My immediate thoughts were:

1 - narcissism. This is a no brainer populist thing to say, and he likes the adulation.

2 - he’s being prepped to be a fall guy, and pissing off the medium rich Republicans/donors, so that he can be decried as a “socialist” (and whatever crimes in the Epstein files can thus be tied to “socialism”) when Vance takes over to be Peter Thiel’s bitchboy

Texas A&M wrongly fired a professor last year for daring to teach that there were more than two genders.

The Right is attacking the idea of academic knowledge. It’s Curtis Yarvin’s hatred of the “cathedrals.”

This is supposedly a face picture.

Edit: this second photo was apparently AI.

If corporations are people, shouldn’t creating/generating CSAM be enough to receive some sort of punishment/consequence?

How many teenage girls have killed themselves due to bullying facilitated by “AI”?

Isn’t this kinda omitting the fact Pu Yi ruled Manchukuo before the whole “reeducation camp” thing?

Still interesting to ask about that dent’s shape. We could think about how the chemistry of the material composing it/the way it weathered, or approach it as a micro biome where an entire ecological niche is carved out around going from rain puddle to rain puddle. If the puddle is in concrete, we can talk about issues of equity - do some neighborhoods have different shapes of puddle (eg, how well does the city maintain different neighborhood’s infrastructure.)

We can accept that the outlines of our puddle are stochastic and arbitrary, but that doesn’t mean we can’t marvel at tracing out its shape.

They’ve already massively cut off funding for public outreach, and a lot of firings across the board. This administration has absolutely fucked over NASA already.

This study is taking place in West Africa. They are denying children Hep B vaccinations when something like a tenth of the population has Hep B.

This is like the Tuskegee study, but worse.

I like the classic Usenet “Micro$oft.” Producers of Microshaft Wind-blows.