Psychological and experiential friction is such an interesting topic and I can’t wait to read Damon’s book on it

Can attest that Bloomberg is a good place to work with solid pay and benefits, nice coworkers (me, others) and an enormous variety of snacks on offer

your mileage may vary but my experience on here improved pretty noticeably when I stopped offering explanations to people whose questions sought conflict rather than answers

This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.

If I could rip the defensive talking mechanism out of the brains of every writer I have ever worked with I would, and install this operating chip instead ⬇️⬇️⬇️

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

NEW: Child welfare systems vary widely in what they count as a positive drug test. One state’s level is so low that Air Force pilots can fly with up to 400 times more opiates in their system.

The cow I follow on Instagram (Big Rita) had her baby. Huge for me tbh

neither pro-Stancil nor anti-Stancil, but a secret pro-third thing (going outside)

Did you know you can sprain your ankle in your sleep

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

Ending a bad year on a good note: @atavist.com is excited to introduce Revived, a project breathing new life into old stories. We're releasing previously published features otherwise lost to dead outlets and dead links. First up, from @alexmarvar.bsky.social. magazine.atavist.com/2025/lummie-...

So Hilton owns a few flagship hotels. The rest are independent franchisees of which Hilton has little control over. Every major hotel chain, Hilton, IHG, and Wyndham have little to no property and direct management, Wyndham is a 100% 0 ownership chain, franchisees only.

Anyway, here’s a fun thought: things 09A show that “communities” based around pure nihilism can form online, this combined with LLMs and chatbot psychosis, mean you could create scalable turnkey antisocial behavior inculcators as a service. I’m certain nation-states are already thinking about this.

This, to me, is Blueskyism

this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

It’s hard out there for everyone

Congestion pricing is a heckuva street safety strategy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

When I see a team sending in a defensive player on offense for some convoluted gimmick goal line play

All this "means testing" and "rooting out fraud" is just thinly veiled cover for finding increasingly absurd ways to deny people aid. Surveillance systems suck up money and resources that *should* go to recipients. We're led to believe poor people lose their privacy rights and liberty to save a buck

some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar

Okay like I love Kelee Ringo, he made the single most important play in my entire football life, but Georgia fans weren’t quietly a little bit over him by the end for no reason

Tom Brady playing dumb about why Quinn Ewers wasn’t drafted before the seventh round is only convincing if this is the first you’re hearing about college football

Marco Rubio’s history and connection to the drug world is pretty insane prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

I used to happily pay for Audm and use it all the time and the NYT acquiring and killing it is not just bad but, like, completely incomprehensible in economic terms?

I guess I respect that the booth in Falcons-Saints doesn’t appear to be watching the game that closely

Now that MDC Brooklyn is back in the spotlight because of Maduro, I’m re-upping this thread I posted from Sept. 2024 detailing a string of stories I’ve written about the place. I’ve written a number of stories since, but this is a good primer for those with interest.

the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now

When a RB kicks his legs mid run, one of 2 things is about to happen: 1. And1 level ankle breaker 2. The RB gets hit with a cartoon anvil

When they play NFL games on Saturdays I think they should have to use CFB rules. Drag a toe? That’s a catch baby

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

It’s so funny that this game is 10-3

Ryan Clark’s tailor is diabolical, why does his suit jacket have a zip closure

Being the garbage kingmaker of the NFC South is the final form of Falcons-Saints. For six grim decades the entire gruesome rivalry built toward this

12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed

Who's going to store and power all this biometric data? Who will they sell it to?

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

A lot of people have screamed "twitter isn't real life" at us for over a decade but the admin is currently being run by content creators seeking the approval of twitter users to the extent that their "situation room" had twitter feeds up on the projectors

DIA analyst in 6 months: "why does the Sinaloa cartel have a BUK-M2E?"

Twitter is in the background of a bunch of these shots btw

It’s really funny to go to the mat arguing for the cultural and intellectual superiority of the Red Sox fandom

Trump's first White House was horny to overthrow Maduro. But the people who drove that failed coup -- guys like John Bolton -- are all gone now. This is an almost completely different set of plotters. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

You know, it’s plausible that this was done without a plan for what comes after because the only real goal was to get video of US troops looking cool arresting Marudo so it can be posted Online. It seems to be the only thing that matters to this administration.

Flow of narcotics into the United States quadruples as the CIA, DEA, and DoD all open clandestine funding lines to different and opposed armed Venezuelan “opposition” entities.

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

Picked up new glasses today and the very stern older Russian woman running the shop looked genuinely pleased for several moments when I tried them on, which is the best compliment I could hope to receive on my selection

If you're a normal person taking bathroom or makeup selfies bc you feel cute, you should just stop. Return to tradition, share it with your friends on group texts. Any public photo is now fuel for the Porn Machine. If your career/hobby involves sharing pics of yourself, it just sucks.