"pushback from maduro's allies"? we're at war. what the hell are you talking about

"what's the meaning of finnegan's wake" have you never seen a book before? you read it and information is revealed

at this point i have so much contempt for the dems that i wonder if the real objection here is not letting them get a cut of the insider trading

im going to be honest. i think invading venezuela is bad

yeah the DSA IC doesn’t look so batshit insane now that Venezuela has been couped and we’re watching the president debate how he will pillage the corpse while openly vocalizing Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico as next

i think it's pretty clear that he's fine with this

I've discovered the secret to living forever. be a pedophile and eat big macs

tbh i thought he would do this sort of thing to governors and mayors long before he started doing it to foreign heads of state

Before 2025 closes out, I wanted to make a thread on my proudest recent paper! (Ok, it's from 2024, but I haven't done a bluesky thread on it before). Allen et al. (2024) "Nonlinear social evolution and the emergence of collective action", PNAS Nexus academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

nevermind i overestimated him

not sure if people realize this but a big part of the arguments used to advance prediction markets as a predictive tool -the entire claim to public utility of these things- is that they're supposed to work well because they incentivize people to do insider trading. it's more or less what they're for

i think i respect these rare frum types even less than the claremont fascists. they're straightforwardly white nationalists, imperial aggressors, and just generally way to the right, but they love institutions and the aesthetics of decorum so much that they go never trump anyway

I distinctly remember in the first Trump years when people would be like “no, you can’t call them fascist”

next dem president should do this to netanyahu

one lesson of the past couple years is you need nukes. if you don't have nukes the US and its client states will do whatever they want to you.

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

0% chance they have a plan with venezuela btw. i mean i'm sure someone somewhere in the military has produced the 'official' one. but if you can look at trump and hegseth and tell me they have a clear understanding of how things there should be one week or one year from now you are a liar

oh man the letters coming out of schumer's office are going to be off the chain. you think you've seen strongly worded? you have no idea how strongly worded

wow!! this sucks!!!

i hope we get absolutely fucking crushed in venezuala

well i guess the answer turned out to be nothing

Solidarity with Venezuela as they resist American aggression

it's still stunning to me that they made almost no attempt to manufacture consent in advance of this

worst timeline

every time i get hiccups i think about those people who get hiccups for 20 straight years

I want a well-made, modestly sized house (so it isn’t hard to care for). Period. In a place near things I like to do and people I like to, and will like to, be around. In this day and age it feels “absolutely ridiculous” and “if money were no issue” to me.

unironically this poster did tremendous work generating negative publicity for x 🫡

watching shape of water rn. i wanna be this lady in the tub so bad goddamn

Our new episode is now out early for Patreon subscribers! Sarah and Helen examine possibly their most bizarre and odious author yet: psychoanalyst and "gender centrist" Gerald Schoenewolfe.

printed out my lease at the library and in a bizarre mixup it turns out someone else was also printing their lease at the same time and now i have a copy of some random person's lease

You can take the blue pill and go back to your normal life, or the mikeduncanpill and spend the rest of your life looking for podcasters that actually spend time learning their stuff

one thing i've slowly become aware of as i've figured out how to make a podcast is that almost none of them are like any of the ones i listen to. most typical thing seems to be some sort of unprepped interview show where tons of work goes into booking guests. a sort of late night interview format

podcasts

I made it to my final continent! Happy 2026 everyone.

Re holding the bag, @davidgerard.co.uk recently wrote a 'pivot to AI' article (the title is a joke about how the AI people used to be into blockchain stuff), about how VC people bet on impossible tech just so they can leave somebody else holding the bag: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/31/f...

the way zionists keep reinventing antisemitic tropes from first principles is fascinating. an "inherently mobile and perhaps even temporary population" of "worthless biotrash" is "replacing" the middle class and draining resources while secretly running everything you say?

Typical @theatlantic.com writer moment.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

Excited to share the below announcement for our new app at pretext.plus -- author PreTeXt in your web browser, no GitHub required! Join the @mathtech.org Discord chat to grab an invite code: first come, first served! pretext.plus/projects/80f...

need aloof wife or i will die

"For too long those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." - Mayor Mamdani.

We have two job openings at Quanta, for a math writer and a senior editor! More info below:

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

This is a category error IMO. They don’t see it as the paper’s job to investigate whether Pepsi actually is The Choice Of A New Generation, or if Coke really is It. Their job is to present you with the proposition, so the public can decide.

Question for the math heads out there: what is a good place (ie book) for someone who wants to dip their toes into algebraic geometry to start

sadly putting the champagne back in the fridge at midnight

please be patient with me i have no theory of mind