The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

"Judging by the evidence, it might appear that people who transition are happier, but what's important is that we don't want them to be."

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."

As the Met Gala approaches, I want to remind people that the Gala is the primary source of funding for the Met’s Costume Institute. The Costume Institute, despite being a major draw for the museum, is not funded from the same big kitty due to misogyny (fashion is for girls).

Multiple articles have been written about Bluesky being a dangerous echo chamber while the world’s richest and influential men are having their brains cooked in increasingly extremist group chats

We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.

degrowth should probably start with mark zuckerberg’s $300,000,000 yacht and not like your cousin’s adderall

1) This bullshit is *costing* us a ridiculous amount of money. 2) It never was about "cutting costs;" it was always about control. …I said "THIS WAS ALWAYS ABOUT USING THE RHETORIC OF EFFICIENCY & BUDGET TO GAIN ACCESS & LAY CLAIM TO SENSITIVE DATA & WEAPONIZE IT AGAINST PEOPLE THEY DON'T LIKE."

The Venn Diagram of Americans who say the government should be run by a business and who also complain bitterly about how every time they call customer service they get put on hold for an hour and then have to talk with "some foreigner who can't speak proper English," is a circle.

lol

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it”

If men are depressed and broken because they "have nothing to do", they could try cooking, cleaning, and doing laundry. They could spend more time with their children. They could even buy their own mother a birthday present, instead of expecting their wife, girlfriend or sister to do it for them.

DO NOT MISTAKE EARNESTNESS FOR A THING TO BE AFRAID OF. “Cringe” or s too often simply just the word used to mask the discomfort that comes with being vulnerable! It’s okay to feel vulnerable about being earnest about important issues in the world!

A glorious winery Saturday in the Willamette Valley

Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! Because you'll procrastinate to avoid doing that thing you used to love before you made it your career!

Nobody knew how bad this would be, except for the many people whose warnings I dismissed, but they don’t count. Actually a good distillation of the mindset. Having already unpersoned everyone who understood what was happening, there’s no need to reconsider the belief in one’s inherent superiority.

When did we all just agree that the federal government is bloated and could benefit from cuts? I keep seeing this as a throwaway statement before media outlets criticize Trump, Musk, and DOGE. But it’s transparently false. Many government offices are actually severely understaffed.

Same, little pepper, same

God, I feel old. I just told some young 'uns that Bruce Willis was cast against type in Die Hard. They found this unbelievable, but their phones told them otherwise. Kids, I am older than your phones and possess knowledge that is not on your newfangled Interwebs. Believe me.

More babies in wildflowers. Because I love you.

It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide

After Trump sent a lynch mob after Congress, not only did the GOP not impeach him, they drove the Members who tried out of the caucus. But a black Dem who stood up, we can’t have that. The Dems don’t lose because they’re too far left, they lose because they stink of weakness.

I'm not doomscrolling, I'm just sampling a buffet of farm-to-table panic attacks

INTERVIEWER: You have billions of dollars, and apparently nothing but time on your hands. What's next for you? Philanthropy? BILLIONAIRE: Great question. I am going to devote most of my time to eliminating vaccines and vaccine research.

A Democrathicc Party to make FDR look like a conservative

Humanity will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last techbro.

This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

Musk has a moody teenager’s understanding of the world: He constantly mistakes random thoughts for deep philosophical insight and whenever he encounters something he doesn’t comprehend he yells “This makes no sense!” in angry indignation. Really the worst kind of person to hold power.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

If you show up to my house in a Cybertruck asking me to pay for a service, I am going to assume you’re ripping me off and also a dipshit. Sorry.

Some good news for a change: I'm writing again! Or I'm at least trying to, anyway. I think I've finally identified the problem that stalled me out on Nate & Sunny's book. Now I just need to identify a solution.

The Superbowl is very much Not My Thing™ but that halftime show was fantastic

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

It is striking how uncomfortable some people get when Black intellectualism is on display while, at the same time, they have no problem with Black athleticism. It's giving "shut up and dribble." It's giving "I don't want to look in the mirror."

A blessing

Every now and then it's nice to pick your head up from your book, reacquaint yourself with the world, take a hard pass and immediately go right back to reading. Balance is important 📚❤️

Would you rather read about the downfall of civilization or stare at this burbling stream?

Every time I come on here, I'm hit by such a towering shitpile of devastating news that I have to close the browser and walk into the woods

The thing about science is that if a phenomenon such as climate science weren’t real, they wouldn’t need an executive order forbidding its study. The better we explain the social processes of science, the clearer it will be to everyone that this EO is an admission that climate change is real.

respect truth in advertising

Be gentle with yourselves today, my friends

Sunday morning walk through a redwood grove

The view from today’s walk in the woods: