This Ai thing is going to go like Twitter did. At first the raw democratization it represents will be seen as a good thing. And then Elon will get angry that his authority isn’t respected. And same with Bezos. And then they will ruin it.

Historians: What is the probability that we are now in the beginning of World War 3? It seems plausible to me.

I would like to point out that the Presidency, both houses of Congress, and the Supreme Court are firmly in the hands of Republicans and their appointees. So whatever FOX News or other blabbering bloviating bigots have to say about whose failures and faults these are - they own them.

The Ayatollahs are bad, so we will kill your people too The Ayatollahs are bad, and peoples we call illegal are too They killed 30,000 of you We build warehouses that cannot Count the countless The Ayatollahs are bad Really bad, the worst of the worst Except for our worst The people who say, what?

I just think trying to be utopian and kind might be nice for a while couldn’t we try?

Ai owes its existence to manual sorting technologies. Edged-notched cards are an example. When people talk about the theft of labor, they tend to mean texts. It is so much deeper than that. Like Ai? Thank a librarian.

71 year old man with dodgy past retires as inexplicably his employer pays him to that last day.

Women who like STEM in Texas can study in New York. Spread the word.

It was patently unconstitutional. And even then three of these originality dudes didn’t want to say so.

She should simply read Epstein emails to the public. And then at the end say: “some of you can still decide not to vote for this.”

Ai is collapsing the division of labor. The smart money is on survival readers who like literature, philosophy, and history, but can also understand math.

Have any evil people died in 2026 yet? We seem to be losing the good ones only. Just checking the Fountain of Youth hasn’t been captured by Sauron.

No one in their right mind would die for Donald Trump or Elon Musk or Pam Bondi or Kristi Noem or Viktor Orbán or Vladimir Putin or Tayyip Erdoğan. I’ll plant my flag on that ant hill.

Not nearly enough has been said about how an awful lot of experience with people in elite spaces aligns with the Epstein class narrative. A lot of us have some experience of it to know an awful lot of folks would trade decency for money every single time.

I cannot confirm the truth of this so I think I better download the next batch to confirm. But if true, his continuing at Harvard should be in question.

If you are subscribing to The Atlantic, I’d like you to know that there’s an incredible magazine called N+1 and it will be far better for you and not gaslight you.

I’d bet money to anyone taking bets that ICE will be in Minneapolis next week just like they are now and that nothing will change.

Will future generations read reminiscences about the liberation of warehouses?

Can someone explain to me why Pam Bondi is so angry? I’m confused. She wasn’t on Epstein’s Island

I wonder if we should collectively have an Epstein Internationale We debate the following things: (1) If you went to the Island, do you get an automatic capital punishment regardless of what you did there? (2) If you wrote him directly after say 2008, is it capital punishment?

Detention Camps is a classic euphemism. They are concentration camps. Everyone knows what is happening in them. Everyone. All of us are complicit. All of us.

Donald Trump is the worst American President since Jefferson Davis.

Elon Musk: “I will electrify everything”. Gets $$$ “As you know, no one wants electricity.” Gets $$$ “I will build millions of robots.” Gets $ “They will work on mars” Gets $$$ “As you know, mars is far.” Gets $ “Robots will work on the moon.” $$$ “As you know, the moon is cheese.” Gets $$$ 🤦‍♂️

That’s the country I want to live in

Just spitballing here, but maybe we should celebrate all this beautiful stuff and have a better country?

I imagine Grok is explaining to everyone in the bad place that Spanish is a language actually

That was literally the best response to ICE since Minneapolis yesterday

So someone send an ambulance because Stephen Miller just died watching that

We have reached the part of the Trump presidency where he released the Epstein files to distract us from Minnesota and now has to release racist videos to distract us from Epstein which means next week we will have to do something horrible in Ohio to distract us from blatant racism.

So the software tech companies have suddenly started losing their stock price, and this has led Ai tech companies’ CEOs to say that Ai won’t replace software. But it will replace software and a lot of software. I don’t feel sorry for them.

All forms of bigotry are stupid. It’s really that simple. It is also appropriate to ostracize, marginalize, condemn, use legal remedies, and/or potent forms of boycott to punish bigotry.

It cannot be said loudly enough that one of the things his critics dislike about Tim Walz is that he’s just a very normal middle class guy. He’s not a performative male. He’s not insecure. Minnesotans for the most part like money but don’t conceive of it as the sole purpose of life.

Me: notorious sadist #vss365 # People put me in charge Arranging their funerals Ignoring their needs Napalming their villages People call me PATRIOT Asking for it, imagining the blast radius Necrotizing limbs People want me to do it Anger for individuals they hate Neighbors mainly because #pain

I love it when newspaper reporters get quotes from politicians that actually answer their own rhetorical question. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

… but the radical left incites violence…. Something something something

#vss365 “It is now 12 days before Valentine’s. Your challenge, should you choose it? is to corrupt one #soul per day and then on the day itself invite them all to the same restaurant and confess what you have done. Record the event and put it on YouTube to make money.” “Seems easy enough.”

Here’s my question: will anything happen to these guys writing to Epstein?

Can someone just arrest Summers please?

You know… we could cancel Prime. That’s a thing we could all do. That’s a genuine way of creating pressure.

Can everyone go wearing T-Shirts that say “George Soros is paying me to be here”.

Accountability after the fact matters. But a normal society’s standard isn’t punishment when caught — it’s that there shouldn’t be anything to catch. The Epstein files show how far we’ve lowered our basic standards—so far that we now treat accountability after the fact as sufficient. It isn’t.

How would sum up January 2026?

The peoples who survived slavery, genocide, and apartheid are the real heroes of resilience and grit. Soft billionaires who get sad when their pedo fan mail gets out in public are not.

Texas A&M cutting Plato’s symposium genuinely needs much more conversation as on brand for 2025-2026

My heart.

It isn’t that Democrats are winning because they are popular and offer anything to voters. Democrats are winning because Republicans are exceedingly unpopular. Let’s get real here. There’s a massive shift to the Right in this country as a basic reality. We’re all becoming Liz Cheney Republicans.

Hear me out: a few Democrats willing to risk their lives, have an open carry protest during an ICE protest , super peaceful with long guns and no ammo, some gun control concessions might be possible finally. I realize this would be super dangerous, but it could meaningfully help on school shootings.

Largely the Epstein files teach us that our overlords are neither geniuses or especially hardworking. It would seem we are ruled by pedophiles certain of their importance but who are not very smart. And many of our thought leaders are in fact running cover stories for them trying to hide this fact.

I hope the discourse doesn’t get to “we should have slaves again” Sort of seems headed that way.

I will never cease to be amazed that in 2026 I live with 77 million people who think deporting 1 million people a year is desirable and plausible and that the human cost is irrelevant. Immigrants are the best thing about America - or at least were.