James Benjamin

All the renewable energy projects Trump cancelled would be be bringing energy prices down over the next few years, but instead we'll all pay more to keep polluting the planet. And who will benefit? Evil forces like Exxon-Mobile, Russia and the Saudis.

Crawford County book banner arrested in bizarre faked kidnapping - Arkansas Times Tamara Hamby is accused of faking a kidnapping of her daughter in hopes of scaring her out of talking with strangers on the internet.

One of our local book banners (who thankfully recently resigned from the Crawford County Library Board) got caught faking the kidnapping of her intellectually disabled adult child to "teach her a lesson." What a weirdo (and one who deserves to do time). arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

So, my psych peeps are on notice that I will be following them with a new profile probably sometime mid-to-late December once I can get through the next couple weeks and finals week. I'm taking "a place for everything, and everything in its place" approach on social media. /end

So the upshot is that I will probably create a new account that is specific to that psych community I treasured so much on Twitter back in the day, so that my more research-based posts don't get lost in the mix, and so that I can find all of what my psych peeps are up to. 2/

I have stepped back from social media a lot over the last few months. I'm trying to rethink what makes the most sense for me going forward. I'll definitely keep this account because I see some very beneficial posts, but I think I need a separate account specifically for my psychology peeps. 1/

AI unreliable in identifying retracted research papers, says study LLMs don’t reliably identify retracted papers, a new study finds. (Image: DALL-E) Large language models should not be used to weed out retracted literature, a study of 21 chatbots concludes. …

Somehow, I am not surprised:

retractionwatch.com/2025/11/19/a...

From the community community on Reddit: 15 Years ago today (11/18/2010), "Conspiracy Theories & Interior Design" first aired and guess what, Annie got a gun and we got a mind-blowing resolution! Explore this post and more from the community community

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"Electric Avenue " (Eddie Grant)

Trump's 'irrefutable fact' about Thanksgiving costs subjected to brutal fact check President Donald Trump was slapped with a fact-check after claiming that prices for Thanksgiving dinner were substantially lower this year.The president posted Thursday morning on Truth Social that th...

Trump's 'irrefutable fact' about Thanksgiving costs subjected to brutal fact check

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We're losing something that cannot be recovered.
Most people don't understand what we are losing.
There's a lot wrong with academia, but burning it all down is not the best answer. 🧪

May the odds be ever in your favor

A quote on a blue background states, "The majority of the patients on our board interpreted this message to mean: 'Your life does not matter to us.'" The logo for "Nature Reviews Nephrology" is at the bottom.

A Comment article in Nature Reviews Nephrology discusses how little attention has been given to how the termination of 2,100 NIH grants effect people who stand to benefit most from scientific discoveries: patients, care partners and community leaders. go.nature.com/47nCWmG #medsky 🧪

Digging up more pictures of the WH garden (East Wing) that has been now completely destroyed

This photo?

Quotable (for those who remember the character Britta Perry from "Community"): "We're the colony so high maintenance the British gave up. We're so obnoxious the French sent us a statue. Nobody tells us to shut up."

#sixseasonsandamovie #nokings

This protest at Fort Smith AR was actually larger than I could photograph myself (assuming I wanted to participate, and not simply document). A lot of us from the area know when to show up, and we are not alone.

Protest scene. A "Workers Not Oligarchs" sign is prominent.

Some of the protest scene at Fort Smith

More protest signs.

Yours truly - sign says Get the Cheeto Out of Office

#NoKings Fort Smith (AR) style. I can't believe I am pushing 60 and I am back at protests. I really thought I was done with all of that after the anti-Apartheid protest as a college student 35-40 years ago. Here we are. Democracy should be non-partisan and non-negotiable.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

From the inflation community on Reddit: A glimpse of the future. Explore this post and more from the inflation community

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Revenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal - emptywheel After fuck-up after fuck-up, Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors got an embarrassing acquittal in their effort to jail Sydney Reid for filming an ICE arrest.

Revenge of the “Lib Tard:” Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/16/r...

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

From the politicalwonderland community on Reddit: Multiple airports refusing to play video blaming democrats for government shutdown Posted by Radiant_Rip_5040 - 159 votes and 13 comments

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From the facepalm community on Reddit: Fox News pundit doesn’t know Bad bunny is American. Puerto Rico has been a U.S. territory since 1898. Its people are U.S. citizens. This isn’t some obscure trivi... Explore this post and more from the facepalm community

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ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks WASHINGTON—In response to legislation that would ban officers from obscuring their identities during arrests and raids, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed Thursday that beneath their m...

ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks

Is there anyone here who read the original Millennium Trilogy (starting with "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")? The series continued after Larrson's death. The latest ("The Girl With Ice in her Veins") almost reads like it was written by AI. Definitely a bit of a letdown.

🚨 Federal prosecutors have indicted Naasón Joaquín García, the “apostle” of La Luz del Mundo and leader of 5 million followers, on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
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Didn’t the Soviets build Bagram?

“But why aren’t American women having more babies?”

Such a conundrum.🙄

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter