I don’t know anyone, even the rabid Trump fans I know, who consider him masculine except in the most base way.
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From that story…
Far-right influencer Andy Ngo expressed skepticism of Guy’s story about his family fleeing Vietnam, claiming he could be lying since he didn’t publish his story in “a publication that goes through some level of independent verification.” The ironic part of that, of course, is that Ngo constantly posts garbage on X without any kind of “independent verification” as he puts it.
Musk and his legion of far-right fans are so fond of saying the traditional media are dead and that you don’t hate the mainstream journalists enough. But when someone tells their own story, they’re quick to want some kind of verification from the same old-school media they whine about.
I feel, somehow, that “ironic” does not really do justice to the naked hypocrisy on show here.
Absolute free speech? Yeah, they want that. Funny how I didn’t realise free speech needed citations to show “independent verification” - but only sometimes. Yeah, really odd, that.
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I’ve been having almost the exact same thought recently. It’d be so easy to do - ICE doesn’t seem to have any sort of consistent uniform (I suspect in part because they’re actually various federal agents from different departments), and what they do wear is easily purchased on, say, Amazon, complete with “ICE” logos. (It’s all “tactical” cosplay.) Just wearing that wouldn’t constitute impersonating a law enforcement officer, and if one was careful about what one said, one could create a lot of confusion without ever claiming to be an actual ICE officer. (Though I suspect if you did cause any confusion, even without actively trying to impersonate ICE, they’d still prosecute you for it.)
Reading about these (rather incompetent) criminals impersonating ICE agents for months now, I keep thinking that it’s only a matter of time before an organized criminal gang makes a real effort to impersonate ICE. They could commit crimes like mass kidnappings and no one would be the wiser, and if they were competent enough, they could potentially even get the cops to help them.
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Since it is apparently now accepted as “unlawful” to ask ICEish people to show ID or a badge, one would think it would be fairly easy to pull this off. Especially if you had a large enough crew to look like a “legit” raid. No way to know if this has already happened, even.
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I found this to be an interesting take on how Musk’s influence (and DOGE work) may continue to cause problems:
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ETA:
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I mean, Boebert basically defines what she means by masculine here. “Can’t handle the thought of being disrespected, immediately resorts to violence.” It does not get any more toxic than that.
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Seems complicated and will benefit wealthier families more but at least the name tells who to thank.
“Trump accounts” — initially called “Money Account for Growth and Advancement” (MAGA) accounts.
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How Doomerism can be more toxic to resistance than anger:
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That will end very, very badly. Hallucinating phase 3 trials will have incredibly bad outcomes.
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The Washington Post had a feature on Sunday where they tested the top 5 AIs in a variety of reading comprehension tests (literary, legal, political, etc.) and then graded them. The best got a D+ (69.9 %) and the rest all failed. Gemini and Copilot were at the bottom (in the 40% range for accuracy). ChatGPT and Claude were at the top with D+s. Only Claude didn’t hallucinate answers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/04/ai-summarizers-analysis-test-documents-books/
sorry, probably behind a paywall.
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“FDA to go the way of FAA.”
That’s the correct headline NYT.
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This is my point about using ChatGPT for homework. It could save time on rough drafts but if a student tries to use it for anything past that, they are doomed to failure.
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D+? Your school was more generous than mine, 66-69 would’ve been D-, 65 was F
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I guarantee if they tested them against the way language is used in academic papers they would score much worse and hallucinate way more. Yeah, this is gonna be disastrous, but may well lead to “do your own research” being a serious bit of advice, 'cause you can’t trust the official positions.
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