here's hoping that when President Mamdani nationalizes MLB in 2033, he appoints Michael Baumann Supreme God-Emperor of Amateur Player Acquisition

"If you go to the bookstore […] if you were to randomly sample some of the books being promoted, chances are most of them will suck." Incredible observation. This has never been true before at any point in human history, and can only be explained by the insidious phenomenon of Woke.

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

Crimson Desert melted my brain (in a bad way) 1999ad.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

I remain stupid, truculently resistant to promoting anything or I do or even cross-posting stuff from my little blog but I'm TRYING to break the habit, I swear. Here, I wrote this! People liked it! 1999ad.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

My hot hot Oscars take is that 2025 was just not a good year for film. I missed The Secret Agent, which maybe should've won best picture, AND No Other Choice, which probably should've been nominated, so what do I know, but the stuff I did see was either mid (OBAA, Train Dreams, Sinners) or bad.

The two wolves inside me? Radical narco-communism and anarcho-tyranny. They are best friends.

Assassinating heads of state and other senior officials of countries we don’t like is a very cool precedent to set and will definitely have no negative repercussions

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

My review of the Mothership module Orphans cites the one @valerialoves.bsky.social wrote at least six times and comes to basically the same conclusions, but I promise it also has original observations in it. And tips! And it's very long! We love a long-ass review, right? #mothership

Two-thirds of the way through the recent NYer article about Anthropic, it seems like Gideon Lewis-Kraus is finally going to acknowledge that LLMs do not have anything like personhood (no will, volition, personality). Skeptics note, he says, that agents lack "true agency" or "intrinsic motivation."

Trump calling his own Supreme Court justices “lap dogs” rules. It’s not even projection at this point, he’s just scolding his disobedient creatures. I brought you into my house, and you’re peeing all over my floor? You’ve chewed up my slippers? This is unacceptable!

It’s February 14, which of course means that I am thinking even more than usual about the Austrian Civil War (which ended 92 years ago today-ish, with the fascists victorious) and Stephen Vincent Benet’s beautiful “Ode to the Austrian Socialists”: allpoetry.com/Ode-To-The-A... #poetry

so can man at last be compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind? or are we too busy with our phones or what

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Not many people will see this but I wanted to share this post. Shits insane how terrible the world is man.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

am i full of regrets from wasting my one precious life (the end of which is approaching by the day, faster and faster and faster) or did i go to bed a little later than usual and it's cloudy outside. impossible to say. probably the first thing

“Every parade has the right to exist in New York City”

nothing fundamental is going to change about the life you’ve already built for yourself unless you make it. it’s happening right now

It’s a shame that the worlds of high-stakes poker and literacy have so little overlap that nobody ever seems to have asked Molly Bloom whether she’s read Ulysses

Bewildering and disheartening to see literally hundreds of people line up in Osita Nwanevu’s replies to insist that American hegemony is good, actually. Never in human history have a people so saturated in propaganda been less aware of it or more falsely sure of their sophistication and virtue.

Yes, the “please don’t put in the newspaper that I love Henry Kissinger” bit is comedy gold, but the craziest thing about the Chotiner interview is that Sunstein freely admits to believing in nothing. What are human rights? Oh, you know, whatever you feel like. Definitely nothing universal!

This explains it better than I can

society would improve immediately if we just seized the assets of every person who wrote jeffrey epstein a birthday note

Wrote for the Appendix N blog bandwagon about how my brain got to be the way it is and how Ursula K. Le Guin came to be the chief architect of my mind palace: 1999ad.blogspot.com/2025/09/appe...

Destroying the Corporation for Public Broadcasting isn’t the worst or most harmful thing the administration has done, but it might be the thing that makes me the saddest yet. Taking joy and education away from children is just cartoon villain shit.

[after thinking about it for three hours] ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

Larry Summers will never contribute anything worthwhile to society in any way, but the absolute least he could do is shut the fuck up and disappear from public life completely and permanently

brad lander primary chuck schumer

My latest for the New York Times:

Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.

Looking at Iran and saying, “Killing all these civilians is a regrettable necessity, and if they didn’t want to die they’d overthrow their evil government” establishes a precedent Americans really do NOT want to live with.

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

It was gonna be tempting to make fun of this parade regardless, but this truly is pathetic. Shambolic, limp, and there are three times as many people in the parade as there are watching! Massive loser energy.

nervous to go to protests? Don’t be. They will be peaceful family affairs. Go with a group, peel off if anything makes you nervous, don’t stay to the bitter end. This moment calls for all Americans to express their rights. And when some cannot, it’s important for others to stand in their place.

It’s so annoying how every dullard who just learned what an em dash is now thinks they’re experts at spotting ai writing

Sam Altman thinks AI will “spin straw into gold” next year

the Brazilian replies to this post will take you on a fucking journey

young men don’t need a “left Joe Rogan” they need sports betting regulation