The @nytimes.com decided last year what the story was; Trump II was the righteous punishment visited upon their interns and junior staffers and grandchildren for being so annoying about MeToo and BLM, and once they understood that and repented, they could have democracy back.

Donald Trump has destroyed the East Wing of the White House the right way. by Ezra Klein

Good night from me n' the gals.

No more "but I don't feel inspired!" No more "but I wanted this other candidate instead!" No more "but they're only 90% in agreement with me on this issue!" No more "I don't owe them a vote!" You owe your fellow humans your vote. Do not fail in that obligation again.

Basically I think progressivism -- moving toward greater equality under law -- is moral & good, & conservatism -- preserving existing social & power hierarchies -- is bad & wrong, & furthermore, I think everyone *knows* this on some level. The thing is, being good is *hard* & often requires ...

Me after loudly farting in line at the dmv

• Prison was 40 degrees but no water was given to Greta and her friends for days • People fell sick. Guards mocked them saying they would gas them, showing them cylinders • She was kept in solitary confinement for hours with bugs

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

israel has already broken the ceasefire

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

This guy compares favorably to Stan Rogers. Also, AI can suck an egg!

Canada's version of the Onion, and it holds its own. www.thebeaverton.com/2025/10/pent...

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes. In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

Wake me up when this stops being a website about content moderation

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

I’ve been combating medical misinformation for over two decades, and this feels not just quantitatively different, but qualitatively different.

this exists it is called thinking

think about how rotten your soul has to be, how broken your moral compass, to think drag queen story hour is a sign of social decay but snuff films of war crimes is exemplary, stand out, should be shared far and wide. these people are sick

A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

The account that made this viral post uses a AI-generated stock photo as their profile picture, and the main claim that Big Balls "was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl" is not in the article. We are not immune from disinformation.

I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.

I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...

🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy. Slava Ukraini!

If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death

One day I would like to give as few fucks as this lady, but that day is not today

well we all remember the apocryphal saying, when fascism comes to america it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross and also in the guise of the stupidest most vile child raping piece of shit who ever lived

Yeah, I enjoyed The Stand, but did not think it was an academic work on what would actually happen in a similar situation. My apologies to what I can only assume is Dr. King, who was obviously writing a PhD thesis in anthropology.

I reflect on Stephen King's the Stand about a post pandemic world where people go nuts and split into groups of normal people and insane cartoon evil villains and I generally thought that was goofy, not actually correct.

I hope you have a nice evening. I hope the stars are out in force. I hope you hear the call of misty haunted forests. I hope your fangs and antlers are sharpened and ready to teach the night your name.

I think everyone should be talking about lot more about how it’s clear the Epstein stuff is a palace coup with JD Vance trying to take over and how Trump had better be careful because they’re trying to fool him. This message should get to him a lot.

I'm unequipped to argue with true believers, sophists and minimizers about AI. I can bolster and articulate critiques for people who already lean that way and will probably continue to do so. But what I'm better at, what I want to lean into, is describing the pleasure of reading and how to get it.

"You keep confusing the stay sign and the go sign"

There are a number of humans on bluesky who temporarily fooled me into thinking they had doctorate-level knowledge of 15 different subjects until they did a hot take on something I knew about, and then I began to suspect they might be full of crap.

#booksky #writingcommunity

He's like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football

Yeah, I don't think this is kayfabe between trump and musk. Keep fighting, boys.

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

Please read this. It's not long at all. But it will stay with you. prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/10/23/c...

I had a chuckle at this joke. Then I asked all the main AIs to explain it. Claude bravely admitted it didn't understand, chatgpt pretended to understand, and llama (software meta uses) appeared to suffer a stroke.

I want to type THIS but that is an uncaring and mediocre thing to do. But this fellow puts words to how I feel about chatbots.

- effective altruism - rational environmentalism - climate realism Any movement that has a name that implicitly insults everyone else working on a problem (as ineffective, irrational or unrealistic) is just guaranteed to be trash

I didn't know 'rascal' could work as a verb! Read it; it's a great short piece of writing.

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie Six Men and a Little Girl

It's literally something that a naval academy class would love to see! And they cancelled it.

1. In late March of 2020, @copperdogbooks.bsky.social was relatively new and the world was shutting down. I ordered some books for my mom, who lives in the same town (an hour away from me) because she has COPD and couldn’t risk leaving her small apartment.