Reposted by YuletideChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026This is actually hell, right? 201067242303
Reposted by YuletideAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026Rick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here." 10081837344
Reposted by Yuletideescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND 313149954241
Reposted by YuletideJoe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 08/07/2026so fucking rich that while he was talking AP reported this: "Writer E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million awarded to her after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed to stop the payment." 922677578
Reposted by YuletideSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face. 7763711313
Reposted by YuletideDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The entire fuckin point of the national mall is loitering 13875571303
Yuletide @yuletide.bsky.social · 02/05/2026“Palantir’s value proposition has always rested on plausible deniability: yes, we build surveillance tools, but we have a civil liberties team, we care about safeguards, we’re the responsible adults in the room. The manifesto torched that framing on purpose” www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/p...techdirt.comPalantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their CapsThere’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one ask… 000
Reposted by YuletidePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/04/2026When you make ballrooms illegal only illegals will have ballrooms The only way to stop a bad man in a ballroom is a good man with a ballroom 491445170
Yuletide @yuletide.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Today in SF: “AI Economy: who wins, who loses, and who decides” Inspiring chat between @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @catherinebracy.com hosted by @techequity.bsky.social and @nataliefoster.bsky.social @economicsecurityproject.org Nice to hear a politician openly argue for breaking up big tech 241
Reposted by YuletideJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/02/2026if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying 19897882758
Reposted by YuletideMicah @rincewind.run · 28/02/2026this is just who they are they do bad things everywhere all the time because they are evil and stupid and constantly indulging their very worst impulses there’s no twelve dimensional plan here 352819562
Reposted by YuletideRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme... 31484912578
Reposted by YuletideDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026To recap: Anthropic refused to do killbots or mass surveillance. DOD trying to destroy company. Altman: we are now working with DOD, who totally respect safety and oppose mass surveillance! Why would anyone trust a word Altman says after this? 912088592
Reposted by YuletideMike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 28/02/2026I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life. 321386273
Reposted by YuletideJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/02/2026Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think. 18333301187
Yuletide @yuletide.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Ok Mapsky anyone have favorites for cartogram algorithms in 2026? I did a quick implementation of House Kocmoud (1998) since that was my gold standard in 2010 but much has happened since then. Just ran the latest Gastner and its a big improvement. Do we want a qgis plugin that supports all these? 000
Reposted by YuletideAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026American not only becoming a cult of personality but becoming the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the human species is a lot to process 31391591516
Reposted by YuletideJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026A day ago the EPA officially rejected the science on global warming. Beyond "oh, that happened" I won't read about it. I won't silently evaluate the coverage of it, as I often do. This item is going into the "too stupid, too important to be that stupid, and too painful" bucket. Do you ever do that? 4642758
Reposted by YuletideAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 13/02/2026“Democrats can speak with conviction about what they know to be right, wrong, and true.” @gregsargent.bsky.social has me up on the table with this takedown of Leonhardt-style popularism. He’s absolutely right. Be loud. Be convicted. Show the truth. Persuade people. That’s politics. 413837
Reposted by YuletideMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread) 18843171
Reposted by YuletideAltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 13/02/2026But the progressives and socialist democrats are, so establishment Dems need to step aside and let them lead. They aren’t the revolutionaries. And that’s ok. What’s not ok is refusing to acknowledge that and stepping back to allow others who are built for this moment to take the reins. 25912
Reposted by YuletideKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/02/2026As if Ukrainian refugees haven’t endured enough suffering, now they must face this as legal immigrants in the US. 44688224
Reposted by YuletideDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read. 290200343837
Reposted by YuletideMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Again, in actual democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure. 8599117
Reposted by YuletideMark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/02/2026In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease 435124486143
Reposted by YuletideAnil Dash @anildash.com · 13/02/2026They've been garbage forever! This is from six years ago! www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...eff.orgWhat to Know Before You Buy or Install Your Amazon Ring CameraSo, you own or are thinking of buying a Ring camera. This post outlines a list of privacy and civil liberties concerns we have with Amazon’s Ring system so that you can be a more informed consumer, or... 416743
Reposted by YuletideKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist 391180354455
Reposted by YuletideMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: 150148328316
Reposted by YuletideJake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Some are saying letting a bunch of total morons with unlimited money buy up the media to promote stories about how cool they were was bad but who can say. 14720
Reposted by YuletideRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry. 4338561046
Reposted by YuletideKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.nytimes.comF.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns 516175037598
Reposted by YuletideBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture 138164632912
Reposted by Yuletidesouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... 29273982735
Reposted by YuletideBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"??? 101184983381
Reposted by YuletideGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/10/2025“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”chicagotribune.comGov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixationsDemocratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts. 16992346
Reposted by YuletideAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 09/10/2025So they weren’t peaceful tourists? I’m losing the plot. (Also, that means he pardoned Antifa, in case anyone cares) 1281920442
Reposted by YuletideKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse. 12880023024
Reposted by YuletideFeds Work For You @fedsworkforyou.bsky.social · 26/06/2025🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: In direct violation of a court order, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is moving forward with firing thousands of State Department employees and eliminating several offices on Friday, June 27. BUT WE'RE FIGHTING BACK. Join us tmw at 11am at 22nd & C. www.govexec.com/workforce/20... (1/) 814066
Reposted by YuletideMiles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today. 438378486749
Reposted by YuletideAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/06/2025MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact 942230357443
Reposted by Yuletidedr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/06/2025louder for the people in the back 122982534
Reposted by YuletideJoe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 24/06/2025The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them. 310145533962
Reposted by YuletideMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Good morning. We knew the answers to questions like these when the JCPOA was in effect. Again, in a more serious country, unilaterally withdrawing from that agreement would have immediately ended Trump's first presidency & destroyed the GOP's reputation on national security policy for a generation. 8466153
Yuletide @yuletide.bsky.social · 20/06/2025This project shows the fine line between geography, qualitative analysis of the human experience, and art atlasofintangibles.com #stateofthemapus #sotm2025 #sotmus #geography #london @stateofthemapus.bsky.social 162
![To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com]
From: roger schank
Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM
Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence
intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed
(this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature)
it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what
thinking and feeling about her
hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why
hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag
roger schank
http://www.rogerschank.com/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dtgy62tymnpbnzozbpgnov56/bafkreid2mznu7l72zvvigmpcouxb4dqdqjpnvqaguq47xewvm4jcvhtuxu)
