I can make up shit that's never happened about things that don't exist using language I invented to describe concepts without form about events I imagined that are important because everybody is going to die unless they listen to me. Except that HAS happened. It's called a cult.

.@DeptofDefense fyi, saw this on Reddit: “I (f35) ejected my controlling partner (m23) and cut off all contact. where should I go next?”

Did you know there's a corrupt ethnostate committing ethnic cleansing of Muslims whose propaganda is impossible to avoid due to corrupt American politicians? Unbelievable that the CCP is still allowed to control TikTok in the US.

We didn’t wait to see if the Chinese were using Grindr for intelligence before we forced them to disgorge it. There’s no principle of free markets or free speech that requires us to let a hostile foreign government own a US media business.

I’m told mine is a contrarian view on the events of the last few days, so here goes… Contrary to what Kevin Roose and others have written, Microsoft was not a winner of the events of the last few days around #OpenAI. They were in a much better place on Friday morning last week

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The only sane generational cohort in the US is people between their late 30’s and mid-40’s — it’s a tough burden to bear but we do so as best we can.

It’s insane to suggest that an extremely effective means of saving lives might not be worth it if it also marginally increases overfishing… but this paper does not even demonstrate that malaria nets increase overfishing! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Driving PSA xkcd.com/2932

When asked if he would declassify the Epstein files, Trump looked more panicked than people in the exit row of a Boeing flight

Indian moms just unlocked a new character to compare their sons to

John OK I actually checked this and the optimal weights are 1 for bronze, 1.07 for silver, and 1.8 for gold.

I’ll never get over how many poor kids were denied a quality education because of the lies sold by Jo Boaler and her buddies. Disgraceful

What are we doing here?

I wish we could control the weather.

There are so many outrageous angles to Trump providing COVID tests to Putin, but I'm most focused on the fact that Americans Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed were rotting in Russian prisons at the time, and Trump didn't even get them out in exchange for it. What a despicable human.

Not paying attention until you literally have to make a decision is peak performance. What did all those extra hours paying attention get you? Did it change your mind? Sadly, I'm a junkie and haven't been following this advice.

I thought low propensity voters were Trumpy now. All this celebrating turnout records is making me uncomfortable. Need some hopium, stat.