They sit at the bar And put bread in my jar And I say man That’s for money Not bread

The problem with LLMs and related technologies is not that they are useless. It’s that their genuine but limited uses are so very different from the fantasies used to sell them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

"protest is only when you do it the way i think is right" and "i support a bottom-up movement of the workers" are fundamentally incompatible viewpoints

JD Vance, 2016: Trump could be America's Hitler JD Vance, 2025: *I* could be America's Hitler

i know that the discourse about this is over, but the funniest part of the "Listen to Black Women" thing was that the majority of Black women I know in real life are fiscally conservative, socially conservative moderates who would be Republicans if it weren't for the fact that Republicans are Nazis

Holy shit

"some of these bigots aren't even white" oh you don't say??

It really sucks how the key to writing is really to just be stressed out for days before you actually sit down to write, obsessively thinking about the topic to the detriment of your health and personal life.

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Before Gaza, if you said the words "genocide" and "Jewish" together, people would first think of the Holocaust. Now, for a whole generation, if you say those words, they will think of Gaza as much as Treblinka. The Jewish community has not yet reckoned with what this will do to collective memory.

How can you hate Bad Bunny, you heartless soulless bigoted freaks

me and the lads (gender neutral) on our way to enforce the will of the Bishop of Rome by any means necessary (we are going to Costco to get water bottles for border crossers and then we're going to find translators & community resources for them)

One might say we live in a society obsessed with spectacle--a society of the spectacle, you might go so far as to call it.

This reminds me of the fragments in the archives I have encountered of slaveowners, overseers, and colonial officials working themselves into paranoia and panic about colonized and/or enslaved people playing music or dancing.

mascots outside of protests: off-putting, scary. there is a grown man inside of there. mascots at protests: cool and funny, there is a friend inside of there.

I wrote back in June that Trump is essentially attempting a Little Rock 1957 deployment only this time for white people, and he just tweeted it out smotus.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

actually extremely grateful to ethiopian cuisine for basically teaching me how to appreciate vegetarian cooking as a 23 year old

ANTHROPIC: “artificial superintelligence will certainly cause the end of the human species, which is we must build it before OpenAI does so we can have some chance of inscribing human moral values on the post-human future” OPENAI: “what if we put ads in ChatGPT?”

It’s unfortunate that the general aging population doesn’t get as much interaction with curious, hardworking young people as college professors do. They really will give you hope about the future on a daily basis 🤔

The only thing I’d add as they are both debating an impossible premise, the antis are basically arguing for uninventing the technology (impossible), while the pros are arguing for outsourcing everything to it (also impossible)

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

"I spent an hour writing" (I spent ten minutes writing a sentence, I read for thirty minutes, and then I spent the remaining 20 minutes revising the sentence)

J. peterman catalog vignette:

This is how protest wins

"Landed on the ground" in this context actually doesn't even sound grammatical @cnn.com -- at best, it sounds like a metaphor! An embarrassing editorial failure at every level, from proofreading to decision-making

If a high ranking Democrat ever said "the NFL sucks" it would be looped endlessly on the news as proof of how out of touch Dems are for the next 40 years.

This is the perfect distillation of what's going on in the Democratic party right now. The host of the view are like the elite Democrats. And the audience is the base. this Gap is so visible in so many ways

mambo dog-faced to the banana patch

god willing, in a few years, we'll be in a golden age of ironic 'couldn't have happened to a nicer guy' drops

lot of good jokes on the timeline today. this place is a lot better with some good jokes scattered about rather than an unending scroll of News

the chief source of all evil to posters, and of baseness and cowardice, is not ratio, but the fear of ratio

the Starbucks locations in my county that are closing are all union stores

Literally said this to a colleague yesterday They’re great if truth is not an obstacle to your progress

I shamed my dad about his very boomer anti-windmill views (they’re ugly, they’re useless, etc) by just saying “what kind of Dutchman are you??” increasingly desperately until he yielded

i think the next Dem executive should say: we understand that, per Supreme Court precedent, xyz areas are beyond the control of the courts, and we will not obey such orders until Congress implements court reform

I know the feeling.

“But what about these other candidates who won’t set me up for a confrontation with party leaders and voters queasy about Palestine“

They look like they're about to demand the surrender of Paddington Bear to the authorities.

I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope? They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too. Is this just me or are others seeing it?

when my spouse asks if i like what she's wearing, she doesn't usually perceive "I support the fit, sure. But let me just say this. That's not the only outfit you've got in the closet" as an endorsement

In the context of a discussion about party leaders’ inadequate support of her, giving a “sure…but” endorsement to the generic dem and not the specific candidate is wild

One of the most common use cases of generative AI is to create pornographic images of imaginary people and unwilling real people, and in both instances that includes children.

Gavin ghosting Kamala is amazing Bernie’s note is unfortunate at best It brings me no pleasure to say that Nancy Pelosi was right

Still an unfortunately mealy-mouthed endorsement, especially in the context of a discussion about the dem party leaders not supporting her

NO 👏 LIQUID 👏 FOR 👏 BABIES

Finally getting closer and closer as a country to addressing major problems like Horse Autism

Even as the stakes are raised ever higher there's still a fair number of people who still fundamentally see being on the left as a cool counter culture whose value is partially constituted by exclusivity.

i do like that The Mouse failed to foresee liberals voting with their wallets almost a full year into a boycott that is bleeding Target dry as we speak