIG. 2: Child’s Tunic with Hood Tapestry weave of dyed wools, plain (tabby) weave ground of dyed wool, fringe of dyed wools along edge of hood and lower edge of tunic L. 101 cm; W. 89 cm Egypt, ca. 5th–7th century CE The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of George D. Pratt, 1927 (27.239) Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY

Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.

Панове, важлива інсайдерська інфа. Влучили по складах найбільшого в Україні дистриб'ютора ліків. Того поставок найближчим часом не буде. Ймовірно, деякі препарати на певний час зникнуть. Якщо у вас закінчується препарат, який потребує тривалого і регулярного прийому, зробіть запас на 2-3 місяці

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"I have a Cybertruck, what kind of car do you drive?"

"I sleep in a big bed with my wife."

Okay. So. Amazing scenes playing out at the vets when i arrived to pick up Napoleon.

Names changed/removed. But get ready for a lost kitty story with a happy ending.

It starts late last year, when the elderly neighbour of a young couple went into a care home /1

Shift Change at the Wheel Reinvention Factory Even David Brooks is welcome in our movement.

"[David Brooks] engages in self-reflection the same way that a newscaster on live TV picks his nose: quickly, leaving no evidence that it ever happened." -@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social, from the top rope!

open.substack.com/pub/howthingswork/p/shift-change-at-the-wheel-reinvention

From Epstein’s Chief Accuser, a Memoir Both Sad and Devastating

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

YouTube video by Jacob de Jongh How Jacob Collier Convinced The World He's A Genius

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a5X...

and also my dislike of coaching well-known and understood things in profound-sounding, "mystical" terms.
Again, this is much more a problem, with, IDK, Jordan Peterson (and don't get me STARTED on the mysterious Russian soul), than Jacob Collier. But it is there

YouTube video by Jacob de Jongh How Jacob Collier Convinced The World He's A Genius

To be clear, I have no problem with Jacob Collier, and I don't think he's a fraud. I have listened to his music, and enjoyed it.
But this gets at some of my problem with who gets to be a "genius", and also my dislike of

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a5X...

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

A young Monk at the piano, in front of an Art Deco mural. He’s dressed in a striped suit.

For Thelonious Monk's birthday, this great photo by William P Gottlieb
Minton's Playhouse, New York, September 1947

"Although it's sort of not in my department & I don't know too much about that type of music, I like it an awful lot. Wonderful piano."
- Count Basie

They're cutting religious studies programs so everyone can study tech, just when the tech world increasingly demands religious studies education to understand it.

CHOTINER: So let me get this straight. Anti-racists are the real racists, is that correct?
THIEL: right.
CHOTINER: and the anti-fascists?
THIEL: right, they’re the real fascists
CHOTINER: So now you’re saying Greta is the Antichrist.
THIEL: …
CHOTINER: I think you can see where I’m going with this.

I won’t be waiting for all the columnists who misrepresented and concern-trolled about DEI programs to start railing against oligarch nepotism even though it actually *does* put unqualified people in jobs they haven’t earned.

Essex fossils have a way of starting rumours. Megalodon teeth on the coast. Mammoth bones in the gravel. No surprise our villages are full of dragon stories.

Video courtesy of Bethnal Archives - more here: youtube.com/@BethnalArchives

Never has been so much spent on so little for so few.

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

"A literature which is made by machines, which are owned by corporations, which are run by sociopaths, can only be a “stereotype” — a simplification, a facsimile, an insult, a fake — of real literature. It should be smashed, and can." -- @nplusonemag.com 🙏🏽

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

I also loved this observation. The tech’s true “innovation” is its utter disregard for efficiency. It “works” bc it accepts the most irresponsibly resource-intensive production method imaginable. What matters is not what it costs but *who* pays. The apotheosis of a culture built around disposability

I'm not gonna share the AI "Walmart was cool in 2002" video, so instead as a person who worked at several Walmarts between 1998-2011 I'm gonna share stories of what it was actually like back then.

A man with a 32 oz Budweiser in his pocket tried to tickle me several times & we had to call the cops.

We are sorry to report

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

this is that thing i was saying last week about the loss of a moral element in politics - vavuely centrist people scared to ever say "I don't care how popular it is, it's still wrong"

I know everyone on here read Fukuyama as as an undergrad but I’m begging you to read another book

"We hope and expect that Republicans will do the opposite of what they've been doing for no reason other than we really really hope and expect it." - a leader