This is what defines a professional military—not bullshit about “lethality” or “meat eaters” or jerking off to kill cams, but some unnamed enlisted person who day after day made sure the ejection seat they were responsible for met the standard so that when it mattered, it worked.

The genius of this movie, and part of what makes it so compelling, is they’re all “complicit.”

we got rid of the president of unavoidable high grocery prices to elect the president of avoidable high grocery prices

When my dad taught Econ at West Point, he actually found a local Marxist to come in and give a guest lecture on socialist economic theory as a viewpoint to contrast and critique with capitalism. He probably would’ve been non-promotable if he’d done that in the current environment.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Cc: @lethalityjane.bsky.social

OK, everyone just writes their own software and generates their own media and companions, and reposts slop, and sends their little agents out to fight with other agents, total solipsism with no financial incentive to do anything new of quality for public consumption, what's your value prop?

I think a logic hole in the "Trump will see the price and TACO" is that we are in that phase already

Is this good?

Would love to hear some educated counters to this, as it seems depressingly reasonable. @bretdevereaux.bsky.social description of this as two wars (US vs Iran and Gulf States + Israel vs Iran) seems right and leans towards continuing conflict or escalation, even if US takes our ball and goes home.

imho it is just remarkable how much we took the text-producing thing, with access to a system whose design philosophy was "everything is a file that produces text", and decided to like, put something else that was worse on top of that

Not an essay but I think about this section from the YOLOv3 paper often https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.02767

tell me you’ve never worked in adtech without just saying “i’ve never worked in adtech”

*stares in 20th Maine* Don’t make us come down there again

what's great about this photo is it captures a truism of life in 2026: everything's very expensive and deeply concerning with no real path toward it getting better but also the memes are usually pretty good

That’s… pretty impressive.

Thought provoking thread.

Conning at sunset.

so i am not optimistic, in the short/near term, about this. because right now there is an intense taboo about saying what reality is like. media, markets, and so many other centers of reality-shaping structure cannot acknowledge reality because it is too scary and intolerable

Wait what year is this again?

To say that I am concerned about the future of our nation is putting it mildly. But it is thus as it ever was, I suppose. Abe says it best. “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

centcom has never seen an expensive strategic capability that is designed for a different theatre and that makes no sense for them in that context, that they didn't want to obtain and fire at iran

Thank you, Fed Chair Powell

Iranian schoolgirls have faced more bullets and violence than Donald Trump. So have South American fishermen.

It's going to get worse and all the work that's gone into suppressing price rises means that once it gets worse, it's going to get REALLY bad.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I do enjoy a good Hovmöller diagram.

this is so profoundly dishonorable

I propose building housing developments on top of all of Trump‘s golf courses to house Afghan refugees, and providing them some level of UBI funded by seizing all his assets.

there is a very obvious reason the u.s. did not go to war with iran over the last 35 years and I think at this point it's clear what that reason is

I think part of what makes matt Levine good reading is not just that hes funny and very good at explaining complex finance topics but that you can also feel his desire to be a neutral professional journalist at war with his desire to scream that so much happening in markets is so fucking stupid

That’s stupid thing to say. I was clearly mad from the start of this thread. I didn’t suddenly get mad when your dumb ass showed up.

Big, fluffy flakes in the Cascade foothills with a convergence zone over the I-90 corridor. Wish we’d had more this winter, but it’s fun to look at while we’ve got it. Even a bit of thunder earlier.

This thunderstorm produced a waterspout over Puget Sound! Photo via Reddit.

This is an excellent, thought-provoking essay.

“It’s not targeting criminals, it’s not targeting dangerous people, it’s targeting individuals who are members of our community, who have a lot to offer and continue to offer a lot of positive things for our entire country and our society.” One of Batra’s children recently enlisted in the military.

the main issue with editing Calvin & Hobbes comic strips as a meme template is that you are probably not as funny as Bill Watterson

I see no problems (multi-decade ground quagmires) here. H/T r/noncredibledefense

This is spot on. Iterated games are fundamentally different, and trying to play them like a string of one-shot games is ruinous. Statecraft is an iterated game.

I can’t find words for this travesty. I hope we will someday be able to collectively look back at this period with the appropriate degree of horror and shame.

I’m sure CISA is totally on top of it… oh, wait.

mood slightly improved by the fact that we are not in the Maximum Nightmare Universe where Elon Musk took over OpenAI and a LLM called Wintermute which talks like weev in the Fark comments section circa 2006 is simultaneously holding every children's hospital in the western world hostage for nudes

Ah, well, never, the, less

I think it would be a really good idea for a general officer to write a book about how you have to resign or speak to the public/congress when they are pursuing policies not in the interest of the nation!

Every day a new way to disappointed in my country. Counting down the days till we can vote again

The conversation I had with the clerk at the grocery store yesterday about the status of food prices, an unnecessary war, and how she has to work two jobs to get by is a small glimpse of simmering anger boiling at the voter level Maybe Congress should go talk to actual people

That won't be disruptive, at all. It's like these people never think past "that'll sound good on TV".

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?