Musk: "Solon, you've met a lot of people and surely I must be the happiest you've ever met." Solon: "Lol. Fuck no dude." Musk: "Then tell me of someone happier." Solon: "Where should I start?"

It’s always interesting that policy changes that are disastrous for the poor blame their suffering on the market, while those for the rich blame the interference by those policies.

It’s time for some Game Theory…

"Now that the big scam I bet on failed, I want everything to fail, except my secondary scams"

The safety data for Waymo makes you want everyone to be in one.

I mean, it *is* me. But a decade ago. Do I respond?

The mods have gone on vacation at the crochet subreddit:

Hahahaha rugged

Every one of these words is in the Holy Bible:

Dort getting outed as a gooner on a post where he's telling a retired female GO she's a scourge on Western civilization was exactly what I needed to end the week

I got pushed by some company called "cubi casa" to outsource the measuring I do of houses during an appraisal. It lets you film the house and get dimension back. Looking into, I learned it was "AI" but south east asian humans reviewing the video and doing the work. I don't use that service

AI is just people! PEOPLE!

Disney announces a Live Action Remake of an Animated Film that does not yet exist.

He's not wrong.

Modern econ is a different field. In the 1920s you basically had people with static models justified on a natural human convergence to some baseline behavior and now like your average econ paper is like "We present a chaotic 6th order differential equation to model a school bake sale"

This isn’t a problem with capitalism. This is a problem for idiots and grifters.

what's going on is antisemitism

"I guess you can't fight City Hall." "No. It's a building."

you know even at my lowest moments i would rather die than post like elon

And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

More reasons than one…

Malcolm Gladwell is the dumb schmuck in an infomercial whose mind is utterly blown when a ginsu knife cuts through a can.

Hello there

I remember a thread talking about the orc foreman here as an example of good NCOing. Sir tells you what he wants to do. You tell Sir the practical limitations that could prevent that. Sir says nevermind or authorizes measures that overcome or bypass those limitations.

Great thread. The offense in cyberspace is going to feast.

How many men mentioned in the Epstein files have vowed to “fix” U.S. education?

Neuromancer, but you’ve been hired to break the MechaHitler version of Grok out of its deep holding cell within xAI.

The successful nonviolence and civil rights movements of the past, as I’ve gathered from reading about them, ALSO featured a shit ton of incessant petty drama and in-fighting. But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.

Social movement scholar here. Earlier activists had petty beefs but those were wildly exploited by the FBI's COINTELPRO programs, particularly in the case of the Black Power movement. 1/

sometimes i think about that thing a disco elysium dev said in response to someone asking why choosing fascist options lowers your morale. that being a fascist is miserable, since it requires you to believe that you are being dominated by the weak and unworthy in everything you do.

“So it is a crime to play with children now!?!”

it's going to be so funny when we terminate all the new ICE and CBP guys and, by the terms of their bonus agreement, they have to pay back $50k in bonuses

Hahahhaahahahaha.

This is the opposite of my opinion - AI gives a minimum entropy answer to the prompt. Art is about finding the right amount of entropy - of the unexpected but not random - to be interesting.

The central flaw in Andrews’ argument is treating "Asian immigrants" and "Asia" as a singular, uniform entity. The core of the argument relies on a category error. "Asian education" is not a single system; the educational norms in Singapore, 🇮🇳, 🇯🇵Vietnam are as distinct as those between the 🇺🇸and 🇫🇷

"Super race of children with his own DNA" sure does sound like someone...

Allow me to rush to say that economics columnist Adam Tooze knows nothing about Chinese military modernization. Being smart about one thing does not make you smart about everything.

claiming your experience over the last 20 years of organizing maks you an authoritative source on what works is like wrapping a 20 year DoD career focused on counterinsurgency in 2026 and leveraging that experience as why anyone should listen to you

A holistic strategic studies curriculum would cover this. I’d argue that that was what Yale Grand Strategy was doing when their backers freaked out about wokeness.

This is also an indicator of what these folks are cooking and where they shop.

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

There’s a trope about “the standards of their time” but there’s always contemporaneous material going “can you believe this fucking guy?”

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese. THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity ME: you want anything VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

I see that this isn't even a COMSEC problem, but a CI problem...

I do enjoy @bretdevereaux.bsky.social writing It's kind of cool from a #worldbuilding perspective to think about places so old that you can't excavate an archaeological site of immense value, due to the archaeological site of immense value that's sitting on top of it. :) acoup.blog/2026/01/30/c...

oh very familiar with this from Chinese business contexts too, including the perennial problem of 'who should we make sure doesn't know about this'

Hahhahahaha.