no one’s attacking us because this government is already doing a better job of destroying the country than our adversaries could ever hope

reminder regarding anyone promising a return to normal: normal got us here

The latest edition of my newsletter is about a subject I've been obsessed with since I was a snot-nosed 20-something telecom beat reporter: The U.S. press simply refuses to acknowledge that widespread corruption at the hands of unchecked corporate power is THE reason for most U.S. dysfunction.

i dont think "twitter is the largest producer and distrubtor of csam thats ever existed" has really sunk in

this is a Good Question, and the answer has a lot to do with the economics of venture capital. VCs need there to be a transformative breakthrough tech that offers massive returns bc their model is, to some extent, predicated on having a Facebook every once and while to offset failed investments.

I think the most alarming development of 2025, personally, despite the myriad horrific things going on in the world, was realizing that people I like and whose ideas are interesting to me would find ways to justify continuing to use an app after it started *generating child pornography on demand*.

it's also notable that historians, scientists, non-fiction authors have thrived here while journalists often *haven't*. I think there are many reasons for that that are not journalists' fault, and some that are.

Thread. Until Covid, I had thought that while people could believe all manner of crazy things when their own interests were not at stake in a fairly obvious way, they would get serious when they were. I will never get over being proven wrong about this.

1/5 The genocide in Ukraine is the glue holding the Kremlin together. Putin cannot afford to stop, as he has tied both his survival and that of the Russian empire to total victory

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

They incarcerated a white, retired British grandmother with a valid visa. For 2 months. I'm glad this article gets into what most don't: Even if you manage to get released, that's 2 months of not paying your bills. Her credit was wrecked. She's retired - younger folks would have lost their jobs.

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Again, I cannot emphasize enough: do not go to the US even if you're privileged enough to have never been scared or worried of a border crossing in you're life. Do not go ESPECIALLY for something as optional & outrageously expensive as GDC. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It is a basic abdication of the tenets of objective journalism to write any analysis of this situation without mentioning that he does not know what a trade deficit or a tariff is

They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.

US science is being turned over to Peter Thiel, who will kill it. Trump installed one longtime Thiel lieutenant as his science advisor. Now another Thiel lieutenant, Jim O'Neill, will head NSF. Both are the least-qualified ever, with NO science training. They're picked because they serve Thiel. 1/

For non-gamers... one of the most important people in the business of making video games just got pushed out by Microsoft for a person who needs to "ask questions" about "how games are made" but has lots of experience pushing AI on people who don't want it.

“In a criminal trial, I would feel morally obligated to convict, however, in a civil trial I could set those views aside,” adding, “I believe it would be to the benefit of the human race for Mr. Musk to be sent to prison.” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

the worst thing for me is. Imagine you lost a bunch of expert carpenters and you had to learn carpentry from scratch with no teachers, no youtube. That’s what the industry is currently doing. just getting rid of the folks who know the craft, and retaining the folks who know how to parasite

Tiktok refuses to axe racist AI-generated ads for Finji games

Recent reports indicate that there are approx. 10,000 North Korean soldiers in the Russian military at the moment - we've taken a number of POWs, most of whom beg not to be repatriated to their mad king. And yet South Korea is still mulling over whether to aid Ukraine.

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

Nobody believes this anymore but it’s absolutely true! The COVID-19 pandemic was as bad as it was not just because Trump bungled it, but because he actively made it worse from the start. Almost everyone has forgotten this.

I looked up recently what the success rate for LLMs tuned for doing accounting is because that’s an ideal use case and it was like below 70% which is super unacceptable, like if your accountant fucked up that much you’d go to prison.

But it's "newsworthy" to treat AOC like a fucking dumbshit because she said "um"

an AR-15 costs less than two sticks of RAM. this is a market economy establishing an incentive structure

suffering is godly and the more you make your children suffer the godlier they are, and by extension, you. that's why this stupid bitch is in the news, this is the best thing that ever happened to her

Another thing I'll add, albeit obvious: it is of VITAL importance for the media to calcify the idea that AOC is dumb as early as possible because if she IS the nominee she will be running against JD Vance, the categorically least qualified person to run for president in a century other than Trump.

Trump's ballroom will aptly be overseen by the girlfriend from Get Out.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Your regular reminder that anyone who pushes "let's give Donbas to Russia to end the war" as a solution is either ignorant or pro-Russian. Donbas is not a "disputed" nor a special region and therefore its occupation by Ru doesn't solve anything at all. Ru wants all of Ukraine.

A decades-long study suggests that men with higher intelligence quotient ratings are less likely to hold conservative political views.

I just did a whole Writing and Whatnot blog post about how to do this! I'll share it here in case it helps anyone... (hope that's ok, Greg). writingandwhatnot.com/blog/diy-new...

The brunchlord establishment press hates progressives (especially female) exponentially more than fascism and it's simply not subtle

The rise of the far right is not a problem unique to the US. Our elite impunity problem, however, seems to be on an order of magnitude worse than a lot of our peers.

“Pierre Poilievre has become the Justin Trudeau of the Conservative Party” is absolutely the single funniest possible quote that could have emerged from this whole situation. Pierre is screaming crying throwing up rn www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

THIS IS NOT A DRILL YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO. USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+ NOT. A. DRILL. www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

The more I think about the DC press slagging AOC for a lack of FP depth while Donald Trump is President, twice, is making me angry enough to explode. The fuck is wrong with the journalists that they're like this

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

I’ve posted this before, but the UK had a world class reputation for three things: higher education, cultural media, money laundering. The government has deliberately ripped the heart out of the first two but the third is thriving.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

A Dem that runs as pro trans gets a SIXTY ONE POINT BUMP WITH DEM VOTERS and a NINE POINT BUMP WITH INDIES over ones that go silent. The failure to get this is a prior beliefs/incentives problem but it's also a research problem. The current establishment's understanding of voters is utterly cooked.

When you call a Democratic Senator to ask them to fillibuster this, advise them to volunteer for a talking fillibuster, and read the Epstein Files into the public record.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

there u go, bless