Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.

this is a very interesting sentence to find in a post that outlines the ways in which the opinion page will be losing some of its editorial freedom.

Despite polygraphs’ unreliability, DHS insists they are necessary for national security.

in keeping with tradition, “national security” continues to mean “because i say so”.

god it is going to take forever to rebuild the government, if we’re even given that opportunity. it’s going to be years of finding out just how terribly trump messed things up.

acog lenses

Trump says he will announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs Monday

it sounds to me like he announced them today

da ting

i would say go for it. you’ve got a gift

kale is and will always be bird food. it is unfair to kale to judge it as human food, that was never its purpose.

The disclaimer Novak referred to in his skeet (the generally accepted term for a Bluesky post) …

who has accepted this term? i want names

i will also not be attending his inaugural lunch. i bet that will show him

that’s pretty sick. i should start blowing up my food too

i don’t need to know what a vitamin is in order to eat things that have vitamins. to be honest i don’t even really know what calories or protein are, but i probably still eat things that have them. and vegetables too.

i can give directions very easily. i simply read them off of my phone

let the records show that i did in fact do my homework. to prove this, i will release it publicly to world. pay no mind to the fact that the deadline has already passed.

is it journalistic malpractice to not so much as mention climate change in an article about this topic?

the secret is that all spaces are actually euclidean, due to the whitney embedding theorem.

(not really though. i just wanted to take my turn at improperly stating famous math results on the internet.)

i’m actually kind of shocked he admitted this. isn’t his usual strategy to promise super unrealistic things, not deliver, and then make the same promise the next year?

whoa, the C++ committee finally invented a handgun

not going to name any names, but it’s clear that somebody hasn’t taken a power tools safety seminar

can’t wait to see what the Supreme Legislators decide this time