This lady is 1) absolutely setting her kid up for failure (speaking as someone good at math, communication matters more) and 2) is apparently raising someone to not care about other people.

Repost with an iconic fictional band.

Favorite random reddit comment of the day: "Truly wild how Covid broke so many rich people's brains, while we were all like, 'Well, guess I'll get into puzzles.'"

@lytagold.bsky.social 's Dangerous Fictions is not out in paperback. Gonna re drop my review of it because it's just that good. Reading it is like having a beer with your smartest friend. Cannot recommend enough www.kevinvellum.com/p/does-ficti...

There seems a very simple Bond solution but literally in the last one he has a daughter. Just jump twenty years into the future and make her the next Bond. I will take my million dollars for this idea now please studios.

A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.

should people be most upset about DOGE ICE MURDER CORRUPTION? Yes. But if they are activated by the ballroom price of pasta/booze whatever, then fine. So long as they get active.

In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.

Fighting for princesses? Your takeaway from the Iliad is FIGHTING FOR PRINCESSES????? Joyce Carol Oats absolutely broke this man.

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

My two brothers are a union electrician and an Air Force veteran transit guy and we’ve all had actual “lifting shit” jobs, had guns waved at us, been in bar fights, and if any of us referred to ourselves as a “high testosterone male” the other two would drive them to the hospital for a consultation.

Some of my favorite podcasts instead of my favorite reads this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/kcvellum...

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Welp, never shopping at Target ever again. Not only is this going to be incredibly annoying, it is going to reduce the actual helpfulness of employees. Making them perform all the damn time just makes it harder for them to have the emotional and mental energy to actually help when needed.

go folksy go brokesy

The defense. The offense. The skill. The sass. This is what Bedard can be. This is what he has become. My column from the Blackhawks' win in Calgary: www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

Big night for the Blackhawks in Calgary: Spencer Knight earns the team's first shutout in nearly two years in a 4-0 win, and Connor Bedard moves into second in the NHL scoring race with four points. Postgame story: chicago.suntimes.com/blackhawks/2...

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

Did women ruin the workplace?

Been telling anyone that would listen exactly this for years. Jack up salaries, have a ROBUST pension, and do not allow public servants (and their families) to participate in the stock market or operate private businesses, as they are the ones writing the rules

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

Apple Pages is so much nicer to use than Word now. It is still more difficult to do things if you don't know all the shortcuts, but it has no copilot asking to write for me. I write to think, not to be done. And every time I shut it off, a new update turns it back on. I think I may cancel.

A social media platform that requires finding a hidden menu and disabling a bunch of default settings if you want to see the content is an idea worthy of a truly visionary techbro

if the wrapper didn't split you must acquit

We been here for years (1828).

Horrible. Just 24.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

lol

Man, who knew John Rocker had racist thoughts about New York City?

1. This dude is still around? 2. I don't know, a camel taxi sounds pretty cool

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

The lessons of Mamdani’s victory for progressives: 1. Tell compelling stories 2. Identify clear enemies 3. Create policies that address voters’ problems 4. Mix modern online campaigning with face to face conversations 5. Mobilise

LINA KHAN is on Mamdani’s transition team???????? LET’S GOOOOOO

racist tradcath has to be seen, I think, as its own form of heresy

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

Just to pre-empt the pundits, I absolutely believe you could run a Mamdani in middle America and win

Virginia Republicans leaned hard into anti-trans propaganda as part of their main messaging in the final months of this campaign. It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.

“I’ve seen condiments you people wouldn’t believe”

And surely you know that the use of exploding sandwiches against human beings is a war crime, pursuant to the Sandwich (Kent) annex to the St. Petersburg declaration.

A clear attempt to suppress votes.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

Found myself wanting to tweet “The Dallas Cowboys - yikes!” like Magic Johnson, but really this is the most brutal season of the NFL for them in a long time. I’d take the Raiders rolling around in their own filth over Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb burning their careers out for Jerry Jones’ pleasure

How do these twerps not understand that "give into trump's threats!" is not a winning message? Do they not understand both how unpopular Trump is and how people HATE to be bullied?

My grumpiest old man take is any defender who hits with their shoulder rather than wrap up in the open field should be cut before they get to the sideline.

ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs https://theonion.com/ice-agent-panics-after-realizing-there-more-children-than-he-has-flash-bangs/

the parenthetical in quotes is a writer loudly fantasizing about how they think LLMs work, as well as fantasizing about how they think hiking & navigating real landscapes work. both are unreal. it is incredible how much of “reporting” and “analysis” is “but what if magic and unicorns exist??”

“I have a dream that one day the Jaguars will be second place in their division.” “Will they be good, George?” “No. No they will not.”