its important to once again point out COVID-19 was the thing that really sunk his first term bc it was a nonhuman force that had no mind and therefore no social interface with him

Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes. onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

probably nothing

El bluff internacional de Rosalía se ha confirmado con Lux, que ha sido vapuleado con dieces en Rolling Stone, The Guardian, el New Musical Express o The Independent (y yo también echo de menos a Hemato).

The funniest part of Elon spiraling out about this is that he isn’t responding with anything linked to others or relationships, just posting “great movie”

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

DJ is playing Immortal Technique dance with the Devil before Clipse lmfao, he knows his audience

Pasta La Vista was *right there* www.wsj.com/world/europe...

I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

doing the inverse of the “comic book hidden in a newspaper thing” where I rig my phone to make loud sports gambling noises but I’m actually reading Jane Austen

So like, seriously though, how will south Korea, y'know, keep existing in a few decades??

i'm sorry. :( have a bunny in a gundam

RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit

She is conspiring against me

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

i do want to point out that this does challenge the ironclad conventional wisdom that no one gives a shit about democracy

squawking "it's the structural conditions" is ego-saving copout. napoleon and most other great and terrible historical figures leveraged structural conditions. we simply just don't want to acknowledge someone like this was capable of making our lives hell through sheer force of will

Trump has gotten huge numbers of infrequent voters to the polls, twice. He's deeply unpopular but has mobilized a large, unprecedented coalition of Americans motivated by some combination of ignorance, avarice, and cruelty. It is hard to describe what he has as something other than charisma

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

I've thought about this for days on days on days and I've concluded it is not possible to game out how infinite free electricity will change the world, but it will, dramatically.

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

Cohn falling into Silver's trap of becoming a pundit when you're better off as an analyst, hate to see it

what in the FUCK are these results

Clear canary in the coal mine imho. Democrats are tired of being the suckers. If this goes on for a bit and solidifies itself, it probably spells the end of the current party system

I remain undefeated!

Las petroleras y la ultraderecha han propagado el mito de que las personas de renta baja usan más el automóvil de combustión. Pero los datos muestran lo contrario: los hogares de menor renta son los que más prescinden del automóvil. Por esto, una política fiscal verde es una política redistributiva.

The headline about Spanberger's blowout victory in VA--along with the Dems romping in the House of Delegates--is that transphobia really doesn't work as an electoral secret weapon. And this fact needs to set in, despite the dearest wishes of the most ossified members of the commentariat.

VA-Gov and NJ-Gov suggest a national environment of about D+7, fwiw. It's pretty consistent actually, which sugegsts to me that NJ has really gotten to be a bit redder and it wasn't just voter apathy in 2024

heh

Dan Quayle, who is still alive and a few years younger than Donald Trump, became US Vice-President in *1989*

Algo importante que se aclara aquí es que Podemos no entró a este gobierno porque su cúpula se empeñó en que Irene Montero siguiera en el cargo. Esto ahora ya no importa pero entonces muchos dirigentes y más de un periodista alegaron que se excluía al partido entero. Era mentira, por supuesto.

🔴 DIRECTO | Yolanda Díaz lee ofertas de trabajo para becarios en España: "Café gratis, equipo cercano y mucho espíritu de colaboración. Esto es que no pagan"

the real horror of foreign policy is realizing that the people involved actually do believe in things after all

This is an *amazing* level of derangement about generative AI. We are headed for weird anti-AI purity movements where ppl turn on personal computing entirely and start LARPing as Dune mentats, because they think the magic fascism math is hiding in every transformer, search algorithm, and BART.

there is something wrong with the sun

«Se deberían llevar a cabo iniciativas diplomáticas que propicien un alto el fuego y pongan fin a la guerra de Ucrania, que condujeran a unas negociaciones de paz». Ah bueno pues ya estaría.

Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

LBJ was the last president this concerned with "ball room".

This is about in line with where 2018 ended

Resumen Ventas de Coches Eléctricos, octubre 2025 🧵1/ (Aviso: Este hilo consta de aproximadamente 20 gráficas y en bluesky llega un momento que hay que darle al botón + en el hilo para continuar visualizándolas)

intelligence is the thing which i have. admitting things are intelligent means considering them morally and socially equal to me. i will never consider a computer morally or socially equal to me. therefore no computer program will ever be intelligent

ancient Incans: oouuugh I'm so houngry if only there were a lovely starchy tuber that I could cultivate the humble potato:

Images that make you want to take the honorable way out

This is Bad (source: network.fintechtakes.com/library/3d38...)

This kind of commentary is damning of left-leaning pundits. Right-winger s are able to spin 1.7% victories as world-historic beat downs justifying the broadest societal shifts *and it works*. Libs succeed in denying the fat-right and it's somehow secretly a disaster?

People overlook the song but I honestly think it takes balls to rap on a beat like the one in Tammy's Song and I don't think Kendrick gets enough credit for it

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect