Largely given up yelling at the NYT because - as I learned too late - my outrage was the point. Leadership felt embarrassed by the Bennet resignation and viewed themselves in competition not with WaPo or WSJ but Bari Weiss and Chris Rufo. They latched onto trans rights as their proving ground.

NEVER A DOUBT

I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.

Who is responsible for putting Seranthony Dominguez in to close a 1 run game?

I didn’t think it was possible for me to feel this way, but I think I am tired of technology.

Every year now there’s at least one book about how no one is heterosexual anymore. It’s amazing how much mileage you can get out of a ludicrously false premise. The issue is not that heterosexuality is uncool, the “issue” is that women finally have choices

I think it’s time for a new constitution, and good news, we don’t need to worry about Article 5, because the constitution is not currently the law of the land

The president is constitutionally ineligible, he’s fighting an unconstitutional war, and took unconstitutional power over the purse; clearly the constitution is not real

incredible how succinctly this nails the problem with populism, or at least popularism. if being misogynist is popular, that doesn’t mean we should embrace it. matt, of course, knows this and is just making excuses for his bigotry.

who decided to call it "vaginoplasty in boston" when "the big dig" was right there.

Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century

I am here for Harrison Barnes minutes in the 2026 NBA Finals

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

inflation driving the cost of gender to absolutely ruinous levels

if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k

this was a beautiful and deeply empathetic piece from the always-lovely Grace Byron. a heartfelt thank you to everyone at The Verge involved in getting this on the front page there too - it means a lot @reckless.bsky.social

Excellent piece from @davidimel.com on smart glasses' seemingly imminent destruction of all forms of privacy. I think it's really important!

This photo is funnier than it has any business being people.com/hairdresser-...

Oh this is delightful. Let's start with SpaceX's violation of 17 CFR § 229.504 (Item 504). Their "use of proceeds" neglects to mention they are contractually obligated to use the first $20 billion from it to pay off a bridge loan. This is also while their quarterly cash burn exceeds $8 billion. /1

Two relevant paragraphs from a recent essay of mine thefudletter.com/the-media-is...

decided to migrate the skeletons of my blog from Substack to @offprint.app tech seems neat and I'm all for the model of decentralized distribution! linked my first post (originally from Feb 18 2026) below the-query.offprint.app/a/3mmcusshlo...

I think for Cornyn and Paxton we should invent a cage match where two men enter and no men leave

A segment of BlueSky need to stop with "AI is a fake" stuff, it is pretty clear that thesis is now wrong. If you are worried about the impact of AI, you need to address the reality of AI's increasing capabilities and impact rather than pretending this is all going away and you can ignore it.

The nuance re: town council's actual power to stop the data center is important. They basically couldn't survive a lawsuit from the company that wanted to build the center. It is a story of austerity, how public austerity erodes democratic practice + how AI thrives in austerity economies.

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

I just feel like running government on the principle of fuck you we can do what we want is maybe going to undermine the rule of law in ways no one is going to enjoy, even them

the trump administration assertion that it is “unlawful” for private organizations to pursue diversity is nonsense. what this is, once again, is an effort to roll back desegregation that the ABA has surrendered to.

one of the least-discussed things that happened in the 2020s is that the GOP sacrificed hundreds of thousands of their own voters' lives during the Delta wave in an attempt to restart the pandemic in order to hurt Biden and the Dems.

Fascinating long thread about the disability use-case for Meta glasses and its broader implications.

this is where I post from

So how are things going with those masked death squads that is the single most well funded paramilitary in the world? Any news on that front or is that one of those things we all normalized?

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. This is one of them. Will go into it in a thread below.

I've pushed back on the "data centers barely use any water" crowd (it's often complicated and nuanced) but this article is straight trash. Describing volumes in "swimming pool" units sucks and this article seems to frame a logistics error by the utility as deliberate theft

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

this web site sucks shit that's why i post here

it might be joelover 🥀🥀

This is the 82-year-old state senator the FBI just raided because she successfully redistricted Virginia to match racist Republican redistricting efforts. They targeted her because she's ruthless and effective. They don't want anyone else to play within their new rules.

I get what he's aiming for rhetorically here, but... one thing folks have not commented on a lot is that Zohran talks about *very complex concepts* all the time. And does not often dumb them down. He might explain them simply, but he talks about college seminar topics regularly. Obama did this, too.

another banger from @emotrophywife.bsky.social

Joe Biden didn’t use Funny Words. Kamala Harris didn’t use Funny Words. Tim Walz didn’t use Funny Words. The Democrats don’t have a Funny Words problem. Trump & Vance & the entire far right authoritarian party call people vermin & use Funny Words every day. Stop spreading this BS. It’s an ugly lie.

Great piece on clipping and its impacts on our information networks. I'd argue that microblogging has its own form of clipping: the out-of-context screenshot of a written piece, without a link to the original. www.theverge.com/report/92000...

excellent and important thread

Presidents used to name CIA agents in the field to push back against criticism of the Iraq War, man

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Please read this. It is on Substack, for which I apologize.

Increasingly coming to the conclusion that Carlson's beat down of both the Economist and NYT interviewers is less because of any independent skillset he possess and more because these interviewers make themselves look ridiculous on first principles by refusing to condemn the murder of Palestinians

this is…a very funny allegation to make