Sorry, imploded

Instead of the guillotine we should use pictures of that submersible that exploded when the people went to see the Titanic

“this anti-social way of taking in the world around us corrodes the foundations of liberal democracy”

"Once upon a time, there were conservatives — like, say, John McCain — who would push back against outbursts of raw racism like what we saw from the White House this week. But, reported The Big Picture, “MAGA voices like Meghan McCain were on board with the hate.""

One thing worth thinking about is the reason no quarter is a war crime in a way that many other nonetheless very bad things are not is that recognition lowers the chance of you starring in an independent film against your will.

I feel for her. She has signed herself up to a life of constant vigilance. They are going to keep doing this, because she had the audacity to be famous and blonde and conventionally attractive and to push back. Because they are meme lords and she hit them where they live, they will never let go.

>believes the boat strikes might be illegal >>the drunk asks him to retire >>>he retires

Like make them fucking fire you, the moral cowardice of the modern American officer corps knows no bounds

“I served this country for (x) amount of years and I believed the operations conducted in my command were illegal, when I stated that to the secretary, he asked me to retire, presumably to continue the operations I believed were illegal, I refused, and he fired me”

Dear Thucydides, Stop using words that are hard to capture in English in a translation an editor will let me use. Looking at you "kinesis megiste" which I'd like to translate as 'the greatest movement/revolution/moment-of-change/inflection-point' except that my editor would dump me into the sea.

Premature announcement of TW: Medieval III reeks of desperation, but I still hope CA pulls it off, like, eleventeen years from now when it actually releases.

SPLIT IN HALF? The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF? I got nothing folks. Trials. Prison. Everyone. If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.

This is the correct framing of what's in the NSS, and it needs to be the headline.

Everyone from Hegseth down to the fellow who hit the button to fire the missile committed at least a double-murder following a manifestly unlawful order that is used *as the example* of a manifestly unlawful order. They should all go to jail, presumably for life (I don't support the death penalty).

I really don't know what else to write about these details we're getting. These strikes were already illegal, but even if they were legal, the follow-up strike would still be murder and thus potentially a death penalty offense. What else is there to say?

Elite overproduction fans seem mostly concerned with serf under production in my experience.

I confess in my interactions with him - he searched his name on Twitter and would dive into mentions, so this happened more than once - I found a real tendency for there to be a lot of distance between the bailey he would present in interviews and the motte he retreated to when challenged.

Yes, for some reason it is always other elites who are being overproduced.

So we clashed repeatedly over his 'elite overproduction' thesis which has become pervasive in some circles online and in the bailey he'll argue he can detect the pattern thousands of years into the past and when you point out the evidence is not remotely there, he retreats to an early modern motte.

WHY DO ALL THE TECHBROS HAVE SUCH TERRIBLE FUCKING TASTE IN SCIENCE FICTION?!?!? (@dandrezner.bsky.social and @anamariecox.bsky.social had a fantastic podcast episode a couple years ago, utterly shredding Asimov's awful writing. I will add to the thread if they see this and have a link handy.)

No, I'm sorry. I have to get off this ride. Balaji beings his 117-page history chapter by noting that we don't have natural laws of society the way we have natural laws of physics. (True.) But he thinks we have a good start from... Isaac Asimov's "psychohistory" in Foundations.

i do love how these guys keep quoting Turchin when Turchin's literal ideology is "do a second New Deal you fucking morons"

If you go look at her twitter, nuzzi was (is??) supported by A LOT in the DC press corps We need to have serious conversations about 1/ nuzzi was never, ever a “genius” or “unusually talented writer”, 2/ the DC press corps is highly problematic

THIS. THIS, THIS, THIS, THISSY THIS. Ultimately, the story here isn't Olivia Nuzzi, but the incredibly insular and dysfunctional Beltway Media cult that shapes so much of our political coverage.

My mother called me today and asked me if I had grown tired yet of the liberal left, as though recent events had made it self-evidently clear that Democrats were the real problem in this country. Republican voters inhabit an entirely different universe because of their obsession with friendly media.

trust should follow evidence and use, not precede it. and i think, basically, a lot of tech optimism is positioned against good scientific practice by presuming high trust and good outcomes before there's any evidence. this is always going to put good scientists in tension with technologists

Tech companies are telling you what kind of society they want. Believe them

i am levitating

Anyone employed by or selling a “nudify” app should be not be able to go out in public without being spit upon

if you remember me in anyone, remember me in her.

mind you, being blown up several times, coworkers dying, being kidnapped out of your shower naked and held against your will and psychologically tormented by your love interests’ little sister, who then murdered your mother is traumatizing in its own right, but i digress

ppl talk about caitlyn as if she’s not allowed to grieve or be angry at all because “she’s rich so she deserved it” or “xyz had it worse”- the POINT is that given her circumstances of life of COURSE she’s traumatized by this, whether you deem it “bad enough” or not

Cyberpunk 2077 mentioned (yes, i'm using this as an excuse to post more Mike Pondsmith content):

the second being my discomfort with giving the state power to end a life, but if you've corrupted the power the state has invested in you to end lives arbitrarily or illegally, you've already sworn an oath that these can be the consequences for doing so, this isn't an oath everyone swears

the first objection being the potential for false conviction for a wide variety of reasons, which is greatly mitigated by the way in which orders are given and followed

state power and orders are also well-documented, which eliminates both of my primary objections to the death penalty, actually, now that i think about it

Not an accurate representation. More like this (💉=🐶)

my dumb brain goes immediately to semiotics: the elephant in the room is the republican party, whose mascot is ... the elephant.

If you went back in time to 2003-2004 and told people Bill Krystol wouldn't be jail they'd think you'd gone mad. Let alone be on the left of 99% of the Democratic party "New-York is gonna elect an muslim mayor and Bill Krystol will call mainstream republican racist for their racist attacks" in 2003

That much money financing games by actual game developers would have financed 150+ of the highest budget AAA games, and the several orders of magnitude more jobs to produce them. Instead it was burned failing to produce advertiser-safe Second Life.

if it becomes evident to silicon valley that they can’t actually invent god, or the basilisk in their head convinces them that god’s invention is being sabotaged, I assume there will be some second-order effects of that

i think the most realistic trajectory is that the AI boom mostly stalls out outside of nuking CS undergraduate employment

it would have felt more meaningful for her to discover what she did in s2 and mend her relationship with vi without a child being a large chunk of the reason for it- at least that’s how i felt it was

you get me !! honestly that’s a big issue with how i felt about jinx’s progression in s2. like it was fun to watch, i loved it overall but i still wish jinx could have come to the conclusions she did on her own, without a little kid being pushed into the story. im tired of that trope 😭

In fact if you somehow made me Supreme Chancellor sometime in the near future, I would probably put a statement in like, the first case I decided overturning a Roberts Court precedent that just said some version "every Roberts Court precedent is presumptively bad law"

Jerry/Gary Gergich is a Stoic sage and this is the most positive model of masculinity I can think of

the reason we don’t really have suicide bombers is because we have nearly ubiquitous assault rifles and access to ammunition (i also have a crackpot theory that this is why we don’t have as many serial killers now)

the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along