Quoting one's own self is super tacky but this does KEEP coming up.

Dodo Theory: straight cis white men from nice families are the worst at threat assessment because they are subject to fewer threats than everybody else. They’re flightless island birds who are vulnerable to unexpected rats. Unfortunately, most US government intelligence specialists are dodos.

Read this amazing thread

Amazing work

People are used to software updates. So there's probably an estimable base rate of clicking 'yes' to push software updates. i wonder if you could see a downtick in this given how many software update pushes are now associated with AI features people actually don't want...

Astonishingly brilliant.

edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/p... This had better be made up of the insides of a vacuum cleaner or we've messed up potentially the best literary reference of all time.

This is fundamentally about the difference between the idea and the execution. If you know the idea of Breaking Bad then the executions remain faithful to it and you know which to use. Shows like Lost and Pluribus are doomed because they are a series of executions with no idea to be loyal to.

Sekiro. Sekiro.

Brilliant summary of the AI situation. It's sort of the inevitable extension of the 'brain as big computer' misleading metaphor. The idea that more compute will get us closer to a brain. FFS we don't even really have a clue how the cerebellum works and that's >half of ALL THE CELLS IN YOUR BRAIN.

if our brains weren’t always being cooked by the horrors of real life this place could be Actually Fun and it’s so nice to get a glimpse of what happens when it is even if you don’t like baseball this shit was fun, right? everyone getting swept up in the same thing? I missed this

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

Hilarious media fail

15 today. Bit the vet. Still got it.

Somewhere in Canada a genie is explaining to Mark Carney, "OK, so you're gonna be PM that's 1 wish, The Liberals are gonna retain power that's 2 wishes.... But Im gonna need to talk to you about this Oilers winning the Stanley Cup thing you've put down here under number three". *sucks teeth*

Its a great point but it raises more questions than it answers.

The funny thing about rfk is that when he dies it will probably be impossible to tell whether it was murder, given how much weird shit the guy is up to. They'll be like "we found an absolute ton of arsenic in his blood, but also he was taking arsenic pills"

Ok fair’s fair I also think it should be illegal for teachers to assign Catcher in the Rye but I’m assuming my reasoning is very different

The Canadians have activated one of the single most violent men ever to live.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj9J...

This manages to be textbook very online teenager's libertarian fantasy AND require billions of dollars of govt support. Absolutely amazing!

When you are coming up to your fifteenth birthday you get to nap in a sunbeam...

Iron Sky

Gold.

It's astonishing how much of Dems failure is just not being able to interpret survey design and analysis at a level beyond what a three-year-in newbie at a moderately capable market research firm could figure out.

This is the correct answer.

In fairness he wasnt ever going to come up with his own ideas was he....

What is the JAG corps Alex?

Perfection

During a week when many of America's smartest academics and federal workers are losing grant money and jobs there is a HUGE win for Canada, the EU, and UK for science investment and genius visas. This is bad policy.

Looking for a private service that can help me get this camel through the eye of a needle. I’ll pay anything

It's kind of amazing how almost 22 years since the invasion of Iraq you have American public intellectuals who still don't grasp that an arrogant President surrounded by reckless and ignorant dilettantes can lead the US into geopolitical disasters. Even in the Western Hemisphere

"What do you mean the sign about looking upon my works and despairing is still standing??? No! That's the worst possible - if the *works* are gone but the sign is still up then I'm gonna look like a fucken dickhead! Why didn't you make the works out of the same shit you made the sign out of?!"

Don't wanna shit on the boys but after Sharks last night and Toulous this week is feeling like this.

Hearing someone state a personal stance should never come with the expectation that they have to convince you or anyone else of the truth of their position. By all means, ask for deeper insights if you want them but they don't owe you a tour through how they made that decision or how you can do it.

This is absolutely brilliant. A gonzo-esque report on defeating a coup in the most Korean way imaginable. Slightly shitffaced on soju bombs with a bunch of uncles on a drunken work night. Miss that place so much!!

i did not leave twitter to have that dumb bitch all over my TL here

bluesky fact: it doesn’t actually matter what you call posts on here until you complain about it, then they’re skeets

me making a BLT after trump implements his tariffs

Deer Hunter is just a wedding rehearsal.

ACAB (all clocks are bastards)

Group cooperation is the hardest thing for any brain to do. It's why primate brains are so highly encephalised. You could make a reasonable case that Thiel has got this absolutely backwards. He should read some Dunbar.

Best coverage of this I've seen.

The transparently greedy desire for a convention mess to do Dems in Disarray For Clicks is just.... tragically annoying. I was VERY sceptical about the ability of the Dems to effect a replacement strategy if Biden quit. They've done an insanely good job of it.

You know who you don't hear from much anymore? The "You don't understand, Merrick Garland has a plan it just takes time to work through" crowd.

The almost perfect irony of this is that in defence of her hustle and drive she has repeated a trope so tired and lazy that it can be dated back over two millenia.

This is a hugely important point for marketers. When something costs nothing to produce your audience knows you invested nothing in it. It's like the difference between email spam and quality direct mail all over again.

The Parthenon marbles fiasco makes you wonder what petty BS Rishi Sunak will obsess about next and how his courtier consultants and journalists will try to present his policy by whim as another grand act of 5 dimensional chess master strategy

there was a study I saw that looked at things people would jokingly / ironically say, there was a 2 year turnaround until ppl earnestly believe it. even things the researchers made up got incepted into real whether it's piss and feet or sexisim and racism, if people do it two years it becomes real