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I feel like every few years people find out that Jon Stewart is kind of mean and sucks, and it's always a big deal, but in all honesty these traits (being mean; sucking) are shared by 98% of professional comedians
December 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I feel like every few years people find out that Jon Stewart is kind of mean and sucks, and it's always a big deal, but in all honesty these traits (being mean; sucking) are shared by 98% of professional comedians
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This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88
December 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.
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Once again, concentration camps.
Private prison company GEO Group allegedly made immigration detainees work for no pay. Now it's at the Supreme Court trying to prevent the detainees from suing. bit.ly/4pfafj2
Supreme Court Considers Private Prison Case
A private prison company seeks a ruling that could help all government contractors evade liability.
www.brennancenter.org
December 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Once again, concentration camps.
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in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.
December 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.
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I remember the guy who stealthed me started crying when I realized what he had done and yelled at him. It made me feel terrible and I comforted him, even though he was the one who had just raped me. I know there are probably millions of people with similar stories.
December 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I remember the guy who stealthed me started crying when I realized what he had done and yelled at him. It made me feel terrible and I comforted him, even though he was the one who had just raped me. I know there are probably millions of people with similar stories.
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It's remarkable how insane how American municipal and state tax structures are tbh
The year is 2035. California's entire base of taxation is young renters and their entire budget goes to insuring suburban McMansions built in fire hazard regions. Half of Florida is underwater financially and the other half literally. Illinois is fine but still fucks up transit funding constantly.
December 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
It's remarkable how insane how American municipal and state tax structures are tbh
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Got called “carceral” for this which means it’s time to lay my favorite game: does this person not know the difference between civil and criminal law, or do they simply think that “carceral” is a magic word that delegitimizes all feminist resistance to sexual abuse?
These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Got called “carceral” for this which means it’s time to lay my favorite game: does this person not know the difference between civil and criminal law, or do they simply think that “carceral” is a magic word that delegitimizes all feminist resistance to sexual abuse?
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My mother died of Covid complications this year. She not only refused to believe Covid was ‘that serious’ she also refused to mask when people visited her at our home in India.
Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.
Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.
Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
December 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My mother died of Covid complications this year. She not only refused to believe Covid was ‘that serious’ she also refused to mask when people visited her at our home in India.
Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.
Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.
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In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.
December 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.
I acknowledge her cinematic influence, I don't know if I'd "celebrate" someone who was a straight up Nazi.
December 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I acknowledge her cinematic influence, I don't know if I'd "celebrate" someone who was a straight up Nazi.
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It continues to be important to say that there is still no ethical use of "AI".
matthewcheney.net/blog/there-i...
matthewcheney.net/blog/there-i...
There Is (Still) No Ethical Use of AI
In March 2024, I wrote a post declaring “There Is No Ethical Use of AI”. My point was not that you should not use AI. Personally, I try never to use it, but it’s getting more and more difficult as so ...
matthewcheney.net
December 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It continues to be important to say that there is still no ethical use of "AI".
matthewcheney.net/blog/there-i...
matthewcheney.net/blog/there-i...
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In fairness, there might have been a guy making problematic rape comments on Reddit that he needed to defend
When does the perfect become the enemy of the good? And how does that calculus change when the lives of cancer-stricken children are on the line?
www.thebulwark.com/p/pediatric-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/pediatric-...
A Pediatric Cancer Bill Fell One Vote Short. Bernie Cast It.
The Vermont senator is holding out for a bigger health care package. Advocates are asking: Is the price worth it?
www.thebulwark.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In fairness, there might have been a guy making problematic rape comments on Reddit that he needed to defend
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I can't stress enough how legal it should be to throw people listening to music without headphones off the train while it is in motion.
December 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I can't stress enough how legal it should be to throw people listening to music without headphones off the train while it is in motion.
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Lavish socialism for the entitled motorists, and "rugged individualism" for the transit riders.
We use public funds to clear the path for private machines, but tell other people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps through a three-foot snowbank.
We use public funds to clear the path for private machines, but tell other people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps through a three-foot snowbank.
I know the 38 isn’t the route with the highest ridership, but dang if this isn’t a ridiculously inaccessible stop.
December 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Lavish socialism for the entitled motorists, and "rugged individualism" for the transit riders.
We use public funds to clear the path for private machines, but tell other people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps through a three-foot snowbank.
We use public funds to clear the path for private machines, but tell other people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps through a three-foot snowbank.
This drives me nuts.
I am open to hearing why I’m wrong about this but I find it cruel when tenured academics get on here and crow about their upcoming sabbaticals, invited talks lined up and so on. We should all be proud of our successes, but now, as most of our colleagues hustle to make ends meet, it’s just…icky?
December 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This drives me nuts.
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Me, a week ago: I am sure 6-7 annoys parents, but children have always constructed a shared language outside of adult society. This is necessary! Good for them!
Me, after spending the holidays with a bunch of niblings between 5 and 14: I am calling on the United Nations to ban the numbers 6 and 7.
Me, after spending the holidays with a bunch of niblings between 5 and 14: I am calling on the United Nations to ban the numbers 6 and 7.
December 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Me, a week ago: I am sure 6-7 annoys parents, but children have always constructed a shared language outside of adult society. This is necessary! Good for them!
Me, after spending the holidays with a bunch of niblings between 5 and 14: I am calling on the United Nations to ban the numbers 6 and 7.
Me, after spending the holidays with a bunch of niblings between 5 and 14: I am calling on the United Nations to ban the numbers 6 and 7.
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Saw "Meet Me in St. Louis" in the theater, and someone shouted "We love you, Judy!" at the end.❤️
December 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Saw "Meet Me in St. Louis" in the theater, and someone shouted "We love you, Judy!" at the end.❤️
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Star Wars had its UK premiere in London on this day in 1977. When and where did you first see it?
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December 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Star Wars had its UK premiere in London on this day in 1977. When and where did you first see it?
LastExitToNowhere.com
LastExitToNowhere.com
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Good afternoon from my favorite park in Seattle.
December 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Good afternoon from my favorite park in Seattle.
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A type of practice that I find interesting historically is the rigorously untrue. Astrology, for instance, was often a very tightly defined practice with a seriously requirement of learning: it just wasn’t actually real.
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A type of practice that I find interesting historically is the rigorously untrue. Astrology, for instance, was often a very tightly defined practice with a seriously requirement of learning: it just wasn’t actually real.
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Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
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Tonight you will be visited by the ghosts of three gender studies majors, each warning you that you’ll have to burn off in hell after death all the sins you accumulated in your futile effort to be a real man in life …
December 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Tonight you will be visited by the ghosts of three gender studies majors, each warning you that you’ll have to burn off in hell after death all the sins you accumulated in your futile effort to be a real man in life …
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This is related to the idea that if white people don't have 100% of high-prestige jobs, awards, recognition etc it's evidence of discrimination against whiteness. It's where "great replacement" logic leads you. bsky.app/profile/donm...
I see this on the right - the idea that the existence of foreign academic staff and faculty are evidence of discrimination against natives. It's not discrimination, its selection: academia is a global marketplace, the US is the biggest center of that market. So yes, some foreign talent will win.
Striking nativist editorializing by the federal judge who just upheld the $100,000 tax on high-skill immigrants.
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is related to the idea that if white people don't have 100% of high-prestige jobs, awards, recognition etc it's evidence of discrimination against whiteness. It's where "great replacement" logic leads you. bsky.app/profile/donm...