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13.12.2025 03:34
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This is a useful post to understand how scrolling is akin to gambling, with immeasurable loss, compared with some gain that makes the cost-benefit equation lopsided...
I'll take a break from here and follow a few of you on your stacks, blogs, etc.
The Circassian proverb that got a Turkish journalist arrested and charged:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedef_K...
Had heard this one, however: "Eşeğe altın semer vursan da eşek eşektir." It's unfair to donkeys, but it's there...
Had never heard of this one before...
And the prices seem just normal...
My partner is at an epic vegan lunch in Beijing, where a robot is bringing some of the dishes...
No Kings-Chicago, IL
Why Referee 2, who is an expert with knowledge of decades of research that preceded the paper they're reviewing, is often grouchy...
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If I were the social planner, the next Nobel Prize in Economics would be awarded to Samuel Bowles, Glenn Loury, and John Roemer. Their work is foundational to the modern study of inequality, addressing normative and positive dimensions of inequality with profound insight.
This is a good paragraph by Marie Harf:
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Like Twitter, I only see things from (or about) it without actually being there...
I was doing a NYT crossword puzzle where T3 was a clue, so I got to wondering about the link between the novel and Shakespeare, which led me to all this info, which is obviously old but new to me...
Can't go on sites like Goodreads because of 1-star reviews of books saying only "Zionist author"...
I found out today about the controversy surrounding Gabrielle Zevin re: her lifting a game for her book without credit and charges of Zionism. So glad I had no clue about these when I was reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow...
And yet Google Maps is allowed to keep telling me that police are ahead
Funny, because people who are not big Tay fans on my TL enjoying this album more than the Swifties...
One day you're minding your own business as the director of a library and museum no one has heard of, the next one you're out of a job because the crybaby dictator didn't get what he wanted from your museum...
The most random job firing ever.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.
“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”
"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."
At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem
Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
Ranking Member Jamie Raskin Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference September 16, 2025 Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation. Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time. Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost. Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..." And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma. First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or "irregardless. "
But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I. The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny. The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us? The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed." That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed. A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme.
Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%). The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration. But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.
This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.
democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
I have never in my life felt as ashamed of the settler state of New Zealand as I am today. #FreePalestineNow
Five books on a couch: The Arrogant Ape, The Season, A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering, Audition, and Three Bags Full.
Nice to have birthdays like this🥰
This is truly the bizarro world, where people who are triggered now are the same people who didn't believe in getting triggered a minute ago, calling them snowflakes...
It's also the thing to do when your chilli plant goes bonkers at the end of the season and you have way too many. This and making fermented hot sauce, of course😋
Very good...