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> @samsteindc.bsky.social

"Captain Planet isn't real but his enemies are" is a skeet that lives in my head rent free

every single thing hegseth says in public reveals a bottomless pit of insecurity

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

it’s happening

like, absolutely no one with my background could ever get hired for my position in GOOG as it is. i think it's just that tech became a way to make a huge amount of money and only that and once you let those guys rule over you it's all over

If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.

isaac chotiner and ben smith are ~*~fighting~*~

I guess I just wouldn’t want to be in a place where I have to counterposition my accounting against Enron at all

good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”

i'm sorry but i hate this shit. i like genre films a lot. it's like, the whole premise of my podcast. but there's nothing about being a fun and light genre film that means it must be poorly constructed or even lack an actual protagonist.

welcome to the resistance, literal architect of Bill Clinton's Bullshit

on the one hand: Jensen is a legit genius I'm two decades on-record as never dickriding these tech guys but Jensen Huang is absolutely one of the smartest and most talented guys to ever play the game on the other: thinking you're too smart to blow up the global economy is how you end up doing so

We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

NY AG Tish James statement on her federal case being dropped Monday: "I am heartened by today’s victory and grateful for the prayers and support I have received from around the country. I remain fearless in the face of these baseless charges as I continue fighting for New Yorkers every single day.”

tired: legacy media sucks shit and that's a tragedy inspired: legacy media sucks shit and that's an opportunity!

I do think it's good news they can't even get the gears to mesh for show trials of their political enemies that's definitely where we wanted to land by close of the year, given the shitty start

they are not playing 3D chess. they are fucking idiots.

And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.

something about the 2024 election had loads of people convinced it was the End of Politics (many of these were the power elite, but also everyday people) Jamelle was the only prominent voice that was like "hey so politics will still be in effect in 2025" clearly fruits of putting in the work

the other interesting thing about reading your work over time is you can see ideas emerge. like, i wrote this in 2024 but you can see the idea percolating early on in my tenure at the times. it just took a few years for me to be able to actually articulate it.

lmao (cries)

there's some stuff where if you keep buying it that's a pathology and you should figure out what to do about that but the more 3D printers you buy, the higher your throughput and expressiveness you probably don't need 12, but if you like having one, you'll LOVE having three

I think @brendannyhan.bsky.social is exactly right in this piece, but I’d go one step further here. Elites very explicitly told young people to sit down and shut up. Society punished them for standing up for their beliefs, and targeted and vilified the organizers. Now we need need them.

Family Worried Where Grandma Going With Conversation On Low-Income Housing https://theonion.com/family-worried-where-grandma-going-with-conversation-on-1819578444/

To my mind, I think the core of the problem is that greater - if still imperfect - gender equality allowed women access to more 'life scripts' as it were, but society mostly still presents men with just one script and that script poorly and incompletely. So some men are fine and many are adrift.

True story corn cob pipes are under 20 bucks and there’s a whole world of pipe tobaccos out there I especially like Devil’s Holiday, a rich and berry-flavored blend from Dan Tobacco nice for sitting on a hammock on a sunny afternoon, or beside a fireplace after a winter meal

The American healthcare system where your survival depends less on your doctor and more on a hedge fund’s quarterly targets.

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts

whereas LLMs are a genuinely transformative technology when properly applied image generators seem to have exclusively Loser Use Cases they do indeed keep getting better, but then the reflex is the most tedious fantasy fulfillment

I learned to code in Second Life by accident within a year I made enough money to pay my rent

This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law. There must be consequences.

Some incredible details in this piece *one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm *illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted

I’m obsessed with rotisserie chicken and I have access to very high quality organic birds so I’m really thinking about a dedicated rotisserie chicken device

When I talk to students about public speaking or teaching, I always bring this up: Just tell people when you don't know something! It's remarkably powerful b/c it signals to your audience that you know the boundaries of your expertise and they can trust what you DO talk about.

people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat

This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year

i love how bsky posters are so eager to appear worldly and wise that they'll jump to say "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED????" to the craziest shit that's ever happened. if bluesky existed on 9/11/01 you fucking bet these people would out here with "obviously, everyone with a brain cell could see this coming"

“trump is ecstatic to meet the muslim socialist immigrant mayor of new york while MAGA’s strongest soldier from georgia-14 resigns in disgust” is a fucking coalition-breaking disaster for the hard right

i think you could get ryan grim to vote for one of those bunny shadows you make with your hand on the wall for your kid

honestly a huge round of applause to FT for finding their angle on this. saw the headline and laughed out loud

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

This is funny when other people post it, but kind of annoying when you post it, Democrats, as you treated Mamdani worse than you do Republicans

trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker

House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks