Was it a journalist

If eggs go negative, fill up your bathtub

Remember folks, problems are isolated, we can only work on one problem at a time, and we must rank problems in descending order of badness. If you don't agree with my definition of "badness," then you are wrong and any work you do on the (hence) wrong problem(s) is silly, misguided, and pointless.

Alex Jones making his bones in the 90s Keep Austin Weird alt scene and immediately freaking out like John Lithgow in Footloose upon contact with weird elder-millennial anti-comedy is a real separation of the wheat from the chaff

The piker stuff is just running back the Chapo stuff from a decade ago. Eternal recurrence. Structurally meaningless, best read as interpersonal beef among media types who want each other's jobs. Rich kids throwing food at the other table full of rich kids in the high school cafeteria.

It really isn't fair to expose Alex Jones to Tim Heidecker like this, the media equivalent of giving a medieval peasant Doritos.

its not just a winning message. it wont just feel good. its necessary! this cant ever happen again. its step one in a whole bunch of needed reforms: removing scotus judges, legislating away citizens united etc, strengthening labor, seizing assets of oligarchs and deporting them, etc. has to be done

Still reading capital and I love it when he really starts feeling himself in his own footnotes

Asking streamers for serious political analysis makes the inquirer look foolish.

It shows

@bentarnoff.com and I went long on the Muskism-Fordism comparison, drawing on the Regulation School to ask what social settlement is being offered alongside the Big Tech regime of accumulation and whether they aren‘t perversely harmed by the absence of counterparty. lpeproject.org/blog/muskism...

The Right spent decades complaining that "the media" was against them, which was not true and if it was it didn't make any practical impact. Now they're buying up media companies to turn them against "the libs", which isn't working and doesn't seem to be having any practical impact.

the Boots Riley discourse on twitter isn't going far enough imo. if you're actually a leftist, you shouldn't even be *watching* movies and television. the only way to actually be a Marxist is to live in a big tank like a guild navigator in Dune so that you can spend 24 hours a day posting

the elite aren’t powerful politicians or billionaires. common misconception. the elite is anyone i think is cooler than me, funnier than me, more artistic than me, or generally anyone i resent for daring to be happier than i am despite my immense wealth and political clout

Once you recognize that the Supreme Court is a political enemy, the good news it's an extremely vulnerable political enemy.

it's funny how this is just marxism but if you say it like this the people who get scared of marxism seem like morons at best and willfully divisive at worst

Ian Malcolm’s “God help us, we’re in the hands of engineers” as the Jurassic Park autonomous electric cars take off on the tour was so ahead of its time

Fact that “Actually rich people love diversity” became the cynical contrarian take demonstrates how poorly contrarianism works in explaining the world.

My condottieri have betrayed me!!! Me, their wicked paymaster! All for the mere crime of not lining their pockets with enough silver to carry out my campaign of wanton destruction!! Now they are in league with my enemies, and preparing to march on my holdfasts!!! Egads!!!

DDoS is such a boring attack, why bother. Look at me, using a bunch of computers to make yours kinda slow, ooOooOO

Hegseth wants so badly to be ~the guy~ who makes Christian Military a thing and it's all coming unglued. It's coming unglued for a lot of them but I think Hegseth actually wanted it the most.

With the anti-debanking decision recently and now this, the administration is waging war on the ability of corporations to punt responsibility for not wanting to do business with you. www.theverge.com/policy/91268...

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Federalist Society ironically running into problems that normally happen to Communist Parties: your ideological project starts to become successful, attracting a bunch of ambitious opportunists in it for the power and connections, leading to corruption and decay on the ideological front.

It’s just a joke dude. It doesn’t mean anything. Information has no coherent structure . Ideas don’t touch reality

Open another front, it will always work out, more fronts means more ways to Win.

The old media regime dominated by TV and newspapers has perished, and the social media "revolution" has demonstrated its inability to fill the void left behind...now is the time for serious folks to be imagining the shape of what might come next.

that post about the villain's henchman thinking he's got the drop on Reacher but for politicians starting arguments about Augustine with the pope.

Regardless of the specific of this union conflict, I always found it puzzling how Americans look at the more confrontational way of doing demonstrations in France or Italy and call it a "riot". A totally different attitude toward economic and political conflicts "etiquette".

I've been telling Tomi Lahren for years that she's too controversial to have an athleisure line, I can't believe she's blowing off my advice like this.

Much hubbub about Magyar's win, whether it is a win for "The Left" or merely a return to centrist-neoliberalism. Time will tell, but nationalizing a bunch of assets as an opening move is at least an indication that centrist-neoliberalism is getting interesting.

you can't be too economics brained lest you start making unprompted declarations like "well if 50k people have to die or go destitute from this policy change it's for the greater good of raising the gdp for 0.02%"

My friend, Isaac Chotiner, trying to chat about my new car: so why didn't you get the plus package?

SV tech bros have been jerking off about the idea of "flat" orgs for decades. But a flat org doesn't mean there are no hierarchies. It means the hierarchies are informal, hidden, inconsistent. Do-nothing meeting attenders appoint themselves feudal lords.

there are so many obvious answers to "why do people feel like they're broke/the economy is fucked right now even though that doesn't show up in the metrics" that I can't imagine anyone being confused about it unless they're addicted to feeling more clever than people on the internet

"are we measuring the wrong things? are we even measuring effectively?" are much better lines of questioning and reasoning in an environment where direct state capacity and scientific support in all areas has waned compared to the private sector after decades of underfunding

the answer to this is obvious. real incomes are up on average, but not among bluesky users, who are statistically anomalous in their lack of business mindset.

USCSB video breaking down a ukranian drone strike on a russian refingery

Expanding on this, there are a growing number of more or less required expenditures to navigate the modern economy (phone, computer, etc.). If you are savvy enough, you can make more and live a higher quality life than you could 30 years ago, but if you aren't then you get drowned in these bills.

yes

the evil emperor cozying up to the pope’s idiot brother is so fucking renaissance, man. it’s so funny. the emperor is forming an alliance against the papal states and there is war in the holy land. there are rumors of plague.

you, a fool: wow the pope is speaking against the president me, The Wise Poster: um, catholicism is, very problematic?? or did yuo "forget"

Lmao

Love the idea of the Pope and the Ayatollah joining forces to take down a backstabbing, egotistical real estate dipshit. Feels like season 3 of The Wire

Guys, when I said I wanted medieval politics to make a comeback, I didn't mean the kind where the pope is mad at me

What are we even doing here

I don't care about Hasan Piker and he doesn't matter, but if it's Gavin v Vance, I'm out. They're the same dude. Slimy dipshit ghoulish oppprtunists. Neither is getting my vote

Combining Linux guys with the French seems like an experiment to produce the most condescending guy ever

There go the Catholics' chances in the midterms