What the "no ceiling" part of #StrongFloorNoCeiling entails

This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day

THIS. THIS, THIS, THIS, THISSY THIS. Ultimately, the story here isn't Olivia Nuzzi, but the incredibly insular and dysfunctional Beltway Media cult that shapes so much of our political coverage.

I kind of want the next president to bulldoze it and a live camera of his reaction. I want to see his heart break in full fidelity.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

the only thing most people in Los Angeles know about my hometown www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Zn...

Ah yes, epistemic humiliation

I guess it's called "corruption." I've never heard that before. I said wow what a beautiful word. It comes from the Latin [spicy voice] corrumpere. But it's something we're doing and we'll be doing it perhaps more than ever before

I am quoted here so let me be totally clear on my take: Jonathan Greenblatt has made a calculated choice to aid the consolidation of authoritarian power by the MAGA movement in exchange for the suppression of criticism of Israel. And the consequences for American Jews will be devastating.

And, if there is, how can we head that off?

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

ICE took my friend today. Please tell people not to go to their immigration hearings in Austin. They took my friend today.

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

The future of AI is designed by and for Daniel Plainview.

Families are always rising and falling in America.

Ask yourself: Who is the terrorist?

our instruments are detecting spine particles from this law firm and this discovery has the potential to upset our understanding of homo attornicanus, currently understood as a species of mold

As context: -Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett were all on 2000 Florida Recount team for GWBush -Kav, Gorsuch, Barrett all appointed by Trump -Last Dem prez to appoint a chief justice was Harry Truman 1946 -Most of today's Americans have never lived w/ Dem-appointed Scotus majority. (Changed 1969)

trump destroy economy

"doesn't seem interested in the exercise of American military power at all" www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

I am a Maester. It's greyscale.

"a tool that allows those without access to an advanced education" Anything other than addressing the underlying problem. AI slope for the poors, Ivy League and high-status internships for the nepobabies.

"Don't California My Texas" www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2k8...

Never Forget 01/06/2021

STEM is so cool. Science is amazing. Kids should develop curiosity about how the universe works and proficiency in uncovering its secrets, so that they can most effectively optimize clickthrough rates on banner ads at the bottom of VC-funded website-apps.

American political science:

is the 'Rule of Law' like a legal blog or something?

I wish Steve Albini was still around to see the surge in new users on Bluesky, and then call them all cunts or something probably.