I see we're having that debate again about whether the past few years have secretly been worse than the recession and I am curious to see how that will age as we hit a real economic crisis if/when the reality about Hormuz sinks in.

If you care deeply about freedom of navigation the correct role for the USN is a series of coral reefs.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

The most egregiously Vancouver-coded video I've ever seen.

they're going to the boil the frog over this entire term

@katie-drummond.bsky.social since i know who runs wired now can you tell me what the idea of this story was

I usually turn my nose up at the comparisons with Texas but the parallels with Alberta and Saskatchewan are pretty painful here.

the bargain where you get sane governance on local shit in blue cities with cultural amenities and low housing prices and taxes, while in exchange you mostly ignore the hooting morons who think algebra is woke in state politics was always unstable, and it's going to fall apart real fast.

Social media flattening everything into a Manichean struggle of the evil against the pure means we’ve lost the vocabulary to say “you are doing a totally defensible and legitimate thing that is nonetheless clearly overall making things worse” and you see this a lot when it comes to labor unions.

"You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient."

Whoops turns out law is the shadow of power who knew

Based on my experiences with Gemini I do not expect this to go well to put it mildly

Somewhat unbelievable that WIRED posted this exchange thinking it made them look good

Total Canadian housing permits inched up to the highest level in 5 months in data released today, with multi-family permits at the 6th-highest pace since monthly data began, and single-family permits at the 5th-lowest

Whenever you get all "do you know who i am?!" and the other person its like "no," it's a loss for you lmao

The constructivists were right but everyone wanted to talk about great power strategy because party structure and social formation were too dense and fiddly and too close to sociology

the inability to face this among IR analysts and geopolitical pundits is in large part because the strongest lens for understanding Trump are personal psychology, gender, and race, all of which have traditionally been weak points of understand in the field.

The choice seems clear if we must decide between nation building and paying eternal and ever increasing tribute to our barons

thinking about this tweet today. generative AI has done a wonderful thing; now everyone can have their own horse kicking them in the head even if they aren't a billionaire. and now billionaires can have two horses kicking them in the head at all times. a very valuable service

Part of what makes this a post-information age of collective make-believe is not, as is commonly held in discussions of misinformation, a fracturing of social trust and veracity, but rather a society’s changing relationship with facticity and the nature of what constitutes evidence and grounding

im also not entirely sure how 'the underlying crime of watergate was actually pretty pedestrian' got so drilled into peoples heads. a criminal conspiracy to weaponize the federal government to sabotage your political opponents is actually pretty bad i would say

the natural state of humanity is not national identities with parallel overlapping state organization. there has always been linguistic and cultural diversity at the state level and organizing people around this idea required papering over the contradictions with blood

re: the discussion today on ethnostates i think a lot of liberals implicitly dislike pluralism but feel that it is preferable to ethnic cleansing your way to a nation-state (what the new right aims to do)

like they think the new world experiment with pluralistic democracy has been a regrettable neccesity not a superior form of societal organization

i am slightly convinved that a non negligible quantity of liberals are sort of culturally fascist

"the world is mostly ethnostates" is a completely insane position to take that basically only makes sense if you think of "the world" as Europe

Is the theory that contributing to a Hormuz mission will stop stuff like this?

This feels like Rutte at work

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t really understand what you can do with a rice cooker that you can’t with a pot of water.

This is how the media covered a similar outbreak under a Dem president.

1. Unrecedented expansion of serfdom 2. Near obliteration of the Crimean Tatars 3. Pale of Settlement 4. Brutal reprisals after peasant uprisings 5. The destruction of the only state which had a chance of becoming a successful multicultural republic Random German historian: "Girlboss behaviour?"

I think this is true, but it also has inescapable implications that most of the Americans agreeing with this would find unacceptable.

wow so you're telling me heads of state can be charged with crimes?

We teach children in schools things that it took humanity's finest minds their whole lifetimes to work out, and some people forget this to such an extent they can't even work out what education is for.

hey adam what's the actual consequence for an Israeli settler murdering a Palestinian

My reaction is, to quote the great George Carlin, just mentally yelling SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UP

Cancel me if you want but I find alt-text scolding unbelievably annoying

In my view the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: boo! I'm a scary ghost. Wooooo Wooooo Woooooooooo

The US does not want freedom of navigation and at no point in this conflict have they even implied otherwise.

My 1999 self would weep at how totally broken the internet has become. AI slop, social media walled gardens that rot the brain, surveillance pricing and advertising, every single goddamn website has an endless cloudflare captcha loop before you get to read anything. Burn it all down.

Good message but this is what the party’s stance should have been last summer

frankly, i'm tired of every other country having to manage america's need to allow nazis to exist

The discrete vibe shift was in 2022. That’s when all the elites totally caved to fascism.

It’s not like there are actual realities behind the simulacra, that would be monstrous

The upshot to this is that it makes it increasingly difficult for us to pretend that we still have an alliance

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

you know that feels so goood