"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

Napoleon low key the funniest guy in European history because he was like “what if I promoted officers based on how good they were at army and recruited troops who actually liked my country“ and it was basically the same as unleashing Godzilla.

Paper w/ @carogarriga.bsky.social: Academia’s Class Problem. PoliSci is dominated by the upper middle class / people with parents who went to university – unlike society as a whole. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

I don't know what everyone is complaining about. 2 days in and the invasion of Afghanistan is going fine!

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

Imagining @Peanutfarmingpres tweeting about our Island of Stability in 1979

Betting on war is evil and wicked biblical senses.

My thoughts open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

Big congratulations to the “no new wars” crowd. There were many bad reasons to support (or anti-anti-) Donald Trump. But none with as much willful denial and reality inversion as yours.

Morpheus telling Trinity where the nearest phone is

AI delenda est

Having fun when I can these days

Trump: "I want to be a good boy"

The Supreme Court:

Donald Trump's second term playing out like the beginning of Castlevania III

Remember: Viktor Orban has built a corrupt, stagnant Hungary that is much poorer than it should be www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Shorter Rubio: White Europeans can be our most favorite subjegated peoples.

Soft power in theory: peace and love understanding future of power! Soft power in reality: huh I should give my moka pot another chance hopefully it won't make poison sludge again

when the new castlevania looks like an indie game instead of a richly textured goth fantasy

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

i think it is a massive fucking problem that the first best use for LLMs was to cheat in school

"the government should not be compelling the conservative half of the country to pay for the suppression of its own views." Rich line from Project 2025's chapter on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Glad they are consistent and that my tax dollars are not now suppressing my own views 🤡

wait does this mean I can unblock all the libertarians in my life who supported Trump (basically all of them save 1)

Sharing a painkiller

>doesn't know the lore

Dancing to Harry Belafonte at Goth night in honor of Catherine O'Hara healed something in me

The law is my last concern here. This is illiberal, irregular (even Reagan's VOA got pushback for less), and makes for dogshit propaganda against geopolitical adversaries.

The RL in RL Stine stands for Radio Liberty. He gives the Soviets goosebumps.

Warmaxxing made us state pilled and statemaxxing made us war pilled

A note to the administration on behalf of everyone on the job market

approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide

me: why do you like mudkip student: oh it was my first pokemon me: oh, I had pkmn ruby them: no this was alpha sapphire me: *old, decrepit, ancient, undying*

There's a dollar "vibe shift" happening now that is different from past bouts of dollar pessimism. You might be skeptical. That's understandable since the de-dollarization narrative has been around for years now, and little has changed about the dollar's global position. 1/

Visual metaphors are my passion

Absolutely inconsolable that GF Colin did not exist when I was in the UK last year.

Oh my god she admit it

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

The metaphor I've always reached for to describe this country is that I'm trapped on a sinking ship that half the passengers keep pouring water into. Great minds!!!

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

out: VHS/betamax example in: this

Just got back from my time traveling dinosaur safari and you won’t believe how many butterflies I stepped on! Now to take a big sip of water and check on President Harris’s trip to Davos

(2016) (Portal opens) Me: mark carney, governer of the Bank of England, what are you doing Carney: America’s haunted Me: what Mark carney: (grabbing a gun and jumping back through the portal) America’s haunted

The problem of living in chaos is that it makes you crave for stability but makes you behave more erratic.

- become leader of a declining superpower - promise major changes - dumb policies make the economy worse - allies start to leave the empire - be donald trump - pic unrelated

Beijing watching a completely mentally unstable U.S. President reorient all U.S. foreign policy to coerce Brussels: