Xina
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Breaking News: A judge dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor that President Trump handpicked was unlawfully appointed.
Judge Dismisses James Comey Case, Finding Trump Prosecutor Was Unlawfully Appointed
The decision is a setback for Mr. Trump’s efforts to wield the criminal justice system against his perceived enemies.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Fun for the whole family—by Parker Bros.! (tm)
The boardgame Clue(do) is a Sisyphean nightmare of cosmic horror where a character gruesomely murders a victim in different ways (usually with their bare hands) night after endless night in a manor house from which there is no escape while being pursued by their compatriots.
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Fun for the whole family—by Parker Bros.! (tm)
It’s so beautiful. I wish I could’ve seen it in a theater—not only for the photography, but also the sound. A deeply moving adaptation of a spare and tender book I love.
Looking forward to this. We're watching “Train Dreams” tonight. Beautiful review by @alissawilkinson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/m...
‘Train Dreams’ Review: Life, Understood in Reverse
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It’s so beautiful. I wish I could’ve seen it in a theater—not only for the photography, but also the sound. A deeply moving adaptation of a spare and tender book I love.
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
Pac-Man socks from the Red Cross for donating blood now thru 12/2 🩸
November 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Pac-Man socks from the Red Cross for donating blood now thru 12/2 🩸
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i'm sorry, is this not literally exactly what the enron scandal was about
NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
i'm sorry, is this not literally exactly what the enron scandal was about
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I wanna hold the hand inside you
I wanna take the breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
FADE INTO YOU
I wanna take the breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
FADE INTO YOU
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
All in all is all we are
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Potatoes with a différance. (Shout out to my Derrida reading group friends.)
Long live the new potato flesh
what the fuck
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Potatoes with a différance. (Shout out to my Derrida reading group friends.)
It’s days like this I really miss Gawker.
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It’s days like this I really miss Gawker.
I will really miss this show that was syndicated across NPR stations in certain markets. Such a playfully worded title, too.
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I will really miss this show that was syndicated across NPR stations in certain markets. Such a playfully worded title, too.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
Trump, after hanging out with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia for one day:
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Trump, after hanging out with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia for one day:
Adversarial poets, rise up!
to break the machine.
to break the machine.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Adversarial poets, rise up!
to break the machine.
to break the machine.
It’s not just his unseemly and ill-considered connection to Epstein, but —more concerningly— his deeply misogynistic attitudes (directly affecting his female students and mentees) that make Summers unfit as a member of the professoriate at Harvard or anywhere else. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It’s not just his unseemly and ill-considered connection to Epstein, but —more concerningly— his deeply misogynistic attitudes (directly affecting his female students and mentees) that make Summers unfit as a member of the professoriate at Harvard or anywhere else. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
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Never ever let anyone tell you that being a pain in the ass is unhelpful.
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Never ever let anyone tell you that being a pain in the ass is unhelpful.
I’m sure he felt small when he couldn’t just respond, “Off with her head!” in front of the Crown Prince.
ABC’s parent company, Disney, paid $16M to Trump in December to settle a defamation lawsuit, but it doesn’t appear to have earned the network any goodwill with the president.
Instead, it has only emboldened Trump to ignore any questions he doesn’t like. trib.al/3TCMHJW
Instead, it has only emboldened Trump to ignore any questions he doesn’t like. trib.al/3TCMHJW
November 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I’m sure he felt small when he couldn’t just respond, “Off with her head!” in front of the Crown Prince.
Bright spot.
BREAKING: A federal court delivered a blow to Texas Republicans’ attempt at a mid-decade gerrymander, finding that a July letter sent by the DOJ essentially handed the court a blueprint for dismantling the GOP’s strategy and exposing racial motives behind their push.
Trump DOJ’s ‘Ham-Fisted’ Letter Key to Ruling Blocking Texas Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bright spot.
He did say it would be a series. 😳😬
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
He did say it would be a series. 😳😬
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No context Ryan Lizza
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
No context Ryan Lizza
Re: Mark Sanford + Nuzzi —the putative Appalachian Trail hiking alibi was also for an affair with a younger female journalist, no?
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Re: Mark Sanford + Nuzzi —the putative Appalachian Trail hiking alibi was also for an affair with a younger female journalist, no?
Welp, never using Google Scholar again.
A new tab on Google Scholar???
scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...
scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Welp, never using Google Scholar again.
The whiplash from, “we’re not seating your duly elected member of Congress, in order to block the passage of the vote to release the Epstein files,” to “the Republican Party values transparency (after implicated Dear Leader gives the OK).” Mike Johnson is the worst.
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The whiplash from, “we’re not seating your duly elected member of Congress, in order to block the passage of the vote to release the Epstein files,” to “the Republican Party values transparency (after implicated Dear Leader gives the OK).” Mike Johnson is the worst.
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louder
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
louder
Yikes. Was just talking about the calamaity the bottoming out of Nvidia would be for Santa Clara County and the nation’s economy as a whole at brunch on Sunday in Palo Alto. The billionaires selling high is indeed a sign.
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Yikes. Was just talking about the calamaity the bottoming out of Nvidia would be for Santa Clara County and the nation’s economy as a whole at brunch on Sunday in Palo Alto. The billionaires selling high is indeed a sign.
I kind of think Trump did the about-face on Sunday re: release of the Epstein files after the SNL cold open destroying him. Wants to rip off the bad aid and move on (maybe)? I hope he’s held to account, but he hates being made fun of in the media.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I kind of think Trump did the about-face on Sunday re: release of the Epstein files after the SNL cold open destroying him. Wants to rip off the bad aid and move on (maybe)? I hope he’s held to account, but he hates being made fun of in the media.