Interrogate your beliefs you fools

It’s funny to consider that Hegseth is precisely the sort of person for whom Sun-Tzu actually wrote The Art of War, and is thus the kind of person who fundamentally cannot understand it

Today is La fête des récompenses the 5th of Sansculottides in the year 233. Sansculottides is the month of complementary days. Today we celebrate honor.#JacobinDay More information on honor

Today is La fête du génie the 2nd of Sansculottides in the year 233. Sansculottides is the month of complementary days. Today we celebrate talent.#JacobinDay More information on talent

Today is La fête de la vertu the 1st of Sansculottides in the year 233. Sansculottides is the month of complementary days. Today we celebrate virtue.#JacobinDay More information on virtue

His brand of it is particularly garish but all authoritarianism is basically government by spoiled child. No capacity for or interest in any principles. People who are nice to me get treats, people who are mean to me get abuse. I get what I want or I cry and thrash. Embarrassing

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

frankly, it still seems like the only job AI replaces is idea guys who don't know how to make things and the investor class is just frothing at the mouth for it because they're all idea guys who don't know how to make things.

Weird way to announce the closure of Pituffik Space Base, but okay.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

I can already hear @mikeduncan.bsky.social narrate this: “…and of course you all know what happened next, that’s right, someone’s gun went off…”

My idols are dead and the world’s stupidest fuckers are in power.

Honestly this all just feels like WeWork but with servers instead of real estate. 🫠

All else being equal it's baffling to me how someone could look at the utterly soulcrushing mediocrity of, like, Metternich-style reactionary conservatism or whatever it is these guys want and say, "yeah, that looks awesome, let's have some of that"

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte: “[I]n keeping with President Trump’s vision to make the United States the crypto capital of the world, today I ordered the Great Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prepare their businesses to count cryptocurrency as an asset for a mortgage”.

hey look on the bright side: maybe after the housing market collapses because fannie mae was handing out mortgages based on a person's $fartcoin holdings you'll be able to afford a house

Okay, but if we're really going to spend five fucking percent of GDP on defence, the EU will have a larger defence budget than the US (1 trillion USD vs 850 bilion. So I mean… what the hell do we even need the US for? Let's resurrect the #WEU and be done with it. #NATO www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mr. Very Serious SecDef promoting lethality and the warrior ethos by sticking his fingers in his ears and going “LALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!” like a five-year-old. The world’s preeminent superpower is run by clowns.

What, diplomacy is hard? Wow, I didn't know that, you're telling me now for the first time.

It’s time for a major shift toward thinking about preserving knowledge in hard copy for the Canticle For Leibowitz -scale long term, before this guy turns all our accounts digital information into self-reinforcing White Genocide propaganda. Buy books, is what I’m saying.

The rock music is such a bizarre choice. Military parades are set to marching band music. Just play some Sousa or Alford and you instantly have energy and coordination. It’s literally designed for the purpose. Militaries have been doing this for centuries, they know how it works.

It’s shortly before noon in D.C., so I assume at this very moment a White House intern is desperately typing “Write an Executive Order making it legal to nationalize SpaceX” into ChatGPT.

Scrolling quickly past this, I first thought that EO title said “Restoring the Gold Standard”, and frankly that would barely even have surprised me at this point. 🫠

Oh come on. The standard when talking about acts by the US President is not “Could he be prosecuted for this?”, but “Could he be impeached for this?” Obviously accepting a fucking luxury jetliner as a gift is an impeachable level of corruption regardless of the specifics of USC 18 §666.

Today is Décadi the 10th of Floréal in the year 233. Floréal is the month of flowers. Today we celebrate the rake.#JacobinDay More information on the rake

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

stop the train please i would like to get off

pleased to hear the penguins have won the trade bargains

Let’s just check in with the United States federal government for a moment… - Republicans in power ✅ - Not very bright guys ✅ - Things getting out of hand ✅ Okay, looks like business as usual, carry on.

The truly infuriating thing is that all these stupid fuckers had to do was NOTHING. Just sit back and enjoy the Biden recovery like Republican presidents have always done. Embrace the 无为 of restful inaction and let the economy do its thing. But nooo. “Let’s trash the global economy to own the libs!”

Today is Quintidi the 15th of Germinal in the year 233. Germinal is the month of sprouting. Today we celebrate bees.#JacobinDay More information on bees

She looked mad and exhausted, which was exactly the way I felt.

The shade of Queen Maeve wakes and prepares for a return to her mythic business of avenging suggestions anyone has better beef than Connaught.

guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from? i went to the pit for y'all and brought back the screenshots with alt text

The other countries with tariffs even higher than Sri Lanka, btw, are Lesotho, Cambodia, Laos, Madagascar, and Vietnam. Poorer countries (i.e., not buying a lot of American goods) heavily reliant on a few strong export-oriented industries selling to Western markets = big trade deficit = high tariffs

If you're wondering how they got to 44%, it's because Sri Lankan goods exports to the US are $3.4B (mostly apparel, tea, and rubber) and imports around $4M because, in technical terms, we are poor as fuck. So the ratio of trade deficit to US imports from Sri Lanka is 88%, and … half of that is 44%

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Right now is the like one week a year when my local park isn’t either A) freezing cold or B) swarming with mosquitoes, and you better believe I’m making the most of it. ☀️

It’s all starting to feel a bit “late 2006 subprime mortgage derivatives market” around here, isn’t it?

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Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk's politics, because his identity is rooted in being an underdog fighting against the real power, but as the world's wealthiest person, who is deeply politically connected, he needs a definition of elite not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

“the next manned space flight on Starship” NARRATOR: There has yet to be *any* crewed space flights on Starship, and there definitely won’t be until they stop blowing up.

For the new kids: Rule 1: Where there is value, there is crime. Rule 2: A fine is a price. Rule 3: Nothing ever stops until a Rich White Guy goes to jail. Rule 4: There are no Moriartys Rule 5: Everyone can be conned.

From the people who brought you “If the President does it, it’s not illegal”, you’ll love* the exciting new sequel, “If the President says it’s illegal, it is.” Coming to the Supreme Court this fall! *you really won’t

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

"Hvis bare man havde givet Hitler *endnu flere* indrømmelser i München i 1938, kunne man have undgået Anden Verdenskrig" er da… en holdning, man kan have, lad os sige det sådan. 🙃 #dkpol #historie www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

I have never seen anything as disgusting as that. Genuinely no words.

“We’re just normal men! We’re just innocent men!”

Wie sagt man „Fuck around and find out“ auf Deutsch? www.tagesschau.de/inland/bunde...