95 percent of Nuzzi's reputation for being 'brilliant' or 'talented' was cultivating a mean girl image that the dumbest people in media are suckers for.

They say that language fluency really sneaks up on you when you’re immersed in it and it’s harrowing to know that that applies to Internet Pervert dialects as well

The Biden/Harris administration hired more IRS agents specifically to go after multimillionaires and billionaires. They brought in almost $1B to the treasury. They wanted to do more which is one reason you were convinced he was too old and Harris wasn’t enough.

SomethingAwful was an attempt to replicate the Erfurt latrine disaster in cyber so yeah, tracks

poster's bushido logically implies the existence of historical european posting arts

Zohran is going to be mayor of New York City, he is not the boss of NYC-DSA. People should expect to see more of this

Its incredibly funny how closely the Epstein Estate Files dropped and sent a bunch of Times people into a tizzy and then almost simultaneously they're printing dreck that is the most clear 'author wants to fuck or has fucked the subject' ass articles on Olivia Nuzzi I have read n quite some time

Partly because political staff/punditry/corporate PR flack is one of the revolvingest doors around! These are the people they've been around for their whole careers

the guys looking the hardest for a crisis of masculinity are always looking in the wrongest places

Sarah Kendizor is furious she got “disappeared” on Epstein day and lost a major opportunity to move some books. That’s all this is

same with YIMBY stuff. yeah, it's the most privileged people still being squeezed by the problem who usually lead efforts against it. do you think the leadership of historical political movements were representative cross-sections of the people impacted?

downwardly mobile educated alienated elite-adjacents clearly are a large part of the contemporary american left's constituency, but it's such a stupid thing to have a complex about or considering particularly damming. read like any history book ever about who starts political movements.

Podcasters and leftist “media” must learn the hard way that coddling Republicans who have Nazi tattoos, and are now demanding to be Democratic nominees to things, is unacceptable. Amplifying Nazis makes you a collaborator, at best. May you forever be stained.

Ffs if my employer was implicated in covering up an international millionaire child sex trafficking cabal I would not be extremely online defending my employer

if you hate the writer, do not share the writer's articles. people clicking on the articles is how the writer gets paid. "how do THEY still have a job in journalism, when so many talented people are being laid of?!" you, because of you. you are why.

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

Funny strand of modern right-wing populism where econ problems are an outgrowth of anti-democratic institutions of neoliberalism & the solution is just to replace current technocrats with illiberals "The pretense of monetary policy independence has collapsed" has it? Or are you trying to kill it?

"If 9 people sit at a table with one nazi, you have ten nazis. But if you get a totenkopf tattoo and keep it your entire adult life knowing full well what it means and represents, I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable excuse."

"A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is "dirty" is not a whole news story."

Noam Chomsky, you son of a bitch you suck ass and I've been saying that for 1 million years and I'm not even happy about it because it means you suck ass even worse than I thought

massie dropping the p word feels ominous

1/2 One of the big problems for the always-punching-left Democratic consultants is that they are waging ideological battles in public that actually _reinforce_ the left-wing image of the party that they are trying to fight. That is a risk they have decided substack.com/@lakshyajain...

Like look I know the guy but why am I running off to go defend management for free

I understand why it's preferable to believe that the country is being run by little Gordon Gekkos rather than little Eichmanns, because the little Gekkos can be bought off for the right price, but sorry, I need you to look these people in the eye and realize that they are little Eichmanns

It’s not mischaracterizing his behavior though. The term pedophile is commonly used to describe criminals who molest someone underage. You seem to want to change that but the social cost of change is not worth it. One only needs to look at who else wants to make a distinction to see why.

More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.

"The Fallout TV show choosing a canonical ending for New Vegas is an insult to players by invalidating the choices they may have made" That is a baby take. Go big or go home: The mere existence of New Vegas is an insult to player agency as it relies on choosing a canonical ending to Fallout 1.

People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are. How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.

democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3 they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3

this isn’t true either

Its not personal! Don't make it personal!

I'm not attacking you, I'm attacking your employer. I already knew AG Sulz overrides the newsroom, I've seen reporting to that precise effect, generally from Times reporters, themselves

You really don't have to come online, today, and act like shit don't stink at the Times. You work or worked for the Wal-Mart of journalism in ways large and small. That's just what it is.

Donald Trump is take-cash don't-write-nuthin'-down style crooked which just goes to show how fuckin old he is. everyone else attaching .csv searchable crime documents to their email signatures

if your standard moves according to the political needs of any particular faction, it's not really a standard, is it

The damage done by treating Trump's victory as some sweeping mandate in the first eight months of his term really was massive, but ending that collective delusion - i think with the help of last week's elections - really is having profound impacts.

SCHUMER TALKED ABOUT IN 2024 WHEN HE THOUGHT HARRIS WAS GOING TO WIN! For god sakes, I feel like people are looking to be mad!

Tim Kaine will 1000% vote to kill the filibuster in 2029 if we have a D trifecta just fwiw. he wanted to kill it in 2021 for voting rights legislation.

Jeffrey Epstein was picking out Trump term 1's cabinet secretaries. I repeat, Jeffrey Epstein was picking out the President of the United States' fucking cabinet.

to the people who think an anti-corruption message is an automatically winning strategy: have you seen the vast numbers of participants in house-flipping, MLMs, meme stocks, crypto, sports betting, and so on? corruption is *aspirational* for boatloads of people. the public itself is damaged.

"how do you value a non-market service? it's unpossible!"

when I've talked about the concept of "vice signaling," that's a key part. the idea that everyone is secretly racist/a rapist/evil, and pretending otherwise is just a mask.

"I've seen malaise YOU PEOPLE wouldn't BELIEVE"

Guys I promise you if you try hard enough you can find ways to condemn Jeffrey Epstein without making the argument that there is no difference between a 15 yo and an 8 yo

Can you be a good Senator with a brain injury or a psychotic disorder? I think so, yes. Can *Fetterman* be a good Senator with a brain injury that caused a psychotic disorder? Clearly not, and his personal circumstances clearly indicate he needs professional treatment

the set of weird nerds who read dad's entire several bookcases of science fiction before the age of twelve so of course AIs would exist in my lifetime, then who accidentally got real big in cross-domain software stuff, is...not large! how do we make more? I have no idea at all but wanna find out.

yeah, basically. I often say that the optimal user of Claude Code is a lawyer or seminarian who also happens to be a decent python or JS hacker. people who understand a certain kind of determinism, but also that that determinism is entirely conditional and you have to roll with it.

Anyway, here's my fix, and it works. It works because I asked the LLM what its base prompt is, what skills looked like internally to it, and then I used the same language back to it instead of expecting it to interpolate. This is not braingenius stuff. This is obvious. People are bad at it.

And I started my base runtime for CC work based on an open-source library (which I have since mangled into oblivion) that LOVES skills. But it's astonishingly bad at reliably *calling* skills. Skills are the right pattern! But something in there makes the robot bad at calling them. So I dug in.