Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
Reuters@reuters.com · 3d agoMichigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E
King Bandit, The First of His Name
@kingbandit.bsky.social
Infosec/devops manager/engineer 🔐, neoliberal sellout 🌐, dystopia enthusiast 💣 - ♟️, 🏀, various rants.
Reuters@reuters.com · 3d ago
It absolutely kills me it took this guy this long to stand up for his family.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d agosenator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.
Is this supposed to be a defense of the guy we’ve put in charge of the nuclear missiles?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoSen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."
The left is getting the Catholic Church in the divorce? That Catholic Church? The Roman one? You sure?? Aight I guess but we need to talk a little about that one internally
Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.
Of all the opinions to have, imagine thinking the one you need to share publicly is "NYC is better when there's garbage everywhere" and "having garbage bins will ruin the neighborhood and my psyche"
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 5d agoThe man beat his daughter and injured his granddaughter but he's fine with it apparently. www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...
Again the next time you worry you are not qualified for your job please remember that Marvel couldn't figure out how to pick a spot on the map, put Mahershala Ali in a Blade outfit and then write a movie where he fights vampires there.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 6d agoMahershala Ali says he’s moved on from ‘Blade’ “I have moved on … I'm good … you had me under contract … if they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie. So we're not doing the movie … They didn't want to do it, so they should answer that question” (via GQ Magazine)
I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
nytimes.com
OH FOR THE LOVE OF PETE
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d agoA GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
The total incompetence is funny, except that they dragged innocent people through the criminal law system to satisfy a lunatic's hurt ego.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 5d agoBREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.
'pro-AI' and 'anti-AI' are basically meaningless as labels and anyone putting particularly great stock in them is increasingly unserious imo. it's a bunch of shit in a bunch of different dimensions. I am extremely anti-AI in education, I also think it's a clearly useful tool in applied settings.
Only Trump can give us scandal after scandal after scandal that manage to be both outrageous abuse of power and hilariously stupid and inept.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
BREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.
Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation
The Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.”
nbcnews.com
We need a Moby Dick limited series — including semi-satirical documentary episodes narrated by John Hodgman — so bad.
Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 5d agoSuch a good passage.
In America, everything is either gambling or fraud, including governance
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 5d agoTrump tells TV host to make bets on his military actions in Greenland
Over and over the cycle repeats: Bad tech do bad thing Politicians: make bad tech not to bad thing? Companies: no bad thing make money Politicians: ah okay keep doing bad thing just add more spy
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 5d agoThe new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
What does thoughtful mean? Domains that have reasonable oversight, or a human-in-the-loop, or where people already have high failure rates, or where being able to do the activity at all outweighs any potential failure. There are lots of domains like this!
At the startup, we are seeing large productivity gains time after time in deployments of AI that are done thoughtfully. There are so many important things that aren't done because there simply aren't enough people to do them.
Congrats on getting Hamas to say “okay fine, we’ll disarm after Israel totally withdraws” and Israel to say “okay fine, we’ll withdraw after Hamas totally disarms.” No one’s accomplished that before, better make it the top headline.
it's so funny they simultaneously want to win the "AI race" and also nuke graduate students in America, most of whom will take their expertise back home
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 7d agoU.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
This is a factual sentence: Amid an outbreak of explosive diarrhea and with measles cases at a 35-year high, America’s top health official, who has an affinity for roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. My column, tragically: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Move over, cyclosporiasis. RFK Jr. is hosting a cooking show. | Opinion
America's top health official, who has an affinity for picking up roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. Barf.
usatoday.com
Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
