still waiting for disney/pixar to make a movie that doesn't glorify royalty and chieftains

if 'one battle after another' takes place in present day then that means that the french 75 were operating in the 00s, which means that bush was president, which means that... NO! stop it. that's not how fiction works

Okay yes I’ve been thinking about this. EVERY character in OBAA fucks up, some of them REALLY badly. Willa has a cell phone. the radio guy gives up pat to protect his sister. Pat can’t remember all the code talk after years of drugs and alcohol. Hell, Pat falls off a roof and almost gets caught!

i keep seeing this stuff, and it still does not square with the fact that trump has gotten more votes every time he has run.

I generally just assume people post like me, which is to get the thoughts out of their heads that otherwise won’t leave

Trump as the first fandom president makes a lot of sense to me

IRS: You owe us taxes. Americans: How much? IRS: Figure it out yourself. Americans: So I can pay how much I want? IRS: No. We know exactly how much you owe us but you have to figure it out yourself. Americans: What if I guess wrong? IRS: Jail.

This WSJ article adds some fascinating context to the NYT article that has the mother of a 14 year old model brought to Mar-a-Lago for a party having Maples come up to her and saying keep those girls away from these men and my husband. Maples denies she said it.

i don't know who is responsible for unleashing the curse that made us be stuck talking about right-wing culture grievances from the nineteen-eighties FOREVER...but they must atone

the right has been blowing this precise racist dog whistle for literally 50 years now this was one of peter thiel's favorite issues to bitch about in the stanford review back in the fucking 80s it helps to know the history of ethnic studies in the US...

2000s was the era of aussie actors, 2010s the era of kiwi actors, 2020s is just all irish actors

the main reason not to go after billionaires is because it might discourage investment in innovations that will more quickly destroy the social fabric via the plundering of planetary resources

people get that going after billionaires is about their political power and not about government finances, right??

this is why i think the way to defeat trump is to abandon centrism. the opposing candidate cannot be one that is held to moral standards while trump is not. you need another "unconventional" candidate who the centrist pundit class sees (and accepts) as being "outside the bounds of criticism"

Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao

pedants who get hung up on the literal meaning of slogans like, "abolish billionaires" and spend all their time arguing against the slogan do more harm to the general cause of progressive politics than people who think that the slogans are actual political programs

Aw, this is awful. He was one of the best to ever do it. I still think about this one all the time.

stop giving me lists of books i should read. what i really need is a list of books i should never read

Tribute to Michel Aglietta in @newleftreview.bsky.social: "a tireless thinker, committed to the proposition that we should aim to comprehend our changing historical times in their totality, which meant grasping the inter-relationships of their many moving parts." newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...

Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted

it both makes sense and doesn't make sense that the advent of what can only be described as "competitive reading" is coinciding with a general decline in reading

that stretch from song 3 to song 7 of LUX is unfathomably good

dems in congress should start passing legislation that taxes the rich with bill names with abbreviations like GANDALF

a challenger appears

Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!

Sauron's security was defeated by two hobbits, who entered undetected through an unlocked backdoor, armed only with two swords and a flashlight

billionaire starts security company called "death star" with a new unique weapon to address crime and disorder at a macro-scale

my overall feelings about ezra klein are those of a mother confronted with a misbehaving child: i am not upset, i am disappointed

people love to prematurely leave trump for dead and walk away smiling, like bond villains...

Going viral Going viral with a joke with a take

one could argue that *all* nationalisms are born out of inferiority complexes

I think one can be sympathetic to the motivations of various nationalisms and understand why some diaspora communities might feel a certain way about the Homeland but you enter moral relativist “ways of knowing” bullshit mode if you support people indulging in the worst impulses imaginable.

The year is 2035. California's entire base of taxation is young renters and their entire budget goes to insuring suburban McMansions built in fire hazard regions. Half of Florida is underwater financially and the other half literally. Illinois is fine but still fucks up transit funding constantly.

what does "american" mean to the heritage people? because i am guessing 90% of people who consider themselves part of that movement don't qualify...

Uh,

we won't actually have gender equality until we have a popular big history book written by a woman

i think arrival of AI is a really good opportunity for us to ask what the goal and purpose of education is

what's funny about chile is that i lived there in 2007-8 and in 2013-15 and as i am checking back in to what is happening politically, literally all the political leaders are basically the exact same as back then (mathei, parisi, kast)

Pluribus seems like a fun TV show but I refuse to pay for Apple TV again until they un-cancel Schmigadoon, a show that approximately 97 people watched, including me.

yesterday i learned that most of latin america has birthright citizenship, that in most cases it preceded the 14th amendment in the US, and that it was basically a tool of settler colonialism (part of latin american govts' 19th century efforts to encourage european immigration)

would love to read some political science papers on this international shift away from "economic indicators matter for election results"

what's interesting about the idea of a "vibecession" is that you don't just observe it in the US, it's a phenomenon that you can see in both spain and chile as well

this was a really solid, informative interview on the election in chile pca.st/episode/f541...

i think people can learn stuff and develop their curiosity using something like chatgpt, and some of the commentary on the importance of carefully analyzing text comes off as simply elitism

Found the Associated Press article where the existence of this letter was first disclosed two years ago, in response to a FOIA request It's definitely real apnews.com/article/jeff...

Battery production still ripping

Academics: what's the best bit of knowledge you created this year? I co-authored a new model of the Irish Neolithic, effectively rewriting social structure and the role of large funerary monuments for the creation of community identities

if what we are aiming for is for people to love the act of reading and understand its joys, rather than acquiring some knowledge or concrete piece of information, then our education system should devote way more time to allowing kids to read whatever they want and to reading things out loud in class