The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

Really sobering discussion with my 4th-year students as they contemplate post-graduate employment. They talked about "overwhelming anxiety," disappearing career ladders, fake job ads, no safety net, massive uncertainty, desperation... I really don't understand what we're doing.

It’s true, there is a great deal of diversity of thought on the right. You got the Nazis, the pedophiles, the pedophile Nazis, the racists, the ultra-racists, and of course the bag-holders and marks for every dumbass fraud you can imagine. Truly a rich tapestry of human experience.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this.

I'm very excited to be at OSHWA next week in Berlin, talking about open-source supply chain mesh networks for disaster resilience and response.

Excited to announce the creation of a new AI application called Broken Clock. It’s guaranteed to be correct at least twice a day.

Thanks, I hate it

There is a very long list of things that Musk doesn’t actually understand, to which we can append “free”, “speech”, and “absolutism”.

Caught in the act of stealing from the bird feeder, you can see the exact moment the squirrel decides maybe this is not the best audience for this particular act.

21st century political violence in the US doesn't really come from the left. It comes almost entirely from one of two places: 1. The far right. 2. Neurotic weirdos overwhelmed by pain and chaos with unmappable political opinions.

Call me crazy, but it kinda seems like there should be a more reliable mechanism for removing people from office than relying on their own sense of shame and the willingness of their political party to hold them accountable.

Nailed it. No notes.

Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if Trump declared himself Anti-Pope and tried to establish a new papacy in Florida. It would work out about as well as anything else he does but at least it would be more funny than horrifying.

My brain this entire fucking week:

Good advice, door. I’ll work on that.

We live in a world littered with the wreckage created by people who are good at one hard thing, who assume that anything else must be easy and therefore they’re already experts and since they’re so rich and successful clearly they are qualified to run everything.

*taps the sign*

Thank god Congress isn’t alive to see this

I voted for Trump and now I am living in a post-apocalyptic hell hole where I am slowly dying of radiation poisoning. But at least now no one is saying "happy holidays".

My latest. "The only place I know how to begin is here: We are at war, and I want it to stop."

One of the very best from Clickhole

We have murdered Satire, and sit upon its corpse like a throne.

As a US senator, I do not support Donald Trump committing war crimes in Iran. But if I don’t let him commit them, I could be primaried by a far right challenger who also lets him commit war crimes, enthusiastically.

I sometimes imagine that Trump and all his enablers are locked in a vault, and they’re all allowed to leave as soon as anyone manages to teach him a single new thing, which he can demonstrate true understanding and mastery of. Obviously, everyone starves to death in this scenario.

I appreciate that the French have understood exactly what America is about for quite some time.

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Who does he think won the Vietnam War?

DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org! Enjoy 🧊🔨 ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...

“I know Andrew is a good man who’s been treated terribly, but you remember when we learned a few minutes ago that England and the United States are two different countries?” said Senior Advisor Gerald Donovan

Or we could tear it down and just not replace it. ICE serves no real purpose, it's only useful for racist violence and, I know this is a hot take, maybe we should not do that.

JFC this guy was everywhere. He's like the Forrest Gump of Crimes Against Humanity.

How do you organize safely and effectively in the golden age of surveillance? I have some thoughts and Wired does too: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

The least surprising news I have heard since discovering that Nick Fuentes is a virgin.

The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't. They won't only be for brown and Black people. The targets will keep expanding. It will not end. The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.

At this point, MAGA is just the party of nazi pedophiles. There’s no getting around it, no reforming it, no pretending it’s about anything else. This is who they are, and always will be.

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

Roses are red Gender is performative I wish Valentines Day wasn't So heteronormative

Thinking about the time Leonid Brezhnev had a stroke, and then continued to rule the USSR for 6 more years, in which time he barely knew where he was or what was happening.

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

Speaking as someone who tames hungry ghosts for a living, this is highly accurate.

Time is a flat circle

"It’s disgusting and, frankly, counterproductive to point out that I voted for this. To imply that I had personal free will and agency when I walked into a voting booth and picked Mayor Bomberman is insulting." #McSweeneysTop20of2025

When people say they're excited for 2026

"New year, new me" says my clone, as he shovels my body into the incinerator