Dr. Fronch, Ph.D.

They're surprisingly rare around here, at least in the places I go. I have seen ZERO hats/merch on campus in the past year, very different from 2016.

who could have seen AI become weaponized by a corrupt government, except for literally everyone, as well as decades of science fiction

NEW YORK — “growing outrage” after a nearly blind refugee father dropped off by border patrol and left to find his way home in the cold was found dead

Are prediction markets a scam?

Kat Abughazaleh on ICE in IL-9 debate

"We need to fully abolish and prosecute ICE. We need to repeal the Patriot Act. We need to lift refugee caps.

And we need to offer complete amnesty and citizenship to any immigrant here who has not committed a violent crime."

"Pro-life" Tennessee GOP pushes amendment to murder women who have abortions A shocking amendment to a piece of legislation would have let prosecutors charge women and doctors with capital murder

A Tennessee Republican proposed removing legal protections for pregnant women—so prosecutors could charge them with homicide.

Including the death penalty.

This is what "pro-life" politics looks like in 2026.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/pro-life-t...

if you read nothing else from rodger sherman in your entire life please read these paragraphs from the end of his newsletter, possibly the most important paragraphs anyone has ever written about Team USA

There is no sense in which a chatbot can "help" with your schoolwork by making it easier; if it is easier, it is less useful for actual learning (effortful practice is HOW WE LEARN) and therefore the chatbot has not helped, but has only hindered.

The State of our Union is that we have a convicted felon and pedophile in the White House, protecting other rich & powerful pedophiles while strangling the Constitution and orchestrating the largest transfer of wealth to the ruling class in American history.

The End.

I saved you 3-6 hours tonight.

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

By the way, a reminder on Jack Hughes, since the grifters are already trying to hijack his postgame interview
www.vogue.com/article/meet...

I'm confused, why aren't there two hot guys kissing on the ice after this hockey game?

Imagine if HEALTHCARE WAS FREE in America, as it is in Greenland. Just imagine. 🇺🇸🇬🇱

Is it doing calculus problems? I hope it's doing calculus problems.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Federal debt will reach 100% of GDP this year.

If only there were some way of bringing new workers, consumers, & entrepreneurs into the country to grow the economy and replace retiring boomers who are driving up mandatory spending. I’d call them “immigrants.”

Gift link: www.wsj.com/economy/fede...

The secret for Olympic success that American men hasn't captured: get gayer

Thanks for explaining! Without any context, I assumed tattooed guy was somehow associated with ICE or right-wing politics.

Jesse Jackson was an early and ardent supporter of gay rights. In fact, on July 17, 1984 at the DNC in San Fransisco, the first speech EVER at a national political convention calling for gay rights was delivered by none other than Rev. Jackson himself.

Wow.

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.

12/12

“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

how we got here

The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:

Today I learned that there was a "Zoolander 2"

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Fact-checking the Bad Bunny halftime show

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”

“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”

The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: