the entire movement Shapiro supports has been crawling toward the inevitable gutter of anti-semitism, and he owns this too.

[Just to painfully spell it out for those not paying attention...What they're "sometimes disagreeing" on that Jew-controlled drones have no tolerance for is e.g. whether the Holocaust happened]

Disappointed to learn I have something in common with Andrew Tate. I know basically nothing about boxing, and apparently neither does he.

say what you will about Andrew Tate, but his decision to not have a chin likely saved his life in that fight. Just one of those uppercuts would've killed Bruce Campbell.

started / going

This is who we are now (derogatory)

I feel like there should be a named curve of the decreasing effectiveness of automation if you’re trying to actually do good work

and, like, people like @ed3d.net fully grant that they are difficult to use effectively but argue for certain use cases they are such a multiplier that you better—fine! But the idea that every historian, genre novelist, commercial artist needs to develop this technical skill set because ???, cmon

So the “figure out how to use it lest you be left behind” replies about ‘AI’ that have been popping up here strike me as inauthentic but also kind of funny because they grant the point that rather than an automation panacea these technologies are quite difficult to figure out how to use effectively

This account of how the Trump admin carried out a once-unthinkable overhaul of government in 2025 is based on a year’s worth of messages and interviews with more than 1,200 current and former federal workers. Please read from me and @merylkornfield.bsky.social. wapo.st/4b14KAy

Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.

44. I've spent my entire adult career in the energy industry. As a consultant, as a manufacturer, as a power plant developer/owner/operator and now as a legislator. There is something really optimistic about the moment we're in that pundits like Yglesias said was impossible 20 yrs ago.

21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

A good many people need to get sued for libel in the aftermath of the late ridiculousness. You can see one such fellow below.

when we said “defer electoral strategy to the actual politicians running for actual offices” we meant “after calculating wins above replacement somehow”

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

Environmental law has been captured—not by environmentalists, but by wealthy interests who can afford to litigate indefinitely. Fixing abundance means reforming the legal system.​​​​​​​​​​​

In this piece I wrote about how AI is harming teaching and the academic job market, but of course it’s also undermining scholarship

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Peter Thiel's cronies are freaking out about my book. Here's Garry Tan—an early Palantir employee who designed its logo—launching yet another attack. Make a tech lord cry! Pre-Order "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War On Democracy" 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Congratulations to CBS News on finding its NEXT STAR!

the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

It’s a little on the nose for the guy kicking millions off SNAP to announce the first annual Hunger Games

Every notice how every libertarian billionaire trying to create their own legal system looks like someone who would also have a long list of pointed logistical questions about hunting humans for sport?

Becoming a tenured professor is a bit like becoming an NBA forward or a successful recording artist. (Or a novelist or a working fine artist or a pediatric cardiologist.) The supply is massively greater than the demand, and everyone is excellent. This is a hedge fund of yourself, not a career goal.

this is baffling to me because it’s the kind of thing that smacks of desperation on the revenue front - which is, looking at their most recent earnings, really not the case their ad money spigot isn’t as strong as Google’s but it’s very strong! they’re making tons of money! there’s no need for this

Tesla finally found a customer for cybertrucks! It's, uh, SpaceX.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Yeah, here is the thing: Bari Weiss is fine with conspiracy theories that target her enemies. The biggest causes of political violence in America? Universities, which operate like madrassas. That’s a conspiracy theory dressed up as respectable middle-of-the-road punditocracy. That’s what it is.

One of my favorite lines about AI — not LLMs but human-like digital intelligence — was said to me almost a decade ago by @galaxykate.bsky.social for a piece I wrote for Vice. www.vice.com/en/article/w...

It feels unclassy and undignified to look at all this and just say "oh they fuckin'." But, I mean, folks...

Sigh. My record as an academic researcher whose work is *completely unfundable* remains intact.

CoMmErCe SeCrEtArY.

Please Do Not Release Any More Epstein Files, They Are Not Important, by A Guy In The Epstein Files

Well that helps to explain this Brooks column from last month. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

I absolutely adore how this is playing out. Bari Weiss's entire career consists of playing to a small, niche audience that BELIEVES itself to be the vast, silent majority. Now she's running CBS with that same schtick and it is just impossible to hide how niche her bullshit is.

the thing about commentators who self-brand as fearless truth-tellers is that their ideals of "free debate" always take the dullest, most predictable tacks possible www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

It is of course ludicrous to replace the already-hazy idea of artificial general intelligence with the even hazier and far more incoherent idea of artificial *superintelligence*. It’s the ol’ “fuck everything, we’re doing five blades” headline from The Onion, only for fake brains.

ICYMI, I wrote about Yglesias making common cause with the right-wing moral panic over critical race theory. His supposed defense of liberalism is deeply illiberal. @liberalcurrents.com

It’s just that Bari's appeal is becoming more selective www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/its-...

The title of this @davekarpf.bsky.social review runs through my head at least once a week. They still haven’t thought any of this through. They’re like kids building a block tower that’s obviously gonna fall over. But it’s civilization. Even in failure, they are doing so much senseless damage.

Jamie Bartlett did a great job of exposing Sam Altman's shtick back in 2017. Total condescension and techno-triumphalism masquerading as "optimism"

Just say women. This is taking forever.

good morning holy shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

A movement that demands grace and empathy whenever someone from their side suffers while offering none to the other isn’t really a movement that gives a shit about anything other than power and control

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.