Part of a longer rant about Alex Karp, first round hall of fame for motivated reasoning.

Ben explains why we are no longer in control of when this situation ends. @haitch.bsky.social @goldman.blue

7 year old now asks for us to turn off the music in the car as we pull up to drop off lest he be embarrassed

Every American needs to watch this:

Ok but that’s a banger tweet

7yo: “Did you have stickers back in the 1900s?”

7yo has his first loose tooth and it’s very exciting. But he already had his grown up teeth popped up behind the loose ones and it looks like staring into a sharks mouth rn

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

r/xbiking comes through.

I am a casual+ World of Warcraft player. Yesterday the “pre patch” for the next big expansion of the game dropped, introducing a bunch of new stuff. One of the biggest changes is the so-called AddOn Apocalypse.

KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF HER

Listening to the Fellowship of the Rings with the kids for the first time. 5yo: “Why is there so much singing?!” Me: “Baby I’ve been wondering that for 40years”

Opening scene of Industry s4e1 starts with a montage set to New Order’s True Faith. Best news of 2026 thus far.

It’s a funny bit of authorial interjection that every character who survives the adventures in Lord of the Rings settles down to write a history or appendix of some sort.

Maybe the FBI will be honest and not cover up, harass witnesses, destroy evidence, and obstruct justice. And maybe my hair will grow back. If the FBI agents do what I think they’re going to do, though, we should know their names, and they should never have another day of peace.

they're doing it for gender, imo

The Hobbit film trilogy is kind of mid but Lee Pace as Thranduil is worth it. In this scene he’s really making some choices.

It’s going to get better from here. 2026 is our year; I feel it.

Preview of a future disaster: 7yo: “do cats always land on their feet” Me: “that’s what they say” 7yo: “why” Me: “they’re just good at landing” 7yo: “am I good at landing?” Me: “dude please”

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

It’s wild to me that there’s a senior government official who posts daily about how they don’t like Black & Brown people on social media and it’s not a scandal. It’s just background noise in the overall awfulness of the Trump administration.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Nearly died slipping on slime and should I perish this way I need my death to be politicized. Slime is a terrible gift for children. Terrorists give it as gifts and slime manufactures are the new ISIS.

A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.

This is what happens when you’re an unrepentant asshole your entire career

Important to read and understand this part of Vance’s July speech at Claremont. His argument about heritage Americans over creedal Americans as the proper standard is going to be a dominant debate at the heart of the next Presidential cycle.

Outer Wilds was a miracle of a game

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time

The Ana Gasteyer episode of Good Hang is phenomenal. What a talent good lord. I love hearing her talk about just winning the SNL 50 concert and her stories from being childhood friends with Jimmy Carters daughter are legit the most insane.

The internet is revolutionary to free speech because it empowers individuals and citizens to route around censorship in all its forms—even a captured “free” press. This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.

i think this is exactly right. she was hired to be a regime censor but that requires a bit of real skill and finesse to pull of successfully and she has neither.

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.”

First Elon Musk at Twitter, now Bari Weiss at CBS. What’s next, finding out others who loudly proclaimed themselves free speech champions never valued free speech at all, and were always doing “speech I like must be widely distributed and cannot be criticized, speech I don’t like must be censored”?

imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."

CHOTINER: and when you're in water you PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right. CHOTINER: And this is because PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here

I must again renew my calls for Infinite Jest to be uncanceled

it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website

So Weiss failed to 1) protect her newsroom and reporters 2) understand public perception 3) comprehend the impact of her own actions 4) REALIZE THEY ALREADY SENT THE EPISODE TO CANADA WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THE INTERNET AND CAN BROADCAST IT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Where those Harper’s Letter folks at

Right, this line Vance used was a very common line used by segregationists. Here's Rep. Mendel Rivers (D-SC) reacting to the Brown decision, which he said "would bring mongrelization of the Caucasian race. He added that he for one won't apologize for being a white man."

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

A “let’s pick this up after the holidays” advisory is now in effect.

It’s gonna be ok. This is both one of the easier ones to undo and tearing down monuments to the dictator is a traditional part of the truth and reconciliation process.

It's so weird that the "surprise" "vote" happened yesterday but they had the external lettering, tarps, and crew all ready to go.