This is another issue I have with punditry: are you trying to convey the most accurate factual assessment based on your focus of knowledge and understanding, or are you trying to play the odds/trying to make sure the optics are going to be good for you

We’re not going to just walk away, we have oil to steal. But yeah walk away from caring about what happens to the people and their governance, sure

Pundits are always focused on "how does this play" instead of "is this actually true," and the complication is it's pundits that shape how politicians' statements play. So if pundits are saying "trump is positioning himself as the anti-war candidate," the message they convey is he's anti-war.

Every eight years:

I was wondering why my autocomplete always suggests JDAM when I start writing JSON

I don’t expect much from them, but it’s pretty messed up for Republicans to spend all last week saying Dems who don’t show up are “reprehensible” and “disrespectful” only to say the Dems who did show up are “crazy.”

Objectively, the courts preventing trump from continuing his disastrous tariff policy would be a windfall for him. The media’s praise is misplaced, this is a tactical decision from a politicized court

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

It’s just gibberish policy and always has been. How can a company planning for the future make rational decisions on logistics and infrastructure when they don’t know if the tariff will increase by 150% in a day, or reduced to a fraction tomorrow, or found to be illegal next week

Weird how the “oh actually in context it’s almost but not quite as bad as it sounds so we won’t bother reporting on it” argument has never in my lifetime ever applied to democrats, only republicans

A tariff isn't a fee the other country pays, it's a tax on those receiving the goods on our end; this is his core economic policy, his one economic "innovation" and he still has zero understanding of it

It costs are 150 then retail is more like 300-450, at least twice as high as they could have been bought previously with free trade

2026 basically

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Real task assigned to our backend devs: "update Symbol: CLOWN to have an alias of clownworld"

Currently under 50k so it must be doing bad now right? It's imperfect now correct? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Fell for it again award world champion

Which model chose the name Corvina bc I’d dump that one

Instructions clear: ghost-rode the whip to the car wash

"Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights." oh so nothing changed

Despite claims from the NYT, politicians can't in fact "repeal" scientific findings

MGS4 is only playable on a PS3 and is real difficult to emulate, so this is like a holy grail for Metal Gear fans

After all this time they still don't have a design, they're still in the "Nano Banana give me some ideas" stage. This is going to be a monumental boondoggle

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Fun fact: The divorce scene in the Kid Rock show was an actual divorce showing a wife leaving her conservative husband.

"Hey Adam why do you always make sure you can do a `dry run` whenever you work with anything that moves or renames files"

I can't stress this enough, but RFK jr knows literally nothing about health or nutrition, and all his "advice" is just him hanging on to fad nonsense that's long been debunked like every other nutrition fad

So much of where we are right now is due to tweet-addled "thought" leaders mistaking algo-boosted slop for genuine zeitgeist

If the President doesn't have any idea what he's sharing, that's a scandal of its own. It certainly would have been if a Dem President of his same age did that during his term

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

"We should have been doing what Democrats were doing in the first place" is a fucking wild position for Rs to start scooching towards but that's eventually where they're going to be, all the while continuing to say Dems advocated for open borders

I think this is only 5g more than regular pop tarts so just eat a normal one with a half glass of milk and problem solved

So what's happening is, no one wants to perform there anymore so he's going to demolish it

“The party of absolutism on free speech” strikes again

There's something about watching AI-generated video that always gives me an eyestrain headache, I wonder if it's a lack of motion blur or framerate weirdness or some similar phenomenon

That's a fair list, but what are the consequences for the administration just ignoring it, as they have a predilection to do

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

I don’t even understand what kind of alien creature this this is tbf

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

This is better than the framing most news orgs are using, but IMO the reassurance part isn't newsworthy/worth mentioning at all (no reason to trust it's a solid reassurance, therefore it's meaningless), and the only newsworthy part is the implied threat

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Oh so that's what HHS's new food guidelines were about

This is the sort of stuff I remember when republicans try to convince me they're the party of free-speech absolutism

The bluesky audience is definitely not the market for this, but as a Stocktwits engineer it's pretty interesting to see our cashtags be essentially table-stakes for any social media platform

The comma is bizarre so I'm going to guess an AI transcription, article generation, and social-media posting pipeline where they just dump the audio into a portal

This is Paul's "shtick" he does every year, and he seems to reference this one over a decade-old study every time. This time he conflates the entire budget of the (wrong) agency as the cost of the study, and deliberately avoids why mentioning why (human research ethics) we might do animal studies