Stephen Miller is what happens
when you bury a dildo
in the Pet Sematary.
Apr 11, 2026
A Nerd Thing
From a while ago - not sure if I've posted this before, but it seems pretty important.
It'd be nice if I could count on my government to put my money where it helps, instead of always making sure it goes to parasite billionaires and vampire corporations.
Google AI summary:
As of early 2026, MIT faces significant funding reductions due to federal cuts, particularly with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) slashing support for university research. These cuts, which include a 15% cap on indirect costs, could reduce MIT’s funding by $30–$35 million annually, threatening research into cancer, Alzheimer's, and other diseases.
Key Impacts on MIT Cancer Research:Reduced Funding:
The NIH, under the second Trump administration, has targeted reductions in indirect costs—essential for lab infrastructure, safety, and operational costs.
Impact on Research and Staff:
The funding cuts are disrupting ongoing projects and creating a potential, significant impact on scientific output.
Broader Context:
These cuts are part of a broader federal push to reduce NIH funding by roughly 40% in fiscal year 2026.
Massachusetts Impact:
Massachusetts, which receives the largest share of NIH funding per capita, is seeing major reductions, with around 5,783 projects potentially affected.
Proposed Cuts & Opposition: While the administration has proposed drastic budget cuts to science agencies, some legislative efforts are exploring alternative funding levels.
These reductions pose a risk to the ongoing cancer research, which has been crucial in advancing treatments.
Further Exploration:
Proposed Cuts & Opposition: While the administration has proposed drastic budget cuts to science agencies, some legislative efforts are exploring alternative funding levels.
These reductions pose a risk to the ongoing cancer research, which has been crucial in advancing treatments.
Further Exploration:
Read an in-depth analysis of the impact of these cuts on cancer research from The ASCO Post.
View a detailed report on the federal funding cuts and their impact on research in Massachusetts from STAT.
See a comprehensive overview of the proposed science funding cuts in the second Trump administration from Wikipedia.
Sick Of It
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Lunch is for wimps.
Whoever dies with the most cash wins.
Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
If you're so smart, why ain't you me?
I said all of that - and more - on the daily. Of course, I'm always careful to let myself off the hook with the disclaimer that I was just indulging in some dark and humorous irony - like I didn't really mean it.
But I did. Somewhere deep down, I meant it. I must have meant it, because I lived it.
And it caught on in a big way, because not only did an awful lot of people take it all very seriously, they acted on it in ways that morphed it into an anthem - a paean to a way of living that rationalizes Freddie Hayek's Extended Order and drives the Unfettered Free Market System in a perverse, predatory way that justifies the kind of robotic, unfeeling cruelty at the heart of the world's economic system these days.
Friedrich Hayek argued that human civilization evolved by suppressing innate, collectivist "animal instincts" geared toward small-group solidarity. He believed modern "extended order" (capitalism) requires overriding these primal tendencies, which, if followed, lead toward socialism and tribalism, as explained in his work The Fatal Conceit.Key Aspects of Hayek's Views on Instincts:
- The Tribal Legacy: Hayek asserted that primitive human instincts are not solitary, but collectivist and tailored for small, face-to-face bands.
- Conflict with Modernity: These innate instincts—solidarity, altruism, and collectivism—are "atavistic," meaning they are ill-suited for modern, large-scale, impersonal market societies.
- Cultural Evolution: Human civilization progressed by creating a "spontaneous order" through rules of conduct that override these instincts, favoring competition over solidarity.
- The "Fatal Conceit": The mistaken belief that we can manage a modern economy using innate instincts of group cooperation rather than impersonal market mechanisms.
Which is why we have a system of maybe two or three dozen global cartels - giant mega-corporations that eat companies and shit people.
But then we get to see something like Artemis II, and we're reminded that all we've really got is one planet and each other.
- I'm tired of wars
- I'm tired of lies
- I'm tired of small, pathetic men wasting humanity's time
- I'm tired of the worship of money
- I'm tired of the corruption
- I'm tired of the indecency and the cruelty
- I'm tired of the fakery and the fuckery
- I'm tired of the sadism and the cynicism
- I'm tired of the abuse, the cowardice, and the narcissism
- I'm tired of the shameful criminality
- I'm tired of the need for conquest and exploitation
- I'm tired of dishonorable people never being held to account
We want to be caring, thoughtful,
considerate humans again.
We want to dream again.
We want to live.
Apr 10, 2026
Say What Now?
Interesting that shortly after Melania made her public statement about Epstein and Maxwell, Trump posted a video of a woman being murdered.
Make of that what you will.
The What Papacy?
I think most people agree that an awful lot of churches are just plain full of shit, they're practically nothing more than privileged businesses with a license to steal, and way too many of them have been shown to be a rat's nest of abuse and hypocrisy.
And the Catholic Church's history in particular has been rife with shitty deals and coverups and monumentally stupid alliances.
That said, when the leader of the world's biggest cult stands up for peace and principled conduct, and says there's a real problem with the way certain governments are behaving, and my government decides to get shitty with that church - then I do care. I care a lot about that.
Angela gets it right - "Who the fuck does Elbridge Colby think he is?"
Deconstruction
I've had a deep-seated suspicion of law enforcement for the better part of six decades. I grew up in the late stages of Jim Crow, and my schooling was pretty good in that I had classes in current affairs, in which I started learning a bit about J Edgar Hoover, and some of the shit he was pulling - COINTELPRO, MLK, etc.
We can bandy words over Lord Acton's thing about power corrupting, but I think the main thing to remember is that power will be abused. The more power you hand to somebody, and the longer they hold it, the higher the probability that they can duck being held to account for their actions. There's a reason invisibility is the greatest superpower.
Trump is - and has been - playing that out in real time, right in front of us.
It comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that until recently, FBI recruits were being exposed to the Holocaust Museum, and the MLK Memorial, in order to instruct them on the dangers posed to everybody - including themselves - when we let law enforcement go nuts.
Trump is tearing all down.
Because everything Trump touches dies.
Apr 9, 2026
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