If you look at the people *still* trying to attack Jason Arday after his death, and notice that those same people have completely ignored yet another round of fraudulent research from Dan Ariely, it’s obvious the anger is never about research fraud, but about who is permitted to commit it.

Duke professor Dan Ariely’s research article retracted after fraud allegations

After evidence of significant fraud in a 2002 research paper co-authored by Dan Ariely was publicized this week by blog Data Colada, scientific journal Psychological Science decided to retract the pap...

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i tire of the weather attempting murder at me.

A neat thing about the powerlessness we all feel about the tech companies controlling our lives turning as a single organization to embrace Trumpism is that government is still much more accountable to the public than any corporation, and we still do have the power to mobilize votes to stop this.

I think about google’s “do no evil” back in the day and I imagine some jackass arrogantly reading a little dogen and then thinking they know everything. And look where we ended up. I need to tamp my own ego and attitude down of course. But holy hell.

I think it's pretty great that Ed Markey is spending the twilight of his long progressive career absolutely suplexing the dullest, greediest centrists around. He beat a Kennedy by 10 points in Massachusetts and he's about to body a would-be Newsomite anti-trans goon, all from age 74 on. Hell yeah.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3d ago

As Democrats across the U.S. signal an increasing appetite for change, Rep. Seth Moulton is hoping that momentum will help him oust longtime Sen. Ed Markey in Tuesday's Massachusetts primary. https://to.pbs.org/4gv3R5N

Patterns gonna pattern. Look at the way the criticisms against Ruffalo were shaped weaponizing bad faith against good. So familiar. Excellent defense and the article is great as well.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Proud to have signed this.

The “anti-woke” movement so many coastal journalists seem to treat like a fun rhetorical chew toy has killed multiple people and the way such an extremist belief is treated so casually implicates the entire industry of journalism.

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4d ago

“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

It’s very much a grift, just so we’re clear

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 5mo ago

The “anti-woke” speech grift: how it started vs. how it’s going

The technical practices of archiving and preservation (eg checksums, media migration) or of password management (encryption etc) are what enable that maintenance to happen at a tactical level. But if the org itself isn’t set up in a way that it will be a good steward indefinitely, the tech does nada

we've been watching a mourning dove family as they help they fledgling learn the ropes. Looks like they made it! So cute to watch the parents stand guard and guide.

Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.

please enjoy new tingler POUNDED BY THE COMPULSION TO CHECK MY PHONE EVEN THOUGH I JUST DID TWO MINUTES AGO BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES ARE MONETIZING OUR ATTENTION WHICH HAS ALREADY RESULTED IN DEVASTATING SOCIETAL HARM out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH7RDYV5 and patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...

Please invite me to any chat threads discussing Furious.

I am trying to look without wallowing. This is a challenge as the cruelty on display takes my breath and balance. Looking away will not help us correct this monstrous wrong and will not help prevent this abomination in the future. So I look but also build capacity to witness. A long slog.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 5d ago

NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

If we don't crush businesses that are doing just fine, how can we force the skilled workers into a gig economy role for some new eVet app where the app takes 90+%

A perfect example of the dual state — the rule of law for thee, but not for me: The US is not a *completely* lawless country. The law still applies to some people, to the “little people,” as Leona Helmsley might say. But a Trump company gets away with profiting from this same illegal behavior.

@kalimukwa.bsky.social · 7d ago

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I fear there is no “one weird trick” to get out of this mess. Just a lot of work for the rest of our lives. Good thing part of the work is also joy and jeers.

Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields concert raising $20m for abortion care nonprofits (among others) while putting on an absolute banger of a show should be getting more play than it is in the millennial retirement home that is Bluesky

To dominate is to control and that urge often comes from an illusion of certainty from a rigid identity a need to defend and attack Letting go of certainty opens space for connection and intimacy based on shared reality and a relationship. Riffing on some @joanhalifax.bsky.social with my coffee.

Such moral clarity.

Laura Chapin@laurachapin.bsky.social · 6d ago

"For the next two minutes, Cloud detailed three issues impacting women that she believes deserve more attention than Freedom: domestic violence, sexual assault and food insecurity." www.nytimes.com/athletic/754...

This is awful.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 6d ago

Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START

If you want to weep for Milo that's fine but consider that, unlike the rest of us, Milo is now living in the world he dreamed of, longed for, and worked so hard to create. This is what he wanted, and now he's getting it good and hard

The In the Pines segment on Furious hit differently after Dolly's death.

Some people on here really need to go touch graph.

Nvidia buying Hugging Face? keeeeerist.

Self owns abound

Matt Hartings@matthartings.bsky.social · last wk.

And what so many still don’t understand (not you … I know you’re on top of this): All of this makes college MORE expensive. It’s not opening up any spots. It makes those spots, at the price that some expect/hope to pay, impossible.

23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar