This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

this is what some of you look like in your chore coats

Me: would you mind saying this thing on the record that you probably shouldn't? DHS: Buddy, we would love to say the thing.

what happens when you don't get your public affairs people to run things by lawyers first

I would like to pay more money and for games to be super-fancy. I like my fancy graphics! Every time I see pixel art I die inside a little! I didn't bribe the TSMC staff for my graphics card for this!

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

lot of correct discussion today about Kavanaugh today but I’m still struck but how much Gorsuch is fully cooked. libertarian streak entirely gone. textualist entirely gone. he’s just WASP Alito now.

the inexplicable reality of Gorsuch has always been that he has a deep well of empathy for the victims of atrocities as long as those atrocities are at least 150 years old and no interest in stopping exactly the same behavior if it’s happening currently.

Friction is good and one of the most consequential tasks facing the designers and managers of social-technical systems in the 21st century is putting it back in in the right ways and right places.

Shout-out to the baby for timing her needs so as to sabotage her dad's attempts to take over making Christmas magic happen. This is gonna be really funny in three years

The Economist spent a year talking to toymakers battling President Grinch

If incomes aren't a proxy for merit, a lot of other assumptions break down. Preserving those assumptions by treating the poor as deficient or abject is worth the price of less effective solutions

I know we don’t comment on women’s appearances but how does she somehow already have Mar-a-Lago Face

maybe lawsky has discussed this before — but are there any other instances in which a specific scotus justice's name became a term of art, the way it has with "kavanaugh stop"? there are countless examples where a case caption becomes a name ("miranda rights") but justice's name seems uncommon.

Same for Charlie Brown Christmas. They literally stop the special in the middle to quote scripture directly to the audience. Extremely sincere

this is like something from a Reacher novel. cartoony pulp

"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Juice.

“Treachery” would seem to imply that we (?) or Global (??) owe a duty of allegiance (???) to the US (????) or CBS (?????) or Bari Weiss (??????) I can’t tell whether they’re trying to be funny or are just plain psychotic.

Dear @theatlantic.com, US censorship doesn't legally apply in Canada, so there was no obligation for Global TV to remove the clip. And I'm done with my Atlantic subscription, thanks.

Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them

Bari made the move to pull the segment a few hours before broadcast, if it was that big a deal then CBS should have contacted Global at an executive level to let them know (which I bet they forgot to do, you think Bari thinks about international syndication when she’s panicking?)

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

As @shashj.bsky.social says on the other place, the Europeans need to start taking the fact that we're an adversary seriously. And we as Americans need to understand that we're starting to sound like the quoted post more and more.

it does seem a little unfair that despite being no worse than fourth worst on the court he gets to eat this as his name’s legacy forever, but hey, sucks to suck

There are 78 Burke-class destroyers and we're planning to build 99. They say they're going to build "20-25" Trump-class thingys instead of the Burke's replacement. Taking them at their word, that's a 75% reduction in surface combatant numbers. Congratulations navalists, you played yourself.

Bari Weiss is incompetently debasing herself for her evil boss, and ironically enough so is Kat Rosenfield, the FP's "culture writer"

somehow everytime a weiss defender speaks up i am even more convinced of her incompetence and malice

Pritzker is the class traitor America needs right now. Cut from the same cloth as Teddy and FDR: a real billionaire who isn't cowed by money, with a great track record of governing and of standing up to bullies. I've been touting him a POTUS material for years. Good to see others picking up on him.

Zerohedge has predicted 167 of the last 0 recessions

i do wonder what happens when the truckers get automated out of a job along with e.g. taxis

a) this is pathetic regime shit from CBS. b) this is genuinely his dream, he would so much rather be a TV host than president.

sagely: if these guys were ever getting laid for an extended period of time they would know that the real thing is a superposition of both at all times

Canadian treachery? What are we even doing here? I mean, my Canadian cousin owes me $20 American still but ffs. These people love to have other people tortured and they are flailing rather than admin it fulfills a sadistic urge.

San Francisco should do this too. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

the strongest thing that makes one an urbanist is trying to drive in Toronto

we should do it

Yep. It is in fact bad that people are addicted to a 24/7 Bad News Machine

Honestly 'R&D trojan horse that never gets built but is instead a box to smuggle various actually useful projects past this administration' is probably the best case for this 'battleship.'

this is unbeatable finance posting holy

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

it's so cool that journalists believe they deserve respect as a privileged class that speaks truth to power without ever needing to speak truth to power

So basically we cant trust them, whoever it is. Anyone who wants the job under these conditions.....

Finally got an update on the attempt to open an internment camp in KC. The show up was so bad that CoreCivic has launched a massive ad spend campaign in the area in attempt to shift public opinion. This is basically what Nazism actually looks like wrt private industry. Facebook ads and this shit.

The purpose of macroeconomics is to protect people from knowing about macroeconomics.

Global solar deployment in 2024 shattered records, with nearly 600 gigawatts (GW) installed worldwide, a massive increase driven primarily by China, followed by the U.S. and India. 2025 will shatter that record, hitting over 800 GWs, despite the glass-half empty reporting out of the USA.

This is incredibly obviously going to be the rolling problem with a “tougher” immigration stance. We still need people to do things. And, ultimately, either we hire/retain them or the things don’t get done. Everything else is hollow rhetoric.

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

The American elite are more Trumpy than rural Wisconsinites, after you exclude doctors, lawyers, scientists My understanding of the world isn’t getting cooked by 3 hours a day of an algorithm that maximizes my exposure to Nazis