Sometimes I sympathize with Trump, because it probably is genuinely very confusing why you can talk about purging the lifeblood of the nation of foreign filth and nobody cares, and then you post some dumb racist video and everyone starts yelling at you.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Of course he is all about the dow

thank heavens the good people at the Argument who commissioned this and spend their time hanging out on X are immune to propaganda

If you're building a startup in 2026, you are expected to work with the world's largest venture capital firm (which is not even really a VC firm), where one partner strangled my neighbor to death for being Black, and another actively sought Jeffrey Epstein's counsel for years. This is *normal*.

if you are doing a raise and you aren't willing to pitch a16z and founder's fund people will look at you VERY askance, like it would materially hurt your chances with other firms, even other firms that think a16z and founders have shit politics

In 2013 I called Europa Universalis IV the "best genocide simulator of the year" and went a little viral about it. I didn't save the article. Now it seems to have died of bitrot. However, the butthurt chuds all left comments on Reddit that still remain as a testament to how amazingly correct I was.

worry not #$NVO holders, the FDA will pump your bags

Beast mode

I hate to say this because my loyalty for the men's at least is with Canada but the team USA hockey jerseys are sexier

As always, if your position is that “only the literalists and reactionaries are the true form of a faith or religion” you ARE espousing fundamentalism

It's Whiskey Friday again and media literacy has gone to 0 this is (fairly clearly?) parody and it doesn't take long to check that no such official message exists

Greenland just might be small enough that all this activity (Canada just opened a consulate too, plus the military action) is a decent stimulus to their economy

*DOJ PROBES NETFLIX'S BUSINESS PRACTICES IN MERGER PROBE: WSJ its all so corrupt and transparent its laughable

so much of Trump's agenda seems to be just "state the unspoken status quo in grotesquely explicit terms"

lmao Banque Havilland and its owner David Rowland were considered too shady even for Epstein www.bbc.com/news/article...

100% correct farfalle take

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

[Deep sigh] the dementia didn't make trump racist, he was always racist. The dementia is fucking with his behavioral filters, which is also why hes gotten way more profane in public lately. Happens all the time!

"According to sources...video and photo posts to the president’s Truth Social account go through layers of approval. Trump signs off on the content posted, but he often does not find...these clips himself...it takes a village...to create the federal government’s racist propaganda operation."

uh I'm going to assume this guy is not related to his infamous Austrian namesake?

in the elite circles of the US, racism is treated less as a matter of social stratification with direct implications for political stakes and more as a matter of moral etiquette. it is even more notable, then, that this administration can't constrain themselves to the meager associated standards

ooooooh new episode

since we're doing "waymo remote guidance equals mechanical turk" discourse again...

it is a testament to how fucked up this milieu is that the following sentence is just a minor part of the story, mentioned once as an aside

So is this a pro-Starmer op or an anti-Starmer op?

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this is who we think it is yeah? *UK POLICE SAY CARRYING OUT SEARCHES IN WILTSHIRE, CAMDEN *UK POLICE CARRYING OUT SEARCH WARRANTS OVER 72-YEAR-OLD MAN *UK POLICE SEARCH RELATED TO PROBE INTO PUBLIC OFFICE MISCONDUCT *UK POLICE SAY NO ARREST, ENQUIRIES ONGOING

The major flaw with the claim that Trump's foreign policy is "realist" is the fact that it is so deeply ideological. There is no "realist" case for driving South Africa into China's embrace, rather than competing for its partnership. The only reason Trump is doing so is based on racist memes.

"The British Olympic Association... is understood to be relaxed that Kenworthy has given a personal opinion on a subject that sits outside the Games." www.thetimes.com/sport/winter...

This fuckin guy

What stands out about this particular poll, too, is that it’s commissioned by The Argument, and written up in an article there titled “Twitter is Not Real Life,” and yet the article’s author, and most of the people contributing to The Argument, are heavy, and largely exclusive, X users.

Part of the answer to “Why are so many mainstream columnists and pundits saying such transparently stupid stuff?” is that they’re still on X, and view the world through the perspective X brings them, and that perspective is dramatically warped.

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

this is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...

I hope the abyss in @stephenkb.bsky.social's newsletter becomes a returning character

Whenever I come across Tyler Cowen, I end up paraphrasing Oscar Wilde: With intelligence comes wisdom, but sometimes intelligence comes alone

werq!

question for those that know more about these things than I do… How much of the dramatic increase in AI capex announced by #$AMZN and #$GOOGL is downstream from changes to fixed asset depreciation announced in the Trump tax bill?

Amtrak has fallen

the true North strong and free 🫡

The console table with its prized photographs of the rich, powerful and compromised which lays out Jeffrey Epstein's "social Ponzi scheme". Fantastic piece by Paul Caruana Galizia and Kaye Wiggins as.ft.com/r/3d0a85b9-c...

Genuinely do people in Westminster (journalists and MPs) give a fuck about women and girls? Mandelson’s appointment isn’t just a frothy bit of court drama. A “good and serious man” wouldn’t have appointed a known close associate of the world’s most notorious pedophile to be US ambassador.

(seen a bunch of people sharing this/talking in general about how "normal" Mamdani is but imo this doesn't show a normal person, but an *exceptionally* skilled communicator - a normal person wouldn't react like that to having a speech interrupted by a child! give him his due!)

so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter

“Diversity trainings were annoying” okay, name a work training that you loved to do?

crypto wouldn't be falling like this if trump was president

making friends, influencing people

remind me to never piss off the FT