If you’re ever within earshot of me saying “Let me tell you a story” to Chotiner, I hope that you will do me the mercy of precluding whatever is going to follow that by whatever means necessary

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Sometimes I look at my kindle library and think what is wrong with me

Look fellows! An awakened dragon! We will save civilization and the west!

THIS is a podcast idea

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Can’t think of a book I’d to read less than Sunstein’s meditation on liberalism.

COMPOSITION BIAS!

I would simply die of embarrassment if I found myself on TV saying something this transparently stupid. Wouldn’t matter if I really believed it or was simply going along with a lie. Same embarrassment.

I do podcasts with very small and niche audiences, and my inbox is just inundated by AI-generated slop trying to get me to invite random guests on. I can’t imagine what it’s like for @jackschneider.bsky.social and @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social

The you’re-on-your-own tax

I keep returning to this by the late Helen De Cruz

I was teaching the Crucible, once, and on a whim, with 15 mins left in class, I set up a version of Murder. The very first “accusation” devolved immediately into the whole class literally chanting “He’s a witch, he’s a witch!” and I felt like I was the one left shaken.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

"achievement may have improved by 0.017–0.025 SDs if absence rates had returned to pre-pandemic norms in 2023–2024, which would account for 13%–19% of the total needed to achieve a full academic recovery."

Nothing makes me feel more ancient than recognizing in this poll how long ago Frozen and Moana came out

Saw grue jay, was expecting more of this

The Browns had ZERO points with 4:30 remaining in the game

The unitary executive turns out to be Inside Out 3

Every day, for two years, prominent leaders of the party I ostensibly support have slandered me and my colleagues and many of my friends, and frankly, I’m sick of it

An underappreciated nerd pleasure is finding out that your incessant habit of going “Man that sounds like Wittgenstein” isn’t just insane myopia

This isn’t the point, but a recent long read piece on researchers going through Cormac McCarthy’s books noted that he seemed to read a lot of Wittgenstein very closely, and that factoid made me think immediately of this exact scene

Amongst the many, many other faults and follies of the party, perhaps the single most dangerous problem with the Democratic Party today is their incessant habit of reinforcing the idea that there is absolutely *no* principle that matters, no policy that is sacrosanct that they will stand behind.

When Die Zeit is saying a right-wing figure is dangerous, you know the accusation has cleared a real bar

Each person is equally possessed of inherent dignity demanding respect from other individuals and the state. The state exists to protect this dignity from violation and to permit its exercise in autonomous public and private pursuits. No triangulation with first principles.

Paul Simon’s Graceland

Just released in Germany... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFza...

In my heart I know we all share the fault when babies die.

AI is the endless repetition of the past, without any aspiration or possibility of doing better or doing differently. It’s what a human society would be if it utterly gave up on the project of education. You might call that notion ironic, to quote Paxton. But trust me. You’ll come around.

See also @defector.com as an example of this (and staff owned to boot!). Fantastic content w/ a moral & ethical compass. I love giving them my money. If, for example, the entire Washington Post reporting staff quit and created their own version of Defector for hard news, I’d give ‘em my money, too.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Was just reading a history of Chernobyl, and what a day to come across a little factoid about “radio-tochki,” radios that hung on a wall in every Soviet home, and were almost always on to broadcast regime messages. Not having them constantly on “was regarded with suspicion."

"We want to change the perception of journalists away from the elitist East Coast Democrat of yesteryear to the rabid logical fallacy machine of tomorrow. And at the Times, that dream isn’t too far in the future."

Let’s gooooo @schooldaves.bsky.social

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this is why liz anderson's Private Governments is such a useful book, you can see these sorts of things coming ahead of time

Both he and Newman were exactly what famous actors should be: concerned with doing good work and getting good films made, displaying an affection and love for art, having fun hobbies, giving lots of their time and money to help people and not being a complete piece of shit in their personal life RIP

Well I finally have to subscribe

“But they don’t want to take any role in these companies — it is purely a tool to manage the currency.” The SNB becoming a top US tech shareholder purely for FX management reasons illustrates the gestalt switch of US stocks from risk asset to global reserve asset of sorts.

Collective imaginations, you say? Faith in a better way of life? By God, that’s @prorogers.bsky.social music!

"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence

It may be distasteful but it is not illegal to mock someone's death and it should not warrant arrest, ever. The 1st Amendment exists specifically to protect disfavored speech and what is happening now is one of the greatest threats to free speech in the United States.

The maddening thing about this whole thing is how high the stakes are. It’s a must-win situation. And what we’ve got here is Team Will Forfeit snarking about Team Might Lose. The former has got to change course

Thornton just doing a track workout

Does Tom Brady dye his hair?

I don’t care what pundits say about blueskyism; all I know is all the football writers are on here and Sundays are magic

Shawn Colvin “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” has a special place in my heart youtu.be/j3OcjuGaIsg?...

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop. Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.