man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded

the AI-generated chapter titles for our episodes are making me believe in the power of AI

Spotify announces plans to bring music videos to its platform in the U.S.

epstein tried to fund a pronatalist endeavor that would collect the sperm of every nobel laureate to repopulate mankind with geniuses. apparently only 2 contributed

the fact that being really into eugenics appears to sort people for being shitty human is kind of amazing. like there is, in theory, room to be super interested in the area in principle and not be a shitty human being, but the correlation is robust

there are a few sincere eugenicists like Richard Hannania and they are meaningfully different than just garden-variety racists (no, this is not me saying "they're great! I love them! no problems!"). in theory it's an elitist but not necessarily racist mindset. in practice it like 90% is.

texting my friend the most famous pedophile in the world "the president is cray cray. also women r stoopid"

i think that if there's a conpsiracy theory about epstein, at this point, it's likelier true than false

Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free? Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all. Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter: glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...

Madagascar, an island nation east of continental Africa, is the only place on Earth where lemurs exist. There are more than 100 lemur species, and nearly all of them are at risk of extinction, including the sifaka. Their foe: Deforestation.

"Larry Summers believed he was oppressed by the American elite" is both ridiculous and deeply revealing about how these men see the world

an unfunded IZ mandate didn't work? not only did it not work to increase affordably housing production, it almost killed it off entirely? wow

The left is floundering, insipid, and useless at confronting an ascendant fascism founded upon male supremacy because it is dominated by drooling idiots who have never had a single thought about gender beyond “sex is fun” and “I love mommy.”

larry summers going 30 seconds wihtout tlaking about women's iqs

follow me on twitter @ lh summers

The Joyce Carol Oates and “books written between 1890-1930 are so ALPHA” thing struck home because it showed how many elites nowadays lack the ability to be moved or find meaning in art beyond what we did watching John Wick and going fuck yea this rules and that explains why they believe in AI art

Joyce Carol Oates has inspired legions via @maiamindel.bsky.social

the single most annoying thing about cigarettes, which are terrible and will kill you, is how fucking cool people can make them look I mean come on

gen z groypers

i think that the great recession is more important to the modern far right than patrick deneen

it's true that people cut you slack for being a genius but "being a genius" very much does not apply to "honors shapes and colors class"

maybe it's... universal material factors? like the massive recession basically every country suffered through 20 years ago? and which no developed country has recovered from?

wow, you believe religion is important to community and to build shared moral judgments in small tight-knit groups but aren't religious yourself and instead live in a big city? should we tell everyone? should we throw an easter potluck? should we invite william galston?

people from san francisco should be confined to a different internet than everyone else and then prove their ability to exist normally among the rest of us

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

The fact that this happens across models is interesting, and I don't think can just be chalked up to "The underlying corpus features a lot of this stuff." It also features a lot of people talking about basketball, and they don't gravitate towards using sports analogies for everything.

yep. it already is.

The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.

I don’t want to get into all the BBC issues but I feel like if you can describe trans people as fascist whilst working as a BBC presenter with no issues then by definition trans people do not have power over you.

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

he means it didn't generate enough monopolies probably

my take on polyamory is that it's a bit like being misogynistic or being evil where it's only fun if the person doing it is gay

it's kinda funny how the us government is in nonstop crisis because it needs 60% of the votes to pass any legislation and if there's no budget the government shuts down, which is not done anywhere else and were both invented out of thin air 50 years ago

Serious question: did they solve the opioid epidemic or is it like climate change where it's still a really serious problem but the New York Times got tired of running articles so we pretend it doesn't matter anymore?

well, of course she doesn't care about standards, have you seen the dreck she's spent her life publishing

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... and they say britain doesn't innovate anymore

Adam Corolla is the textbook example of why divorce protections are important for nonworking spouses - he used to brag routinely on his show about how his wife didn't have to work because he earned so much. It was a point of pride for him that she quit her job when they got married.

i feel like headlien stuff is usually just ragebait but about the great feminization thing the nyt changing it from "did women ruin the workplace" to "did liberal feminism ruin the workplace" is extremely cowardly and completely dishonest about the content of the conversation

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

pickleball was supposed to be this...

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

I hate that I understand this reference. Am I too online?

Mia Thermopolis backed Genovexit

post material politics believers when the price of eggs (material) is more important than the president covering up a pedophile sex trafficking ring (non material)

we live in an era where we are burning the legacy of civilization on the altar of men who don't want to do what their mothers told them when they were 6

what's his problem with the huguenots

I am intrigued by terms like 'yookay', 'freshies' and also 'Boriswave' now being used in a completely offhand manner by writers and journos