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A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.

Um, people… is this, um, concerning on some way…

🔥 A former president & a former chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) resigned from ISI’s board on Friday. One of them posted this warning that “conservative institutions are being systematically…undermined by post-liberals who promote a ‘no enemies to the right’ mindset.” 1/

Would it be helpful if we did a talk on what an insurance death spiral is? And why ACA premiums entering a death spiral will mean that people who rely on employer-sponsored insurance will also be fucked? Or do folks already have a good grasp on that?

there is no separation at all between trump admin governance & donald trump's personal/family greed & ambitions. this is in part why all discussion of admin "policy" that neglects this baseline fact is so hollow & naive, & mystifying that ppl still write about policy without this framing.

⚡️ JUST NOW — Speaker Johnson will NOT guarantee a vote on ACA subsidies even if it passes the senate (after the Schumer-orchestrated cave)👇🏽

Imagine being the opposition party to this and caving so you don’t disrupt the airline industry’s lobbyist’s holiday profit bump

People are mad at Democrats over on Threads. Do you understand? THREADS.

Bodes ill. Everything Trump touches dies.

A photo of Senator Schumer I took a decade and a half ago that seemed to capture something of his character. A man serving something other than his constituents

The harm caused by the shutdown was real, affecting millions, and no one should downplay that. But America is not in a situation of harm or no harm. Rapidly backsliding into authoritarianism, America is in a terrible situation where appeasement trades short-term relief for more long-term harm.

love this thread.

I wonder if any future historians who write about this moment in time, will make a note of Trump being savagely booed by tens of thousands of people literally at the same time that 8 Democrats bent the knee.

America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trying these beans today.

Loser energy

NEW: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case over whether states can count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. The RNC and the Libertarian Party are challenging a Mississippi law that allows ballots to be counted so long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

Just reposting this from March for, you know, reasons...

It’s a straight fucking line from then to now.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes / When Schumer leads a Senate of cowards

This seems significant. "U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman."

Any response other than an immediate "fuck you, make me" is an indication your institution is already ok with fascism, and is now just haggling over the price.

Trump wants to erase any "negative" content from educational sites at National Parks. This week, @samleecole.bsky.social speaks to a group of data preservationists behind "Save Our Signs" who want to save the real history of parks before the administration erases it.

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

Pretty sure for the moderate dems this is just a kink now

De La Soul...

Unfollowing and blocking a lot of people in the last twelve hours. Starting to sour on this app.

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

Linear times continues to baffle top journalistic experts

Obviously I did something wrong

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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

This looks awfully intentional.

You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.

What are we even doing here?

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

they really want to test out that three missed meals theory www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

Utterly despicable.

Soundgarden 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction

Currently trying to convince eldest daughter to go to the local dive diner with me for breakfast.

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last 10 years is proof — in multiple sectors of society — that “evil corp/gov/criminal plays around with monsters it can’t control” plots were realistic if not documentary like

“Oh no, it’s not virtue signaling pal. It’s actual virtue.”

I’ve decided to let the insomnia win and am now having a cup of instant coffee and staring into the void at 3:10am

When the Fourth Great Awakening is about to cause the Fifth Greater Awakening