This is A+ AI slop. I love it

lol, I couldn’t afford going to concerts until my late twenties. Since when did young people ever have money ever

This is why we need local governments in Charlotte, Asheville, and the Research Triangle to let it rip on housing construction. Urban growth means a sharp blue shift.

lotta ppl sayin wild things rn

"American history was forged not by “warriors” or “lethality,” but by soldiers who were citizens—family members, laborers, teachers, tradesmen, etc.—first and foremost, and who reluctantly agreed to engage in the horrors of war.” @pptsapper.bsky.social

There has been a lot of discourse about Iran retaining 75% of its prewar mobile launchers and 70% of its prewar missile stockpiles despite months of intense American/Israeli bombardment but history would tell us this is actually a structural feature that refuses to go away. My latest ⬇️

The Roberts court will hack at the roots of their legitimacy, taking it to the very brink. They do not realize, at their peril, that the deference and standing of the people is their foundation. The longer this goes on, the more I believe that Roberts will leave the same legacy as Taney.

We got founders out here replacing em dashes with two en dashes and calling it “artisanal craftsmanship” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/writ...

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

This right here is bonkers to me. How is this legitimate in any way?

People in the West should really wrap their heads around the fact that the emerging consensus among Iranian leadership, and not just among hardliners, is that it was a mistake not to escalate after Soleimani.

Killing the idea of Dubai would be a significant improvement for MENA obviously

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

Is the Asian sample size Atlanta based Koreans lol

I finished "Battle Cry of Freedom" with the impression that abolition was always contingent -- on the outcomes of battles, of the direction of the war, and on the length of the war. It was never fully settled. The struggle continued into reconstruction.

From the Japanese Empire to Trump’s America, “It is possible to achieve the objectives of your campaign and still lose the war—and you’re more likely to do so if you’re not thinking rigorously about why you’re fighting the war and what you want to gain from it.”

"Overall, the civil rights movement was better organized and its participants far more methodical and careful than tends to be recognized now. That is regrettable, because movement veterans again and again make that very point in discussing their approach to bringing about social change."

the high quality service seen in public spaces in South Korea to global admiration are so often built upon grueling labor of middle-to-elderly-aged women working themselves literally to death at minimal pay and no job protection. www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/2025...

I'm reminded of a video essay critiquing "hollywood liberalism" which is really more like the "anti-politics" mentioned in the essay. Culture must move away from narratives of "power corrupts and only those who don't want power can be entrusted with it" to a framework of "woke 2".

"Some of our men are pretty badly demoralized, but the enemy must be more so, for he has attempted to force his way out, but has fallen back: the one who attacks first now will be victorious and the enemy will have to be in a hurry if he gets ahead of me." - Ulysses S. Grant

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

Minion wearing a sarong and 1500 rupiah sandals speaking gibberish and gesturing towards the neck… Subtitle: “You see, there’s way less blood this way”

Why was I invited to Beast Studios? youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4

Congrats, Silicon Valley, you built an infinite Jerry Springer machine and no one wants to use it anymore because it makes them look like Jerry Springer. Me on the inevitable death of "clipping" and, probably, the entire short-form video industry. www.garbageday.email/p/what-happe...

Not enough reading, too many podcasts.

Ok to explain why this is important: 1) doing this under cover of exercise confirms what a lot of folks have thought: larger exercises are precursors for an invasion 2) it reveals a confidence in PLA SOF not previously seen in public 3) makes deterrence even harder if operators are already on ground

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

The weight of a response which includes "... exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ." would obliterate me.

Some context: South Korean President Lee Jae-myung shared a video on his personal X account depicting an Israeli soldier killing a Palestinian child. While calling for verification of the footage, he criticized acts of murder during wartime.

'Gov. Spanberger signed a bill to end the renewal of commemorative Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia. A portion of the sale of these plates has previously supported the neo-Confederate organization Sons of Confederate Veterans.' #CivilWarMemory www.wavy.com/news/virgini...

Even South Korea wading in

koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-04... TIL Korea supplies 70% of Jet Fuel for the US. I love learning new supply chain facts everyday.

The use of the term “male lolcow” for asmongold and just other male influencers just really clicks for me.

>catastrophically lose an expeditionary war of choice against Persia >threaten the Pope himself with personal violence >heavy handed promulgation of state religion for social cohesion >misguided attempts to shrink the central bureaucracy Fuck it welcome back Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

The US administration's diplomatic capacity is at the level of a high schooler doing Sid Meiers Civilizations diplomacy

My sinking gut feeling yesterday was that we had just witnessed America's Suez Crisis moment...and that feeling is not going away today.

Electing the landlord pedophile and being surprised he dismantles free trade in favor of rent extraction.

This is the capacity of a real shipbuilding nation. "Yet, the South Korean version [Aegis class destroyer] is nearly one-fifth the price of the U.S. variant and takes nearly half the time to deliver." www.stimson.org/2025/south-k...

feminist ir is a theory like the theory of gravity is a theory, conservative foreign policy this days is just spousal abuse as statecraft

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

Pardon my language, but...no fucking way, right?

"Strait of Malacca" is now in the map pool

niche opinion but this is imho one of the fundamental social purposes of religion, it lends seriousness and legitimacy to laying down and refining law

Team based games with ranked matchmaking (League of Legends or Counterstrike) are probably a slightly better example because it accurately represents how you can have people who are on your side and want to win but also have a totally different theory of victory