LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon

Holy shit, this is real. And it was part of a pivotal war that included fighters from 20 other nations. Insane, but they left an important and strange side story out. This is a tale of foreign trade, bigotry, bizarre economic turmoil, and modern agriculture, from 1588. /1

@jaaayLENo @maizie_star Don’t do it! I’ve seen videos of the possible consequences. Throw on a robe or a cassock before it’s too late!

Mf like me gets naked right in front of the washing machine

Saying "this is not a golden calf" as you put up a golden calf doesn't cancel that fact out.

@paragon275 @EmmaMAshford Impossible != counterintuitive Best of luck ever passing a physics course with that kind of thinking, fool.

@LexCrazed @EmmaMAshford Just because it’s counterintuitive to you doesn’t make it wrong

Amazing quote in this FT piece. American financial elites are so insulated, they don’t believe that physical realities matter for the economy.

meanwhile, in reality

Seriously how the fuck are they trying to build a datacenter in utah that would use more power than the entire state of utah. Has everyone gone completely insane.

April 2026 was the worst April for drought in US recorded history, dating back to 1895. Yes, even worse than the Dust Bowl.

Spain is now activating an international evacuation and quarantine operation tied to the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak. Spanish passengers quarantined domestically. This is no longer being treated as an isolated onboard incident.

The FCC wants to require ID verification for every phone activation in America, including prepaid phones. Those are the phones journalists, abuse survivors, and whistleblowers depend on to stay anonymous. The excuse is robocalls. The result is a national identity check on one of the last semi-anonymous communication tools we have. reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-…

The sharpest thing in the Roberts memos isn't the outcome. It's the distance between the public performance and the private reasoning. Roberts spent years cultivating a reputation as a careful institutionalist. The memos show that in February 2016 he wrote, in his own hand, that the Obama climate plan was "highly unlikely to survive" before lower courts had touched it. Before full briefing. Before oral argument. He wasn't assessing the pitch. He had already decided where it was going to land and was building the procedural route to get it there. Kagan called the move "unprecedented." Breyer noted compliance wasn't required for years and asked why speed was necessary. Roberts responded the next day, the memos show, "irritated and blunt." The answer was cost to industry. Not constitutional law. Not procedural principle. Cost. Kennedy wrote three sentences. We'll get there anyway. Five votes. The shadow docket since that night has become the court's primary tool for consequential decisions issued without explanation. That's not drift. It's a feature that was built in that February exchange by a chief justice whose public face and private memos read like two separate documents.

The country should be dissolved if the point of the US system is to allow 46% of the country to rule over 51% because the majority live in the wrong states.

@boot_stamping Today I finally heard the clip on YouTube where he recounted a story I’d previously read. It was about the revenge he had on a company that violated his contract and then refused to give him his book back. It was a glorious tale of vengeance.

"unfortunately he escaped my wrath because he died" will long outlive the memories of my friends and loved ones I fear

Your employer also spends ~$19,300 a year on your family health insurance premium. That's money not paid out in wages. Medicare for All wouldn't just give you coverage, it opens up that money for higher salaries. We don't talk about this enough.

A 32-year-old woman in Spain has now been hospitalized and isolated as a suspected hantavirus case after sharing a flight with an infected MV Hondius passenger who later died. The exposure chain is no longer confined to the ship.

turning middle class retirement funds into exit liquidity by changing the rules so the weight in the index will be based on SpaceX’s total implied market cap, not the actual # shares available to the public which will magnify forced holdings in SpaceX by a factor of 10 btw

i love how people are saying "if we write a sufficiently detailed specification, the agent can write all our code" do you know what writing a sufficiently detailed specification that deterministically maps to what a computer's actions is? it's coding

UnitedHealthcare has had a denial rate of 33%. Cigna is currently at 21%. Medicare is 8.4%.

Here's what the Utah GOP did: 1. They sued federally to block the new map. 2. They packed the UT Supreme Court, creating two brand new justices 3. They created a brand new “constitutional court” panel that will hear challenges to state law, avoiding the Supreme Court altogether

If she says how she loses her job…

1. Josh is 100% right about this. 2. It is also infuriating. 3. And if this happened to conservatives they would commit political violence.