This is not complicated. The current deficit is 7% of GDP. The deficit after this big beautiful bill will be 7.9-8.6% of GDP over the next 10 years. No accounting gimmick. As Elon Musk recognizes, it increases the deficit. That's not any gimmick. It is just a fact.

At least one source of the UFO rumors within the military is the result of an elaborate, decades-long hazing ritual.

Fighting fire with fire

I once attempted to publish a breaking news story and found out that I had sent it live without including the body of the article. It was posted to social media, people argued for and against the headline, not a single person noticed there was no actual story.

Dude invented a new sliding technique 🤯

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

the coolest part about the elmo hacked posts is that the most insane people online are treating elmo like he’s a real guy

What all of these interviewers fail to realize is that the most popular influencer-interviewer, Sean Evans from Hot Ones, is consistently respected because he actually asks engaging questions and doesn’t do whatever this is

This is how the greats have done it forever. Derek Thompson describes best: “This is how electricity was born. Alessandro Volta built the first electric battery by acting on the conviction that Luigi Galvani was wrong. Three decades later, Michael Faraday discovered the principles

man I just love seeing what self help authors have in their tables of contents

AI video is almost there: can’t tell fake from real. Losing our last method of post-hoc verification is no joke. When technology makes something easy, it can also knock down load-bearing obstacles where the difficulty was a safeguard. That’s what causes the transition chaos.🧵

TikTok science can leave you overconfident in your knowledge. Evidence: Simplifying complex ideas makes them more compelling, but also fosters an illusion of deep understanding. Beware of mistaking familiarity for fluency. Soundbites aren't substitutes for systematic study.

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Another nail in the astrology coffin: 152 astrologers did no better than random chance at guessing people’s charts from detailed info about them. Astrologers helped design the test, and "experts" failed at the same rate as novices. Horoscopes may be fun, but they ain't real.

My students kept using AI. I couldn’t make them stop. It’s terrible for learning. Students engage with the content less, and the end result is that the purpose of education is circumvented. Expertise is never built. I wrote about it for The Argument. theargumentmag.com/p/chatgpt-and-…

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Update: '60 Minutes' just yanked this segment two hours before it was supposed to air.

THE UNBRIDLED GREATNESS OF TRAINS WILL ENDURE FOR A MILLION YEARS

Every single word of this fantastic column by Peggy Noonan ‘I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to