Paul - fishing and stuff

Ok, note to self, Lorazepam for breakfast

…good.

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

Christ, this thing reads like a surrender document. I guess that's exactly what happened.

There’s no reason to think Mythos/Fable is the most powerful model out there. Would be better for it to be usefully employed tracking down problems than sitting idle while some state actor uses its own version to find zero-days… Then again, we’re the bad guys in this scenario so nvm I guess

I hate Wordlebot. It CLEARLY shows us how many people are cheating as early as turn 2. I mean wtf people, have some self respect for gods sake. Personally I never cheat at this game until turn 5 or maybe 4 or 3 at the absolute earliest

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Incredibly dystopian timeline. I do not understand how we are tolerating the sort of condescending, royalist bullshit emanating from our political class being aimed at our friends and neighbors. Sic semper tyrannis.

GURD YADSENDEW

ICE goons left a 13-year-old boy on the sidewalk after arresting the person he was with during a vehicle stop.

When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

This is sneaky privatization. This has always been available, for free, on NASA TV (now NASA+, still free) plus.nasa.gov We’ll see how much longer that lasts…but I’m not feeling optimistic

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

For decades, Iran has been "months away" from building The Bomb, enjoying the benefits of nuclear deterrence without having actually go to the trouble and expense of building and maintaining the goddamn thing. But now? They'd be utterly irrational NOT to build it. Donald Trump is a fucking moron.

“Nobody is talking to Hegseth.” So, as we teeter on the edge of war with Iran, we learn that the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the commander of U.S. Central Command, are brushing aside …. our Secretary of Defense. Free link wapo.st/4n6OyBh

Fuck you, JD Vance.

This is where we're headed.

Uhh...

Yeah, let's please not forget why we're here right now.

fact check.

THIS x 1,000,000. Honestly I don’t know who this person is (this clip popped up on social media) but I would vote for them tomorrow.

A child’s life and home, taken away overnight by Trump’s cruel and inhumane mass deportation policy. This is not who we are as a country.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

We feed you. They hunt us.

Grossly escalatory and illegal Sunday Noem letter to Hegseth requested DoD give "direction to DoD forces to either detain, just as they would at any federal facility guarded by military, lawbreakers under Title 18 until they can be arrested and processed by federal law enforcement, or arrest them."

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

Let’s be very clear: Los Angeles is the perfect place for this to play out for the Trumpists. The Trumpists hate California and hate Los Angeles and a vast amount of their base feels the same — even the Trumpists here, who wallow in hating the place they live. /1

WATCH: @katmabu.bsky.social blows Jennings’ mind by saying “everyone deserves health care” Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll

How many barrels of ink are being spilled tonight on this bullshit, I'd like to know?

It's not surprising, really, but goddamn

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Georgia high school production of "The Crucible" is canceled after parent complaints that it "was demonic and disgusting." @hesherman.bsky.social: "the play about witch hunts, about the persecution of people out of hysteria...had provoked the same moral persecution it portrayed as unjust."

Where Did All Those Brave Free Speech Warriors Go? Since the start of the Trump administration, many of our biggest concerns about how MAGA would attack free speech have not only proven true, but have turned out to be understated. Nearly all parts of the administration are seeking to silence…

The entire Right gets on my nerves more often than not In a way that's hard to pinpoint down to one cause and isn't reducible to Trump (who's doing some reasonable things and some terrible things). Other factors: 1. The rise of racism, esp. the IQ/eugenic variety. Always there, now *overt*. 1/x

"And with your motherfuckin spirit"

Pope Ditka the First

NO SHIT

I think the reason society feels kind of directionless is that our stories around where we’re heading are oscillating between a sort of toxic, dehumanizing futurism and fetishistic trad wife regressivism. We need better North Stars.

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

“You cannot appeal to shared norms when the other side sees norms as tools to be gamed. You cannot assume diplomacy is about trust when the training teaches distrust as doctrine.” www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/i...

What the fuck, man.

“Not a provocative thinker.” — Matt Yglesias on Matt Yglesias 🤌

The losses expected by cuts in the IRS are more than twice the annual compensation to all federal workers. Trump is cutting important services to the American people and making us pay for it.

Total federal spending is up +8% in 2025 year-to-date on April 9 over 2024. The illusion that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere. Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.

Ideas.

Fama-French are going to have to add another term to account for deliberate destruction.

THE WORST DEFENSE OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS: I wrote in the newsletter today about how annoying it is to hear people talk about how we need these tariffs to reindustrialize and counter China in high tech manufacturing. We were literally just doing that! Sub here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

Next time maybe you'll listen to Cassandra, you idiot.