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Ok, maybe I'd prefer to.

post from someone: “I work in Big Law and I'm on duty from whenever the baby wakes up until 10am when our childcare shows up, and I do bathtime almost every night. Both because I have to and because you'll take bathtime from my cold dead hands.”
afaik batman agamemnon but idk 🤷🏻‍♀️ maybe aga bat?
Murderer: Gen. Francis L. Donovan of the Marine Corps, the head of the Southern Command, ordered the strike.
Jefferson’s Reserve
No Kings. includes Burger King
hakiminian on X posting a stupid AI image of Trump in soiled diaper: “In a MASSIVELY VIRAL AND REAL photo, Trump's diaper has been EXPOSED”
spencer hakimian posting on X with a completely fabricated AI image of Trump in soiled diaper: “In a MASSIVELY VIRAL AND REAL photo, Trump's diaper has been EXPOSED”
Some attendees who attempted to leave the ballroom were told by law enforcement officials that they could not do so because the perimeter of the hotel had to be secured.
I feel like l've gone 'who? ah, he's won a bunch of prizes and his books look boring as fuck' on this guy before
there is another
Mike the Perpetual Student says: My experience is that for men who see women as equals, treat them openly with respect and dignity, there is no male loneliness epidemic.
Eoin Higgins saying that Mills would have voted with Fetterman
Eoin Higgins saying Mills would have voted with Fetterman
Judge John Hoffman transcript: So, I'm just letting you know. Graham for Senate is his website, Graham for Senate. His name is Graham Plattner. You should probably take a look and see it he shares your values. And it he is, it's time to get together and support the candidates that we like. I mean, Graham is a guy who had never— The highest office he ever held was a harbormaster in Sullivan, Maine. But he knows, as I think we all do know in our bones, that if we're gonna see change in this country that we love, we've gotta get up and start doing stuff. Organizing, volunteering, donating if it's possible, even running for office. It's all within our reach. And I think Graham's campaign really embodies that in a way that is very inspiring to me and maybe to you as well. So, why don't you check him out?
NYT reporters “reporting” that ‘Mr. Zaslav is getting the last laugh now.’
skeet saying: I find it kind of hard to believe anyone could look at what the Tea Party made of the GOP and think, "yes, that's it, that's what we need"
Jmail & @imailarchive The DOJ removed this photo of what appears to be Howard Lutnick. You can still access it on Jmail
Active pall bearers were boxing promoter Don King, entertainer Frank Sinatra, heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, former champ Muhamad Ali, Caesars Palace President Brig. Gen. Harry Wald, former Caesars Palace president William Weinberger Sr., Ben Rogers and Abe Margolies.
dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social Any merit in the drivel I write comes from learning painstakingly how to write essays. To assay - to test - exactly what I thought and knew about a matter. Great essayists - Woolf, Orwell, Bacon, Montaigne, Hazlett - are utter intellectual joys as you read how they test themselves on topics too. ***** dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social The question I ask with any article is: what do I actually know and think about this topic? Essay = assay. This means sometimes my final piece is different to what I thought it would be. "What is your angle?" I am sometimes asked before filing.
Jonathan Weisberg @jweisber.bsky.social Claude just described a piece of code as "a bit fragiguous", a word that does not exist anywhere on the internet according to google. Never seen it do that before
number of tokens to represent text “this code looks a bit fragiguous” in o200k_base
NYT headline: Like Trump, U.S. Embassies Are Raising Cash for Lavish July Fourth Parties
screenshot of skeet with preview image consisting of three lo-res cats…when the paper is entitled “Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans”
post malone ergo propter malone: yeah. maybe there will be a higher level of mastery things settle into eventually but at the consumer level you can be full speed very quickly (quoting) Eugene Vinitsky: All the "you need to learn Al skills or you'll get left behind" things are patently nonsense. It's easy to use and only becomes easier to use over time. If there's skill it's in knowing what it does well and what is does poorly * Ed → Replied to post malone ergo propter malone: I think that's true for things that end up being fairly small or scoped to one or two users. I suspect most organizations will want to be able to do substantially more than that in short order, and that is learnable but is not a week of learning
Piggy love can be cultish — Jacobson regularly meets fans whose dream is to be on the receiving end of her signature move. “It’s a delightful thing to see a room full of people, from news reporters to A-list celebrities, get in line to be karate-chopped by a pig,” he said.
LLMLM: Long Live Marxist-Leninism-Maoism
Slothropsmap saying that an AI cover of Take Me Home Country Roads, with a versions of Hank’s voice singing lead, is one of the the Top Ten Funniest Things on the internet
Kevin O'Leary: Epstein focus is 'poop on a stick'
To: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: Elon Musk Sent: Tue 12/25/2012 2:19:53 PM Subject: Re: Ratio is not a problem for Talulah On Dec 25, 2012, at 5:54 AM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com<mailto: jeevacation@gmail.com>> wrote: Understood, I will see you on st Barth, , the ratio on my island might make Talilah uncomfortable On Tuesday, December 25, 2012, Elon Musk wrote: Do you have any parties planned? I've been working to the edge of sanity this year and so, once my Kids head home after Christmas, I really want to hit the party scene in St Barts or elsewhere and let loose. The invitation is much appreciated, but a peaceful island experience is the opposite of what I'm looking for. On Dec 24, 2012, at 6:17 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com<javascript:;><mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com<javascript:;>>> wrote: you are welcome to stay or just come for the day, plenty of rroom i will send heli to get you
random heads in some sort of order
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Chicago Tribune BUSINESS Timeline: How Tribune Publishing - the parent company of the Chicago Tribune - has changed Since 2006
dress sexy at my Twitter suspension, my e-wife
Ezra Klein’s brain starts to give a little feedback after it realizes it’s gone on for a ridiculous amount of time riffing on weird useless stuff—oh wait is it weird I’m saying all this? should I make a clear statement about what people recently witnessed in Minnesota?? No, his tongue says. No, I shall continue to say nothing dressed up in something: “I'm almost having trouble having this conversation because the thing I am thinking about is the public execution of Renee Good in Minnesota. It's a little unclear what happened. Her car was in the middle of the street, and then you watch the federal agents rush the car, and she begins executing a multipoint turn to try to leave. And then an agent shoots her dead in the middle of the street.”
Ezra Klein musing to himself (in a supposed ‘conversation’ with M. Gessen) about dumb dumb stuff: “I have come to think it's, first, a weakness of liberal politics that it does not see itself as having a relationship to beauty. That it does not believe beauty should be part of politics necessarily. It likes beauty, and it wants other people to do beautiful things. But we're the people in the suits who have the charts and can tell you how the health care system is run, not the people who have views on what is and is not beautiful.”
Ezra Klein wondering to himself, head completely empty: “This is something I've become slightly weirdly obsessed with: Why do fascist and authoritarian movements seem to care so much more about aesthetics and, in their own way, beauty than, say, Keir Starmer's government or Joe Biden's government?”
Fox News tweet screenshot by @Acyn Watters: Maybe we use the oil money from Venezuela to buy Greenland.
Christmas LinkedIn post from a copywriter (with AI -generated illustration of the copywriter as a swaddled baby Jesus): Rejoice. Today is the day the angels sing. A gift to the world swaddled in cloth has been sent from above to help create a healthier and more joyful world for all. Available beginning January 5 to turn water into wine for brands from Bethlehem to San Francisco. Alleluia!
Nicholas Kristof: Trump says that Maduro has been captured and taken out of the country. If so, Venezuela has a chance for a better path -- but plenty can still go wrong, and much will depend on what replaces the Maduro regime.
"But something much stronger and more powerful is that you're reminded that it's not about you. Now it's about your future and something that's going to live beyond you, but it's also about all of us. And it was an incredibly humbling moment. I think the movie is about change and about how dreams are probably the strongest agents of change, and the failure or success of those dreams, the realization of those dreams. Having a kid is like—[Marty’s] one dream had to end so the other one could begin. It’s seeing [Marty] actually go from boy to man.”
karen hao: I have issued two changes to my book regarding the water footprint of data centers. I've detailed the changes and the context behind them here: karendhao.com/20251217/emp.... Given the nature of book changes, I wanted to make sure anyone who has an existing copy of the book is aware. karen hao: Huge gratitude to all of my readers for supporting my book and for strengthening it through ongoing discussions
My 16 year old daughter made these "statement" art pieces for her high school art class. I'm so proud of her for creating such impactful work and using art to share her voice.
Jeff Lipman, a retired dentist living in Boca Raton, Fla., said he invested $750,000 in GPB. In an interview, Mr. Lipman said he had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a federal settlement, but that he was owed nearly $300,000 more. Mr. Lipman, 72, said he could not fathom why Mr. Trump, whom he supported, granted clemency to Mr. Gentile. He dismissed any notion that the prosecution was politically motivated. "I'm a Trump supporter, and this was bad, bad, bad," Mr. Lipman said. "To have this guy finally go to jail deservedly and for Trump let him out, there can be no excuse for this."
Alexandra Jacobs reviewing American Canti by Olivia Nuzzi. “When the journalist Olivia Nuzzi was let go from New York magazine following revelations of her affair with an interview subject, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (who has denied it), I was seriously bummed. “Hers was a byline I'd always looked forward to, the prose that followed conveying access to some of most powerful people in the world - including President Trump - with uncommon verve and detachment. Though Nuzzi is only 32, she has for years reminded me of old-fashioned New Journalists like Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese. “And hey, Talese slept with subjects while researching "Thy Neighbor's Wife," right? Sure, Kennedy's profile as a presidential candidate and then his appointment as secretary of Health and Human Services was a tad more consequential than suburban swinging habits, but nonetheless ... I defended Nuzzi against all detractors scoffing she'd violated a central tenet of our profession. Let's hear what she has to say, I said.”
the loop playing for the past 2 hours on Cities 97.1 Uniquely Twin Cities
picture of a biscuit. so much drama. never could be imagined anyone would respond with anything other than ‘nice biscuit’ on a social media platform open to everyone everywhere. we’re all going to die.
Jack Schlossberg @JBKSchlossberg True or false: Usha Vance is way hotter than Jackie O
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social • My toddler wanted butter on toast and all we had was the Country Crock they picked out yesterday, but I told them it was okay because it was within the margarine of error
Joyce Carol Oates & @JoyceCarolOates X.com "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.
Now, certainly, we see now with airlines, it's about to get real for a broader swathe of the American public than before. […] not just folks on SNAP and not just folks who have insurance on the exchanges.
Tesla Tesla shareholders approve $1tn pay package for Elon Musk Chants of 'Elon' erupt after compensation plan approved despite opposition from several high-profile investors
excerpt from paper: “Third, the design principle allows us to distinguish between adaptive and nonadaptive traits. When a warbler feeds a cuckoo chick (e.g., Davies, 2011), we can judge this behavior as nonadaptive if it decreases the warbler's fitness, even though the specific movements and routines involved are a product of natural selection (in another context). This judgement deepens our understanding of the situation, e.g., with regard to how selection would act on new variation in, say, warblers' cuckoo-detection capacity.”
Kamala Harris saddened by passing of Dick Cheney