I haven't fully thought this through, but I think poli sci work (eg, www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...), on "what happens when a charismatic regime is no longer charismatic" really explains a lot of the present moment.

Iger, after seeing the new Star Wars trailer which is supposed to distract from Kimmel:

the rhyming structure makes this feel like an Eric Adams line

had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...

Also just as a reminder/history lesson, the A-10 was designed on the basis of a Vietnam threat environment: you could fly under the SAMs and could armor your way out of AAA SA-6s and ZSU-23s in the Yom Kippur War a few years later showed how this was now an obsolete concept

IMO, the problem with upzoning E or G are the transit connections. E is basically just the A (and will be underwater in 50 years), G, you have to figure out how to better connect SI to Manhattan. Conditional on existing transit infra, I'd say (in order): B, F, H, A, C, D

E-MTBs are a sign of weak moral character, IMO. Yes, I was at Graham Hills today.

it was eye-opening to me when I did the five boro bike tour how many casual riders can't ride uphill. They got to the climb on the queensboro bridge, and just... stopped. Created huge bottlenecks, & people who could climb had to stop and walk. If everyone's on a bike this becomes even more common

The AV club used to have a bunch of great writing about random stuff. There was a series where a guy reviewed a box of paperbacks he bought at a garage sale (www.avclub.com/introducing-...)! Good luck finding it these days, or tbh, finding fun writing like that.

That’s why CS are the most easily captured by this kind of scifi nonsense that spreads so easily on LW and SSC. They have no formal scientific OR mathematical training (at most they took automata theory) to encourage skepticism and they are easily flattered by visions of the world that center CS

I think my most millennial complaint is that good listicle websites don’t exist anymore, cracked was a solid read on your work desktop when you’re out of tasks website and that’s just not really around anymore.

Not the best, but I remember getting into cold brew, and making it while living at my parents' one summer in college, back when the only places talking about it were foodie blogs (2011 or so). Anyways, now it's ubiquitous, but I can say I was early

How useful is it to study institutional political science? Scott Greer predicted how ICE would respond to the incentives imposed by Stephen Miller when they were first announced. bsky.app/profile/scot... www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Bring back the iPod classic and the 3.5mm headphone jack

Very excited that my paper with @katakeith.bsky.social is now out in @polanalysis.bsky.social. We investigate whether LLMs actually follow the instructions/definitions provided in codebooks, propose some diagnostics, and release a new evaluation dataset. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cats love boxes

We're now on day 3 of The Dumbest Discourse 🙄🙄🙄

there used to be politicians in their 40s

I can tell this site needs more sports knowers because everyone's been yelling about canceling Disney+ and Hulu all day and I literally haven't seen anyone yelling about canceling the new ESPN app, which was just rolled out and the success of which is existential for ESPN.

#bikesky #runsky 👀👀👀 escapecollective.com/strava-is-ex...

Stealing @sodrock.bsky.social's bit: READ THEORY (basically, the Soviet project in Central Asia was *very* colonial)

They should have called it the "Munich '38 Institute"

Fun fact: Chamberlain's exact words were "peace for our time," not "peace in our time." Here at the Lauretig Account, we strive for historical accuracy in our shitposts.

I mean, I just went there without issue. We don't have to make things up

Does Vader even have a position in Imperial government? He's more like a nebulously powerful adviser who drops in randomly to terrify them. He's basically the Laura Loomer of the Galactic Empire.

I always love a good niche sorts controversy: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fi...

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

"I was thinking about what you said, that the preeminent truth of our age is that you cannot fight the system. But if, as you say, the truth is fluid, that the truth is subjective, then maybe you can fight the system. As long as just one person refuses to be broken, refuses to bow down."

I remember this! I've had a soft spot for him ever since

Would simply like for ABC to show as much backbone as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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Adams is enough of a wildcard that I could *almost* see him getting this over the line. I could also see him taking a bribe of a half-dozen racing thoroughbreds, so 🤷

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

What’s brown and sticky? … … … A stick 😎

Thinking out loud, I wonder if there's a group of college athletes who make more from NIL rights than they would in their first year+ as a pro?

They should have called it the "Munich '38 Institute"

What’s brown and sticky? … … … A stick 😎

Why would you buy separate shampoo/soap/conditioner when 3-in-1 exists? Basically the perfect hygiene product

Groups like @indivisible.org want you to RSVP so that they can contact you about future events, ask for donations, etc. This is called "organizing" and it's how mass political movements work. Please don't listen to mentally ill people on the internet who think they're in the Red Army Faction.

If we're talking food, I have a hot take: Italian American food is better than authentic "Italian" food

i refuse to choose, i live in america, by god, if i want katsu curry for breakfast and tandoori chicken pizza for lunch and a sushi burrito for dinner, i barely even have to leave my neighborhood

My new shirt design is a very serious PSA that I was asked to make, because apparently a lot of people don't know. roryblank.bigcartel.com

A really neat paper thinking through what "Identifiability" means, how we can determine it, and implications for modeling. Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.18853 #statssky #mlsky

Why would you buy separate shampoo/soap/conditioner when 3-in-1 exists? Basically the perfect hygiene product

A really neat paper thinking through what "Identifiability" means, how we can determine it, and implications for modeling. Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.18853 #statssky #mlsky

Wow, this kind of sounds like shit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YNu...

Dem congressional leaders: "I believe it is peace for our time." Dem governors, the base, the left: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Pendant, an insect awarded as a prize

Please share! We're trying to crowd-source a dataset of post-1929 novels with maps.