I'm glad COVID mostly killed showtime on the trains in NYC

it kinda makes sense that you’d scoff at the very idea of message discipline if you spent too much time on a site that instantly rewards antagonism and never backing down from any fight ever and taking an extreme position that makes you seem like you’re on the vanguard of something

recreating lib cringe from first principles. this movement is finished

elon musk has succeeded in transforming twitter from a place where you used to get ratioed for being racist to a place where the racists do the ratioing

The great thing about being a transit nerd is that I’ve never respected Elon Musk

Among non-orthodox Jews, over 80% typically vote Democratic. You really can’t get much higher than that.

"Jacobin" has a huge article on Jewish politics in which they claim the fact that Mamdani's career was not destroyed by allegations of antisemitism, as Jeremy Corbyn's was, is evidence politics are changing. They do not even consider the possibility Corbyn is an antisemite and Mamdani is not.

The only difference between this and statements from other Democrats is you like AOC and you hate them.

Unironically the most politically admirable movie character of the past 10 years (despite Jordan Peele’s best intentions)

What’s really incredible is these posters have been convinced that this is what *really* caring looks like

Cea Weaver would be in a much better position today if she had just remembered to use the socially acceptable euphemism in NYC housing discourse of "transplant from Ohio" instead of "white".

Hey, it's not like that guy's a journalist; if that were the case he'd look like a gigantic idiot.

Yeah and they’re all unbelievably stupid answers that leave everyone worse informed

Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016

My new book is available open access from MITPress. It's a pretty new take on syntax, with some cool consequences for long-distance syntactic dependencies, and I think it should also appeal to non-minimalist syntacticians (since there isn't really any movement!) direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

I genuinely don't think what Dem leaders actually SAY has any effect on how media outlets will purposefully word their headlines to get Dem rageclicks.

“Wine moms” has been a liberal thing since 2015 when they tried to get you to support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump

The Pitt is a fine show but its neurodiversity is a bit iffy. would be way better if at the end of every episode doctor king turned to the camera & said "i am autistic now" & then specified shes the exact kind of autistic i am

Frey being browbeaten by the media for his lack of decorum the one (1) time he steps outside the bounds of squishy centrism tells you a lot about the incentives that Democratic politicians work under.

I hope everyone who bitched about how old Biden is feels real fucking proud of themselves tonight

There’s a loneliness crisis which the media decided to treat as just as male loneliness crisis open.substack.com/pub/theargum...

Take a second and think before posting the easy Eeyore reply. You might have something substantive to say instead. Or, even better, you can say nothing at all.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

Biden actually did a lot of shit that internet lefty types said for years would cause a massive swell of support for Democratic policies and by the end of Biden's term everyone hated it and no one was particularly interested in defending him personally or the policy regime he put in place

Discovering the antipathy for USAID on the left has been moderately black pilling for me tbh

Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

I wanna be in the room When It Happens (any room is fine)

Forever 2016 brain “They’re afraid they’ll have to give us health care!!!” Dog brain shit. Grow up

No bad take. Lazy “easy dumb guy retweet engagement” impulse. The difficulty of arresting one of the many heavily armed guys our criminal federal government has put above the law does not mean “all crime enforcement stops”. Go deeper. Meaningfully engage w the problem here.

I have a note: journalists shouldn’t post AI slop in a time of national crisis

Incredibly based

Femicide.

stupid leftists are mad that Brad lander opposes Hamas and murdering civilians. idek what to say at this point I guess I should be grateful that these weirdos are allergic to power and normie progressives can recognize that murdering civilians is bad, whether it’s done by ICE, Hamas, or the IDF

This year I’ve decided to get further into prompt engineering, anyone have any good books they recommend? Already went through this classic but looking for something to help me dive deeper.

You have to wonder where Rowling ends up if this is Linehan now...

I'm going to be very blunt here: headlines like this and articles like this are a significant part of our media problem because they make people believe things that aren't true

Every single democrat would do the exact same thing Trump is doing and they also gave me LOOOOOOONG Covid! Fuck!!!

I actually feel like these types of articles is harmful. We live in the USA, still; you do not need to worry about law enforcement tracking you by cell phone at a protest

Caitlin Callenson is a hero

Anyway if a person tries hard enough they can always find away to declare that broadly Jewish events are Zionist even if they are not explicitly tied to Israel because, yes, lots of Jews are Zionists and Zionists show up to and participate in Jewish food festivals.

need more cosmopolitan chauvinism imo. to be able to go to a world city and do this without crossing a border is something you should be proud of, it means you're a great country. To want to tear it down means you are inbred provincial hog with no greater drives than envy and fear.

*sigh* what is the point of these intellectual tools if you're just going to ignore them

There is a non-zero number of people online who will see this and think Mamdani sharia’d Broadway

Could not disagree more with this, but I do think he's right that these not-so-old debates continue to be relevant — should we listen to the people whose frenetic embrace of this kind of thinking pushed progressive politics to the brink or should we try to empower cooler heads across the board?

I spent New Year’s in Berlin. I found the murals on what remain of the Berlin Wall to be powerful. Messages of resistance to tyranny, hope, and freedom for all.

Same loser energy

This is absolutely a huge problem in protest culture and it’s a major obstacle to allowing protests to grow. People are turning up to protests to fight Trump, ICE, recent abuses. Invariably the speakers are going off about 200 years of stolen land or US imperialism, and many of those people leave.

Make it viral.