2005 me: I love literary journalism, I love writers who bare their souls 2025 me: Stop stop oh my god please stop

Alaska Airlines to Extend Companion Fare to AI Girlfriends: tinyurl.com/26btt3zy

Larry Summers has an 8 figure net worth. He doesn't *have* to do anything. He doesn't need a job in politics or at a university to pay the rent. Just let him do whatever he wants on his $400K-1.2MM investment income.

[Starship Troopers voice] Would you like to know less?

See I thought when her place of employ fired her for sleeping with her source and not telling them meant that it was serial conduct which they had caught before and just like didn't tell anyone

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the median prison term is 3.7 for negligent manslaughter and 7.0 for non-negligent manslaughter, so this is within norms.

These people should be sending this stuff to Penthouse forums, good grief.

If you want a housing program for the federal government, it needs to include stuff like this.

None of the deals were complex, they just weren't financial sound. "I want to build a hotel in Atlantic City but no banks will do business with me, my dad doesn't want invest." "Okay, let me talk to Boris."

oh we're doing Dixie discourse too, fun times.

The two genders

Learning some history at a NJ Turnpike rest stop

I'm not a Schlossberg stan but I do support RETVRNing to "look I like what I like, stop trying to put a label on me, man"

This Has To Be Year Local Miniature Golf Course Finally Goes Out Of Business https://theonion.com/this-has-to-be-year-local-miniature-golf-course-finally-1819574969/

It's a specific instance of this. bsky.app/profile/nbea...

Bus lanes and preK were basically the entire corpus of Marx.

18th century tax regimes are hilarious. You could very neatly tax things rich people consumed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_on...

I think if you have to choose between Naylor and Polanco, you choose Naylor. Younger, better baserunning, less of a fluke year on offense. He was a plus defender for the first time in his career, but IDK if that will stick.

Broke: tax height Woke: tax hair bleach

Are elite college students adults or overgrown children, the longest thread in the history of forums. ... this is about Wharton banning multi-interview club applications and Brown trying to kill the non-frat social houses.

All the non-playoff bowl games need to be as corny as this and the pop-tart bowl.

Fascinating to compare analysis and messaging. WMATA publicly quantifying the efficiencies they want, meanwhile the MTA won’t even publicly quantify the inefficiencies they don’t want. Is it because the MTA is afraid of its shadow politically? Or do they not even know their numbers?

The text-based + limited video web raised the value of reference and instructional content and *gave a larger group of people a financial incentive to provide it than ever before*, and all of that is slowly shrinking.

The Pope is sports guy and a movie guy, he's the Bluesky elder millennial Pope.

Left yimbys have to be unified in not allowing higher MHA! There will be a lot of pressure on Wilson to raise it and that would be a disaster for market rate housing in our city.

Keep the tush push but make the false start booth reviewable.

The Mexican Jarritos Instagram account has fewer followers per capita (1 in 2940) than the South Korean Jarritos Instagram account does (1 in 2810).

my wife says to me, “If you could have stopped Ronnie from going into the stands, none of this would have happened.” I say, “Well, Jesus, if I could have stopped Ron from going into the stands, I would be playing in the NFL.” grantland.com/features/an-...

I think they’re 2 of the 3-4 best teams in football and the fact that it was so close reflects that!

Not me feeling good about the Seahawks after a loss.

Certainly in civil rights, the (correct!) presumption was every government employee between your and the supreme Court did not want to do you any favors. A similar mindset existed in environmental law. We live in a different world and we probably need procedures that reflect it.

Again as a reminder this gets back to something like the 2020 coalition, not 2016 let alone 2012

The Neoliberal Lorax would have auctioned off of tradeable Truffula harvesting permits and we'd all be better off.

Seuss wrote the book from La Jolla (suburban San Diego) during postwar/boomer suburbanization. It's pure NIMBYism and air/water pollution concerns today are just not the issue they were at the time.

Every summer since 1983, workers at Crater Lake National Park have gathered data about the lake’s famous clarity. The biologist Scott Girdner has led much of this work. When he retires, a hiring freeze will leave his position unfilled indefinitely. www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...

Tiktok is a sin, let's go

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

There's lots of ways into this, but if you believe Sam Altman is full of shit when he predicts super intelligence by 2030, you should also believe he's full of shit when he states AI will consume 250 GW by 2033. It's about as meaningful as saying we'll colonize Mars.

Very sad to hear about the passing of legendary Seahawks safety Kenny Easley--one of the hardest hitting dudes to ever play the game, and a fascinating guy who stood up to management at many turns. RIP.

The world, like the Mandelbrot set, is not a fractal, but something much more complex. (Will thread if there's popular demand.)

1. By popular demand, 🧵 on the Mandelbrot set, fractals, and some analogies outside math. The tl;dr version is that the Mandelbrot set isn't fractal but quasi-fractal and that makes it considerably more complex.

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:

The most on-brand and accessible "aggressive" or quick fix Mayor Wilson could do, is to unblock key bus route bottlenecks. Much of our bus lane network is effectively wasted because careless/selfish car drivers routinely queue up blocking bus lane turns every rush hour. Like here at Valley/Westlake

I’d also love to see her very aggressively fix some problems, but I’m not hopeful that the electorate would understand that that’s what she’s done. I don’t think it will help her get reelected.

Thriller where three women stumble onto a sinister conspiracy in Washington DC but it’s Nancy Mace, Boebert and MTG

You can't do scorigamis for individual stat lines. That's not a thing.

Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.

This is the way.