In this story: Sliwa shakes the hand of two different venture capitalists, one is Bradley Tusk (who finagled getting Uber into NYC by turning users against De Blasio), and then.... the guy who got to be an Andreessen Horowitz partner because he strangled my neighbor to death. Worth a read!

u know what 2 do.

Aside from blatantly recruiting Nazi stormtroopers, “how are we going to afford student loan forgiveness?!” — where’s the media freakout and pearl-clutching about the price of this?

"Fifty-three percent of Democratic voters said they preferred politicians described as similar to Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani, while 33 percent favored those similar to Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi. Fourteen percent didn’t choose."

Damn! Sorry we hurt the Nazis' feelings!

Bookmark it if you need to. Or get a tattoo.

Can you imagine talking about another human being with this level of dehumanization and thinking it’s funny? Like, imagine saying this in a room in front of a stranger and supposing that they would not comment when they heard you. And I’m expected to act like it’s normal, or *I’m* weird to respond.

There's more queer American kids (22.2% of gen z) than Catholic kids (14%) and Protestant kids (22%) and fuck is that funny news.gallup.com/poll/611864/...

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Honestly, vaccines are a modern miracle. Get them so you can skip feeling awful

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

One thing I liked about being able to oversee providing infrastructure to projects like Rubygems was that, when they were in danger of shitting the bed, I could often cajole them into putting better governance in place by using the free package delivery as leverage. Sometimes you need a cudgel.

You don’t have to actually wonder what MAGA would do in the reverse situation — they would welcome Kirk’s killer into the White House, call him an ally, and give him billions of dollars. We already know this. www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/w...

Amongst the many, many other faults and follies of the party, perhaps the single most dangerous problem with the Democratic Party today is their incessant habit of reinforcing the idea that there is absolutely *no* principle that matters, no policy that is sacrosanct that they will stand behind.

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Hi, maybe you saw this already… but here is a writer who used his own work via LLM as a tool: bsky.app/profile/viti...

You cannot "bargain" with fascists. I think that everyone should refuse to do this and also to stop supporting people who do this.

A Michigan woman faces prison time for using her SNAP benefits to buy ingredients for a bake sale, according to ...

Wonder what this person thinks about people who re-read their own journals or scroll back through their photos app. Like, that album of “photos from this day” on your phone is… AI generating an archive of your own past content

I get why everyone is dunking on this, but, having trained a very simple model on the ~3 million words I’ve written over the last 25 years, it’s actually very interesting to explore what’s there, to see what’s surprising or where I’ve changed my mind, or where my opinion diverges from its output.

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

this thread is a nice reminder that hanania is an extremely poor thinker who benefits from the fact that many commentators are innumerate and can be easily misled with simple data manipulation

This legacy?

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The weaponization of the FCC is one of the greatest threats to our democracy. Who better to showcase that than… Chairman Brendan Carr? Let’s take a stroll down memory lane through some of Carr’s greatest hits on free speech while he was auditioning for the job of FCC Chair from 2019 to 2024. 1/

@rachelegoodman.bsky.social spoke with @wbur.org's Meghna Chakrabarti to discuss attacks on independent sources of fact-based info, like Wikipedia. “The authoritarian playbook is straightforward here. Neutralize any institution that might contradict your version of reality.”

“woke right” comes from this incredibly stupid meta idea that “wokeness” is a discrete tendency in american politics whose style has been imbibed by the political right. note: believing this requires you to be almost totally ignorant of the shape of american politics going back to the 1930s.

Hakeem Jeffries is the same guy who will not endorse the democratic nominee for NYC Mayor lol

the MAGA fascist witch hunt dudes really don't know what to do with the assertion that Charlie Kirk was as good as anyone in that movement gets, which means their peak is... a podcaster who encouraged violent insurrection while spewing racist hate. Don't know what to tell ya, guys, sorry 'bout it.

This is an absolutely inspiring and exciting bit of technology, one of the best nerdy and useful bits of code I’ve seen in a long time, made as a labor of love by a truly great hacker, not as a commercial project but just to make it easier for everyone to work with files. youtu.be/15_-hgsX2V0

"The biggest underestimated factor is the power of fan culture and the passion of people standing behind the artists and creators who they love..." Great essay on AI and art by @anildash.com! www.anildash.com/2025/09/18/t...

This us the episode the @theverge.com was born to do, the Vergecast on Brendan Carr youtu.be/NSymehINBgY

Meghan McCain thinks Olivia Nuzzi is gonna have a bright future

Cheer up she's not going to be writing stories she's going to be editing them having even more ethical responsibilties.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

That's literally false. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that praising someone's death is protected speech, including in Snyder v Phelps (2011), where protesters at a soldier's funeral held signs that said "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" & "Thank God for 9/11" rollcall.com/2025/09/19/s...

Oh. My. God. Profoundly twisted framing from @nytimes.com The casual reader of this hed and subhed would have exactly zero inkling that this is likely corrupt or even illegal or unconstitutional. Euphemistic to the point of absurdity.

NYC, if this makes you angry, come to the New Yorkers Against ICE rally on 9/25 at Foley Square!

Years ago, I had the great privilege of working a bit with the science communicators at AAAS, among the most talented people in the field. I love seeing them apply their skills to this kind of analysis.

One thing that isn’t remarked upon enough is that Gunn making a hit with Superman, and running DC, is a decisive victory against Gamergate-style bad faith attacks from the right. It can be done, and it should be noted, and celebrated as such.

Given that there isn’t any other media left, it’s good there is still at least one voice at the NYT countering the editorial leadership’s obsession with enabling trans hate.

lol, lmao

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.