Most of this writing is so bad I struggle to accept it is real. But "The sun rises. It is always doing that." is actually bloody fantastic. An Oscar Wilde or Terry Pratchett character could easily have said that.

What if DEI was just the male privilege we made along the way?

Absolute icon.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Wombat Byrde's whale Puffin Kangaroo Brown Bear

How failure to develop valuable device upgrades that consumers actually want is undermining tech companies' business models.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

So much explanation in one graph. America's problems: the right-most bulge is who votes in GOP primaries. America's perceived problems: the left-bulge and right-bulge are the most online. Dialog about the parties: the GOP bulges are further apart than the Dem ones.

One of the best moments is when Burnham (Spacey) and Hayes (Suvari) are about to have sex and she tells him she is not as experienced as he thought she was, and he realizes she is a child, and tells her to get dressed. The *whole point* is that his lust blinded him to the actual person Hayes was.

Texas politicians said "oh, no, we mustn't gerrymander on partisan grounds, only to create districts with the right racial composition" while, and this is the key.... SCOTUS has been on a campaign of late to say "you absolutely can gerrymander on partisan grounds, just not on racial ones."

So, the funniest thing in the world would be if Texas couldn't use its new map and California did use its new map.

What's a random fun fact about you? I started collecting dice and now own dozens of sets of what I think of as display dice in addition to the undifferentiated hoard I keep in normal dice bags.

A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!

Why @nytgames.bsky.social ? Why? It's a word!

This should be a thing. RJK Jr should spend the rest of his life being quacked at by strangers wherever he goes.

Why is it impossible to do a 10 minute task in the 13 minutes before my next call?

Could a quote possibly be more on the nose for Bari, the Ellisons, the Trump movement, or this whole era in American life than "what's the point of standards"? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Having one of those mornings when I want to get every powerful or influential person in the world and scream at them about how they suck at their jobs. .....These mornings have been becoming more frequent.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Fight don’t fold.

The 4 Segments of American Polity GOP - Authoritarians Dems - Fundraisers and consultants hiring each other Elites - Trained to think in time periods ranging from "the next news cycle" to "the next 3 month financial report" and incapable of anything else The People - On their own and mad as hell

Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.

Spineless. Weak. Pathetic. Democrats like Time Kaine are addicted to losing. They were *winning* and still caved. The English language does not contain words strong enough for this level of craven.

Not sure if I agree, but an interesting framing. I have very little time for inaccessible art. I get that if you study for 5-10 years, you might get a lot out of Ulysses, but it's extraordinarily self indulgent to write only for that audience.

There is absolutely no version of legitimate law enforcement that involved disappearing people. This is disgusting. (Also, people at court hearings are following the rules!) (Also, even people who don't follow the rules deserve due process; that's actually what the process is for!)

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

I refuse to read this, but to be clear women have been in the workplace forever. It's just that they used to be in subservient roles and it was considered funny (to other men) to sexually harass them. It's not women being there that is the "problem," it's treating women as equals.

I have friends who have argued before the US Supreme Court and I have never in my life been more envious of another litigator's argument opportunity than I am of this closing.

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Men on the right: Deny having feelings. Freak out over the sensation of bread through tactical armor. Call themselves alphas. Make it make sense.

My head cannon has for years been that Penn Badgley's characters in Gossip Girl and You are the same person.

There aren't many things that could cause a French-style street movement in the US, but this just might be one.

Possible arguments include: 1. Obama did this and it was bad. 2. Obama did this and it was good. 3. Obama did this and it didn't matter at all. Possible arguments do not include: 4. Obama didn't do this.

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif.

This is the way.

These stickers are epic.

Wow. I haven't seen a Bob Pape joke out in the wild since college.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

I love these threads so much.

“Deciding to Win' also displays little awareness of what winning elections is for. There is an obvious reason why the Democratic Party ought not abandon its commitment to preventing the climate crisis," writes @davekarpf.bsky.social. Excellent piece. newrepublic.com/article/2023...

I think what pieces like this show is that, foundationally most of these guys don't even have a *positive* vision of conservative masculinity for themselves, and the version they're adopting clearly isn't fulfulling them either. It's just grievance and resentment all the way down

I read this. Fathers, please, show your sons a vision of confidence that is also kind. Show them self-worth that comes from within. Show them strength that sits with vulnerability. Above all, show them joy and love. These men are poisoned and have become the future's poison. Break that cycle.

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I've be doing Computer Stuff since the mid 80s. I can confirm it's all objectively worse now.

Me at 20: I love technology so much! Me at 30: Not every new thing is for me, but I'll always be pro-new. Me at 40: WHY IS MY TOASTER TALKING? JUST MILDLY BURN THE DAMN BREAD! UGH! But, I swear, I swear, tech has genuinely gotten worse! It's not me getting old! It's not! <breaks down crying>

"Hey, will you vote for this person whose policies you don't completely agree with but who seems to be in good faith?" Sure, I guess. "Hey, will you vote for this person whose policies you like but who has a [Nazi tattoo/assaulted woman/is a transphobe]?" Fuck, no. This isn't hard.

I have finally decided how to advise ppl on whether they're NYC or LA people. Ask yourself, would you rather be fake or would you rather be an asshole? Pretty sure you already know which answer directs you to which city. #NYCForever