wonderful essay arguing that venture capital is essentially a form of planning that uses markets as an information-gathering tool

Taiwan should not panic about Trump using Xi's language, because Trump literally parrots the last impressive-seeming person who spoke to him on the topic. It means nothing in the long term other than that Trump has no principles other than self-aggrandizement and racism, which we knew.

Did something happen in 1965?

As with a lot of what I have to day these days, the key point is just to recognize that the crisis is already here, is already underway

“Congress judges the republican character of each state every time it seats that state's elected representatives. This also implies that Congress can refuse to seat a state's representatives, if it thinks that state's government is not republican.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-the-120t...

Fun fact! Land-grant public universities were opposed by the southern states and only happened due to the The Morrill Act of 1862 while they were off being the Confederacy. I WONDER WHY THE MODERN GOP HATES THEM NOW?!?! It is a DEEP MYSTERY!

History is what happened

it’s like one of the most common tics in American life that I have no patience for. “Pay for” is one of the fastest ways to get me to ignore someone. the insistent framing on “individual with money buying things”, it has to be fought. Your taxes are your contribution, your obligation.

that's my fucking New Reconstruction President

this should end his career

What I am saying in this essay: think strategically. Whether it's about casting votes in elections, protesting, direct action of various kinds (including mutual aid), or public persuasion: think about what action you, specifically, can take, that will nudge us closer to our goals.

NEW: The Senate parliamentarian has rejected major provisions in the GOP's reconciliation package -- aka the $72B spending bill for ICE + Trump's ballroom. These bits now need 60 vs 51 votes to pass: *ALL CBP funding *Funds for initial screenings of unaccompanied migrant kids *$2.5B for DHS

It's really a shame that the future is short form video, because it seems like a cool 50% of all video creators lose their whole minds after doing it for long enough

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

This is A+ AI slop. I love it

its another reminder that we have really no idea how the president's social media communications are being generated

I think I blame Reddit first and foremost - they manage to have a horrible combination of site admins that are WAY too lax (and were even worse about it in the past), plus powerful volunteer mods that impose overly arcane rules that makes people start to hate the entire concept of moderation

What is up with Bradenton cops doing things so incredibly criminal that even their union isn't protecting them from getting fired? This comes a few weeks after another Bradenton cop got fired because he got arrested for child abuse.

Gorka identifying Fuentes/Carlson as right wing extremists for not being sufficiently into Trump seems to portend a bad future

I think a lot of people fundamentally do not understand that MTG breaking with the GOP over the Epstein files is *because of* this

You can't talk about manosphere/red pill ideology growing among young men if you not ready to talk about how sports "journalism" has been a major influence for at least a decade

My position is: If my art and writings are punishable according to this criminal administration, despite the clear protection of the First Amendment, then deactivation will not save me. I am already doomed Therefore, the only moral course of action is to continue the Great Work.

i love you grain weevil

Brody took a fatter bite of that Big Mac than the McDonalds CEO ever would

The Suncor refinery is a smokeshow. But perhaps we're being unfair to Colorado's biggest polluter just because it occasionally belches black and yellow smoke for our lungs to enjoy. So we looked at how Suncor's pollution compares to similar refineries.

Just bought a chess.com membership lmao

Best: Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr Worst: Epictetus’ Discourses, proving that making up a guy to get mad at is not a modern phenomenon

Best: By Night In Chile by Roberto Bolano Worst: Authority by Jeff Vandermeer I didn't even dislike Authority thaaaat much, Kafkaesque horror will always tickle me, I just found the main character as dull and flavorless as cardboard

this kind of analysis is absolutely horrific for the actual issues involving children's autonomy and consent. these posters are making actual issues around children's autonomy seem absurd, and it's really upsetting

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It really is somewhere in between hilarious and deeply (if not at all surprisingly) embarrassing that book publishers still haven’t figured out that Bluesky is The Premiere Social Media Platform for People Who Actually Buy Lots of Books.

Got complimented twice for my Myles Davis shirt lfg

Because they put more effort into American cultural competency than groyper MAGA staffers do. Like, the whole point of being a groyper is to repel normies and edgily assert superiority over them. The Iranian regime is actually trying to persuade American voters.

It doesn't count as dooming if you put a lol or a lmao at the end, then it's ironic distance. Them's the rules.

when Darnold threw that fumble 2-point conversion we should have all known the devil magic was on his side

The keys to a successful punitive expedition (what Epic Fury should have been) are: (1) Don’t make it existential to the actor being punished (you need their leadership to be in place to “learn the lesson”) & (2) Walk away once the punishment has been delivered (don’t get entangled in the aftermath)

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Whadya mean invading hackers can brick your PC in Nightreign?

When the Civil War 2 comes around, I’m really not that afraid of the chuds who have been taking HGH for the last ten years and have never done any cardio What are they gonna do with those big ass arms if they get winded after five steps?

It's the same epistemic shape as essential oils moms, just with better vocabulary. The vibes are anti-corporate so it scans as left, but the rhetoric "distrust experts, trust the meme, the science is suppressed, the real story is being hidden" is structurally far right.

Elon Musk is a mass murderer.

fuckin thread:

Knowledge Fight ending genuinely feels like stepping out of an era of my life Best of luck to Dan and Jordan in the future

Its very interesting to me that cl*vic**ar and the broader ecosystem he arose from exists alongside billionaires who want to become immortal like Bryan Johnson Both sides believe that to better oneself is to flourish, yet their foundations lie upon premises that are philosophically arrogant at best

A Star Wars take I have is that the Knights of the Old Republic games are as foundational to my enjoyment of the franchise as some of the movies and it really should be seen as an iconic work in the franchise the same way the Timothy Zahn books are

Usually politicians try to win a constituency and not the other way around. Imagine someone saying this about, like, farmers not doing enough to win over the libs. We all just accept that Republicans don't have agency and professors do.