I've come to realize that a lot of people like him because he tells them it's OK to not have any values either. Values require effort. MAGA is about effortless decadence, sit in your chair and get mad at computer with the rest of us, it's great.

Esto que tuitea @martinbianchi.bsky.social es antológico:

The word "game" is doing a whole lot of work in this post marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

masterful move by susie wiles

Secular dark romantasy: enemies-to-lovers with the brooding prince of the fae who have enslaved humanity Christian dark romantasy: falling in love with a Catholic

fuck right off with this too please. Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that. sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.

Great chart from the Wall Street Journal. With a good quote, basically a caption, from none other than President Macron: “Germany is moving and becoming aware of the imbalances that also affect it ... China is hitting the heart of the European industrial and innovation model.”

A Miami Herald analysis found that these inherently unstable strips of sand are now home to nearly 765,000 residents, the most in the nation. Between 2010 and 2023, Florida’s barrier island population grew an estimated 6 percent, even as climate risks worsened.

Es fascinante que las centrales fotovoltaicas o eolicas son la primera industria en muchos años que es viable y rentable en la "España vaciada" y tengamos continuamente meningiticos diciendo que no las quieren, que las pongan en Madrid.

Sarah Rogers, the State Department official who hectored Europeans about free speech, is seen here with a far-right German AfD deputy, Markus Frohnmaier, whom two Kremlin documents obtained by @spiegel.de described as "a parliamentarian under our absolute control." spiegel.de/politik/ausl...

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.

The mood in Sweden, across the political spectrum: "For Trump, European Democracy is the Largest Threat" - DN "Trump's New Strategy Drags the World to Hell" - Aftonbladet "The 'Donroe Doctrine' is a Threat to Europe" - SvD

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Or there’s also this. I am full of helpful explications. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours. New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

‘I cannot imagine’ is one of those phrases that often confuses me for this reason. Like, dude, you were *raised* by parents without ChatGPT. You don’t even *need* to imagine. Just… recollect

as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'

"there's a new serif in town"

You laugh but he's quoting Shakespeare

one reason the framing as "AI" is so bad is that it makes people think "interact with this like a person" when in fact the only way to make it remotely useful is "interact with it like an extremely powerful but extremely weird user interface"

Not just Jared but almost all the gulf monarchies plus a pass through entity for the ccp.

Russian attacks in Europe are, by nature, scattergun and hard to track. But the scale is now such that analysts believe the escalation is strategic rather than opportunistic, designed to trigger public fear and policy paralysis. The attacks are a test of Europe’s mettle – and Russia is taking notes.

New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

chromosonally testing my gingerbread. ('gingerbread people' seems a little unnecessary to me but nowhere near as silly as getting mad about it)

If industry and their legislative advocates refuse to craft rules so that crypto isn’t just a way to arbitrage existing money laundering rules while destabilizing our banks, one must conclude that the illicit “side hustle” is whole point.

When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

I have a new update to climate model-observation comparisons over at The Climate Brink, covering CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6. Models perform well globally. The latest generation shows too much long-term warming but better reproduces recent trends: www.theclimatebrink....

Labor is a 12% approval, so they decided to double down on he strategy that led them to these glowing numbers. Way to go guys.

jaysus... now insta appears to generate titles/ headlines via AI for stuff I post... to create click bait for google wtf do not like

don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

Pelmas que sois. NADIE que yo conozca, y estoy en un par de asociaciones y llevo más de 10 años en el ajo activista, pide prohibir/abolir el coche privado. Se pide que las alternativas sean fáciles de usar y resulten más cómodas, para PODER dejar de tener coche a la fuerza. Todo lo contrario.

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show

Someone's been raiding the Miskatonic University archives again.

this one is funny because European countries who signed the NATO charter had in fact vast archipelagoes of overseas territories full of nonwhite people. Europe has never been purely European (i.e. white) in the way these racist Americans imagine it to be.

once again, "the supreme court will act as a bunch of partisan republican hacks" is the single most accurate heuristic for predicting its behavior, putting any coherent legal theory to shame because fuck you, that's why

EU Commission preliminary findings that Twitter/X has breached the Digital Services Act (nb remedy is a fine, not a ban)

The NSS of the US is to overturn small-l liberalism in Europe and corruption is one means they plan to do that.

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

Pay attention, this is going to smack the games industry and PC business hard.

You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.

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