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It also creates a situation where people who could not make it as staff elsewhere will matriculate to manager in the sunbelt by simply showing up as everyone around them quits. These are the worst goddamn people to audit because they've never once hit a deadline and never once faced consequences.

The good employees constantly leaving makes everyone left miserable. 80% of that (fairly large! Like 50 employees?) department churned over the last three years. You cannot hold anyone accountable in that kind of environment, you cannot fire anyone who is showing up because you're always behind.

I noticed a huge drop off in the quality of candidates I got to interview when the bank I was working for started requiring everyone to be within 50 miles of the office they were applying for. We went from all super star talent to hiring people who were doing tax returns in a strip mall right away.

RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office. Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.

this is absolutely what Musk and Trump are gunning for: making it socially acceptable to produce and consume CSAM and non-consensual imagery. I’m not sure how anyone could conclude otherwise after reviewing the facts in evidence

if every voting age American was required to read Trump's posts aloud each day we would not be here

an annoying thing about realists insisting they're the no-nonsense reality-based group is that few of their predictions have been based in reality

catholicism, the religion best-known for its embrace of the free market. many people do not know this but the Pope's primary job is to make needles large enough for the rich to get into heaven through

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

Fascinating paper by Hood, McKee & Pittman demonstrating that election deniers were less likely to vote in the 2021 Georgia Senate runoff election. If fewer GA Republicans believed the big lie, both GA Senate seats might still be in Republican control. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

starting in six weeks or so, you will hear right wing and centrist commentators on cable news, podcasts etc start to refer to Mamdani as if it's obvious that he's failed, extremely unpopular etc. its very important in order for their plot to succeed that any left wing pol be discredited

I basically never see the racism or murder at the Racist Murder Pit. You can avoid that kind of thing if you don't go looking for it. The truth is, the Racist Murder Pit is the best place to have meaningful conversations about politics. And you can pretty easily ignore all the racism and murder

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

The reason the primary topic of my political writing this year has been "You are allowed to believe things and to act according to those beliefs" is that this appears to be completely incomprehensible to most of the American commentariat.

Social security doesn’t actually work like this! The entire reason people are worried about benefits cuts is because you have not, in fact, “paid for” your benefits! Current revenue is paid out to current beneficiaries, and discrepancies are tracked for accounting. It’s not your money coming back.

One thing that I've maintained from a cybersecurity perspective is that code is a cultural artifact representing the culture and policies of the people that make it. This is as true of the GRU and SVR as it is of Claude and ChatGPT.

"culture eats strategy for breakfast" has only become a more useful framework as we get deeper into automation of all kinds

Every other opinion column in an English-language paper these days is just 'random Labour/Democrat apparatchik explicitly opposes the concept of civil society'

among the many reasons to support Brad Lander over Dan Goldman is that they're gonna try to make that wet noodle of a denim heir the face of the majority if we don't get rid of him

"Seized properties are to be redistributed to Russians who lost their homes "as a result of acts of aggression against the Russian Federation." The Russian legislature is thereby reversing the roles, depicting the plunderer as the victim." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

This was one of the moderate, pro-family, loving Christian Republicans that we on the left were supposed to with on things like a child allowance and other family safety policies. Surprise! Gutter racist!

a warm good morning to everyone but the people who are still buying teslas in 2026

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

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Going to war with Britain had meant severing Germany from basically all global commerce except on land via the USSR. Bombing London functionally guaranteed that British resistance would be implacable and Hitler had functionally zero chance of breaking the British blockade any time soon.

Mamdani's reign of socialist terror already spreading to America's patriotic gas stations

pleased to say i had this guy’s number back when he was merely oddly rude and pissy

If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.

glad to see that my “lyman stone gives off hitler particles” intuition was correct

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

That can't be true though because the Journalists have lectured us about how top down mandates from owners aren't a thing in our media establishment and what coverage gets pushed is totally organic

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

80% of “mild mannered” conservative twitter people have gone full Nazi

otoh imagine hearing all the stuff about 'the Fuhrer' in historical drama and then seeing Hitler and being like "Him? That guy?"

Bunch of @publicenterprise.bsky.social hitters in there its going to be fascinating to see stuff get done

There are things that annoy me about Bluesky. There is, however, nothing that annoys me enough that would make me use the site that currently has an AI that makes non-consensual pornography out of anyone you ask it to.

So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance.

It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

This is where I usually tell people that Tehran is not Iran in the same way that Havana isn't Cuba, but it's hard to understate the level of state capacity collapse in the regime.

The "powerful critique of neoliberal capitalism" of "not having enough food to eat" and "being forced to live on a communal farm." The peasantry specifically actively resisted ujaama because the traditional model of Tanzanian agriculture was individual family farms, not communal ownership!

It was the same in Europe for a long time. The whole point of liberalism is to shatter such archaic and vicious practices and to push a society into a much freer model.

This is just pre-modern social organization. Complex and fascinating, and absolutely horrid for anyone not in a favored group.

The worst part about this is that xAI *isn’t* reviewing to prevent future issues. Grok is just saying that because that’s the sort of thing a responsible company would do

Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.

See I always knew he was the mayor. Two inaugurations today!

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

You can see some of these stereotypes - the simple, morally pure countryside vs. the morally compromised, inauthentic city - play out in Greek and Roman literature. So this is a very old idea that recurs regularly.

It's worth reading the whole interview in full. It basically verifies that the NYT has spent the past decade-plus doubling down on top-down narratives for coverage, getting more intense over time. Sulzberg personally picked & chose whom the news apparatus would target and whom it would kiss up to.