having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

"El Paso Party Balloon" is the name of my next band gizmodo.com/one-mexican-...

i have a crank theory that *part* of the reason a certain kind of user is enthusiastic about AI products is downstream from user interface design having been on a steady downward slide for years, and AI products *seem* to make interfacing easier on the surface

by the 2030s you’ll be showing zoomers in their 30s how to use file systems

[nods vigorously in “works in an industrial plant”]

my completely uninformed, shitpost guess is that musk intends to follow the same pattern that he's done with all of his companies in recent years of marginalizing top-level employees and consolidating all decision-making for himself and these folks can read the wall writing

no particular irritation with hayes here but i find a lot of the discourse about this unhelpful, because there are numerous if/and/or statements you have to apply at an industry-by-industry and almost company-by-company level that renders big generalizations things that obscure more than they reveal

The most important thing to understand about the debt: Yes, spending is rising – due to demographics & health care cost growth But taxes used to be on pace to match that rising spending Then we cut taxes and now it isn't Spending is rising slower than expected, so tax cuts bear 100% of the blame

not great but not as apocalyptic as they were all starting to sound

I occasionally wonder if there are exact right-wing counterparts to the way that lefty people talk about the Democrats and I couldn't have asked for a better example

i would say you can see why she went into law instead of acting, but it’s not clear to me she’s actually any better at it than she is at acting

lol, lmao

shutting down all service (*all* service) to a regional airport for ten days with no advance notice to anyone is pretty nuts

In a Doonesbury strip from the 1988 Dem primary (god, I’m old!), he has Dick Gephardt citing some bullshit statistic about the price of melons in Japan to a lady in the grocery store and then saying, “Now hold still while I harness that resentment.” I think about that a lot.

just, like, stop and engage your brains for a moment and ask if you think microsoft would put out a paper saying passenger attendants are one of the most likely jobs to get eaten by AI. just stop and think for a second about that.

i do not like that we're just going to run the entire bluecheck credibility crisis from start to finish again; this guy's an engagement grifter and he's openly lying in easily disprovable ways and a lot of people who should know better are running with it because it confirms their priors

fwiw this is not what this paper claims at all

former prosecutors-turned-defense lawyers with one *hell* of an axe to grind are absolutely going to be a thing in the coming years

it's great that we're getting all of the bad things out of cyberpunk

i have some very bad news for you based on my lived experience, lol

live view of the house of representatives in 2026

i think the number of house republicans who are fucking sick and tired of taking trump's shit, and sick and tired of taking the senate's shit, and who understand that they're not going to survive the midterms is going to make for an interesting congressional year

the *other* funny thing is that the three republicans pushing it over the line here are: - massie: doesn't give a single fuck, probably bullet proof - bacon: doesn't give a single fuck, retiring - kiley: desperately trying to find some way to save his sorry ass before redistricting nukes him

the funniest thing about this is that this is a *really* bad vote for johnson to have lost

they said it couldn't be done, folks, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said "no president could completely wreck an entire united states economy twice", they said "no one's ever put more people out of work than you"

new avocado toast ragebait just dropped

loooooooolllll

he probably won't fire him, but it would be extremely trumpian for trump's first firing of the second administration to be over epstein affiliations that aren't his own

i am not a lawyer, but every time i see a former prosecutor talk about this DOJ, they talk about how something like this would have been the end of your job (and maybe your career) in every single DOJ before this one, and it wouldn't matter if a republican or democrat were president

no idea whether he'll retire or not, but imagine how utterly shameless you have to be to agree to be interviewed for a book like this *before you have even retired from the job*

the soju experience 🤪

there are two things about this, one is that there is no prime minister of switzerland, he's talking about the president of the swiss confederation, which is a different thing entirely, and, two, i'm not sure you could make a more persuasive case to SCOTUS for nuking tariffs than this one

excuse me, an *hourlong* video?

like, maybe it’s fine, and maybe they’re just trying to soften up the ground a little for an underwhelming report, but bessent, lutnick, navarro, hassett and the white house all sound like they’re trying to prepare everyone for the apocalypse

i find the idea that there were technical reasons that it took ten days to recover these images flatly impossible to believe.

this is a legitimately staggering waste of capacity and resources

we have this week’s “if you’re explaining, you’re losing” winner, thanks for all of your nominations

i remember a couple of places serving this growing up in oklahoma back when oklahoma was still the midwest

i don’t know that our soft power is gone forever, but i think it’ll take time and effort to rebuild it in a field that’s always very competitive

absolutely! the best expression of this I've seen is a 19th century Japanese discourse-form treatise on politics; the nihilist character sounds like he's quoting Marc Andreesen or Yudkowsky in advance a lot of the time (because he's a caricature of Herbert Spencer, who they're drawing on)

This one? maxread.substack.com/p/suicide-ri...

how about a book (this is basically the back half of it) www.versobooks.com/products/312...

i do not think it’s great that transgression has become the primary coin of the realm on the right

you’re not actually helping anyone if you see a post criticizing republicans for their behavior and use it as a springboard to criticize democrats

it’s funny that a handful of republican senators are belatedly realizing that all of these guys they voted to confirm really *are* lazy dumbshits, they weren’t play acting

i guess it beats doing the job taxpayers pay you to do

at this point i assume everyone in trump’s inner circle is getting early access to any important economic data they can use to make inside bets

i am not sure that i could name someone in business who has burned more name capital than musk has. like, you usually have to look at entertainment or sports, and it’s usually people like phil spector or OJ. maybe bernie madoff applies here.

normally i think people like this say things like this knowing that it’ll drive a ton of people crazy because of the obvious, but loomer’s a bonafide, genuine dipshit, so

it’s on musk, but it’s also on every other member of doge and everyone further up the chain, too, they should all be held accountable