Reposted by JPLShabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 21hShe condemned the Biden U.S. arms deal with Israel, and as retaliation the Biden administration opened an investigation against her. The Trump administration is actually piggybacking off that Democratic investigation. Both parties are cesspools of Islamophobia. 11154410
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Gavin Newsom's favorite things to do are to give more money to billionaires, and to steal things from homeless people and burn them. 001
Reposted by JPLJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026He used his IRA account to buy private paypal shares below their value at like $0.001 per share, staying under the $2000 annual contribution limit AND making his taxable income less than the $110k IRA restriction. You, a regular person, cannot do this 26718
Reposted by JPLgrapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026actually having a bunch of rich assholes decide everything is antithetical to democracy. it is incompatible with it, and if allowed to continue, it will destroy it. we have to be able to just stand up and say that, in any context 082
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Did this person just not read the book or do they have some sort of brain damage? Many things in this world are contestable but the title is not ironic. 000
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is funny to me because one of the arguments constantly made against the welfare state (and indeed one of the O.G. arguments against democracy itself) is that people will bankrupt the government by voting themselves free money. As it turns out, no they won't. 000
Reposted by JPLrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026people are saying maybe the cornell case leads to the end of campus greek life. which feels daunting but plausible. my preference though would be the end of ivy league universities & everyone whose degree is from one of them has to wear a dunce cap until they've officially proven they aren't a shit 1667566
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I went to one philosophy club meeting in undergrad. The topic was "what is art?" and this was the first slide. Everyone who spoke agreed it wasn't. Even the professors didn't take the other side. I didn't say anything because I hadn't really collected my thoughts into an argument. 000
Reposted by JPLhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Look obviously a lil guy in a room with a bunch of lookup tables in a language he can't understand doesn't form a sentient system, but if the lil guy speaks Chinese? hot damn then maybe we're onto something 749517
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Maybe I'm just built different but my mind can comprehend this quite easily. 000
Reposted by JPLmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The reality is that there is no non-violent way to non-consensually end a healthy human being's life. The effort spent to fool death penalty advocates into thinking they are participating in something clean and surgical makes an already barbaric spectacle disgustingly hypocritical as well. 439752
Reposted by JPLJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11646941166
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Such a funny contrast. Nader has done more for the average American than almost every member of Congress. 001
Reposted by JPLLiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah, I don't think we're going to find a more succinct formula than this about what is & what isn't free speech: "Whatever comes from the top down is freedom. Whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship" 16016
Reposted by JPLMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6fbuff.lyIt’s Decorative Gourd Season, MotherfuckersFor the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads. 10364116
Reposted by JPLKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026This is surprising and welcomed news 4773111
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Read the NHJ piece and, while I think I agree with her in the broad strokes I find the details a bit baffling. The core of the whole piece, the key evidence of educational failure, is that her daughter struggled at the start of high school. But that's all over in a few weeks. 100
Reposted by JPLAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think fundamentally a lot of what unites the "we have to pre-emptively surrender on immigration" people is that they genuinely wanted to surrender on immigration 6746125
Reposted by JPLmaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Right wing economics has always been the equivalent of deciding you can save 100 big ones by not getting your car an oil change, Trump just has a real knack for saying the stupid part out loud 518119
Reposted by JPLPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 16/09/2026185. In 2025 White non-Hispanic births* as a share of total U.S. births bounced back a little, but remained just less than half of the total. They first fell below 50% in 2023. (2/3 of the change was a decline among non-WNH births, 1/3 from more WNH births.) * Based on race/ethnicity of the mother. 122
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If we're going to get picky about who's an "associate member" then I'm going to need a definitive name for each color in this chart. 000
Reposted by JPLKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026This is partly an LLM problem and partly an organizational problem. The LLM makes life much, much easier for everyone who wants to just pretend, and much, much harder for everyone who doesn’t. 5435106
Reposted by JPLMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly. 1829224
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I forgot about literally the worst 9/11 tradition: people sharing that Hunter S Thompson article and pretending it isn't completely wrong. 102
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026youtu.be/lf6vCjtaV1k?...youtu.beR.E.M. - Fall On MeYouTube video by REMVEVO 151
Reposted by JPLJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I feel like maybe before AI wipes out humanity and/or renders work obsolete, it might deliver a couple points of faster labor productivity growth. 49213
Reposted by JPLA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury. 5058482036
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Mostly the four year presidential race sucks, but the part where these megalomaniacs admit to the world that they daydream about being president is pretty funny. Buddy you are the most unlikable man on Earth. You would get negative votes. But by all means keep begging. 000
Reposted by JPLFT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 31/08/2026Big tech giants reported more than $160bn last quarter in "other income". The source? Equity stakes in other AI companies ... Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/ostEx9j 1714558
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It's unfortunate that we have wordcels like this in positions of power and influence. If he had learned to code he could easily build a growth model that would help him understand that this is the optimal way to design a pension system. 010
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I asked ChatGPT to find a transfer function from a circuit diagram today and it actually did it. I was shocked and it probably saved me an hour of work. 000
Reposted by JPLChristina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 23/08/2026They're always like "it's the principle! Of course I don't agree with what the guy says" but they always at least kind of a little bit agree with what the guy says as you can tell from the other guys they don't show up for 260456
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Walking into the Luitpoldarena in Nuremburg. As the Horst Wessel Lied begins to play, I look around me and start pulling on my collar. 000
Reposted by JPLL Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Every couple years all the just-asking-questions racists in academia have to sign an open letter about free speech or some shit. It’s basically how they declare eligibility for right wing dark money. 143571
Reposted by JPLBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I get that there’s something genuinely rewarding about getting super into food and wine and noticing the subtle interplay of tastes and textures but there’s also something genuinely rewarding about getting fucked up at Olive Garden so there’s lots of beauty in the world if you are willing to look 813471396
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 22/08/2026When my oldest was a toddler there was a construction site around the corner from us and I would push him down there in the stroller to watch the big trucks. One time a worker walked over to us and said through the fence "Go to college kid, so you don't have to do this". 021
Reposted by JPLdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026one thing we should not unwind when this nightmare is over is the department of war thing. they should keep calling it that. let it be a richly ironic and deeply shameful reminder of our insane, murderous belligerence 2387586
Reposted by JPLjeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The most popular genre of NYT oped is just "I'm a Member of [Demographic you Hate] and You're Right About Us" 221707210
