no one on this website wants to admit that Platner wasn’t the ideal “BlueSky” candidate. It was Brianna Wu circa 2015.

More and more people these days are interacting with LLMs as legal, psychological, and spiritual confidants. The government should not be able to have access to those thoughts willy nilly. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Wonder if that’s why Carolla sold his house to Ohtani

Actually, most of the commentary I see from academics deplores AI as one might deplore Hallmark movies (if romcom capex was ~2% of U.S. GDP). It's creating a community of affect, but not making a policy argument that needs to be engaged.

The Washington Post’s new editorial stance: trillion dollar executive compensation packages while tripling the price of tens of millions of Americans’ health insurance premiums is A-Ok, but proposing free childcare and public transit is class warfare. Dropping the mask, indeed.

Amazing initiative & proud of you. We already are, and I have been with the community for years now annually🫶

1984 is funny when you realize that Orwell responded to Burnham’s Managerial Revolution. So it’s very funny to see someone—anyone—getting deranged enough to label the Private Managerial Class as Authoritarians.

Have you ever gone through a hard time and your significant other is there to remind you of why you love and need her? Not even Wonder Woman can pull that off.

I'm pleased to announce that I've joined the new editorial board for Tokyo Review. I will be reaching out to promising new writers soon, as well as contribute my own research and opinions on a regular basis.

How does a fringe, anti-vaccine party come to influence national politics? In this insightful article, Romeo Marcantuoni and Robert A. Fahey examine Sanseitō, a Japanese political party founded during the pandemic. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Japan #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #APJJF

A bittersweet announcement this morning: Rob Fahey and I have handed off editorship of Tokyo Review to a new editing team. We had, frankly, become negligent of a project that needed to thrive, so we've passed it on to four new editors who we're very confident are going to take good care of it:

I wrote a shorter, slightly punchier version of my recent research article about Sanseitō as my first contribution to the new Tokyo Review. It should be vastly more accessible, and hopefully sets the tone of what else I plan to do in the future of TR www.tokyoreview.net/2025/11/what...

Listen, if people could easily detect what’s popular, unpopular, and want others collectively and individually want then marketers and therapists would be out of a job.

Ok. I got around to the Jay Caspian Kang article that everyone on here dunked on. There are parts that I think that are factually wrong (at least if Kang willfully didn’t update his priors on Platner’s parents). Others are worth ruminating on. Especially the bits on the rhetoric of Neoliberalism.

Vibes are ambient. And ambience is architectural and structural.

I badly want therapy and psychiatry to become a private interest and affair again.

In case you wondered what kind of person would make such a hypocritical threat, there’s this story:

I absolutely do not believe that Japan ranks below these countries by any metric on this subject. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

we’re gonna get some amazing Downfall memes out of this someday

I cannot express enough how tired I am of DC and Vox Twitter adjacent stories and people.

He still has the Los Angeles Olympics to look forward to.

i've said this before but i do think rw people understand that a blue haired barista has moral character despite being temporarily disadvantaged and a used car salesman tyrant has advantage but no character. it drives them insane

The thing that absolutely sucks is that this is relatable. I went to college and high school with a few of the main characters of Weird Twitter and Something Awful. And, yeah, their personalities haven’t changed.

oh my god

Japanese language Twitter is breaking its brain trying to translate GOAT.

This articulates a disagreement that I have with my wife. The Reagan Republicans and “Reasonable Conservatives” still exist and they’re anything like MAGA. But they don’t matter anymore for the reasons listed below.

I guess this is related to “Popularism” as a theory for both data and communication? The problem is that other Democrats haven’t figured out how to effectively execute the latter.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto to America

Silent Hill f(2025)

Good game, Toronto. Blame Drake.

I didn’t realize that I followed this many Canadians

At a Sake Bar in Wrigley Field with one of the most confusing baseball caps ever produced by New Era.

I regret to inform you that someone is translating Noah Smith’s bad blog posts into Japanese. x.com/optical_frog...

I get the Dirtbaggers, many of whom are friends with actual Fascists. What I don’t get is why the Pod Save Bros are sticking their head into this mess.

I don’t think deplatforming will work. It didn’t really do much to Trump or Milo Yiannopoulos. Information that made the latter radioactive to his fellow travelers did.

It can’t be said enough that the current Politics Media class thinks “someone is lying to my face” is infinitely less important than “this person seems entertaining to me in my imaginary novel.” These guys would try and make Stephen Glass President before they’d fire him.

Contrary to what BlueSky thinks, it does matter who politicians hire and befriend. And this is alarming. The people around Sanders were what tanked his campaigns. I’d argue that something similar happened to other ambitious Democrats as well.

Doesn’t take much effort! He hated Nazis and Apartheid! This was a fact.

Mandel right now:

Handful of Ideologues were sincere and are still complaining. I still have very little sympathy for them because now we went from “not getting enough” to getting nothing.

“Punch and cancel people, except for the Weird Twitter accounts and writers that I like.”

Gonna give this a read. Authors are German. And a Japanese user chucked it into my feed. Both countries have had grave issues with contemporary Cynicism.

How many of these are single-issue votes for the party?

I’m fairly confident that very few people in Paris let alone France give a flying fuck about New York. I don’t think most of the New Critics besides BHL care for that matter.

Why didn’t any of you tell me that Jean Baudrillard’s photography is on display in Los Angeles. www.chateaushatto.com/artist/jean-...

I think this is one of the reasons why I equated Tumblrism and what passed as 2010s Social Justice with Populism. It was more of an emotion rather than a rational ideology.

I think this is the closest thing to my dream apt because it has everything that I’d need and want besides in unit washer and dryer and in my ideal location. www.instagram.com/reel/DQYkYsY...

I think this ultimately why she was even hired by the NYTs. Most of the people who work there have a similar sentiment.