conservatives do not have a problem with racial or gender preferences or quotas. they just think they rightfully should go to white men, who are inherently meritorious.

JD Vance’s Communion is a bog standard Politician’s Book, what you write before a presidential run. But that it’s written for a reader that doesn’t exist, about a country that doesn’t exist, by a man that doesn’t exist, and thus is alternately baffling & offensive. My review for @newrepublic.com:

"Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one." - AJP Taylor

nothing more District than wetlands! (except chili cheese fries and grape soda)

RIP Carlo Ginzburg, whose work never appealed to me greatly, but who inspired John Crowley's magnum opus THE AEGYPT CYCLE and @elizabethhand.bsky.social's excellent WAKING THE MOON

they 100% got the prez to sign because it was in Versailles

Girlfriend suggested in the groupchat that US-Americans treat their cultures of origin like Hogwarts houses and I haven't recovered since

🇺🇦😄 Ukrainian Monobank has a new card design

and yet no one has optioned this yet www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/co...

Same pattern in tech. IP cash flow gets extracted before the underlying creative engine gets rebuilt.

Air to Ground Message: FYI 35 YEAR OLD MALE SEAT 24 E HAS PASSED OUT 3 TIMES IS AWAKE NOW. FA ARE TRYING TO REACH MEDLINK NOW. ENGLISH SOCCER FAN WHO HAS ONLY CONSUMED BEER TODAY. Area: Louisville, KY, USA Type: Airbus A319 A: #a5cc94e6dad F: #f2904c1ddd3

increasingly clear that Hollywood *finally* figured out how to leverage IP to ensure box office, then assumed the move would last indefinitely, and instead of using the proceeds to shore up & reinvent production let all the cash be sucked out by Wall Street

Long awaited news!

Ah, OK, I get it. Apparently Christian nationalist grifter Eric Metaxas wrote a popular but dodgy biography of Bonhoeffer that tries to conscript him as a kind of icon to justify political violence against Democrats. So this is pure projection.

robots should not enter conversations uninvited

early '26: i can't believe we went to war with Iran! mid '26: i can't believe we lost a war with Iran!

the kids are alright

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

the people trying to ban young people from the internet are just telling them that they’ve given up on the internet. “I’m going to stay on a shit internet but you can’t” is not a trust and safety fostering policy, it’s surrendering your own agency and pretending it’s helping

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer we hunted Gollum

the Federal government as forum (neutral)

@kissane.myatproto.social heya, dunno if you've read my story "Her Threshold" but think it fits the bill (the title, while accurate, is deliberately misleading) lenticularlit.com/2024/10/15/t...

perfect gift for your infrastructure bae

it's very funny that no one is hatewatching the UFC thing

Four guys in Knicks regalia standing in a close circle by the swing set in an otherwise empty playground at 6:45 a.m., talking ecstatically about the series.

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

Current* conditions near Elk Rapids, MI:

i think the dark chapter from american history that scooby doo is best suited to mention by name has got to be ruby ridge

driving up 95, just past ME border, saw a car had plowed right into median, striking it so hard a ten foot section of twisted metal had sheared off and was obstructing left lane

getting a lot less work done now that i can't talk to myself around my toddler

Excellent essay by Leif, Tyler, and Ben. Interestingly, reification of “internal states” is one of the pitfalls of the intentional stance of Dennett, something we are seeing a lot of AI interoperability research succumbing to.

Lol. None of the three are The Scar so, wrong. Wrong regardless. collider.com/fantasy-book...

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Yeah I just rent GPUs on Modal. I spun up a cluster on Render. Do you run inference on Salad? You can pay per minute on Vast. I do my training on Berry. They have consumer-grade cards on Spoon. Compute is rather cheap on Innocent. Startups get free credits on Flimsy. I have a discount code for Moon

And here we go. Already Ive been tricked into sending my penis to three of these so called "Group chats". I now have no choice but to shut down my alt where I pretend to be a 36 yr old Sex Worker from Brooklyn, offering my calloused, world weary perspective interspersed with moments of gentle warmth

Mike D: only rock all: JEANS Mike D: never rock all: CHINOS

When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK.

8 years ago i wrote about Allison Parrish & generated poetry rhizome.org/editorial/20...

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Any piece opening with a Langdon Winner bomb is a good piece

anybody who tells you you're not a New Yorker isn't a New Yorker

Google AI just hallucinated William Shatner starred in the episode of POLICE STORY i'm watching rn

why did lovecraft draw Cthulhu disassociating on the john

Fuck yeah!

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.