Recovering lawyer, minor public official, (very) former sf/fantasy editor, occasional painter. This is the account I admit to in public.
It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates
This is actually so common, that the NYT had to adjust their bestsellers page. If you see a little dagger icon next to a book title that means a significant % of their sales came from bulk sales like this.
Matt GabrieleRight wingers do this with book sales as well. Rich individuals and think tanks buy thousands of copies, warehouse them, then pulp them.
No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.www.theatlantic.com
Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami on charges of rape and sex trafficking. UK to seek extradition over sexual exploitation, 'extreme pornography' and assault and indecent images of a child. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
Actually read through the documents Trump released last night and they show basically the opposite of what he claimed. It shows that Russia aggressively sought to interfere on behalf of Trump in 2020. China explored it but thought the backlash would be too much and stayed out.
TechdirtThe Documents Trump Declassified To Blame China For The 2020 Election… Actually Show Russia Was The One Meddling For Him You might have… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/17/the-documents-trump-declassified-to-blame-china-for-the-2020-election-actually-show-russia-was-the-one-meddling-for-him/
Voter files are public information that anyone can purchase!
Jay WillisDang, 220 million voter files stolen by China starting in 2020? Who was president back then, it sounds like he must have sucked ass
pretty incredible resource. worth bookmarking.
The DownballotFolks, a *very* exciting announcement: The Downballot has just published updated 2024 presidential results by congressional district for every state with a new map this year! That's 10 states in all, covering a full one-third of the House. Please dive in!
I love New York.
Jason RabinowitzA $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
This will be a thread of tips for people suffering through their first god-awful heat wave with no or subpar AC. I'm a perpetually broke Southern Californian so my ideas run cheap.
Q and A with me at The Nerd Daily thenerddaily.com/jo-walton-ev...
Q&A: Jo Walton, Author of 'Everybody's Perfect' | The Nerd DailyWe chat with author Jo Walton about Everybody's Perfect, which is Piranesi meets Swordspoint in an elegant relay race through fantasy Venice.thenerddaily.com
This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.
Jesus, Ezra. That isn't what happened at all. Rufo did not "try to figure out if" it's true." He gleefully amplified the lie, then offered a bounty to anyone who could retroactively "prove" it. It spurred death threats. Thousands will soon be deported because of it. Many of them will die.
Centrists are so excited to punch left that they're missing that this is clearly a grift. It's run by a college sophomore whose only experience is seemingly driving his car a lot and sinecure at WelcomePAC, a job his dad (WelcomePAC's Director of Electoral Programs & Finance Chair) secured for him
The Washington PostThirteen Democratic House members and candidates announced their support for a centrist initiative aimed at pushing back against the party’s tilt toward democratic socialism.
i don’t think Jeffries understands the new reality. Mamdani doesn’t need the party. the party needs him.
HuffPostThe House minority leader told CNN the mayor is going to have to patch things up with congressional Democrats follow Tuesday's primary upsets.
every single study done on this shows that the actual best behavior is done under consistent pseudonyms and people behave worse under real names it’s counterintuitive but at this point the real names thing is willful denial of evidence
Hannah Posts"The problem with the internet is anonymity" ok but people on nextdoor are insane next to their full name and address
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Mel AndrewsWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
guys I just tried googling this to find the exact Andor quote and jesus fucking christ guys what the fuck is happening here