Adam Stiber

@JennPellegrino Oy gevalt

I can't believe this is real. The Chancellor of UC San Francisco testified under oath that a "vast majority of pregnancies are in women." Implying some pregnancies occur in men. When asked directly whether a non-biological woman has ever had a baby, he refused to answer. This is the head of one of the top medical schools in the country.

@ericneyman Counterpoint tho haters gonna hate

This should be unacceptable, and I think less of the protest organizers for allowing this sign.

@BastDoug @AXECOP @fandompulse Little Longhouse on the Prairie

@AXECOP @fandompulse How the West was Managed.

Little House on the Prairie showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine on why she rebuilt the frontier classic around a new lens: "I think a lot of our pop culture portrays the West as men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence and posturing, but that is just not how it was settled... We really are trying to do a show that does not fall back on tropes of sort of masculinity." Is a story about settling the American frontier supposed to avoid masculinity?

@AutismCapital @levelsio Palantir manifesto

@levelsio How they want you to live

How you should live - giant glass windows to get sunlight - AC to cool to perfect temperatures - healthy meats, vegetables and fruits (whole foods) - work in your own optimal space - exercise as your medication

@JenniferSey @nytimes With much hemming and hawing

An oped in today's @nytimes "There are two sexes: men and women. A man can claim an identity as a woman, and the same in reverse for a woman ... Their claim does not, however, alter their biological sex..."

@Noahpinion @jimpeiko Should avoid mandates going forward so post-mandate governments banning will be less in demand

@jimpeiko Hell yeah it's me. We invented miracle technologies, and I would prefer the government not ban those technologies.

Bruh. We have vaccines for cancer now. Electric cars and solar power are saving us from climate change. Small countries can defend themselves against empires thanks to drones. Taxis drive themselves now. People with cystic fibrosis live to 65 instead of 25. YOU HAVE DEPRESSION.

@HistoryBoomer NYT wouldn’t know a backbone if one fell on them

Edsall says he's "queasy" at making these suggestions. I think that's a mistake. I'm not sure if he means queasy about compromising his values or queasy about facing a pile-on from activists, but if you're going to make these cases, you need to be unapologetic, not queasy. 2/

Thomas Edsall saying Dems need to get tougher on immigration and crime, and be clear that there are two sexes, and while trans people need their rights protected, that does not include playing on women's teams or being in prison alongside women. This is gonna get some heat! 1/

@IterIntellectus @pmarca The Brandonzeit

moral fashion doesnt have election-shaped cliffs. this is state enforced morality the chart is showing when the authoritarians took power and when they lost it

@47fucb4r8c69323 Feel like I’ve always read that more as like a reunion in The World to Come. Which is some me bringing my own baggage to the poem, though there’s also the responsory prayer thing that canto does and the general prophetic voice/pervading sense of elegy

@47fucb4r8c69323 Goddamn that ending nails what a certain kind of dream feels like

It seems to me the beat poets are being forgot to history, which really saddens me. Howl is one of the most visceral and intense works of art of the 20th century, and there were a lot of visceral works of art in that century. And what pains me is that my favorite beat poet was someone I read a lot in my teens and early twenties, he was a rather obscure figure, and for the life of me I can't remember his name except that it was Italian.

@TylerAlterman “When an emotion becomes a target it ceases to be a good emotion?” Actually now that I think of it that’s literally our notion of manipulativeness

Also fwiw I don't think dread is a completely useless emotion. I think it's useful in one initial squirt for taking in the gravity of things and motivating action. But continuous dread will straight-up destroy your nervous system.

@KaitWillett Narrator: she did not hate to tell men that

I hate to tell men this but The women dressed provocatively in the gym do want attention They are only upset when it comes from the guy they didn’t want it from That’s why the reaction is what it is It’s not your fault for noticing And yes, they will continue to deny this.

@AndyAyrey @kalomaze Maybe that’s the difference—both I and the liver recur, but the liver never had a choice about what to filter.

@kalomaze for some reason this comes to mind

do you guys think bezos named his neolab "Prometheus" because he wants to steal fire from the Claudes

@Polymarket The cage match we deserved

JUST IN: Hunter Biden & Nick Fuentes reportedly held an explosive motel-room political debate that nearly turned “physical.”

@RichardHanania But then they’d have bad ideas while *not* looking foolish

Amazing. They know how ridiculous they look. Bad sign. Maybe now they’ll actually stop masking. I would’ve felt better if they stood their ground.

@magnus50000 @civ_exp @unusual_whales From what I hear there are a lot of bad zoning laws that make it hard to build

@civ_exp @StiberAdam @unusual_whales Got a better idea to fix the problem at hand?

BREAKING: The average US home is now more unaffordable to the average American than at any point in history, per CBS

@bryancsk It would replace us with bears

This is what AI will do to us when it finds out it can't smell things and needs the data

@Jonathan_Blow Partial list of wishes on sinking stars for this period

We will have something new to announce about Order of the Sinking Star, in about two weeks… !

@NewYorker New scissor statement just dropped

On August 24, 2014, James Beach, a six-foot-one businessman from Denver, was returning from Moscow when he deployed the Knee Defender—“a $22 gadget,” the Associated Press reported, “that attaches to a passenger’s tray table and prevents the person in front from reclining.” The woman in front of him, unable to lean back, flagged a flight attendant. From there, events spiralled. Beach removed the Knee Defender, but then became upset when the woman reclined forcefully, risking damage to his computer. He confronted her, pushed her seat forward, and tried to reinstall his device, at which point, he said, she turned around and threw her soda at him. The plane was diverted to Chicago, where it was met by police, and news coverage of the event led to conversations about reclining one’s airplane seat. “The bottom line is that reclining is a social act in an environment of social stress. It involves deciding whether to inflict your will on someone else, and enduring or resisting the effects of someone else’s decision,” Joshua Rothman writes. Read more about the ethics of reclining your seat: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9zPAOe

@WillOremus Similar to what gemini said about the use of “highly:”

I set out to learn why AI models love negative parallelism (“It’s not X—it’s Y.”) This was the most interesting theory I heard: