Downside to one's posts getting an unusually large number of reposts and this replies: one is exposed to many more dimwits than usual.

Good Adam Liptak piece on the shameless fake-high-minded see-no-evil pro-Trump approach of Alito et al (but not Coney Barrett) in yesterday’s SCOTUS oral arguments about presidential immunity. nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/…

I had no clue this is why his gait is impaired.

Playing with his dogs, broke his right foot—at the end of 2020, when we were paying more attention to other issues concerning presidential politics and D.C.

Shouldn’t Biden find a way to humorously talk about it, let voters know?

A company in Cleveland sells these robot dog flamethrowers, to anybody. $9K apiece. America.

Yes. Ridiculous, Axios. It's like a NYT Pitchbot/The Onion parody of stupidly unfair Biden coverage.

Superb piece by Ginia Bellafante on these campus protests.

Her quote from Columbia history professor Christopher Brown is exactly right—that it was as if, university administrators “have never met a 19- or 20-year-old.” nytimes.com/2024/04/25/nyr…

In the Gaza-Israel protests, FIRE sure is definitively proving, as it always claimed, that despite funding by conservative foundations (e.g. Scaife, Koch) along with liberal ones (Bloomberg, Knight), they’re aggressive defenders of free speech of all kinds. Good for them.

This is about the training/learning process for AI algorithms. But seems like this looseness-tightening notion is also a fundamental truth about order vs liberty in social systems and governments.

A masterpiece.

Great lucid piece (as usual from Dahlia Lithwick) about today's Supreme Court oral arguments in the case involving the Idaho's extreme and dangerous ban on abortions. slate.com/news-and-polit…