showing the boys a sick rock i found

"oversaw"!? This is clickbait / oppo research. The real meaning of "oversaw" is there are multiple, appropriate levels between the top elected official and the investment decisions. This has nothing to do with Palentier—now the comptroller needs to review investments for political reasons?

I encourage people who hold the overall correct view that protests have better optics when the protesters are carrying American flags to Be The Change and bring big American flags to protests themselves.

Actions have consequences.

Merrick Garland, seeing that the newstand is out of copies of USA Today, decides he doesn't need to know the news. His peace in retirement is earned from decades of dutiful service, he thinks, and there's nothing he could have done better. As sirens scream in the distance, he tunes them out.

We heard this frequently from cash-bleeding dotcoms, right before the internet bust. The difference is they eventually had to answer to shareholders rather than compliant legislators. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...

"staff"

The NYT article on New College is one of the most preposterous pieces of crap the paper has run in months.

Yeah, divide anything by 0 and the system shatters.

"kinetic action"

Not the main thing ofc, but indicting a foreign head of state for conspiring to possess a machine gun is low key hilarious.

Wikipedia’s journey from citation pariah to crowdsourced miracle to right-wing punching bag is such a perfect encapsulation of internet history.

Adding, everything Ron DeSantis did in 2023 in Florida didn't help DeSantis in 2024 in (checks notes) the Republican primaries. In Iowa.

Japanese artist Hiroshi Nagai, famous for his illustration work for City Pop album covers (by extension the “city pop” aesthetic), has had his art used without permission by the official USA Department of Homeland Security Twitter account to promote mass deportations.

Something we'll be hearing more and more I think

The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

NYT just ran a bizarrely credulous piece about New College, the school that DeSantis and Rufo have turned upside down. There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice

Makes you think

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

The Atlantic reported and said "a narrative that does not stand up to scrutiny"

The Atlantic reported and said "a narrative that does not stand up to scrutiny"

"It was `a little Club Med' for people who were `all ideologically the same,' said Richard Corcoran, the school’s new president." What are Corcoran's credentials to make such a judgement? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/us/new-college-ron-desantis-florida-conservative.html?smid=bs-share

Part of the standard playbook: underfund something for years, claim it is failing and needs a takeover, then shower it with money under new leadership (which just happens to align ideologically with politicians in charge)

Dec. 28, 1775: The Continental Congress’ Secret Committee makes its first in-person contact in its quest for foreign aid. The five members including Benjamin Franklin sit down with Julien Achard de Bonvouloir, a French merchant who comes with a letter of recommendation from George Washington. 1/4

Weird omission by the Times of the most famous thing that has happened

Anemona Hartocollis doesn't mention that he was a scandal-ridden Florida Republican politician--known for charging an $8,000 meal at the French Laundry in Napa Valley--with no experience is higher education. www.tampabay.com/florida-poli...

Yeah youtu.be/yuTkgi7scKo?... "...the most true-to-life military game ever created, with the majority of gameplay spent hauling equipment and filling out paperwork."

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil

The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word? "Oh fuck"

The Lord of The Rings movies were rated PG-13. By current rules that means that each film could contain one use of the word "Fuck". Which line are you altering to insert the most useful swear word? "Oh fuck"

The Main Dish

please imagine its christmas so this meme pops off PLEASE

Discover tab not beating the allegations

"Just imagining if Merrick Garland's DOJ had shitposted"

The dotcom era was 25 years ago. iPhone launch was 18. This means there are now adults whose only “big tech hype cycle” memory is crypto/NFTs. This is why many draw a connection between AI and crypto as scam bubbles. They missed the hype cycles that were also real, disruptive, and world-changing

I realize I'm caught in a liminal glass house as an LLM skeptic who works at a company at the very bleeding edge of its development, but every single discussion on this app about AI annoys me. Every opinion is bad, every discourse is stupid. This post is worst of all.

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

techbros: we have created AGI cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Become ungovernable

everyone who uses an llm to code more than me is voluntarily deskilling themselves, everyone who uses it less than me might as well be hand-wiring together vacuum tubes