I predict CBS will try and fix this by holding a live debate between Alan Dershowitz and Stephen Miller on whether Bari Weiss spiking the CECOT story was braver than it was genius.

I had a fully fact-checked and legally unimpeachable defense of Bari Weiss ready to post but I have suspended it indefinitely because Tom Hanks didn't respond to my request for a comment. Am I doing journalism right?

The only people routinely apologising for being white are 19 year old dudes trying to get laid at a New England Liberal Arts College and me to my partner, in a nightclub, when I lose track of the beat for the 4th time in one song.

If I had millions of dollars I simply wouldn't volounteer to be part of an event where a world-class professional athlete specializing in face punching will receive a lot of money and applause if they succesfully face-punch me until I can no longer stand.

My neighbor told me pro boxers keep pummeling his douchebag influencers so I asked how many influencers he has and he said he just goes to the internet and gets a new influencer afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding influencers to boxers and then everyone's daughter started cheering.

My publisher would like me to remind you that it's not too late to curse your enemies with insight into trade policy this Christmas. www.amazon.com/Why-Politici...

I'm going from 'Netflix and Chill' to 'Bloomberg Terminal and Hustle' as I search for a Y(ou) to my Combinator who isn't afraid to pursue agentic B2B excellence as we synergise our work-streams and reimagine our lives as a joint venture... in the cloud.

Anthony Joshua: That's a natural twenty. Critical hit! Matt Mercer: How do you want to do this?

If the Trump administration really wanted to put the Epstein Files somewhere absolutely no one could ever find them, they'd save them to OneDrive.

Can't think of a stronger endorsement for Erasmus.

How much Twitter do you have to snort to convince yourself that sexual violence is exclusively a foreign cultural import, or that education to combat it shouldn't begin until the people you're trying to reach are old enough to be perpetrators?

Unrelated question: Is OnlyFans a publicly traded company I can buy shares in?

-laughs nervously- What the fuck?

I guess I missed the episode of the West Wing where Leo sat down for a series of on the record interviews with Danny Concannon to slag off everyone in the White House.

When trade deals were getting rushed through laden with impossible commitments and major issues to be negotiated later, I wrote about why they made me nervous. Womp womp, as the kids say. My full article: www.explaintrade.com/resources/im...

I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous. The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.

Pope: "How many memes do I have? Let's just say I have... 6-7. Matthew: 6:7."

The only logical explanation for this abomination is that the entire film is a cunning plot by venture capitalists to try and make AI slop look good by comparison.

They mean Viktor Orbán, mate.

For £600,000 pounds you can instead join my club. It has a smaller house, no amenities, and no benefits except that I can absolutely guarantee you will never run into Liz Truss there.

Producers 2: Gilt by Association

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

My perhaps naive theory is that the Trump administration and their replicants abroad have misread polling that says people are concerned about immigration to mean the majority shares their slavering hunger for unlimited, gleeful performative cruelty.

CBP Agent: "So, we've reviewed your Discord history and..." Me: "I can explain!" Agent: "I very much doubt that. How long has this been going on?" Me: "We... we started over two years ago." Agent: "And in that time, the party you DM for has moved how far?" Me, crying: "About a mile, sir..."

Dunno Elon, if I believed I was a member of a master race responsible for all human advancement and inherently superior on a genetic, intellectual, moral and spiritual level, I would probably spend less time freaking out my wife will be stolen by Domingo.

Self-declared Free Speech Capital of the World Deeply Concerned about European Censorship proposes pre-screening tweets for wrongthink as part of the ESTA application process. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Trying to think through this. This requires there be work: a) not so mission critical you're paying humans to do it b) useful enough you'll pay to have an agent built c) AI will be good at d) that carries limited legal risks so you can tolerate screw ups Sure this exists. Less sure of scale.

No way to ever end up back in the European Union without doing a bunch of stuff that demonstrates there's political will in that direction. Joining the CU isn't happening, and wouldn't solve all the UK's problems or even its Brexit-inflicted ones, but I don't think that's actually the point here.

The notion that Europeans live in a repressive anti-free-speech hellscape because Twitter got fined is so funny to me. I feel like all those LA residents who kept being told by dumb fucks in states halfway across the country that their city was a lawless flaming apocalypse that needed liberation.

"Why are we spending tens of thousands of drachmas on fortress walls when the siege of Troy proved wars of the future will be fought with swarms of cheap wooden horses?" - The Mycenae Times Editorial Board (1181 BCE)

What is this high school debate shit? Everyone wants peace! Adults just realize that any peace which lasts beyond a Russian re-arming / recruitment cycle has to be on terms that don't reward Russia's initial invasion with land and legitimacy, and which meaningfully deter future aggression.

As always with the Trump administration, there's a dual frustration of what he's trying to do, and how he's trying to do it. Setting everything else aside, China hit back against Trump's tariffs in exactly the same way they did last time. This was obvious. Predictable. Why the 10 month delay?

Yes, then they buy social media networks and bot farms that algorithmically boost or spam the opinions of their small army of freaks to places of prominence in every conversation - thus turnsmuting their private delusions into an infectious collective psychosis.

Ever noticed the exact date immigration went from noble pioneers heroically setting out to weave their story's thread into the vibrant tapestry of a new nation to a vile invasion by unwashed savages looking to mooch off our golden birthright tends to be the day after the speaker's ancestors arrived?

Really looking forward to the call for consultative inputs from the subcommittee the European Union will eventually explore creating to research the feasibility of a pilot project to phase down posting on X by 20% of 2018 averages by 2035 (with negotiated exemptions, non-binding, Council to vote)

Dudes very concerned about the historical context of Amendments when it comes to the 14th are curiously silent when someone points out that the musket wielding framers writing about a "well regulated militia" probably didn't envisage you owning a personal Reaper Drone.

It's also emblematic of Starmer's government having the worst comms instincts imaginable. A policy of fast tracking settlement as an incentive is, at least by the standards of modern immigration debate, relatively inoffensive... ... but then they couch it in Reform talking points about "takers".

Conservatives have now reached the "making up an imaginary version of an imaginary guy and then getting mad at them" stage.

One thing ChatGPT is excellent at is generating Alt-Text for Bluesky images - especially when you're posting an 800 word Trump Truth Social rant it would permanently scar your soul to manually retype.

I did not ask for this gift of prophecy.

"Chat, are we cooked?" Zoomer fighter pilot Jayden 'The Grim Rizzler' Jones asks his TikTok live audience as the Gettysburg achieves target lock on him with an SM-2 missile.

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

Finally home after > 27 hours of grindset creating shareholder value through AI agentic workflow and guiding a warrior-ethos meditation during my ketamine break. My 8 year old dog: "Do you have to slay so hard because the villain misrepresented an OBR analysis to Parliament?" Me: "Bitcoin."

Developing and maintaining a long-term romantic relationship that's joyful and fulfilling is one of the most complex endeavours human beings can undertake. Genuine wisdom about it is utterly incompatible with our "one quick hack five minute abs" grifter-guru culture of instant solutions.

"Listen, I know it sounds like I'm regurgitating the least likely to shower parts of Reddit but I'm actually just following the science, which clearly tells us that poor men never have sex. That's why you never see poor children. Just doesn't happen. Science."

Migration reductions are great because while they don't solve any actual problems they also don't solve any political problems.

lol

Every Secretary of Defense Senate confirmation hearing from now on should include the disqualifying question, "Have you ever masturbated to a cutscene from Call of Duty?"

The OBR also accidentally leaked who the Traitors are, the UK'S Trident Nuclear Launch Codes, and the exact date and time when you personally will die.

Can't believe there weren't budget lines called "woke nonsense" and "free stuff for scary immigrants" they could cut to fully fund the rest of government.