This is Japanese for “flavor-blasted”

Point blank in broad daylight

Announcer, just now: "That's right, he's from another planet."

Messi is better at soccer than anyone else is at anything

Messi is such a talent, it's really absurd

as expected! www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/p...

orange cat out there being a typical little guy, play-eating Romeo and being the center of attention www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/a...

<dad mode> You know the problem here is, they didn't stir it properly. Get me the G-town men's varsity eight, we'll sort this by nightfall.

This thread is profound. It describes something that many university educators can sense: students who feel lost stressed by the proliferation of AI which they *know* interrupts their learning, and betrayed by a system that insists that they must use it nonetheless or be left behind

The decline of patriotism on the right should be seen as a problem, not just an opportunity for Democrats to make hay | Tom Pepinsky

I haven't seen the Persians embarrass a head of state like this since Darius the Great captured the Lying King Skunkha in the Behistun Inscription

The World Cup and the Olympics are great because, every once in awhile, it's important for countries to peacefully go to war with each other over national honor

As a professional MOU signer, I’d like to offer this tidbit: MOUs are things that you sign because someone needs a formal “deliverable” or “key performance indicator.” They are not plans for anything.

Mamdani beats Trump

Read this product description of "organic" milk, clinically tested, all natural, and with all these chemical additives to support brain development nara.com/products/inf...

Literally the best post in bluesky history. This is the Kenneth Arrow of posts

— let’s do “Morrissayings” for $1000, Ken — very well, the answer is: “Tilda Swinton, Anthony Kiedis, and Canada”

Ross Geller lol

Studying Indonesian history teaches you things

Dutch referee is the most Dutch person alive

When I teach comparative politics, I use the case of the Rugby World Cup in South Africa to make the point that loyalty to a state and its people is very different from loyalty to a regime. Go 🇺🇸!

Everyone has something that hits them right in the feels. The Washington National Opera might not be the biggest player, or the most urgent case, but holy hell. Just straight garbage out of this administration.

hell, back in 2019 our only choice would have been to put the screwworms on the blockchain with quantum computing

Time marches on, and generative AI mapping capabilities get better and better. Supervision is still essential, but the results are impressive. tompepinsky.com/2026/06/11/a...

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In all seriousness, we got a nice test of audience costs here. - Do the American people like that the president makes bold threats and wild predictions and then backs down from them? - Do other countries then anticipate that the president will follow through on these threats? I think no to both.

Hey IR folks, is Audience Cost still a thing or has Trump destroyed that too?

Offensive Liberalism. Interested, @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com ?

The Reconstruction Papers are now available for pre-order in the US! International readers, we will be offering a print-on-demand option for you very soon, and will update this page with it when we do www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

These people were kind enough to include a proposal of mine in the project. Despite that lapse I am very excited to read the whole collection.

Just… just imagine how Online you would have to be to think that Spencer Pratt would be elected mayor of Los Angeles. That is too Online. That is too much Screen Time.

In all seriousness: religious freedom only works when it is a common project of defending everyone's freedom of worship and belief. It doesn't work as an individual project of asserting your own freedom to be religious how you like. Senator Lee is learning a hard lesson here. Hope he remembers it.

Imagine if in 2007, Countrywide said “Mortgage Backed Securities are not only a novel product with mysterious features that even we don’t understand, they also are intended to take away your job, control your dishwasher, replace your friends, and Christopher Hitchens is in love with one of them”

I am reminded that despite my sincere belief that Boris Johnson would be the most entertaining dinner party guest imaginable, he is also a liar and a fool

Just remembered we've passed the 10th anniversary of this untruthful tweet

Remember the great uncles who you never met and the cause they died for

I'm thrilled to be writing GREEN GIANT for PublicAffairs.

Because I am 1-3 months behind in my RSS feed, I just came across this essay by @interfluidity.com on the liberal professional class, our aspirations, our ambitions, and our politics, over the past 50 years. It is excellent. Read every word. drafts.interfluidity.com/2026/05/13/t...

Email was a revolutionary change to the nature and speed of business correspondence. Did it make you more productive?

Iowa state government passes a law that university courses on American government are compulsory, and can only be taught by the Center for Intellectual Freedom. www.chronicle.com/article/a-fl...

I'm sorry, this is talking about which countries now?

The moral economy of artificial intelligence in higher education is fascinating. The temptations are real: busy people really find it hard to resist pushing the "make me some text" button. And yet we all know that the text generated by the "make me some text" button doesn't really count.

it's funny every single time

This is a research design for the causal effect of Pennsylvania relative to Florida www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Read this ridiculous @economist.com article if you want a good laugh. We used to be a proper society where liberal weeklies cared what words meant. www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Your periodic reminder that you should not put zeros or infinities in your calculations. Costs are never zero, demand is never infinite, no firm or business is asymptotically approaching anything

This new piece by ANU economist Hal Hill--one of the giants of Indonesian economics--is a fascinating, accessible, and wildly informative review of Indonesia's modern economic history. If you care at all about economic development, here are 10,000 words to read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Think of it this way. If a group of racists formed a racist party and said "we are implementing racism by drawing maps to exclude the party that black people vote for," that would be permissible under Callais, because they formed a party