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The infant death rate of Sweden in the 1920s is today only approached in the congo

people are acting like this is about AI bots hacking into people's bank accounts but it's actually about people who have given their AI agents access to their computer on purpose

I mean except for the part where we have no good place to launch a ground force invasion from, no equipment or personnel in place to do so, and would have to activate pretty much the entire Reserve and National Guard force to actually hold the country..... sure.

The Saudi military is a decades long experiment that asks "can an enormous pile of money buy a competent military?" and the answer is "absolutely fucking not"

“Playing at bigotry creates an environment for it, whatever our intentions may be.”

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Worth noting that the article's argument that Musk's investment in X "paid for itself" isn't that the site generates profits. It's that it enabled him to pump up the value of his SpaceX IPO.

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

this is a great idea

My kingdom for a politician that points out that seeking asylum is perfectly legal, and that a country offering it is not only good but an obligation.

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The rule is: If you have talent, you have to focus on that talent instead of offering opinions on politics. If you don’t have talent, opine away.

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

The consequence of MAGA’s destruction of the USG’s data collection capabilities will become apparent only when a terrible thing happens (that could have been prevented had the data continued to be collected)—as when a man who has torn his eyes out gets run over by a car prospect.org/2026/10/05/a...

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

The children are scared and it’s your fault hope that helps

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

I’m not sure why we are giving Steve Bannon credit as a “thinker” on AI, when he’s just a guy who will bang any trash can lid in sight.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

#sciart

i both think the cognitive offloading thing is real & in some circumstances harmful & also in other ones *the whole point* of technology. for the last ~15 years you have most likely 'cognitively offloaded' having to remember everyone's phone number to your contacts app. are you poorer for it?

Massholes? More like

"Our founders took years of experience in casino design and timeshare sales and swaddled them together into a first-of-its-kind solution that asks: Do poor people deserve to have kids?" buff.ly/stGSoST

As always, if you don't want to become a nazi bar, don't allow nazis, not even polite ones.

Maryland may have the most visually appealing gradient. I love how orderly it is.

If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …

Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence

In a sense, expertise had created a gap in the political market: We’d been doing more-or-less smart things for so long, there was a lot of unmet demand for terrible ideas in an electorate with no direct memory of why they’re terrible.

The Boat Strikes Are Murder www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

It turns out that inserting a tech based rentier into every human interaction is a truly terrible way to run a society and it's making everyone not named Musk or Zuck miserable