It would be cool if BTD chief @jfh01.bsky.social would explain why these sections of Mass Ave (one of the most cycle trafficked routes in New England) is left unprotected.

Counterpoint: this is good and funny and they deserve it

Let’s check in on what the world’s leading pundit on publicly lamenting political violence has to say about this:

The paid shills at BPI are mad their plan to force a billionaire republican on the city of Boston didn’t work, and are lashing out accordingly. You’d think this kind of humiliation would send them slinking back into their holes for a while but they never had any shame or self respect to begin with.

The precocious boy AI stuff on here is weird. No one thinks you need a deep understanding of like, compilers, to shit on Facebook for their various malign influences. I frankly think AI companies making CSAM generators and wanting to unemploy everyone absolves you of needing to understand LLMs.

The median swing voter would lose a shape sorting contest to a chihuaha. It’s true that Dems are terrible at speaking to them and could do better, but that doesn’t change that fact.

I love how all the tech companies just purposefully destroyed the ability to browse a desktop website in a mobile browser. Awesome feature upgrade, kudos on another big tech leap.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

Notice the rapid two step here from “Democrats loosened laws and allowed uncontrolled asylum” to “I heard people say they supported those things.” Literal Fox News brain. Incurable.

There are always a shit ton of Democratic politicians who are trying this, and everyone hates their fucking guts. They come off 100x more condescending than anyone doing “academic speak.” They typically raise 100 million dollars from scam texts and then lose by 26 points.

Again, this is not a “model”, it is the kind of vague nothing you hear a wellness expert authoritatively state.

We can dunk on Silver. But the folks wildly hyping Adams in 2021-22 included Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. The desire for a prominent BLACK politician who was pro-police and hostile to the BLM movement was broadly shared within elite Dem circles. They ignored obvious signs he was corrupt and inept.

The low quality scholarship that by far had the biggest impact this century was Reinhart and Rogoff. They drew a conclusion that made no sense, based entirely on an Excel formula error, but it was appealing to right wingers and centrists and so the entire Western world was immiserated financially.

Matt is so disinterested in genuine scholarship that the entirety of his scholarly journal contribution is a 3 page case for doing more studies. Yglesias is just a James Lindsay for the crowd dumb enough to read NYT op-eds.

the thing is that every law professor is a throne sniffer and not a scholar. there is no scholarship to be done there. they are pretend scholars doing utterly imaginary work to be evaluated in front of an audience of recent undergraduates who are primarily checking their spelling.

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

It would be incredibly cool if in hyper-blue Massachusetts we had a Governor who enacted consequences for kidnapping children, demanding papers, and arresting immigrants with no cause. Instead Maura Healey is focused on stuff like bending the knee statewide Charlie Kirk.

the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

Hey Matt what school policies did you and your buddies push for the last 20 years, out of curiosity? What was your position on reducing bloated police budgets and redirecting the money towards public schools?

It would appear that uncritically funding the people that hate us so much that they mint coins commemorating body counts instead of listening to the people who said that the institutional rot within the police is so deeply engrained that they represent a danger to us all has mysteriously backfired.

Were you correct or incorrect that the Democrats, and Biden specifically, were genuinely concerned about the app’s role in disinformation broadly, as opposed to concerned that it was showing people the Biden administration was daily lying about what was going in in Gaza and their diplomatic efforts?

Many have rightfully made fun of Trump swing voters for wanting to make it 2019 again either by science or magic, but about 80% of the Democratic party apparatchiks appears to be under the same delusion but for 1996.

The Republicans literally tried to kill him and he became more sympathetic to them.

one thing i don't miss is white guys putting on minstrel-show voice to deliver centrist lectures

Not much to be done at this point but if I were a Democrat I would perhaps reconsider if it was good policy to join with Republicans in slowly bankrupting public schools and universities and selling them out to tech giants. The results don’t seem great!

Anyone who can watch this stuff for more than 30s at a time has at best the cognition of a medium sized dog. This is true of Biden and Trump, and most of Washington who are all addicted to this shit. We should treat it like you would someone who regularly watches 96 hour Ridiculousness marathons.

A lot of people who are purportedly interested in disinformation and the false reality the median voter lives in were utterly disinterested in whether the entire liberal half of our government directly lying to their faces for a year might have some negative effects.

People’s ideas are formed out of two groups, the union of which constitutes the set of all things. One of these subsets has a greater coefficient to an indeterminate amount. Extremely useful stuff!

You spent two years insisting there was no relationship between inflation and economic sentiment, that this was entirely driven by media narratives. We have a live experiment where a President has completely servile media and is lighting the economy on fire. Sentiment dropped ~25pts.

Wow they should find the dumbass politicians who pushed and passed that stupid law and the incurious morons who supported it, unfortunately that information has been lost to history.

Remember a year or so ago when you were convinced Democrats were passing this law out of genuine concern about political indoctrination and data protection rather than their donors being mad about pro-Palestine sentiment and tech giants asking for protectionism?

to a pretty significant extent, the "culture of honest debate" which mainstream liberal pundits pretend to charlie kirk stood for is just a conspiracy against the public

This would be incredibly convincing evidence were it not aimed at disproving he’s part of a political movement convinced having sex with women is gay and that horse dewormer is a hyper efficient cure-all.

When was the last time one of these fucking morons talked down like this to some barely reliable illiterate swing voter in Pennsylvania? To the Baileys who vote straight Republican? No, talking down is reserved for their most educated, most reliable voters, because they hate their guts.

This is the centrist dipshit special, taking the obvious dumb guy basic pattern recognition conclusion that is right with 99% certainty and rejecting it to instead comb through evidence like a drunk private investigator. This is how you end up as the Mueller She Wrote dumbass.

The reason people criticize you about this isn’t because you made the anodyne observation that social media radicalizes people. It’s that you thought, for instance, TikTok was hypnotizing people into being against war crimes and that economic sentiment is completely independent of the economy.

Do you know how many motorists I saw run red lights on my walk in this morning? Not running a yellow or a fresh red, I mean cut into traffic and pedestrians to ignore a red at speed. Do you know how many I see in a week? Driving the wrong way down a one way as a shortcut? Passing on the sidewalk?

The fact that the police have simply decided not to do traffic enforcement, a core part of their job, should be a national scandal. That every local Dem, from corrupt Eric Adams to progressive darling Michelle Wu, are not only willing to ignore it but actively cover for them an even worse one.

The thing to understand is that if someone gets hired at The Atlantic you do not have to wonder about them. They are 100% dumber than a rock. Your dog has superior cognition. A bowl of soup has more brain folds. They got hired because of this.

You don’t even have regular intelligence dickhead

Any risk we expect a second-grader to accept by going to school should be expected of the rich and powerful as well.

You can say it’s dumb and you’d be right, but consumer sentiment was high when inflation was low and then went down when it increased and then went up when it went down and then went down when it went up. The @whstancil.bsky.social thesis is the media environment determines all. Doesn’t seem true!

Which is more likely, that these are genuine liberals who have been tricked into lauding a nazi for an ephemeral perceived reward, or that they have essentially the same job in the professional dumbass class as Kirk and see him as a human whereas they don’t see us that way?

kids politely asking feinstein to care about the environment: idiot fucking morons who didn't know their place right wing podcaster saying the civil rights act was wrong and kids should watch executions: engaging in the marketplace of ideas and in the great spirit of debate

The lionization of Charlie Kirk genuinely proves the point about centrists and leading media figures. The man dehumanized women, minorities, transgendered people, Muslims, etc was building bridges by debating others on these views that all these people are less than human. What a great guy.