Edsel
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David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
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December 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Yeah, the American people likely should have been paying more attention to getting a Real ID since 2005 - AND this is still a lovely stinking albatross of consumer rage we can hang around MAGA’s neck, so I’m ALL in on blaming this squarely on Trump.
TSA to start charging travelers $45 if they don't have a Real ID. Here are the details.
Flyers without Real IDs, passports or other accepted forms of identification will need to pay a $45 fee starting Feb. 1.
www.cbsnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Yeah, the American people likely should have been paying more attention to getting a Real ID since 2005 - AND this is still a lovely stinking albatross of consumer rage we can hang around MAGA’s neck, so I’m ALL in on blaming this squarely on Trump.
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Wow. Mark Kelly’s Devastating Takedown of Trump.
December 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Wow. Mark Kelly’s Devastating Takedown of Trump.
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Whenever I mention AI on here, I am encouraged to note the difference between AI in the form of large language models (LLMs), which everyone hates, and AI in the form of machine learning (ML), which everyone seems to feel is just fine.
Question: is there a clear distinction or is it a spectrum?
Question: is there a clear distinction or is it a spectrum?
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Whenever I mention AI on here, I am encouraged to note the difference between AI in the form of large language models (LLMs), which everyone hates, and AI in the form of machine learning (ML), which everyone seems to feel is just fine.
Question: is there a clear distinction or is it a spectrum?
Question: is there a clear distinction or is it a spectrum?
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Lots of studies showing a similar result: people who buy "plug-in hybrids" do not, as a rule, plug them in. They are mostly used & operated as gas cars.
(My take is, EVs are improving so fast, PHEVs are gonna look like a silly kludge w/in 5 years or so, well within the lifetime of a car.)
(My take is, EVs are improving so fast, PHEVs are gonna look like a silly kludge w/in 5 years or so, well within the lifetime of a car.)
Drivers aren't charging their plug-in hybrid cars, research suggests | CBC Climate Change News
Plug-in hybrid cars are a compromise for people wanting range with electric capability. But new research finds they’re less green than you think — so how should they fit into a zero-emissions future?
www.cbc.ca
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Lots of studies showing a similar result: people who buy "plug-in hybrids" do not, as a rule, plug them in. They are mostly used & operated as gas cars.
(My take is, EVs are improving so fast, PHEVs are gonna look like a silly kludge w/in 5 years or so, well within the lifetime of a car.)
(My take is, EVs are improving so fast, PHEVs are gonna look like a silly kludge w/in 5 years or so, well within the lifetime of a car.)
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I don’t really have a lot to say about the OU thing except 1) it’s obviously about the trans instructor and 2) red state publics are all so, so vulnerable to this
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I don’t really have a lot to say about the OU thing except 1) it’s obviously about the trans instructor and 2) red state publics are all so, so vulnerable to this
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Thinking how many people underreacted to Prasad working in the administration because they assumed a UCSF professor must be good enough, but his intentions about the Covid vax have been clear.
There was 0 data about the pediatric vaccine at the time.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
Journalists, please remind your readers that Prasad was always against the covid vaccine for kids.
Always.
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Thinking how many people underreacted to Prasad working in the administration because they assumed a UCSF professor must be good enough, but his intentions about the Covid vax have been clear.
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They want to rehabilitate sex creeps and criminals because of some combination of the following: a) they've got something in their own past they don't want to have bring them down, b) they want the creep prerogatives that used to come with the gig, c) they're just plain sexist motherfuckers
I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
They want to rehabilitate sex creeps and criminals because of some combination of the following: a) they've got something in their own past they don't want to have bring them down, b) they want the creep prerogatives that used to come with the gig, c) they're just plain sexist motherfuckers
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Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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Just a reminder, this fuckin alcoholic dope is the guy sending the US military out to do “war-maker” stuff. Crimes, to be honest.
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Just a reminder, this fuckin alcoholic dope is the guy sending the US military out to do “war-maker” stuff. Crimes, to be honest.
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I'm an independent artist who designs space and astronomy inspired products ✨
I just launched my new Moon Bootprint hoodies! I also have socks, jewelry, and ornaments.
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I just launched my new Moon Bootprint hoodies! I also have socks, jewelry, and ornaments.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm an independent artist who designs space and astronomy inspired products ✨
I just launched my new Moon Bootprint hoodies! I also have socks, jewelry, and ornaments.
sciencesocks.co/products/apo...
I just launched my new Moon Bootprint hoodies! I also have socks, jewelry, and ornaments.
sciencesocks.co/products/apo...
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Some pushback. They’ll keep thinking they can do anything they want to do until lots of people tell them they can’t.
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Some pushback. They’ll keep thinking they can do anything they want to do until lots of people tell them they can’t.
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
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this is the type of gadget a man would use to murder his wife in an episode of Columbo set in 2025
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this is the type of gadget a man would use to murder his wife in an episode of Columbo set in 2025
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So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
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The NFL’s Detroit halftime show starred Jack White and Eminem, not Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. It is time for another boycott.
by Megyn Kelly
by Megyn Kelly
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The NFL’s Detroit halftime show starred Jack White and Eminem, not Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. It is time for another boycott.
by Megyn Kelly
by Megyn Kelly
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shaggy is singing a medley of hits on a float topped with a golden turkey idol
as with every year, anything i say about this is going to sound like i'm making shit up
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
shaggy is singing a medley of hits on a float topped with a golden turkey idol
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Every time I watch the Macy's parade I remember the @kumail.bsky.social story about seeing it as a kid on his first day in the US and just assuming this was every day
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Every time I watch the Macy's parade I remember the @kumail.bsky.social story about seeing it as a kid on his first day in the US and just assuming this was every day
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🚨🚨🚨 Lake Effect Snow Warning issued November 26 at 9:31PM EST until November 28 at 7:00PM EST by NWS Cleveland OH 🚨🚨🚨
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November 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
🚨🚨🚨 Lake Effect Snow Warning issued November 26 at 9:31PM EST until November 28 at 7:00PM EST by NWS Cleveland OH 🚨🚨🚨
Additional Details Here.
Additional Details Here.
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Called it: Trump is going to *give* China Taiwan (no, Taiwan is not his to give) in an attempt to reverse the damage of his stupid trade war.
“.. Japanese officials said the message was worrying: the president didn’t want friction over Taiwan to endanger a detente reached last month with Xi, which includes a promise to buy more agricultural products from American farmers ..”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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www.wsj.com/world/china/...
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Called it: Trump is going to *give* China Taiwan (no, Taiwan is not his to give) in an attempt to reverse the damage of his stupid trade war.
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ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
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First 4 eps of Stranger Things s5 are up now. The “kids” all look way too old, and the formula is clear by now, but these eps feel less bloated and more engaging than s4. My spoiler free review:
Review: 'Stranger Things' stays close to home for final season
Yes, the "kids" all look too old, but the Netflix hit still has its moments
www.whatsalanwatching.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
First 4 eps of Stranger Things s5 are up now. The “kids” all look way too old, and the formula is clear by now, but these eps feel less bloated and more engaging than s4. My spoiler free review:
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The White House is going to be haunted *so hard* by the ghosts of Andrea Palladio, Lord Burlington, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Follen McKim.
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The White House is going to be haunted *so hard* by the ghosts of Andrea Palladio, Lord Burlington, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Follen McKim.