It is shocking to me that no one has written a book called “American Gosplan” like what is wrong with you people

I worry sometimes about how stupid the average MP is, we are not sending our best folks.

Guys love to say “this one’s for Coltrane” and then play the most ass tenor sax solo you’ve ever heard

CHOTINER: So last week you said the word “strawberry” has six R’s. CHATGPT: Yeah and I want to thank you for the chance to address that because it’s a trick question— CHOTINER:—actually, no— CHATGPT: —since the word “strawberry” is spelled with a 9. CHOTINER: The number 9? CHATGPT: Absolutely.

When you choose to use endnotes you're just condemning your readers to convert your stupid endnotes into footnotes themselves (unless they, for some reason, want to keep flipping back and forth to the end of the book).

not a serious institution

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

Everyone making fun of him but these robes come with +1 spell save DC and +1 to ranged touch attacks so who’s laughing now?

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

Isaac Chotiner: and value is measured by socially necessary labour time? Me: yep Chotiner: and the book defends a labour theory of value? Me: yep Chotiner: but here it says the question isn’t why value is expressed as labour, but why labour is expressed through value Me: 😬

CHOTINER: You recently wrote “It’s So OVer.” Can you elaborate? ME: Yes. Of course. By writing that, I sought to diagnose and provoke a conversation about the current moment. CHOTINER: But a few days later you wrote “We’re So Back.” Can you explain the contradiction? ME: Yeah well uhh you see—

How it started // How it’s going

do none of these people know who Chotiner is before taking the interview? (“Who he is”, by the way, is “a journalist willing to ask follow-up questions” which I understand is shocking to many)

He said basically the same thing again today. The Russians have been very clear about what their terms are for years. The problem is that there are no terms acceptable to Russia that Ukraine will accept and none acceptable to Ukraine that Russia will accept.

No woke? Go broke

Oh good, Carney and Poilievre are competing to see who can come up with the most austerity

My friends built me a end table/bookshelf, which has become my shelf for in-use books

Preparing for the Anglo Century of Humiliation. Part 1 - learning to use new tools. Part 2 - learning important phrases (“comrades, I surrender!”)

Let’s goooo

With the obvious caveat of “they are objectively stupid enough to try it” I think some of you are too quick to assume a conspiracy to plant false evidence in the Kirk shooting case. Evidence in criminal trials can take quite a long time to come out.

Probably fine that the Republicans are publicly talking about a huge crackdown and meanwhile Democrats are completely AWOL

Writers from The Atlantic should be kept in a kind of idyllic petting zoo without keyboards where children can give them handfuls of goat feed and scritch behind their ears

My #1 wedding fear was that the glass would roll or move instead of break

We’re very cute (featuring professional pics this time)

more like Years of Fed

(Although, since I’m the one doing it, luck will demand that AI companies post record profits)

Hegel* remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Sold my treasury bonds late last week on the (hardly unique) hunch that US tariffs have made US bonds into a less attractive alternative to other (normally more volatile) US dollar-denominated securities than they used to be.

I have no idea whether they got the right guy, but they are definitely stupid enough to get the wrong guy. How well do you think Kash Patel’s team tram handled the collection of evidence, the taking of witness statements, and the other things necessary to prove him guilty if he doesn’t cooperate?

Lot of folks (who don’t shoot) are acting like 200 yards is some kind of insane shot that only an elite assassin or supersoldier could make. With a 30.06 that’s well within iron-sights range and with a scope/sight that’s well within “embarrassing to miss” range.

I forgot this was a Turning Point USA bit for a while there

(seven hundred words describing in minute detail exactly what kind of communist I am)

The United States is completely dominated by Marvel Brain

Dad is back to being unresponsive/borderline comatose so I’ve had a lot of time on my hands. I painted a tank because a real-life hobby is probably better for you than going on the computer all the time in such circumstances.

It’s actually very easy to give a plain-spoken defence of minority ethnic groups in your country, despite what many politicians on the liberal and soft-left side of things would like you to think.

even Matt Yglesias is dunking on them they’re cooked

That’s an awful lot of firepower to park off the coast of Venezuela. There aren’t enough troops to do anything with (conventional) boots on the ground. But the Americans might try picking a fight to expand the state of exception/war on terror to the Americas.

people get mad at any mention of Carl Schmitt but it’s just objectively true that the sovereign gets to decide on the state of exception

Trying out the new translation, let’s gooooo

We are very cute (and so was Trinity Bellwoods)

Dad's in a coma in the ICU but it's a teaching hospital so there's Eduroam access, and therefore there will be no interruption in the posting/pdf-downloading

Marxism isn’t reading Foucault, Marxism is pointing to a chart of 16th-century grain prices and telling someone “this is why your life sucks”

Publicly: I think on the left we need to be better about disagreeing without immediately fighting to the death Privately: could you please stop writing such embarrassing shit you wrecker

Just married

People always look at me weird when I make fun of the Ivy League but look at these freaks and losers

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me

If he becomes mayor, Zohran Mamdani will have to tackle New York City's biggest beast: the NYPD. @alexvitale.bsky.social has some suggestions for how to do just that.

The Iranians were really cooking when they called America the Great Satan