Like all parents, I can speak authoritatively about what’s correct for kids, and so I will: the only thing anyone ought to be concerned with in pre-k is social emotional learning.

It's so funny that people consider Zohran radical. Like that's really funny to me. Like damn how far to the right is the average centrist man they should really examine that shit.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Literally an editor reached out as I was posting

So like me to my DoorDash driver to everyone who ever called the driver and then everyone who ever called them. As a basis for killing people

AR-PHARAZÔN THE GOLDEN: What you have to remember also is he appeared in fair form. CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened. AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it. CHOTINER: Right.

thinking about My Father's Camry Filled With Leaves again

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

Look, I don't know much about UK geography, but this is very funny to me.

I’ve been recently talking with two friends who are just such developers, absolutely world class in their expertise. My mind reels thinking about the vast amount of people who could be doing amazing work, and they’re unable to, and likely dealing with massive life upheaval because of this.

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

"quit gooning and fix a pothole" is the call to action for our age

The vehicle is a symptom, not a cause.

Me: "Mom, can we have a centrally planned economy?" Mom: "No, we already have a centrally planned economy at home." The centrally planned economy at home:

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

Look, we’re both very sorry about the widening gyre.

Not to discount the enormous damage they have done, and still can do, but this really might be one of the dumbest governments in the history of the world.

Okay, and that's cool, but like, what is the binding effect of this particular document?

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

Have you ever wondered what disavowal means in psychoanalysis? It means reading stories like this and then continuing about my day like I don’t live on the west coast.

Glad I'm not alone in feeling this.

Anyway, when we were flying out of Chicago recently there was a massive digital board on the route into the airport warning everyone about the symptoms of measles, you know, just in case.

Something I'm not trying to panic about, but nonetheless gets my adrenaline going, is that there is a plurality of people in the US who view the concept of expertise (let alone experts themselves) as bad and wrong a concept to be excised from the fabric of society.

"The project—[Weiss'] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new *liberal*media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." The dream of Marty Peretz on far grander scale.

This is the state secret police committing acts of public humiliation and torture. Americans don’t have a language for this in the public consciousness but that is what this is with no exaggeration or embellishment.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Moldbug desires the failure of his project because his real project is feeling aggrieved, and if he wins, well, he loses.

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Not exactly the same, but this dovetails with a thread I saw earlier about the mere ability to access information as tantamount to censorship. Which is a very strange logic, because it makes no sense on its face, but in the logic of contemporary reaction it does make sense.

It's wild watching the institutional apparatus of the US falter and fail so thoroughly over the course of the 21st century, but especially sped up during the past 8 months, as people just decide/realize that laws are fake and they can treat them as such.

The crossover event you didn’t know you wanted.

I've read a couple of history books and I can tell you for sure that rounding up your generals, having a drunk yell at them and call them fat, and then stopping paying them that same day is absolutely how you institute durable personalist rule

It’s the last day of September, some light drizzle, a breeze nudges leaves from the trees. So of course that means Pacific Power’s grid shits the bed.

It is not acceptable to quote random people in eastern Oregon as if their knowledge on the situation in Portland is in any way comparable to the many, many experts who have spoken out against this deployment. (And there is a Parenti quote for every occasion and I intend to find and use them.)

The view from nowhere will kill you. The journalists and editors who use the view from nowhere in good faith may not realize this. The demagogues who want their views laundered with it definitely know it.

Between Two Ferns (2008)

someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that

fbi puts another one in the books. closing the case the way most crime is solved: someone calls and tells them who did it.

remembering how when told the details of his impending execution (memorialized in the opening pages of Foucault's Discipline and Punish) the would-be tyrannicide Robert-François Damiens simply remarked "La journée sera rude," IE, "its gonna be a rough day"

lol, lmao even

We truly live in the stupidest timeline.

what are we going to do, not pay billionaires to put the suicide machine in high schools?

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Personally I think the issue of forcing children into relationships with bots that have been programmed or demonstrated to act in a manner similar to talking with a child sexual exploitation groomer, cult leader, or QAnon conspiracist—but now in a trusted educational setting—should be enough to stop

For some, the result is psychosis, for some, it's ability to imagine that one could get to having written a novel without having to write a novel, etc. It is a desire for meaning built on the destruction of meaning. It's a nihilism machine, for people who don't even want to face their own nihilism

The Make-a-wish foundation has really come through this time.

I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.