That was my first thought
07.03.2026 02:59
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That was my first thought
While the surge of federal agents in the Twin Cities grabbed much of the attention the past few months, stories of children hiding at home, crying in class and being detained have quietly gripped some Minnesota small towns since January.
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."
what the fuck are we doing
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This is the kind of “leader” that historically views “glory and honor” as the amount of casualties racked up.
Absolutely unfit to lead a drunken conga line, let alone this nation.
continuing the tradition of awkward April 15ths since 2004 (but this might be the most egregious)
In a new TIME interview, Trump casually acknowledged Americans could face retaliatory attacks at home due to his escalating war with Iran. “I guess,” he said when asked about the risk, adding: “When you go to war, some people will die.” time.com/7382697/trum...
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Asked if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating against Americans on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump responded, “I guess.”
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Machines do not have vibes. As such, they cannot write, only produce text.
Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein. The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude” www.science.org/content/arti...
Lou Holtz was fired as head coach at Arkansas because he kept taping campaign ads for Jesse Helms.
He was too racist for Arkansas. In 1983.
So @mlb.com is supportive of the Rangers putting up a statue in homage/honor of a segregationist
Texas Ranger E.J. “Jay” Banks in the 1950s
The statue, by the way, is of the cop seen in the below photo, Jay Banks. He's standing in front of a school with a dummy of a Black person hanged in effigy. His mission: to prevent Black students from enrolling. A mob formed to attack Black people if they tried. The cop supported the mob.
The statue is modeled after a 1950s Texas Ranger who fought to keep schools segregated. The pose of the statue was taken from an image of him standing at a school, alongside a white mob and with a Black man hanging in effigy.
Fuck the Rangers.
If you're able to run for office, any office, do it.
Obviously, you'd be better at it than the current pack of assholes.
If you love America, BE the random group of people.
A Starbucks manager blows up after being called out by customers for barista harassment and union-busting 😳
THIS is what solidarity looks like!
paternal grandpa was a 3rd generation farmer in north central Kansas
maternal grandpa was a WWII bomber vet who became a teacher in Kansas
As someone who works in a university, I am genuinely blown away by the number of people who want to exist in academia without having to think or write.
People don't go to the gym because those freeweights can only be lifted by human arms.
Asking AI to do your thinking for you will make you stupid.
Posting this video I made about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton I originally made back in 2023 for no reason whatsoever definitely don’t share it around the interwebs 🙃
you can tell that this isn't a real problem, because if it was this would be written by someone it happened to and not someone who it didn't happen to saying "but if it did that would have sucked."
Here's the clip!
Evil & depraved
I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.
Healthy scratch?
Hahaha
Does anyone else remember this from the Bush administration? I seem to specifically remember Gale Norton thinking that we were supposed to "use up" all earth's resources before Jesus returned or some shit, but I can't find anything about it.
I'm certain I remember hearing about it, though.
Even *if* machines could do these jobs better than humans, why would we want them to? If we outsource intellectual curiosity and critical thinking to machines, what is left of the human?
As one of my students frequently tells me, “unbridled convenience rots the soul”
If you define "research" as, say, producing scatter plots or sorting quantitative data faster than a human could, well...is that really research? Or is it processing? "Using google maps" is different than "taking a vacation."
There's a fundamental attribution error here: does AI actually "do" research? It's an automated pattern-recognition, algorithm-drivem machine learning tool. It can't think, and anything it produces resembling "research" is in spite of, rather than because of, the way it's constructed.
