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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H.L. Mencken
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With all due respect to Cavafy, it now seems clear that the barbarians were a really bad kind of solution.
I cannot imagine having a small enough penis to want to tweet this.
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I cannot imagine having a small enough penis to want to tweet this.
Why anybody pays attention to this pinheaded moron anymore is beyond me. In the olden days, people with this skull type were thrown onto the trash heaps at infancy.
It's pretty funny how the Silicon Valley tech bros have all suddenly decided that the actual Pope is the villain in their little narrative. sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/m...
Marc Andreessen v. the pope: VC starts meme-war with Leo XIV
The venture capitalist quickly deleted his social media posts mocking the pontiff’s call to build moral AI.
sfstandard.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Why anybody pays attention to this pinheaded moron anymore is beyond me. In the olden days, people with this skull type were thrown onto the trash heaps at infancy.
Country music sucks ass. I am glad America is finding this out.
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Country music sucks ass. I am glad America is finding this out.
Stop asking the confused, addled old man substantive questions. He has no idea what is going on.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Stop asking the confused, addled old man substantive questions. He has no idea what is going on.
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
Good. Keep up the pressure, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social.
Mark Kelly: "We have a president who doesn't understand the Constitution, who installed an unqualified secretary of defense. I cannot think of a secretary of defense in the history of our country that is less qualified than Pete Hegseth. He should've been fired after Signal-gate."
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Good. Keep up the pressure, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social.
Frankly, LSU is not a university. It is a college football franchise married to a Greek society party circuit.
LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?
SOURCES: Lane Kiffin is expected to accept LSU's offer to become the Tigers next head coach. Kiffin is set to meet with his Ole Miss team this morning at 9 AM CT. As we reported yesterday morning, LSU has been very confident it was going to land Kiffin. www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Frankly, LSU is not a university. It is a college football franchise married to a Greek society party circuit.
That JSOC admiral is gonna hang.
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
That JSOC admiral is gonna hang.
Deport all three of them.
Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Deport all three of them.
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One of the real bummers about technology today: Even in cases where engagement and attention isn’t driving product, nobody seems to care about details.
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One of the real bummers about technology today: Even in cases where engagement and attention isn’t driving product, nobody seems to care about details.
I guarantee you at least one of the 10,000 victims of his fraud owns a gun. This is just statistics.
$1.6bln: The amount of his fraud scheme
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
7: Years of his sentence
10,000: Victims of his fraud
1,000: Letters from victims to the court
13: Days he served
1: Pardon from Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I guarantee you at least one of the 10,000 victims of his fraud owns a gun. This is just statistics.
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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Interesting new paper by Ned Block, exploring the implications if subcomputational biological mechanisms turn out to be necessary for consciousness (the entertainingly named "meat hypothesis")
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Can only meat machines be conscious?
Computational functionalism claims that executing certain computations is sufficient
for consciousness, regardless of the physical mechanisms implementing those computations.
This view neglects a comp...
www.cell.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Interesting new paper by Ned Block, exploring the implications if subcomputational biological mechanisms turn out to be necessary for consciousness (the entertainingly named "meat hypothesis")
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
For non-playgoers/readers who are Tom Stoppard-curious, I can recommend the movie Shakespeare in Love. He won an Oscar for that screenplay, and it has his wit and emotion throughout.
November 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
For non-playgoers/readers who are Tom Stoppard-curious, I can recommend the movie Shakespeare in Love. He won an Oscar for that screenplay, and it has his wit and emotion throughout.
People like that are incomprehensible to me. It’s not like most books are a scarce resource. And as far as I’m concerned, the more books I have at home the less I have to compete for them with other readers at the library.
Really appreciate the person who responded to this by scolding me that books belong in a library not a home, whose post was up for about 30 seconds before they (apparently?) thought better of it and deleted it. I donate tons of books every year to my library. But I keep some...
I am a strong believer that every household bookshelf should have a Tom Stoppard section. RIP.
November 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
People like that are incomprehensible to me. It’s not like most books are a scarce resource. And as far as I’m concerned, the more books I have at home the less I have to compete for them with other readers at the library.
Sounds like management consulting firms have the most to fear from corporate adoption of AI. 🤨
I'm amazed senior leaders would find a use for something whose primary response is mindlessly agreeing with what one suggests.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Sounds like management consulting firms have the most to fear from corporate adoption of AI. 🤨
Time to reread Arcadia.
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Time to reread Arcadia.
Why do evangelical losers like this even go to college? According to her logic, she should marry the youth pastor in her Sunday school class and start pushing out babies immediately after high school.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Why do evangelical losers like this even go to college? According to her logic, she should marry the youth pastor in her Sunday school class and start pushing out babies immediately after high school.
Any large corporation—particularly those with public shareholder bases and/or extensive government relations—is going to be extremely conscious of the fact that Administrations are temporary and is not going to want to compromise its future by excessively chasing favor in the present.
Wow: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon seems to think that companies involved with Trump's ballroom project could be criminally prosecuted. thehill.com/business/559...
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Any large corporation—particularly those with public shareholder bases and/or extensive government relations—is going to be extremely conscious of the fact that Administrations are temporary and is not going to want to compromise its future by excessively chasing favor in the present.
So, at a minimum, JSOC chief Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley should be tried and hanged. It remains to be seen whether Hegseth can join him on the scaffold. www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
So, at a minimum, JSOC chief Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley should be tried and hanged. It remains to be seen whether Hegseth can join him on the scaffold. www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
It does seem like the state redistricting push from the White House is identifying those very few Republican politicians who have some level of integrity. Turns out, they’re all at the state level.
Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It does seem like the state redistricting push from the White House is identifying those very few Republican politicians who have some level of integrity. Turns out, they’re all at the state level.
Pete Hegseth will absolutely break down in blubbering terror and self pity when he is convicted of war crimes and/or murder. I look forward to watching that on television.
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Pete Hegseth will absolutely break down in blubbering terror and self pity when he is convicted of war crimes and/or murder. I look forward to watching that on television.