funny to think about a far future where anthropic is a large, mature, boring public company and its founders' belief in the imminent machine god is a bit of funny trivia like wk kellogg believing bran stopped masturbation

Doing my work reachouts and amidst the bleakness that is the TV landscape, one of my FAVORITE colleagues is booked and busy on a very cool project and it’s just nice that good things still happen to good people sometimes.

All my life, Democrats have bent over backwards to run scrupulously scandal-free administrations, while Republicans have wallowed publicly and unapologetically in crime and corruption ... and Democrats have gotten zero advantage for it. Zilch.

The right wanted Hunter Biden to stay in the headlines, so he did. They wanted "her emails" to say in the headlines, so they did. They wanted Biden's age to stay in the headlines, so it did. This? Corruption with measurable ill effects on FBI performance? It will vanish before the day's out.

4 Minnesota guys

Re-posting this...I had business debt ASSETS instead of liabilities. Gross debt balances clearly falling relative to GDP across the private sector. This is exactly the opposite dynamic of the pre-GFC period. Dimon is talking #$JPM book as usual, that's all this is.

he's also gotten way less articulate, he used to say X product is bad idea for Y reason and will have Z impact, now it's vagueposting (yet another case of someone cooking their brain on twitter, i suspect)

Take at least one small moment for the ways in which Black Disabled people are going the fuck Through it, rn, is2fg

Free idea: "Auntie vs Zojirushi" story in the mode of John Henry.

This is really it. This is in every way it. And the wild thing is I believe in my heart the fanfic witches are right and their aim is true and it’s gonna work.

There have been dozens if not hundreds of pieces dissecting why women like Heated Rivalry and he just boiled it down to one sentence.

Manifesting 2026 with the Hispanic vote of 2012 and the white vote of 2018.

Harry Styles gave us two good albums trying to make rock n roll and then he said “welp enough of that.” Bc what the fuck is this new song.

Yeah I think this is true. You see it with masking, you see it with the total abandonment of efforts to reduce airborne germs through filtering / UV after it was no longer a means of “reopening,” you see it with the CTC, you see it with remote work…

“Lol You think this is bigger than watergate?” YES!!!! Yes, you stupid fuck!!! WHO IS PAYING YOU!?!?!?

We had the chance. We — and do I mean practically All of us — simply refused it

You can get into all kinds of reasons why and why the normal, hard working american is so often beaten down and been shown for decades why they (allegedly) can’t have a less bloodthirsty society, to the point we may actually believe it. But it’s still disheartening

…policies and actions we’d start preferring, and it was not just the commanding heights and elite who faced with the opportunity to try to achieve a more caring, just society in the long run replied “nah, no, thanks” (which they were always gonna do), it was so so many average working class and…

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed. I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

This is specifically and precisely what I mean to say about the BAFTA thing. I am glad I spent some time talking around it so I could come to what I mean to say instead of speaking out of a desire to hurt someone who hurt my feelings.

Aight, one direct comment then I’ll move on. “Nigger” as a tic isn’t evidence that the tic’er is racist—though they very well may be!—but evidence that they live in a racist society. Black people do not choose to live in a racist society any more than people choose to have tics.

An extreme disjunction between intent and effect could be morally edifying if we took both seriously. I see very little even attempts to take both seriously. Effectively none. But I am doing my best to Assume There Are Better Tweets Somewhere.

Metadiscourse to avoid discourse: the microblog is a uniquely bad format for complex moral issues with multiple victims and no villains, because the bits of text acknowledging the various victims are separated from one another procedurally, so one tends to encounter them separately.

Same here. But I've been explaining this since 2014, to absolutely no avail. The worst possible voting systems in times of febrility in the body politic are First Past the Post systems. That's why the FPTP based US and UK are going through such convulsions atm. But only breakdown can end this.

Angie Craig: "They removed everyone from the ICE facility 30 minutes before we arrived — this is not the intent of the law. DHS is violating the law" Ilhan Omar: "What happened today is a blatant attempt to obstruct members of Congress from doing their oversight duties"

Now one problem with going multiparty in the US tho is what concessions can the smaller parties extract in exchange for joining to coalition to elect a speaker? They can’t reliably promise ministerial posts bc the senate can vote those down.

It’s fascinating that the MAGAs really seem to think fucking up American air travel out of pure spite (by suddenly shutting down TSA Precheck and Global Entry) on a day where a blizzard is hitting the entire Northeast will make people like them *more*

Yeah my new platform for 2028 is “abolish the two party system, get politics out of judging” and then legislatively you go to ranked choice for Senate elections and multi-member STV (maybe with a side of closed list proportional) in the House, and expand the circuit courts / papal conclave the SC.

Another reason TSA should not be in any way under DHS lol.

I think the way to save the Democratic Party is to go to ranked choice voting in the senate and multimember STV (maybe with a side of party proportional) in the House.

Why, Kimberly?

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

They’ll never do it bc senate brain but what some Dem senate should do one day, rather than care about the filibuster one way or the other, is make a Senate rules package that says if the House passes something and the senate doesn’t vote against it within x amount of time it is deemed passed.

As a faculty member of UT's distinguished African and African Diaspora Studies Department, I am angry at the disingenuous way UT is characterzing us and our scholarship. But as an alum of UT (MA, JD, PhD) I am sad to see my alma mater debase itself to curry favor with the ignorance of the right.

I mean… what… would… Jesus do…?

I agree, but like it‘ll probably take months to get them hired. which will happen but it takes time. No joke, I think one of the first exec order a new D president needs to sign is like “180 days to revamp and streamline USAJobs.gov”

This one could make you cry. (For years international adoptees became U.S. citizens only when their adoptive parents took the needed steps to get them naturalized; a 2000 law automatically naturalizes legal adoptees on arrival, but that came too late for this woman).

I still think we need a post-Trump capital levy on fortunes above 50M, to finance rebuilding but also to show capital who’s boss. This wouldn’t be much different than Warren’s 6% wealth tax proposal tbqh.

Letita James to me is the ideal AG because she’ll bring a staff with her. DOJ is going to be a disaster zone that’ll be short staffed and will need to be restaffed and re-organized, but also someone has to hit the ground running day one and not pull a Garland

Realizing Americans paid $175 billion in illegal tariffs and it’s being refunded to companies instead of back to us

Making a lower third out of like heavily aliased VHS caption font is, I’m sorry, fucking hilarious. Nostalgia makes clowns of us all but somehow fascists think looking like clowns makes them look cool. Good luck to the UK, y’all seem like you need it. And I hope your Labour Party wakes up.

Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi owned Palantir stock while voting to fund DHS. https://www.notus.org/money/tom-suozzi-palantir-stock-homeland-security-ice

I'm not sure if you could come up with a more perfect anti-Trump message for the Treatlerite age than "America deserves a refund"

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

No it’s LITERALLY the blue vest treatment. This is so funny. I mean it must suck. But it is also by some objective measure hilarious.

"I'll handle this man, gentleman - I speak fluent jive"

This is deeply revealing. On some level, he knows he is lying & cheating & getting ahead *by virtue of exploiting a rule-based system that someone else created & maintains*. In other words, someone else is in charge of holding things together. Someone else is the mom. He's the naughty boy.

The wild thing is the ceaseless attack on trans people in Great Britain is simply not helping Labour in the polls. Like it’s just not achieving any electoral benefit. It’s just evil for evil’s sake.

I'm not a historian. But I can think of no precedent in modern Britain for what is being done to trans people. The media, public institutions, Government and (too often) the judiciary are combining to attack or exclude a marginalized group and its allies - with really no significant demurral.

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.