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Can you name someone else who hasn't received the Nobel Prize, the Wolf Prize, or the Fields Prize?

Another South American who overcame overwhelming odds to defeat right-wing totalitarians:

In 1992 Pat Buchanan delivered a speech calling for "cultural war" against his enemies. It was a diamond bullet and I realized he was talking about people like me. 34 years later, it's the same war, just aimed at different targets. The culture warriors can't be sated, only defeated.

This is literally the absolutely least bad project the techbros could imagine. Let the bros cook.

Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room.

ICE and Border Patrol agents need to face consequences for these abuses. If the Democrats get a trifecta in 2028, they need to pass a law allowing civil lawsuits against individual agents and release the full case files.

Uh….. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

Is it good when your quote posts outnumber your likes?

Trump was a famous fan of the midget wrestling league which went bankrupt back in 2005 after 42 wrestlers died when a match went wrong in Cambodia.

I think it's funny this guy gets no engagement here.

Brando in a famous clip, declined to respond when Connie Chung asked him what he thought about being considered the greatest actor. He calls the obsession with greatness "a sickness" of American society. He didn't like the thought process and wasn't going to do it. youtu.be/fgvMPUcw_2Q

Imagine an American newspaper publishing this in 2026. Accusing 7 Army officers and 4 civilians of criminal misconduct and ending it "Let them dare, then, to bring me before a court of law and let the enquiry take place in broad daylight!" Ours is a nation of shallow cowards.

really neat Venn diagram of currently circulating PJ2.1 variants

In 2002, English writer Rory Steward walked across most of Afghanistan, and wrote a book about it - The Spaces in Between. He describes illiterate people that couldn't read Arabic but would recite the Koran from memory without understanding the words they were reciting.

It turns out Marx was right. Utilitarianism truly is a genius of bourgeois stupidity.

Won't anyone think about how (gestures at everything) affects the Heritage Foundation?

it would be a good opportunity to pick up some n95s if things start to get hairy. They were unobtainable for months in 2020.

The Kennedy was notable for poor health, both physical and mental. It makes me wonder which Kennedy genes Russell Brand admires.

The USA Today was not a prestigious paper like NYT or WaPo. Nevertheless they seemed to play things pretty straight while the prestige papers folded. I'm not so sure now.

All of this would be cleared up rather quickly if we could get Sam Alito together with Isaac Chotiner for an interview.

Vermule is such a Carl Schmitt fanboy.

ZeiSquirrel was unhinged but this is completely unhinged

I suggest the TSA get used to standing all day because in the conservative project chairs are for people of a higher social station.

We harvested 8 lb. 2 oz. (3.69 kilos) of balsamroot seed for our restoration plantings this fall. If you tried to buy this seed commercially, it would cost around $800. But because the people doing the work are part of the LGBTQ+ community, you won't hear any recognition of ...

Books have certain belong to the time in a way that AI can't fill. Would a 1939 German allegory of a vicious despot that devastates his neighbors be the same or its opening advice count as much from a piece of silicon?

I would highly recommend reading Greenwald's past involvement with actual Nazis for those unfamiliar with his past. x.com/P_Kallioniem...

Make it make sense.

I know it pales in comparison with heading the Foreign Service in Austria Hungary during its adventurism in the Balkans and WW1, but I feel like Leopold Anton Johann Sigismund Josef Korsinus Ferdinand had too many names.

Straight line from 19th century "I'm going to invent a cracker so bland it cures beating off" to some Bluesky posters.

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Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

This is like something that JG Ballard might have imagined. A self contained prep school where the administrators mold teenagers into hierarchical societies through reward and punishment.

Ban Flock.

I believe in the sticky toffee pudding definition of Englishness. bsky.app/profile/waff...

I don't like the "Trump take BBQ". Not that they aren't funny, or partially true, but America has seen five decades of conservative denialism about the consequences of the fossil fuel economy. In short cattle are not economic in our increasingly arid west.

2/n: Banning diesel exports would *temporarily* provide some price relief for most of the country, but not for New England. Because pipelines don't run that far north, PADD 1A has to import large amounts of diesel, which means it's competing with a (structurally short diesel) Europe for barrels

Yabloko was the only Russian party that campaigned for peace with Ukraine. It was removed from the ballot. Local representatives arrested on fabricated charges. What should that tell Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner about Putin's assurance he wants peace? BBC: 1/2