doing this without attaching it to a war powers vote is political malpractice

Ahem.

This isn't pretentious over 50 white guy behavior. This is just dad behavior. When you hit a certain age you're given a specific war or military system that becomes your special interest

I have stuff coming out on this tomorrow, but I would be very unsurprised to see a Chinese diplomatic role here; they have credibility with Iran, leverage with Trump, and they very much want the Strait reopened.

It turns out the real nuclear deterrent was the minor hiccups in tanker traffic we made along the way.

a lot of critical methodologies build nests in cacti and make it seem like a claim about the cacti.

Literary critics anytime you claim a paraphrase of a novel can be better than the novel

it is going to be funny when we get the Green New Deal out of this, though

Happy international worker day May 1. See the face of a friend in every other worker, and war becomes impossible.

We'd have a new American arts renaissance in a couple years if we 1) lowered rents and 2) created WPA 2.0

the conclusion I've come to on this stuff is that most people genuinely cannot use their imaginations. when they're told a good thing might happen they can't conceive of that, and when they're told a bad thing is going to happen and then it does, they're absolutely shocked

This is 100% a factor, literally every gig economy service was unsustainably subsidized by the companies themselves in a 0% interest rate environment and when interest rates were finally raised the consumer backlash to having to ACTUALLY pay fair market price caused a psychological shock

That a lot of the story of 2024 is the American *consumer* class going Kalecki is really important and something we need to deal with; instead of pretending something more convenient happened.

Slow, relentless, accountability is not a bad thing to aim for

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

[At my 16 yo's winter track meet, getting a wristband for entrance] Me: Just like when we used to go to the clurb My 13 yo: what's a clurb

[5/6] I don't know whether these changes will be good or bad in the long run. If you're sad, I can't talk you out of it. But it's still true: if higher ed wants to play a meaningful role in 21c knowledge production, we have to seize the means of production and make them public. Unpaywalled:

I have made some Brontë-inspired pottery

It'd have, somehow, to be a game in which the players themselves think they're all playing different games. (Bulstrode is playing Monopoly; Casaubon, Trivial Pursuit; Lydgate, Snakes and Ladders; Peter Featherstone, poker. Ladislaw gets fed up, pushes the board off the table, and walks out.)

this is also what happens in Percival Everett’s James, which repeats propaganda that the North didn’t really care about freeing the saves, but like, leftishly.

An example in support of this view: gay marriage An example against this view: ending the war in Iraq

This is so spot on

I would buy this game. I would take this class.

The greatest idea I’ve ever had, derived from a Richard Menke Facebook post: what if students in a Victorian novel course had to design a Middlemarch board game as a final assignment and defend its structure as capturing the form of the novel?

Well his name isn't Thomas Readerton

holy shit, she’s running.

Temu Stanley Fish

i think it is a massive fucking problem that the first best use for LLMs was to cheat in school

[the absolute biggest bong hit that has ever occurred] I'm going to turn a TOOTH into an EYE

I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.

it really gets my goat that people are dragging Anthropic for employing philosophers. like, what did you think those guys (gend neutral) were for

These are going to become the Stolpersteine of the United States.

MeToo, MeFurious

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

What sucks is that an intellectual history of Reason over the last ten years—in other words, an honest version of this column—would be a pretty good analysis of why and how Trumpism happened.

“American Indian” is not an offensive term and the weirdos who searched through my tens of thousands of posts to try and find something they could use to label me a racist are not acting in good faith. The game of trying to set up rhetorical tripwires to attack people you hate is incredibly toxic.

A quick thread on this that touches on Talarico's stance on abortion rights. I heard him discuss this on Ezra Klein, and it was the finest—maybe the only?--defense of abortion as a Christian act I've ever read. My attempt to reconstruct his view charitably. 1/?

[circle of love] Nora Roberts: ok ladies we've got a new storyteller here tonight Roberts: everyone say hi to Coral hart Coral Hart: oh that's not my real name Hart: i have to keep my real name secret because readers hate anything its associated with Roberts:

A labeller that sorts posts into either "relations of ideas" or "matters of fact," with a little fork once they've been appropriately judged.

Okay so Ricky looks incredible for someone who warned us "she will wear you out / living la vida loca," so now I suspect the "she" was self-referential, Martin was confessing to new discoveries in her sexual identity, and it is rather the rest of us who have been worn down into liking Ricky Martin.

The real black pill is abortion rights—turns out “I have personally paid for abortions but have also appointed justices who made abortion illegal” was a magic spell.

I worked for eBay in 2012 when we banned the metaphysical category - my address was public so witches and wizards sent me emails threatening to take my money and shrink my penis. So i can tell you that those spells work.

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The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled

I do think the biggest difference between woke 1 and woke 2 is that woke 2 will be unabashedly bilingual, and that might get Weird

Good fucking god

reporting you to the aarp