I think one of the reasons you shouldn’t be dogmatically anti-AI is because there are use cases where it makes sense to go fully butlerian jihad, like education, but if you’re telling people it can’t translate or write code you aren’t credible in those cases.

People say that anyone could end up joining a cult, but honestly I don't believe it of myself really. This kinda thing just seems utterly psychologically alien to me, I simply wouldn't be willing to do this for any Dear Leader.

fucking hell, why is THIS our source of foreign policy news

Their brain rot, which must be either excised or more realistically contained through schism, was jumping to "what if we gave up on all the actual homeless people and dedicated ourselves to preventing people from becoming homeless a century from now".

I don't think effective altruists were wrong to believe that if you set out to (e.g.) help the homeless, you should be seriously and consistently asking whether you are in fact helping them, and if so, how many and to what degree.

I really can't emphasize enough that the only way to use this site without going insane is to be extremely aggressive about blocking people who you can tell you'd rather not hear from or interact with.

It is hilarious to me that "letting in cheap Chinese EVs and batteries is vital as a matter of national security" is now broadly true worldwide.

I continue to need to point out that normie libs are hugely invested in anti-fascism because it's about basic decency for everyone. People keep on not understanding that Trump specifically makes normie libs angry to the point of violence regardless of what leftists have told themselves

like, if you’re old enough, you realize that most of the people who live in The City came from somewhere else, that’s one of the big things about what make cities fucking great, no one’s from there, everyone you meet had bigger dreams

i was a teenager in a town of around 35K people in the 90s, and any teenager with any ambition or creativity at all wanted nothing more than to move to The City, so i have a particular contempt for people from The City who wants to keep new people out. these are the people who built The City.

Having grown up in Turkey, I used to joke with my American friends (during Trump 1.0) that they will understand the value of liberalism once they lose it. I really wish it didn't come to that.

Fascism is worse than neoliberalism in literally every way

probably worth noting that Nazis like Sailer are some of the biggest NIMBYs. it’s deplorable but it makes sense because NIMBYism is fundamentally a reactionary stance what I’ll never understand is how so many democrats push for the exact same exclusionary policies

What cracks me up is that CEOs are supposed to be the strategic thinkers but they can't think past Monday.

I really really cannot believe how fucking stupid CEOs/businesses were about the risk Trump posed *to them*

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

yes, look at how Americans have been avoiding this socialist hellhole

everyone deserves a place to call home, including the people that will live in the "soulless" buildings you hate

a lot of media outlets take the Daily Mail Online approach, where the goal seems to be to crash your browser within five seconds of opening the site.

Fuck Elizabeth Warren. My condo is a home. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset

I’m gonzo for AI and this is a good idea. Wikipedia belongs to a deeper pace layer. Critical infrastructure. Move slow, edit things.

the Trump administration's accidental war on climate change continues

ending car dealerships would cut the heart out of Republican suburbia a million little fiefdoms for the biggest asshole in town, spreading poison all across the country

Inside the US are two wolves. One of those wolves is the reason Hitler occupied Paris. The other wolf is the reason Western Europe is currently (by historical standards) paradise.

now waiting for RFK's upcoming effort to bring back smoking

heads up, SF cyclists missionlocal.org/2026/03/cycl...

the weirdness of a musical community that built a genre on plundering older music being up in arms about plundering the eigenspace of all music ever

weird how executing two protesters on the street didn't stop the ICE protests but the campus protests were stopped by a handful of felony charges which were dropped to misdemeanors

"rent seeking" just isn't it; the word "rent" doesn't quite mean the same thing to the layperson. "leech" is informal and resonates more, but too loaded

well, shit, who could have imagined that

someone in the WH is going to explain the situation to Trump by drawing a picture showing how this will result in no more videos of him shitting on No Kings protesters

when a congressional representative of many years is no longer able to even understand what the legislation they are voting on is, and is just issuing whatever vote their aides are telling them to, would you say that this is what voters intended to be voting for in the election previous

the not-firebombing-a-Walmart guy has logged on

sage advice

one protestor put up a sign with a dumb little joke about brunch and online poisoned leftists are still fuming about it nearly a decade later

do I bring a whistle on my upcoming trip

progress is still possible

As usual, the Republican superpower is being so cartoonishly evil that describing their policies in factual terms makes you sound like a deranged ideologue.

my mom being completely nonplussed by marilyn manson on the VMAs and loudly declaring in front of my friends: your uncle liked alice cooper and this guy is just ripping him off... but somehow the music is worse

the way Bowman was taken out was a declaration of war for many. I don't think they'll repeat that so easily in coming years, though

the last eleven years have been just absolute fucking torture for people that are fundamentally good and honest. i like to think of myself as one of those people, but even if i’m not, it’s been absolute fucking torture for those people.

Mary Fong Lau, the 80 year old woman who killed four people including a baby and a toddler after crashing into a bus stop going 75mph the wrong way down a 25mph street, has been sentenced to probation and will not permanently lose her drivers' license. This is a despicable miscarriage of justice.

Yeah, this one really squares my boobs as a sociologist. Arlie Russell Hochschild made one of the most important contributions to the sociology of labour ever, updating the Marxist concept of alienation for the late 20th century and it got sludged into "I don't want to call my mom."

i’m sorry, i have no idea what any of you are talking about, i got a haircut and had a couple drinks with some friends and i have blocked every single person all of you are either enraged at or dunking on

Everything in the first half of this post was a volunteer project. You can still build this stuff. We all just have to do it.

wait, what? what does a Toronto office of ICE do, exactly?

people are predictably sending a flood of insults to Ryan over this, but in fact, removing sulfate emissions from ship fuel is now believed to have unexpectedly accelerated changes in global temperatures news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...