What could finally unite us is casting Carville out to sea.

investor salivating at the chance to interfere with investigative reporting? i’ve learned enough covering musk et al to take threat-tweets not like jokes, take them seriously.

This is fab: 🧪

I can't think of two songs that capture the current moment better than "Life During Wartime" and "Nothing But Flowers" David Byrne saw the future

It's that time of year again

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

*chef’s kiss*

Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today. So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

IT HAPPENED

So much good here, but IMHO the key point is that close reading enables students to believe “that they are capable, that they can do it.” They have been hollowed out, too, denied self-efficacy by modern educational systems. Freire, hooks, so many have taught us how to teach. If we will only do it.

Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

The AI industry would be a lot more popular if it focused on life-saving applications instead of trying to addict everyone to their product to make revenge porn and cheat on homework. And if they didn't lie constantly about how well their applications work.

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines. People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.

I hope you're having a happy Thanksgiving. Here's a great piece from @kaliholloway.bsky.social on how Turkey Day was long opposed by white evangelicals as a holiday for woke Yankees www.thenation.com/article/soci...

His magazine has some of the best writers around, but yes, he did his part. sciencebasedmedicine.org/if-the-atlan...

Virtually our entire leadership caste across multiple segments of society simultaneously tore their masks off to reveal black holes where humans should be. It's quite something!

For untold years the elite grift has depended on acting like we all believe the same things. Turning on a dime to "No it's fine, you can say slurs now, King President can install a Dave & Busters in the White House if he wants" fucks the whole game up. They haven't realized this yet, but they will.

The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.

Damn really. That’s crazy. Damn [lowering into lava like end of terminator 2] damn

Thread on the bigger picture of the Nuzzi-Lizza combination trainwreck/dumpster fire, up and down from here.

Running away screaming is always an option, Mr. Speaker. No need to be a hero on our accounts. Really!

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

To be honest the first half of this palindrome is much better than naht retteb hcum si emordnilap siht fo flah tsrif eht tsenoh eb ot.

"This truck is a powerhouse, dude. It can handle anything. Does your work route lead through a medieval trebuchet’s firing zone? No? Well, what if you change jobs, and it does then? You’ll wish you had a Cybertruck."

if your default reaction to someone doing something monstrous or cruel is to assume they're mentally ill, you're not making a diagnosis; you're afraid to accept that they are just a person, just like you are.

the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I often think about why virtue signaling matters. And the best explanation may be what Vonnegut learned from Hamlet. "We pretend to know what the good news is and what the bad news is. And you think about our training in this matter: All we do is echo the feelings of people around us.”

None of us eat canned cranberry sauce but we figured it needed to be on the table for symbolic reasons (like the bone on a seder plate). So every year since 1995 we are presented with the SAME unopened ceremonial can at the table. It still hasn’t exploded.

in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

A heartwarming story about public transit 🚌 kyma.com/news/2025/11...

Holiday reminders: - If someone has a new relationship, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask. - If someone is pregnant and they want to share that, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask. - If someone’s body has changed, they’re aware. You don’t need to point it out.

answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior

DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals. Its goals were never efficiency or saving money. Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi. DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.

"Most people wouldn’t necessarily feel like you’re defined, even tangentially, by the reflex action when the doctor taps your knee, or by a sneeze. Are you the things your self does when your self isn’t really at the wheel?"

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

"Oh Mamdani, you're so lovely!!!" "Yes I know it, I can't help it!"

I scream-laughed

What if Mamdani was *too* charming and Trump starts calling him all the time and inviting him to parties at Mar A Lago and he has to go hang out with him constantly because otherwise Trump will nuke NYC.

DONT FALL FOR MTG’S BULLSHIT SHE IS STILL A VIOLENT ANTISEMITE WHO BLAMES JEWS FOR EVERYTHING WRONG IN THE WORLD A FULLY ENDORSES GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY

Anyone posted this one yet?

My spouse made a great point last night, which is that Mamdani should just schedule a weekly call with Trump where they bullshit about miscellaneous things that amuse the President until at the end, Mamdani pulls a Columbo and goes "Oh, ah, one more thing — about that Medicare expansion..."

In what little is left of his authentic self, Trump is two things: A New Yorker, and an interior decorator. The only head of state he considers impressive is the Mayor of New York City, and the only thing he really feels pride in, is his interior decorating choices. Mamdani hit him in the heart.

Our improv comedy group is easy to integrate with, because we meet your data where it's at: a shed in Virginia