Attn Waterville city council

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I think Susan Collins can still lose. People don't understand how many people in Maine would vote for their dog before they vote for Susan Collins.

little to add to Platner discourse that others haven't said better. so i'll just say once again that the era of consequence free politics is no good and it is important to bring back shame

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

Fascinating article, but I can't help but think what's being called here 'the end of reading' is actually just 'the end of Modernism.'

This is mad

This thread is wrong in a fundamental way. It's doing the thing where you add 'white' to generally terrible ideas and behavior by men because that seems the right thing to do. It's like adding 'white' to 'tech bros' when half of the most influential are not. The problem is weak men, full stop.

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP?

Congratulations Spain, eventual World Cup 2026 champions.

One thing humanities scholars might theorize anew is the distinction and accordance differences between writing as process and as product. The conflation of these makes gen AI discourse confused.

Indeed, shame people for the right reasons.

Indeed:

A rare sensible view on data centers. Could even go a step further and say (as a municipality) you get this land for the data center, but you build at your expense a new electrical infrastructure in this area, owned by and serving the public. Give and take.

No means no

Hahahaha yeah forcing students to take your bullshit courses will definitely endear them to your cause. Good luck with that, guys with zero experience teaching college students.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Way back when I helped expose that James Lindsay and his New Discourses website were set up and funded by the head of Sovereign Nations, a White Christian Nationalist org that promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories. Some folks called it guilt by association. Now he’s performing on their cruises. 😏

Someone gets it:

Impeach and remove.

Every sentence that begins with ‘Lukaku would not be able to overpower’ has a very good chance of being wrong.

Looking forward to reading this. My sense has been that the discussion around LLMs and copyright has been way too vibesy and underexamined.

Seems like it would be hard to instill a warrior culture when you're dressed like an extra on Magic Mike.

'I was actually born in Hawaii [presents doctored version of Obama's birth certificate] and am running for President of the United States.'

I think it was James Horncastle who framed it best: In Milan, the star is Leão; no one who watches him every week thinks of Pulisic as a LeBron James level of player. This is another example of how US exceptionalism weakens US soccer with unrealistic expectations and a culture of complacency.

This is what fascism looks like.

A subtle lesson here is don’t go to Maine looking for ‘angry Maine voters.’ Seems like everyone taken by Platner was looking with their narrative instead of their eyes.

This is simply what happens when the US face an actually decent side for the first time in this tournament.

Thought you did a ‘deep dive’ on his past and could confirm all the negative stuff was lies. Guess that was bullshit, huh.

Might unblock Klippenstein just to have a go

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

Balogun is a U.S. citizen only because his mother was deemed too pregnant to fly back to England from the U.S. In other words, as many have pointed out, he is precisely the type of birthright citizenship case that Trump wishes to abolish. trib.al/517aCBe

Ditto, and I actually live in Maine.

I am not ready for the duelo Ibérico

Balogun isn’t even that good.

You’re an idiot if you think this is about the Maine electorate.

I’m a Maine resident and I’d vote for a toaster before I’d vote for Susan Collins. That was the bar, and they managed not to clear toaster.

Is ‘one of our best players’ a ‘black job,’ Mr. President?

The fact that US exceptionalism is a bidirectional myth (US is not exceptionally great or terrible) burns a a lot of people who imagine themselves good at thinking.

No it’s not. It’s the fact that the people who think this only pay attention to soccer once every 4 years, and forget everything about it in between. Critics of US imperialism are making the same assumption to fuel their critique!

this is like the 'most americans can't afford a $400 expense' figures always coming from payday loan company push-polling

I think ‘late vs early diagnosis’ doesn’t need to be a culture war, actually.

gonna be posting this again

Trump vs. Infantino: The Con-off 2026.

I would not underestimate the quality Norway have, behind Haaland. Bobb and Nusa are very good 1v1 wingers, Sorloth and Strand-Larsson physical + technical, Odegaard, Berge, Berg one of the best midfields in the tournament.

They did it for Ronaldo. This is not the first time.

I maintain that 'STEM' and 'humanities' tell you very little that's generalizable about people. These are bullshit categories that better describe institutional histories and identities than anything else meaningful or useful.