Dusty olds in safe seats lack the juice? sHoCkEd

Instead we’re spending multiple Apollo Programs worth of money (adjusted for inflation!) on the build out of data centers for Ai which make the problem of water insecurity worse!

CLIMATE

CLIMATE

Forgot robot overlords, they’re a means to the end desired by human would-be overlords, who are the real problem.

Geophysics exploded during the interwar years due to a curious confluence of internationalism, colonialism, and petroleum. Learn more on our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout with @bordergroves.bsky.social and @erikisberg.bsky.social here or wherever you find your podcasts: www.hagley.org/research/his...

I’m not sure I’d have pursued a PhD if I knew the gig economy would still get me. But here I am today, having caught up on the work for all three of my part time, PhD required jobs.

hot soccer summer

Forgot robot overlords, they’re a means to the end desired by human would-be overlords, who are the real problem.

Final grades are due at midnight so I guess I had better look at this stack of blue books

Casting Anne Hathaway, whose face is a frozen mask of plastic perfection, to play Penelope, a woman psychologically tortured by her husband’s 20-year absence, is just silly.

On the current trajectory the United States will have been rich enough to dismiss the future risk of climate change and then too poor to actually handle the longer term consequences of climate change.

This year Ibiza went to London

This year Ibiza went to London

Call me crazy but I don’t trust people with Nazi tattoos

Today I ate a Michelin recognized cheesesteak and my life is changed.

Made the pilgrimage to Angelo’s Pizzeria in South Philadelphia today — it’s not just hype — they make a damn good cheesesteak and hoagie!

Call me crazy but I don’t trust people with Nazi tattoos

To me Stephen Colbert will always be Mr. Noblet, closeted teacher at Flatpoint HS

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

If you don’t know the difference between anecdote and antidote, then your ideas are worth ignoring.

You want to see an echo chamber? Follow Ai down the recursive slop rabbit hole.

Who wrote this drivel, Teddy Roosevelt?

To me Stephen Colbert will always be Mr. Noblet, closeted teacher at Flatpoint HS

On the current trajectory the United States will have been rich enough to dismiss the future risk of climate change and then too poor to actually handle the longer term consequences of climate change.

og White House ball-room

The end of birthright citizenship does not mean that the children of undocumented immigrants can be stripped of their citizenship, it means that ANYONE BORN IN THE USA CAN BE STRIPPED OF THEIR CITIZENSHIP. Wake the fuck up, America!

Trump is robbing America

When he was president LBJ asked for ballroom, too, but he actually needed it. youtu.be/nR_myjOr0OU?...

What if, and I’m just spitballing here but, what if congressional Dems were clever enough to make DC statehood the price of funding Trump’s ballroom and arch?

When he was president LBJ asked for ballroom, too, but he actually needed it. youtu.be/nR_myjOr0OU?...

7yo home from school upset. Had said in class that no one should be poor & all jobs should pay the same. His teacher shat all over his ideal of fairness and equality. She replied that some work is more important and some people should have more money. What leftist indoctrination?

The ONE thing besides barbecue that makes the American South a good place to be is its world-class public universities. For how much longer?

The intra-generational divide between younger and elder Millennials lies precisely here

This is so satisfying.

There are glass half empty and glass half full types. I’m more of a “what no lemon?” type.

When my 13yo was 5yo I served him dinner with a slice of bread. He picked it up, apparently confused saying, “What is this? Raw toast?”

Trump is robbing America

Bowie > Beatles and woe to the doubtful

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple

A senior figure in Russian opposition politics wants to be on my podcast... I'm really not sure what to make of that

At 15yo I made a short film about a killer potato. It was called “Solanum Tuberosum.” I used a cassette tape camcorder. The potato had googly eyes.

1992 Ukraine was the biggest nuclear power in the world after the United States. Then Ukraine peacefully transferred its nuclear arsenal to Russia for a guarantee of its perpetual independence. 2026 Ukraine is the world leader in autonomous drone warfare due to Russian violation of that treaty

Ireland had 8 million people in 1841 immediately prior to the great famine. The population has still not recovered, and even after decades of sustained growth it lies today a bit over 7 million.

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple

Compute as a noun. Thanks, I hate it.

Compute as a noun. Thanks, I hate it.

Teach Banned Books

Руський воєнний корабль, іди нахуй

The Golden Cankle