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San Franciscan, writer, analyst. Interests: democracy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, cognitive science, art, flowers, pastry.
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FMD there is no bottom.
January 26, 2026 at 5:06 AM
FMD there is no bottom.
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This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 AM
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
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AYFKM? Like a Philip K. Dick novel.
Vladeck is a strait-laced law professor, aka the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts (Georgetown). Video is on the Constitution (right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses etc.)
TikTok: Not so sure you can talk about that.
Vladeck is a strait-laced law professor, aka the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts (Georgetown). Video is on the Constitution (right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses etc.)
TikTok: Not so sure you can talk about that.
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.
Well, here’s a link:
georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
January 26, 2026 at 4:48 AM
AYFKM? Like a Philip K. Dick novel.
Vladeck is a strait-laced law professor, aka the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts (Georgetown). Video is on the Constitution (right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses etc.)
TikTok: Not so sure you can talk about that.
Vladeck is a strait-laced law professor, aka the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts (Georgetown). Video is on the Constitution (right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses etc.)
TikTok: Not so sure you can talk about that.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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Here's Apple CEO Tim Cook hanging out with disgraced sex pest Brett Ratner at the Fascist Dementia Pedophile's party for the movie they collaborated on as part of a straightforward bribery campaign to cover up said dying pedophile's sex crimes and ongoing coup of the United States
January 26, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Here's Apple CEO Tim Cook hanging out with disgraced sex pest Brett Ratner at the Fascist Dementia Pedophile's party for the movie they collaborated on as part of a straightforward bribery campaign to cover up said dying pedophile's sex crimes and ongoing coup of the United States
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Huh. Guess they've never run into this.
(Reader, they have.)
(Reader, they have.)
“Guetlein said the program’s central challenge is the economics of missile defense, specifically how the cost of each intercept limits how many interceptor shots the United States can afford to keep on hand.”
Golden Dome is forcing the Pentagon to confront missile defense economics
Golden Dome is forcing the Pentagon to confront missile defense economics Golden Dome is forcing the Pentagon to confront missile defense economics
spacenews.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Huh. Guess they've never run into this.
(Reader, they have.)
(Reader, they have.)
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i like that every time jd vance tries to tell a story about some awful thing that happened he just sounds like the softest dude on the planet. aw, poor baby, you mean you and your chud friends were locked in a restaurant?
January 26, 2026 at 12:45 AM
i like that every time jd vance tries to tell a story about some awful thing that happened he just sounds like the softest dude on the planet. aw, poor baby, you mean you and your chud friends were locked in a restaurant?
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JD has some of the best made up stories. In this doxxed now means someone says hey there are some guys at a restaurant. Good times. you can sort of see the direction they're going that murdering protestors has gone from awesome to tragic, only its tim walz fault.
January 25, 2026 at 11:46 PM
JD has some of the best made up stories. In this doxxed now means someone says hey there are some guys at a restaurant. Good times. you can sort of see the direction they're going that murdering protestors has gone from awesome to tragic, only its tim walz fault.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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Michigan, April 2020
January 25, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Michigan, April 2020
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Montana, May 2020
January 25, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Montana, May 2020
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You know it's going to especially infuriate Stephen Miller that Alex Pretti will become the beatified saint he tried turning Charlie Kirk into.
January 26, 2026 at 1:04 AM
You know it's going to especially infuriate Stephen Miller that Alex Pretti will become the beatified saint he tried turning Charlie Kirk into.
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Wrote about him in TNR, prior to Renee Good. Remarkably similar incident. He’d just dropped off his kid. They rushed his car. He tried to flee. Cops then claimed he tried to run them over, despite video evidence to the contrary.
Should’ve been a warning.
Should’ve been a warning.
January 26, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Wrote about him in TNR, prior to Renee Good. Remarkably similar incident. He’d just dropped off his kid. They rushed his car. He tried to flee. Cops then claimed he tried to run them over, despite video evidence to the contrary.
Should’ve been a warning.
Should’ve been a warning.
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People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc
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www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
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www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
January 26, 2026 at 1:39 AM
People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
(GFM in next post)
www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...
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I've been calling what it does the flattening of discourse, but yes, cultural stagnation.
Putting stolen art into a digital blender cannot move the culture forward in any meaningful way, but it can produce a lot of recycled mediocrity.
Putting stolen art into a digital blender cannot move the culture forward in any meaningful way, but it can produce a lot of recycled mediocrity.
"Generative AI systems themselves tend toward homogenization when used autonomously and repeatedly... Cultural stagnation is no longer speculation. It’s already happening."
#AcademicSky
theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...
#AcademicSky
theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...
AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional.
theconversation.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:53 AM
I've been calling what it does the flattening of discourse, but yes, cultural stagnation.
Putting stolen art into a digital blender cannot move the culture forward in any meaningful way, but it can produce a lot of recycled mediocrity.
Putting stolen art into a digital blender cannot move the culture forward in any meaningful way, but it can produce a lot of recycled mediocrity.
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As your resident applefluencer I demand a bushel immediately
The debut came nearly 30 years after the variety sprang from the Washington State University's Columbia View Research Orchard.
Long-awaited Sunflare apple makes public debut in Washington
The debut came nearly 30 years after the variety sprang from the Washington State University's Columbia View Research Orchard.
www.oregonlive.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:56 AM
As your resident applefluencer I demand a bushel immediately
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Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89
Former colleagues remember his intelligence, compassion — and his concerns about the anti-vaccination movement
www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w...
Former colleagues remember his intelligence, compassion — and his concerns about the anti-vaccination movement
www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w...
Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89
‘I wish we could have spared him from seeing that’: Friends of Bill Foege on his legacy, and his anger over anti-vaccination.
www.statnews.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89
Former colleagues remember his intelligence, compassion — and his concerns about the anti-vaccination movement
www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w...
Former colleagues remember his intelligence, compassion — and his concerns about the anti-vaccination movement
www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w...
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 26, 2026
January 26, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 26, 2026
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Weird, I’ve taken pictures of people bringing firearms, loaded with multiple magazines to protests outside Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s home and the Minnesota State Capitol.
January 25, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Weird, I’ve taken pictures of people bringing firearms, loaded with multiple magazines to protests outside Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s home and the Minnesota State Capitol.
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Target Center dunkers wear “ICE OUT” t-shirts
January 26, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Target Center dunkers wear “ICE OUT” t-shirts
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No 2nd Amendment for liberals, black and brown people, it's just for white supremacists and insurrectionists.
“Those rights don’t count”: Bovino says Pretti forfeited 2nd Amendment rights in fatal shooting
www.salon.com
"Those rights don't count": Bovino says Pretti forfeited 2nd Amendment rights in fatal shooting - Salon.com
twp.ai
January 25, 2026 at 7:29 PM
No 2nd Amendment for liberals, black and brown people, it's just for white supremacists and insurrectionists.
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Democrats grow louder on calls for Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Democrats grow louder on calls for Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment
Eight more Democrats have joined an impeachment resolution against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after the latest fatal shooting by a federal agent.
www.nbcnews.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Democrats grow louder on calls for Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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"Kristi Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I'm calling on her to resign as Secretary of Homeland Security or Donald Trump to do the right thing and just fire her. "It's a shame I have to say this in America but no one is above the law. No one."
January 25, 2026 at 10:03 PM
"Kristi Noem has forfeited her right to lead. I'm calling on her to resign as Secretary of Homeland Security or Donald Trump to do the right thing and just fire her. "It's a shame I have to say this in America but no one is above the law. No one."