Adam McLean

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

Shocking report. Genuinely difficult to understand how this could be true and how the UK government could be so passive and permissive towards these egregious crimes.

I understand Lowe is something of an outlier in UK politics, so I assume (hope) this report is a maximalist version of these claims...

The main facts are:
* Documented incidents of thousands of girls who were raped or gang raped over years or decades in Rotherham and Telford by Child Rape Gangs.
* If you extrapolate the counts from those areas to other areas where Child Rape Gangs are known to have operated, then there may be as many as 250k victims. (That extrapolation is in the report, not mine. Hopefully this extrapolation is extremely high, as it extrapolates from (hopefully) the most prolific instances of this behavior.)
* UK police and authorities knew about this and did little to nothing. Certainly nothing effective.

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

If humans were to adopt monkey economics, we too could enjoy the luxury and wealth of monkey civilization.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

"Vote blue (or red) no matter who" is a bad heuristic; it's good to have some standards, otherwise you tend to be the sucker in the bet over the long run.

[Scottish Banter @1scottishbanter]

Introducing the Scottish-American travel dictionary 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We’ve put together this guide to keep the Tartan Army out of trouble in the States.

Read carefully to avoid confusing the locals, deeply offending the country, or being interrogated by Homeland Security over a sandwich.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

It's not just the evidence of assault.

It's not just the Nazi tattoo

It's not just lying about the Nazi tattoo

It's not just the Kik account

It's not just the adulterous sexting

It's not just the deranged posting

It's all of it (and the more that may emerge).

This is the guy you want to burn your moral credibility for to beat ... Susan Collins?

[Robert Wilkinson @robertwlk]

40 years ago today, l asked my childhood sweetheart, my best friend and the most gorgeous woman l know to marry me.

All three said no.

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Few American politicians in my lifetime have been less willing or able to do this than Obama. His speeches were aptly described, to use WFB's line, as a pyromaniac in a field of strawmen.

[Jordan Schachtel @JordanSchachtel]

Data centers revitalize American manufacturing by driving massive demand and upgrading the power infrastructure in former industrial hubs.

Building American technological infrastructure is good for America.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

@NCHSAA For once in our lives can we just show kids what it’s like to do the right thing instead of hiding?

To admit mistakes and make it right. Isn’t that the actual point of education?

To say the rule book and official guidance makes it clear it wasn’t a violation and correct it.

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

Of the 399 Stratos data center protest responses longer 200 words 24% were AI generated according to Pangram Labs (1 in 10,000 false positive rate).

[Kyle Smith @rkylesmith]

Al Gore predicted in 1992 that in the next few decades, Florida would lose 60 percent of its population due to climate change.
Florida’s population is more than quadruple what he predicted it would be.

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

No uninhabited desert valley is worth losing this.

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

this is my favorite tiktok account so i'm glad he's posting here now as well

pretty much always an unbiased look at the latest news w/ going to primary sources and the data so you can verify it yourself

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

I think the big Utah data center is fine.

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

Why are so many people afraid of data centers?

[Dev Bajwa @ammandev]

I’m not even joking when I say that Alexis MacAllister deserves a red card for this.

He’s lying and trying to get someone else sent off. Not to mention how embarrassing it is, but it’s a trend that needs to stop.

Make an example and it will. https://t.co/uNCUCTC2vs

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Brett Kavanaugh, a man in his 50s, had been valedictorian of his high school, at Yale College and a star student at Yale Law, had clerked for the Supreme Court, had a top career as an appellate lawyer and federal judge and a pristine reputation, and then a random woman from the town he grew up in claimed he had groped her at a party 35 years earlier when they were in high school.

Kavanaugh didn’t try to argue that the incident was consensual. He didn’t claim he remembered things differently than she did. He immediately stated that he had never even met the accuser. Denying ever meeting the accuser is a much stronger claim than merely denying assaulting her, and much easier to refute. After Kavanaugh made this denial, Christine Blasey-Ford no longer had to prove he had sexually assaulted her to scuttle his nomination, she only had to prove that the two of them had attended a party together at which such an assault might have occurred.

She was unable to do so. She did not know whose house the alleged assault occurred at. None of the people she claimed attended the party corroborated any aspect of her account. Leland Keyser, a friend of Blasey-Ford’s, who the accuser claimed was at the alleged party, said she recalled no such event and had never met Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh produced a detailed calendar he had kept during the summer Blasey-Ford alleged she was assaulted, which included his whereabouts of every weekend night and listing who he was with. Kavanaugh argued that he could alibi himself and provide witnesses for any night Blasey-Ford claimed she might have been at a party with him. Blasey-Ford responded that she did not know the date of her assault and was not entirely certain it even occurred that year. Instead of being seen as persuasive, Kavanaugh’s calendar was mocked in both mainstream and social media because the reason he kept it was for a drinking contest he was having with his friends.

Nearly a decade later, there is still not a single shred of proof or a single witness who will corroborate the claim that Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey-Ford were ever in the same room before she testified at his confirmation hearing. Nonetheless, people like Nick Kristof still claim Kavanaugh was “credibly accused” of sexually assaulting this woman.

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

I just can’t believe “1s and 2s to 11” is still the standard over “2s and 3s to 21” in pickup ball.

[Tom Moyer 🇺🇸 @TomMoyerUT]

Please stop demanding that everything be a jobs program.

The purpose of data centers is data. The purpose of electric power generation is power. They create jobs indirectly by delivering the services they deliver. <end rant>