You can tell these guys don’t watch the show because the coming out story was the one part of the las season that didn’t seem totally half-assed and actually connects to the heart of what the show is actually about

These parents killed their child and we need to say it

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

So he’s been shaking his left hand a lot now too eh

Robert De Niro should sue

Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

KRON 4 doing the big story this morning: how more people are killed by automobiles than are murdered in San Francisco. Oh, wait, I am told they are pissed bikes ignore red lights on the embarcadero when there is no crossing traffic.

Started this episode having no idea who Scott Kupor was and ended it loathing a guy whose big idea is doing stack ranking in the federal government

i think if we get an actual recession, Trump is doing the exact kind of shit to end up as a second coming of Hoover

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social

The fact that Elon Musk is pontificating about the important of experience in public services after gutting the federal government

You don't need to be an anarchist to think that ICE should be abolished You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.

2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House. I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure. Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently. Here are a few others 🧵

i am always saying this. bus schedules are where. car-free hopes. go to die

It is a mistake to let the Worst People decide they speak for all of rurality, if only because they get a lot of shit wrong. Like, lots of rural people do not worship alcohol and there are other ways people socialize. Like, idk, going to fucking church? Ever heard of that?

So much of the issues related to transit governance is downstream from the fact that both the boards of these agencies and many of advocates in this space believe that transit is a welfare program that acts as “transportation of last resort” as opposed to a viable, affordable alternative to cars.

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

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I don't actively use AI but to the extent it's thrust upon me in searches and such, I find it does a decent job of summarizing something when sources with complete and accurate info are easy to find anyway. when things are less clear cut (i.e. when AI would theoretically be helpful), it's a mess.

Based

It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live

"They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead." I AM THE SCOURGE OF GOD. IF YOU HAD NOT COMMITTED GREAT SINS, GOD WOULD NOT HAVE SENT A PUNISHMENT LIKE ME UPON YOU.

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

Oh it’s okay, we’re burning a bajillion dollars building obsolete ships *abundantly*

Miller:

“What if we ritualistically took all our musical ideas that didn’t turn out so well and put some Santa lyrics over it” is where like 90% of new Christmas songs come from

the promise of America, to Miller, is that anyone might transcend the circumstances of their ancestry to become a Nazi

Christmas-oriented Content was Slop before Slop was a thing

I mean just earlier Stephen Miller was tweeting about how all he could think of while watching Christmas Specials was how much he hates immigrants. So that tracks

“I wish these cyclists weren’t in my way. There must be a solution.” Bike infrastructure IS Car infrastructure

In the biz we call this "consciousness of guilt"

It is kinda incredible how these tech guys talk about this redistribution driven utopia after AI creates post scarcity but are happy to kill redistribution today

MechaHitler, M.D.

So glad I’m gay so I don’t have to gender

YouGov "Is a transgender woman a woman?" among 18-29 "Agree" - 51% (+11 from Jan 2025) this is less than a year in and we're almost back to peak woke Woke 2.0 is going places you can't even imagine

both martin and sinatra were the sons of immigrants from the mezzogiorno, which was basically a third world country until the 1970s. your average immigrant from sub-saharan africa comes from a society more developed than the early 20th century mezzogiorno. miller as usual is full of shit

"However, residents of Jabo professed surprise at the strikes, saying the bombs had landed in empty fields, causing no casualties, and that Jabo had been relatively shielded from violence. The last attack by militants had occurred two years ago, they said."

It’s because they’re the cinematic equivalent of a 4D experience at Disneyland

There's two fundamental downsides to mass AV use: 1. They fail in "novel" situations that humans can adapt to. Ranging from annoying to "isolated" collisions to blocking streets after a quake. 2. Like Uber/taxis, AVs spend more "useless" time on the road than personal cars, creating worse traffic.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

Maybe it was a mistake to make abundance an “everything bagel” policy axis that subsumes all other issues

Prepping my LinkedIn profile to be B2B GAAS-ready

Seriously I always find it absolutely wonderful when I go to a park and there’s a bunch of Chinese tech bros playing basketball, there’s a Mexican family celebrating a quinceañera, an Iranian group is playing some soccer, and Indians are playing Cricket off in the baseball diamond.

The scale of the proposed ICE camps is similar to that of the racist 1940s incarceration of Japanese American immigrants and their families. There's ways to stop the camps - a reason there aren't any planned for California may be the organized opposition of local activists and leaders.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

I don’t wanna sound partisan but I think it’s bad when the president keeps raging publicly about free speech and late night comedy he doesn’t like and threatening state censorship all the time, and also using language that is easily construed as calling for someone’s death

Bush administration criticism feels awfully prophetic these days