THIS LINE, though: “The western often plays into American fantasies about the rugged individual conquering a harsh landscape through sheer cussedness, which is a narrative that is actively killing us all right now.” Yes. Yes. Yes.

No one was more comically wrong than people who said the murder of Charlie Kirk would unify the broader American right when in fact it has led right-wing influencers to create Sunni and Shia Islam from first principles

Cool thing with the way core memory works with tiny wires passing through tiny toroidal magnets is that the data saved on that card when it was handmade in the 60’s is still intact

I'm against too many screens in cars because that turns car into office. I already have office

Me explaining to everyone why we should abandon Bluesky and instead each make handcrafted webpages and form a web ring and never allow a corporation to use our culture and communication for something as unimportant and vain as profit ever again

Horrific. Death to US imperialism The condition of their electrical grid is inseparable from the decades long embargo and current blockade www.reuters.com/business/ene...

With America's 21st century status as a solid #2 in peril, there's only one way out of this for Trump. He's going to have to make up something stupid and believe it.

this should be standard library communications imo

So what Yglesias is pushing here is basically a doomed strategy of abandoning the vast majority of the democratic base in metro areas in favor of a fleetingly small set of rural voters who will never vote Democrat because they're brains are cooked by fox news. It's a dumb strategy.

Yglesias is an idiot. He completely ignores the obvious structural reason for why the senate favors Republicans. It's not because Dems don't have sufficient support, it's because the senate distorts popular democracy by giving states like the Dakotas with less population than Brooklyn, 4 senators.

he is so, so mad that people have stolen "The Groups" to mean consultants, zionists, and silicon valley lol

One of the most annoying parts of Gilded Age 2 is how bad they want us to take rich people seriously, even when they say shit like “I don’t think” or “you should feed your whole brain into the computer so I can sell it back to you”

For me it comes down to: do you think this person is smart and will they represent your district well, do they know right from wrong, and will they listen to their constituents. That's just me. Other people feel differently and that's fine, but I'm just begging for smart and decent at this point.

Every gender affirming surgery should include art of your fursona post op wearing a cone.

Hey I think it's time to [REDACTED]

That's a little too on the nose, dontcha think?

Inadvertently makes a case here for why we need to keep the humanities in school

Pope Leo asked me to meet him in a private audience at the Vatican today I presented him with documents and evidence detailing decades of abuse inside Opus Dei and urged him to launch a full independent investigation into the group A THREAD 🧵

Love when Chotiner includes these little bracketed bits

Palestinians are not antisemitic by existing. Arab and Muslim people aren't fungible. You don't protect Jews through Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism.

Great news for all people who appreciate not dying of preventable illness www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

…”it’s been three years since (NYT) has published any in-depth examination of the hard-right groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Heritage Foundation… anti-trans politics underpins the right wing’s broader anti-feminist agenda, something that affects the vast majority of Americans.”

wonderful news everyone i have enabled dlss 5 on 'shower with your dad simulator 2015'

"Sure, everyone who talks to Isaac Chotiner gets eviscerated, but not me. I'm built different!

when you are the president and you stand in front of a banner that says MISSION ACCOMPLISHED you are declaring the mission is accomplished. that is what being the president means. c'mon.

It shows!

wow, Zoom is almost hilariously user hostile

Did Billy Bush ask him this question

Well now

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Esse é o futuro dos videogames com o DLSS 5

Like she could absolutely just tell him and people like this to fuck off and die.

perfidia's story arc is, to me, a story about what failure means to a black woman in the spotlight. you work twice as hard for half as much--but if you end up failing in your mission, you punished ten times worse than all your peers.

They've got a huge network that I'm in the process of graphing. They're now setting up their own PDSes. It's sophisticated.

incredible lawyer-brain on display here. Boies has no expertise on the issue at hand but is absolutely confident in his assessment. when pressed, his logic is circular at best and requires bespoke decisions about what is and is not credible based on nothing but his own assessment.

why aren't other countries helping us with the strait of hormuz after we started an unjust war, cut off trade, and insulted them for a year?

1) The Strait of Hormuz is now the Strait of America. 2) I insist that Iran leave the Strait of America. 3) Iran has left the Strait of America. 4) Europe, help me get Iran out of the Strait of America. 5) What the hell, Europe? Iran is so mad now and is mining the Strait of Europe.

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

Nobody wants rdr3 that has its own pyramid with a project lead entombed with his devs

If I hear about Scope Creep in another game it better be a pervert sniper Kojima made up

bro what use is dlss5, why is jeff kaplan's new game 2060SUPER min spec, etc etc, bro we've been in a goddamn decade of gpu prices being fucked by crypto and ai who can afford this bleeding edge bullshit in the first place like we're not all just gonna play 700 more hours of balatro or sts2

Eh they're okay but what audiences and critics REALLY want is what the new WB will give them: washed-up sex pests making ham-fisted agitprop to please a handful of depraved billionaires.

in one week trump has went from telling the UK to fuck off & saying he doesn't need any help to whining that nobody is helping him fix the mess he caused

Unfollowing Anton Chigurh now yikes

Congratulations to all of the Oscars tonight, especially Oscar the Grouch.

It’s not worth getting upset about the outcome of the Oscar’s because Hollywood is full of stupid people and pedophiles

‘Good Oscars, Good Oscars,’ Repeat Nominees In Forced Post-Ceremony Handshake Line