I mean, it's not like there's a great paper showing that The Apprentice significantly increased Trump's political popularity because he was portrayed as really good at "moneymaking" ungated: static1.squarespace.com/static/59485...

Using an Intel Mac for the first time in years.

leadership affirmatively bringing the Laken Riley Act to the floor, with Schumer voting on it in committee, was more or less my breaking point.

since Anthropic has been directed by the USG to nerf Fable whenever it tries to do anything "useful", I have conclusively proven that since Fable has not nerfed me even *once* in tonight's foray into abstract algebra and type theory, that category theory truly is just abstract nonsense, as designed.

This is a @horsedisc.bsky.social post and you can’t convince me otherwise

we should have hung lee

a lot of podcasts will say that the Supreme Court sucks but we’re the only one that’s really about it

Happy SB-79 day to those who celebrate

LinkedIn post: I am assembling a team,

The bad ending isn't "civil war 2," the bad ending is that you get DOGE-level state capacity wrecking events every 4 to 8 years, because the Room Temperature IQ Coalition keeps booting Democrats out of office before they can undo the damage Repeat for the rest of this century

Another entry in "the groupchats are making rich Democrats literally crazy"

This interview in Vanity Fair came out in 2010, and this exchange from it has lived rent-free in my head ever since.

Similarly if you're mad Chevalier won you should be also be mad at the New York State Democratic party wouldn't get flummoxed by the novel strategy of 'knocking on people's doors and trying' I'm serious, what do those people do over there

the difference is that fable 5 genuinely loves me as a person and wants what's best for me

By itself, this is both impeachable and cause for radical reform. The GOP Supreme Court does not even bother to explain the majority of its decisions. It's apparently too much to ask they at least barf up dishonest, unprincipled, poorly-reasoned excuses for their arbitrary exercise of power.

The ironic thing is, I do think manual labor jobs have redeeming values, but “working in factory” is in almost every case the worst possible example of that, and it’s the one these people zero in on without fail

As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.

man I hear more young people in my life making jokes about Jews than I’m entirely comfortable with, gotta say

TBH, I think Steve is giving the Court too much credit here. It's not at all clear to me that they've shown up with a fire extinguisher as opposed to, say, a bag of marshmallows and some hot dogs.

Why do I suddenly feel the need to impress Jodie Foster

Yeah… we got the numbers; some have been published and some haven’t; but regular sports gambling (weekly) is definitely closer to 90% men and the totals being wagered by gender are staggeringly different

I had my undergrads do weekly reflection questions & I asked them to pick a cognitive bias and tell a story of how they were impacted by it I was shocked by how many young men chose escalation of commitment and told gambling addiction stories Several groups chose online gambling for their projects

When you look at who has bet on sports in the past year, it’s about 65-70% men When you look at who is doing it weekly, it’s closer to 90% men When you look at total losses, the % from men gets even higher

This has got to be like 95% men and I’m telling you, it’s not going to help our future gender politics when women pull ahead financially because of it. These dudes are not going to look inward when they go ass out on their parlays, prediction markets, and crypto

Let me be cringe this one (1) time: don’t ever let someone convince you not to vote. Vote in every election, every year, your entire life. It always matters.

FUCKING EGG CARTEL

I swear if Collins Houdinis into another senate term

You know what really burns me about people saying “but if we pack the courts, MAGA will too”? They can do it anyways! Arguably they already have! Democrats engaging with power honestly does not magically force MAGA to do or not do anything. Why do you believe that only democrats have agency?

I was reliably informed this was impossible.

absolutely vital to win the senate this november. need to basically blockade judicial confirmations for the next two years.

I hate this. like, the attitude is that anthropic's security is paramount. yours, however, they're willing to be flexible about. this is extremely gross.

the anti-birthright idea didn’t circulate for long enough in conservative legal circles. If it had circulated for another three years it would’ve been a majority opinion. I really do not think this fight is over

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

The way the law works right now is that the insane, authoritarian president demands massive increases to his power, his simpering enablers in the legal academy manufacture arguments supporting him, and then the Supreme Court adopts them as law, claiming scholarly legal debate exists on the matter.

SCOTUS reform won't just simply happen if Dems take Congress & the White House. A case has to be made for it—to a skeptical public, to reluctant politicians, to a hostile media. The blowback from the right will be intense and terrify a lot of weak-willed pols. The case has to be made starting *now*

I joined this site two years ago with the explicit purpose of advocating for the necessity of a packed Supreme Court and following discourse about it. Today, that position has become mainstream, even amongst those who used to dismiss it. I feel vindicated.

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

Absolutely terminal worldview on SCOTUS for an elected democrat in 2026. Schumer will never see office again so help me god

this framing, the court standing up to trump, is precisely why this withered old piece of shit is unfit to even hold office, let alone lead the caucus

I have zero, ZERO patience for this wimpy centrist mewling about “if we hit the GOP they might hit us back, so it’s better to curl up and play dead.” No. We have to hit harder. Cowards can be in our coalition but they are no longer allowed to be decision makers.

Modern social media is ~20 companies who mostly are as large as they are due to unreplicable first-mover advantages and whose existence is contingent upon specific tax policies, public subsidies, and infrastructure. You can make booze that will get you fucked up in a toilet.

this would do numbers as a "USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST" post

Exit light Enter night Take my hand Morocco beat the Netherlands

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

Why is this my whole feed all of the sudden

It’s fine to dunk on Chevalier for her posting, but if you are doing that while giving Platner a pass just know I’m looking at you sideways Ultimately, I hope they both legislate and vote like progressives and avoid unnecessary controversy in office.

This is why reclaiming SCOTUS has to be top of the list for the next admin. Nobody will forgive failure, and failure is imminent unless we can change the playing field that is so stacked against us Most things voters want lay on the other side of structural supreme court reform