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I'm thrilled to share my new podcast at the just-launched Liberalism.org.
Now: Chandran Kukathas
Next: Elizabeth Anderson and Jacob Levy
Soon: Ed Glaeser, Simone Chambers, Melvin Rogers, Mikayla Novak, Theodore Schatzki
Listen: pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9h...
What a joke. FBI agents are not street brawlers. They interview witnesses, uncover documents, analyze intelligence, and testify in court, usually while wearing a suit and tie. Just one more frolic for Kash at taxpayer expense.
variety.com/2026/politic...
"my mom, who actually used ChatGPT to translate random things a few times, surely seems to know more about AI translation capabilities than Bender does."
he sure does seem to believe that women should perform for him or we're "smug"
Do women with expertise threaten him, I wonder?
which is why so many women recognized what Kustov was doing in those posts.
We know this.
We've experienced this endlessly in academia.
For what it's worth the story is also about finding out that against all odds, you're gonna make it after all. I hope you give it a read. slate.com/life/2026/03...
I had gone to the local ER, expecting a run-of-the-mill gallbladder removal that would have me back at work by Monday. Instead, they shipped me down to the big regional hospital in Fargo, North Dakota, where an MRI showed a gallstone, yes, but also a 9.5-centimeter tumor wrapped tightly around the main bile duct and several major blood vessels in the liver. The gastrointestinal specialist was in the room with my wife and me when the radiology report came back. I watched his face drop and his entire demeanor change as he read through it for the first time. He was an affable guy roughly the same age as me. “We just don’t see this in guys our age,” he said. I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, or cancer of the bile duct. As far as cancers go, it’s an especially brutal one: The five-year survival rate is around 10 percent, and most people diagnosed with it are dead within a year. That was going to be me. Cholangiocarcinoma is deadly in large part because it is so rare: There are only about 8,000 new cases in the U.S. each year. Cancer treatment advances patient by patient, clinical trial by clinical trial. Each patient is a new data point. When there are few data points, the science advances very slowly. “There are some chemo and radiation therapies that can slow it down a little bit, maybe buy you some extra time, but nothing that can kill it,” the GI doc explained. “The only way to cure it is to cut it out completely, either by surgically resecting the liver or doing a full-on transplant, but by the time most people are showing symptoms, it’s too late for either of those.” “Is it too late for me?” I asked. “I don’t know,” he said.
For Slate, I wrote about what it's like to get a terminal cancer diagnosis when you're 42. slate.com/life/2026/03...
Tech oligarchs don't even care about having a "quiet part" of their message anymore. They hate women, they hate democracy, and they want a surveillance state.
“He was very proud of what he did in Venezuela, but it wasn’t the unleashing of American power to its maximum. Anything is possible now. ...I think there would be no regard for either civilian casualties, for infrastructural damage, or for long-term consequence.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
“It’s particularly worrisome because you have somebody whose immorality is kind of bottomless. That is married to power that is infinite, and this is the first time we’re seeing him truly play with the instruments of American power almost to their limit."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
📌 ICYMI — Revealed: Peter Mandelson’s Russian Connections and Palantir Lobbying Links
The disgraced peer was appointed by Keir Starmer's Government despite warnings about his role on the board of a Russian defence conglomerate linked to Moscow's early-warning missile systems
<sigh>
One reviewer used AI to review our manuscript.
How do we know?
Suggested papers to cite that do not exist. Some titles correct, but everything else is wrong or just fabricated out of whole cloth.
Requested citations for things I’ve said in review papers that were citing other papers.
This is your regular reminder that Palantir is complicit in war crimes.
"...both the Israeli and U.S. militaries are using Palantir’s Maven to conduct operations. Maven is a battlefield intelligence platform." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
South Burlington, VT supplies assembled during defense of neighbor from ICE.
People lock arms in front of house in South Burlington, VT, as community members mobilize in defense of neighbor against ICE.
"...a growing crowd linked arms and formed a human chain around the building. Activists appeared prepared to stay around the building for the long haul. One person brought a charcoal grill and began to roast hot dogs..."
Vermont Anti-ICE BBQ Commune enters the chat in South Burlington.
Zack on stage at wembley.
Trans rights are human rights.
Thank you, Wembley.
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By the way, if this is true, it means Noem potentially lied under oath, or alternatively was so uninterested in the day-to-day operations of DHS that she had no clue (but that would be surprising given that the winner was a firm she’d used before.
The right wing is really knives out for Noem.
Brave lad to put that on record. A decade or so earlier, the bluesman who did this kind of stuff was J.B. Lenoir. Eisenhower Blues is a classic. youtu.be/h-whKB2GcbI?...
#LateNightBlues George "Harmonica" Smith's 1968 musical letter to Lyndon Johnson in the civil rights era...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-t...
“.. One official said the Strait of Hormuz could become an Iranian ‘kill box’ if ships start trying to pass through.
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
#BlackSkyJobs
There are many things worth more than millions of dollars. Like the land that's been in your family forever.
Tall, muscley bald white man in a black polo shirt, from which rises an impossibly long neck tattooed in black vertical stripes.
Detail from a photo by Scott McIntyre for the NYT, a man in the crowd at an event for Florida hipster fascist guv candidate James Fishback. The article is about his fascism, but I think we may need to also worry about this man's neck.
Grim reporting, and very glad to see it in Glamour
I’ve often described AIs as enormously expensive confirmation bias machines and here is Claude essentially confirming the truth to this.
We created machines that tell us what we want to hear and therefore believe they are intelligent. They might, but only when they tell us what we don’t.
"But some other Republicans say members of the Freedom Caucus… are more interested in… grandstanding than conservative policymaking. Frustrated by such tactics, Missouri Senate leaders stripped four [FC] senators… of their chairmanships AND PARKING PLACES"
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stateline.org/2024/04/02/f...
WIP. Detail.
Derwent pencil on paper.
I'm laying down very light layers of Mars violet, salmon and fossil grey, softly overlapping them to give the colors and contrasts a gauzy, hazy look.
No real pressure being put into the application. Just letting the weight of the pencils work into one another.
The city's new rationale is that it needs to build housing for the rich so that they stop renting low-income and middle-class housing. They have destroyed 4th Ave in Gowanus & are now destroying historic houses with affordable rents for more luxury high-rises.
Here we have an NYC Dem cheering as real estate developers get a big zoning exemption to build a skyscraper that is going to be just about minimally affordable. www.instagram.com/p/DVug6t5Duj...
