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Microwaving is the best way to cook corn. It steams in the husk w/o boiling away sugars, the silk slides off w/o having to be picked off in strands & anyone watching is impressed AF. Up to 3 fit in a triangle at once. Use 3-4 minutes an ear, rotating them along their axis once so they cook evenly.

Elsevier claimed they should get 88% of the Anthropic settlement for an academic book I coedited in the mid-90s, with me, my coauthor, and Academic press entitled to 4% each. Elsevier's sole involvement was having bought Academic press years after publication.

oh got it yeah no i was worried it might be something weird

I can't really believe it but it seems to be the case that the Times has not covered a credible accusation of rape against the President of the United States, but has two solid stories on Obama's cheesecake factory quip.

It's amazing how editors will say "we can't see inside this public figure's mind," "we can't assume their intentions" — and then write stuff like this.

I own a Googlebook and a MacBook Air. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but which is the one I will reach for when it's time for me to take a trip? The answer may (but really probably will not) surprise you: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/27/f...

a 2028 election win means we could extradite flavio so he’ll probably try to flee the US at that point and the whole thing will be extra funny

This is the most clear-cut defamation suit between two public figures I've ever seen, especially with the retraction demand, and weeks passing with nothing after a response from Scott's counsel. It's not *quite* enough for Hasan to win an offensive dispositive motion, but it's close.

my default on defamation suits is also that they will all fail because actual malice is an incredibly high bar to reach but hasan might have a shot with this one, it seems pretty bad it probably still fails, I'll let the lawyers chime in, but...

The Cheesecake Factory chain is apparently experiencing an influx of new customers from the performative MAGA cult. Thoughts and prayers to its servers as they watch their tips nose-dive.

People who hate any group of women will hate all women

I grew up during the long 90s tail of satanic panic in an extremely culty church town and my spider senses are tingling with this tech bro talk. Once you see patterns, you can’t unsee them.

The appropriation of social justice and disability activist language by big tech parallels the way fundamentalist religious groups will appropriate and twist scripture to condemn and control. Their side is not just good, it is righteous.

this remains, to me, the single most baffling thing that happens regularly I know it’s a power thing, but how the fuck are SO MANY dudes apparently sending unsolicited dick pictures 24/7 what is wrong with men

research your local elections! the reason I haven’t turned in my ballot yet is that my wife and I are still talking to folks about some local city council and school board stuff! local things matter even if you can’t vote in a national swing race

regardless of whether you think the polls are right, the polls are wrong in favor of republicans, the polls are wrong in favor of democrats, or you just want all of us to shut up about polls, I hope we can all agree on one thing show up and vote to put these dipshits in an electoral dumpster

I mean look at this magnificent bastard, how could you not love him every time he was on screen

the thing that makes Bester work is that he truly believes he's right and he's doing the best thing for telepaths, he genuinely means it and Koenig sold the hell out of it

New evergreen just dropped.

One billion dollars and he can't even get a halfway decent therapist. Tsk tsk.

Listen, when I said the tent was big enough for all of us, this is not what the fuck I meant. Thanks for the publicity or whatever, but Neo-nazis need not apply.

Pure racist ignorance proudly displayed in public. That’s the GOP now. Yes, it’s different! They used to use code words.

1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

It’s been the party of rape for a long long time now. Of course some Democratic politicians are probably predators too, but they keep it a secret and would resign in disgrace if caught- not make attacking women’s protections and autonomy and demeaning women their central policy priority.

Reverend Wright “scandal” anyone? Worst media campaign to bury a candidate I ever saw until the Biden June 2024 deluge. So much nonsense that could end the second you went to find the sermon and heard the whole thing not just the two second soundbite.

On a serious note, the number of slop books clogging the history selection is truly depressing. Any keyword you can think of, there is a self-published book with suspiciously waxy AI cover art ready to teach you about that exact thing.

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

their relationship began when she started cheating on her second husband with sean. he told his priest he wanted to marry his mistress, priest said no way, so he left the church. but sure. “faith and family” as the foundation. 👍

This is "smell your own fart" levels of smug intellectualism. Absolute wrecker bullshit on the eve of the midterms, like they have done something important. I will block anyone who puts content from this outlet on my TL going forward.

Apparently the rule is that putting a finger on the scale is only permitted when it HELPS Trump.

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

The allegations against Donald Trump for sexual assault seem to have a common denominator: He is physically violent and intentionally inflicts pain on his victims. He likes to slam women and girls up against doors and walls as he roughly manhandles them. Donald Trump is a sick and twisted person.

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correct states further down the path of autocracy than us have had those autocracies overthrown by sufficiently large voting numbers recently we can do it here too

Even if a DEM Cong codified guardrails, SCOTUS dominated by corrupt conservative ideologues wld "originalism" a justification for invalidating all/part of pro-democracy laws. Until Cong reins in SCOTUS, SCOTUS will assert judicial review & use pure instrumental dogmatic reasoning for partisan ends.

Trump and Co. will try to steal the midterms. They're already trying. Gerrymandering, bad faith lawsuits, voter intimidation, and a whole lot of lies. But they don't have a genius secret plan. They're already doing whatever they can think of. And it's beatable. Shouldn't have to, but here we are.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."