Reading this Wikipedia page, it's hard to escape the feeling that no one at all in the entire country really believes in anything the way Soule, or any of the abolitionists, did.

Also tbh a lot of people would not listen to him as much if he weren’t American?

Surreal that Noah Smith was once woke enough to like a tweet like this

Took train from Bk to 91st ferry Ferry to soundview Walk west across Bronx to high bridge High bridge to 168th stop Good Memorial Day trek

Nobody knows how to answer the question of what to do with these deputies and ICE agents in a politically palatable way.

If you committed a string of brutal murders in West Texas in the 1980s in search of a lost briefcase of millions of dollars, just go ahead and unfollow me

IMO disappointing from Saikat who I broadly like - Weiner vs. all of Los Angeles is not a fair fight

I mean he's saying "I want to blacklist people but that term is associated with McCarthyism so I want to find a new term"

A British couple traveled to China and complimented the Northeastern regional cuisine, comparing it to British food. Chinese Internet:

like not "what if they are superintelligent" but the perfectly probable 'what if they are twenty times as good in ten years' future

one weird thing is no one has really imagined the "what if we have to deal with LLMs" future

Marco Rubio should hang for this

one thing I've only recently come to understand is that to a significant degree the consequences of climate change *have arrived,* they aren't coming down the pipeline to get worse exponentially as we slide into chaos. how long they are here to stay is another matter.

It does feel nice to have the slightest smattering of three languages other than English even if it’s really barely enough to say I don’t speak it.

Still wild that the media covers Epstein like a True Crime curio that the President is sometimes asked to comment on and not the biggest scandal in Presidential history

Even Obama who was far more pro-Israel and subservient to the way Israel influences the American approach than Dwight Eisenhower was willing to buck it for a deal with Iran. Then almost all of DC scorned him and nobody has dared to do it again.

in short, it is a book about how lincoln saved the union through partisanship and party building centered on the essential principle of antislavery.

@cheatlines.co important for you to know that a friend of mine has been sending me awesome Kleya from Andor fancams to me for over a year now

They should let me play overly complicated colony sim games on the clock as an accommodation for my disability of not wanting to do my job.

It really sucks that the city keeps missing opportunities to upzone sites in Chelsea and the Village before they get redeveloped to densities below that of the pre-1961 buildings around them

What a man. A dragon-man.

Look i don’t give a shit unless he’s dead

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

tbf he kinda nailed it

this is why all the software is so bad, imo. not even because like "men are bad" but just imagine how gnarly the social dynamics would have to be to get an outcome like this, and then those people were put in charge of designing the mediums for doing socialization on..........madness

Oman doing nothing and somehow getting dual control over a major shipping route

the tl;dr: iran won the war

i don't even mean that. i just mean "people with the means should have skin in the game". the "eat your vegetables" thing is silly and our structural deficit is fine imo

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

This is why history and philosophy of science is important: inserting infinity into an expected value function is simply a category error. It’s not what the construct of expected value was built to be able to handle. But because it is technically mechanically possible people do it and get stupid.

EU: "Spend money? Are you insane?"

I wish I had the lack of spine for mainstream journalism because the way people get paid to write about internet driven politics while not knowing jack shit about it despite years on twitter etc. is wild

Didn’t watch S5 of the boys because obvious slop but reflecting on series as a whole, for how mediocre the writing was, the cast was really really good IMO. Obvs Starr is the standout but I really like Jack Quaid and the rest too.

holy shit

when you compare the number of people working in finance versus gosplan it’s clear there wasn’t enough planning going on in the ussr

As I recall, Paul Koistinen argues that during World War II economic planning was considerably more centralized in the United States than in the USSR (or in Germany).

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

okay so it's weird that this many of the Warhammer 40k games are actually very good right?

Underrated negative impact of twitter is just how much it’s spreading virulent anti Indian racism en masse too.

In the long run we’re all under Damnatio Memorae :/

A no growth economy where president pedophile gets to pick winners and losers based on who is racist enough is the shining beacon on the hill of America's vision for governance of markets.

The Dems who voted for this GOP bill: Henry Cuellar (Texas) Donald Davis (N.C.) Cleo Fields (La.) Laura Gillen (N.Y.) Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) Marcy Kaptur (Ohio) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.) Eugene Vindman (Va.)

god I wish

This is a big problem generally with the idea that there's any connection between a party's chosen or implemented policies and what the public perception of those policies is.

From the discourse, I suspect that far too many of us are actually ordering?

the shit *Shane Gillis* gets away with is insane.

It really is true that “democrats”[the masses] know what’s up and “Democrats”[the electeds] are limpid lampreys

Can you imagine what a French peasant would have done if he saw a giant skeletor made from drones in the sky?