"The model is wrong. Shapiro is not a fellow inhabitant. He is a translator stationed at the border, whose job is to render his clan’s commitments into the local language for export." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-most-a...

*Incredible game*. Might be my GOTY. www.gog.com/en/game/tita...

fun syllogism. We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil. our opponents are evil. Ergo, we must either lie to ourselves or we don’t have a functioning democracy.

Remember when Elon did the Nazi salute and the ADL defended him?

I think it's kind of incredible how these people are all so incompetent that they're sabotaging every potential source of energy we have (except cheap green energy imports, which they can only block) for like the next 5 decades.

At this point they have to create so much more than AGI. They have to turn whatever LLMs are into the next iPhone and the next Azure and the next Office Suite in two years. They’ve pissed off everyone and already spent so much money and it is in no way even remotely worth it

Tech industry really feels like a power keg ready to blow. The WSJ did a whole story about Oracle’s debt and how banks can’t resell it very easily because of the risk. Cursor acquisition isn’t really an acquisition yet. Deepseek 4 drops on a Thursday night. Jensen Huang slightly losing it too.

The Sopranos is even better now than when I first saw it, damn what a show.

"When Peter Thiel said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” he wasn’t talking about your freedom. He was talking about his own. You don’t exist."

When we're too obsessed with plot and not obsessed enough with story, we risk losing whatever substance mass-produced media has left.

The SPLC has a long history of successfully exposing violent and murderous right-wing extremist groups, so this administration - which is made up of those people - is naturally eager to find excuses to grind them into the dust. apnews.com/article/sout...

No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.

Part of my annoyance with the Niemoller poem being such a touchstone without most anyone recognizing they’d already done the “said nothing” part regarding disfavored groups.

Unambiguous, uncut Nazi ideology.

Hardest thing in The Sopranos to explain to people in 2026 is "the iRiver girl".

🚨 nostalgia is a thought terminator 🚨 www.patreon.com/posts/155876...

Exactly one year ago today:

Hell yea about to watch Last Year At Marienbad in a theatre.

[shocked pikachu.jpeg]

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Deloitte is hilarious - that's about as clear a sign I can see of companies going "oh yeah they're gonna lose bad in the midterms and we don't want to be associated with Trump."

JD Vance telling people to toughen up and stop whining is really really funny bc he is a tiny insecure baby man hopping from father figure to father figure hoping it will give him enough power to change himself into a real boy who fits in with the rich snobs who made him their performing pet

this really is a significant blow to the global far right. Hungary under Orban was more than a financier and place to host events: it was a proof of concept

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Germany had like, 150 years of being considered the world's best place to do science and math. Hitler shot that reputation in the face literally the moment he came to power.

It's hard to describe how important Germany was for science before the nazis. Like French before, German was the lingua franca of science. You basically had to know German, for the previous century, in order to read and understand the latest stuff going on.

"If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!" Nazis never changed their playbook.

lmao guess there wasn't any Vance Bump, get fucked fascist.

I think the fact that movements can take lifetimes to enact change can be lost on us in the way we teach and consume history. We always focus on pivotal moments and it underplays the decades taken in the lead up and the contingency of those moments.

Trump foreign policy boils down to causing massive disasters, then inventing some bullshit story and letting guys like Ron Johnson flesh it out on Fox News, and then hoping nothing else happens ever

I think a lot of people here are way underestimating how difficult it is to break a sexual abuse story *even when everybody kind of knows it* unless you can get victims on record. it is very, very hard.

Just watched the Artemis II re-entry and splashdown, which was almost textbook in how well it went. My main takeaway as a layperson following this mission is that it’s striking how much better NASA is at this stuff than the various private operators.

lmao Trump wants out and Israel's unrestrained bloodthirsty colonialism is throwing a spanner in the works, that's deeply funny.

One of these days I want to actually read the HMDI CEC spec to see if it reads as boneheaded as it actually works

The most predictable thing in the world: the Iran war is pushing emerging economies to more fulsomely embrace the Chinese clean-energy+electrification model. When fossil fuel producers demonstrate that they are deranged morons ... you look elsewhere!

BREAKING: After a late night at the Capitol to finish out the 2026 legislative session, we could not be more excited to share that WE DID IT! We successfully defeated ALL of the nearly 15 pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation! Swipe to read our full statement:

Was Pam Bondi the one with the fetish husband or was that the other one, they look the same and I lose track.

If you're on the left and you don't like Hasan Piker for whatever bullshit reason, you should be spending your time trying to manufacture more Hasan Pikers while your enemies are focused on him, rather than also focusing on him.

"The Beatles were a polycule you wanted to be a part of and that's why you still obsess over their breakup" I say to the boomer guy next to me, who immediately bursts a blood vessel and dies.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Computers solve zero problems

I think this really illustrates that a lot of dull people who complain about "politics" in stories, simply do not know what politics are. including, sometimes, the authors of those stories.

Andy Weir is the kind of "hard science nerd" who probably followed Scott Adams and believes that by following "pure science" one can be "apolitical" or something.

It is pretty funny that Trump spent a year complaining about gas prices because of one uptick in cost that lasted like.... A few months? And now he's about to create a cost explosion that will last for our whole lives that he can't fix.

This is how I eat a salad: I take out my katana slowly and bow solemnly to the clamshell while whispering a quiet prayer. In one swift motion, I slice the plastic clamshell in two, sending lettuce splatters into the air and accidentally decapitating the repor

it’s sort of the reductio ad absurdum of moyn/drall’s argument (as i understand it). which, if they’d just come out and said as much, i’d agree. but if you’re not willing to embrace that, idk what the point of this meta debate even is.

it’s gauche to point this out, and i’m certainly not advocating it, but the truth is there aren’t many people willing to debase themselves by authoring anti-birthright citizenship scholarship, and you could shrink that number dramatically if 1 or 2 of them gotten beaten within an inch of their life