Rules Don't Work
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Regulation, justice, climate - are among things I work on.
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Neurodivergent and bipolar (FTW!)
Irredeemably woke
Regulation, justice, climate - are among things I work on.
Science fiction, Baroque music, Frank Zappa are things I don't work on and enjoy very much.
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Neurodivergent and bipolar (FTW!)
Irredeemably woke
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In China’s Yangtze River, the finless porpoise population is rising: the latest count puts it at 1,426 in 2025, up 177 since 2022. Scientists link the recovery to the ten year fishing ban that began in 2021, alongside tighter habitat protection and monitoring. buff.ly/hzREApS
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Fishing ban revives Yangtze finless porpoises
The population of the Yangtze finless porpoise, the only freshwater porpoise species in China's longest river, has risen to 1,426 in 2025, indicating that the fishing ban and other conservation…
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February 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
In China’s Yangtze River, the finless porpoise population is rising: the latest count puts it at 1,426 in 2025, up 177 since 2022. Scientists link the recovery to the ten year fishing ban that began in 2021, alongside tighter habitat protection and monitoring. buff.ly/hzREApS
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oh he's BIG mad about xAI engineers not being able to use Claude anymore
February 12, 2026 at 9:37 PM
oh he's BIG mad about xAI engineers not being able to use Claude anymore
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somehow this feels more dislocatedly sci-fi than Moltbook:
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
an AI agent had its pull request rejected, so autonomously decided the best next step was to make a callout post against the maintainer
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
an AI agent had its pull request rejected, so autonomously decided the best next step was to make a callout post against the maintainer
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
theshamblog.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:26 PM
somehow this feels more dislocatedly sci-fi than Moltbook:
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
an AI agent had its pull request rejected, so autonomously decided the best next step was to make a callout post against the maintainer
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
an AI agent had its pull request rejected, so autonomously decided the best next step was to make a callout post against the maintainer
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February 12, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Germs: actually we’re really scared of RFK Jr.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Germs: actually we’re really scared of RFK Jr.
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“This is the latest example of attorney disciplinary offices finding any excuse to not confront the rampant misconduct by prosecutors and other lawyers inside the Trump administration.
“Disciplinary offices need to rise to the moment and stop protecting the people they’re supposed to regulate.”
“Disciplinary offices need to rise to the moment and stop protecting the people they’re supposed to regulate.”
Bar Punts on Ethics Complaint Over Application to Search Reporter’s Home
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:46 PM
“This is the latest example of attorney disciplinary offices finding any excuse to not confront the rampant misconduct by prosecutors and other lawyers inside the Trump administration.
“Disciplinary offices need to rise to the moment and stop protecting the people they’re supposed to regulate.”
“Disciplinary offices need to rise to the moment and stop protecting the people they’re supposed to regulate.”
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The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner
The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
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Every day, something happens that makes me feel like we must be living in a simulation. (I know we’re not—or I think I know—but…damn, it feels like it.)
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Every day, something happens that makes me feel like we must be living in a simulation. (I know we’re not—or I think I know—but…damn, it feels like it.)
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Last semester, I shifted what had been a 4-part series of online discussion posts to a 4-part series of in-class, pen and paper short essays. I've never received more positive feedback in student evals from a single pedagogical decision ever. www.chronicle.com/article/to-s...
To Solve the Student-Attention Problem, Professors Turn to Pencils and Paper
Some say it’s a better way to keep students focused and engaged.
www.chronicle.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Last semester, I shifted what had been a 4-part series of online discussion posts to a 4-part series of in-class, pen and paper short essays. I've never received more positive feedback in student evals from a single pedagogical decision ever. www.chronicle.com/article/to-s...
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Woody Guthrie. The original lyrics are on display in Tulsa. Song is literally “Old Man Trump”
February 12, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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i can remember how in the 80s and the 90s, imelda marcos’ shoe collection was a shorthand for comically naked thievery and corruption and now we have a first family who literally shat in golden toilets
one of the things that’s harder to see while we are in it, but will jump off the page at future historians, is how deeply corrupt *the entire trump family* is, and how they abused and and manipulated every lever of the federal government they could grab to steal everything that isn’t nailed down
News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
February 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
i can remember how in the 80s and the 90s, imelda marcos’ shoe collection was a shorthand for comically naked thievery and corruption and now we have a first family who literally shat in golden toilets
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one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way
the whole fucking family from trump’s parents on down have been a goddamned blight on this country for at least seven decades
February 12, 2026 at 9:40 PM
one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way
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Because a person with no other redeeming qualities has to believe that he belongs to an inherently superior race or else he will have no positive qualities at all
February 12, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Because a person with no other redeeming qualities has to believe that he belongs to an inherently superior race or else he will have no positive qualities at all
Sounds like the right person to be in charge of health
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Sounds like the right person to be in charge of health
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What’s the phrase that comes after “unforced error”?
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
What’s the phrase that comes after “unforced error”?
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Why do they always present as the weakest baby men imaginable?
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Why do they always present as the weakest baby men imaginable?
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February 12, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Big Balls vs big balls www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 12, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Big Balls vs big balls www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Another reason not to tolerate this with Trump is that we just organized the entire National Conversation™️ in 2024 around the idea that the Very Old Man - the one who was perfectly capable of governing & understood complex policy issues even if he stuttered & lacked stamina - was dangerously unfit.
February 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Another reason not to tolerate this with Trump is that we just organized the entire National Conversation™️ in 2024 around the idea that the Very Old Man - the one who was perfectly capable of governing & understood complex policy issues even if he stuttered & lacked stamina - was dangerously unfit.
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From the court’s opinion today blocking Hegseth’s attempt to discipline Mark Kelly: “As Bob Dylan once famously said, ‘You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’ Our retired vets deserve more respect from our govt, and our Constitution demands they receive it!”
February 12, 2026 at 5:49 PM
From the court’s opinion today blocking Hegseth’s attempt to discipline Mark Kelly: “As Bob Dylan once famously said, ‘You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’ Our retired vets deserve more respect from our govt, and our Constitution demands they receive it!”
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BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
February 12, 2026 at 5:45 PM
BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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I put this up precisely because I thought it was fascinating and very different to when I thought - the answer is 1930
What year do you think this room design is from ? (Answer at 6pm)
February 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I put this up precisely because I thought it was fascinating and very different to when I thought - the answer is 1930
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Serious people abroad taking PET (Putin-Epstein-Trump) seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia, PM Tusk says
Poland will launch an investigation into possible links between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence, as well as any impact on Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tues...
www.reuters.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Serious people abroad taking PET (Putin-Epstein-Trump) seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
This is super hilarious (though I'm very offended, as a French person, that the French translation ends up being sanitized! En français on dirait "salopard d'enfoiré de Trump va créer ta zone économique dans ton propre trou du cul"...)
@rulesdontwork.bsky.social LOL at the difference between the French and English translations (this was a comment from a rando in a Ukrainian politics channel)
February 12, 2026 at 5:35 PM
This is super hilarious (though I'm very offended, as a French person, that the French translation ends up being sanitized! En français on dirait "salopard d'enfoiré de Trump va créer ta zone économique dans ton propre trou du cul"...)