If nothing else Talarico has an excuse to have a meal at every barbecue place on the Texas Monthly best-of list. It would be a great ad.

"And Watership will answer!"

one thing which is kind of weird about the last five years in silicon valley is the attitude of seething hatred for employees coming from the C-Suite -- one which even other executives, in private, seem bewildered by

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

far be it for me to gas up a billionaire but this is a good fucking opinion and should be the universal Democratic messaging

“If you work really hard you won’t see much Nazi shit” is not the appealing endorsement you think it is, man.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

this is absolutely worth remembering: when the abolitionists began the struggle against the slave power, the slave power looked unbeatable. they fought anyways--a long, difficult, often thankless struggle. they fought anyways.

really hard to beat this as a symbol of institutional decay. the SEALs — a unit that has become infamously loose in discipline — escorting a corrupt politician without any discipline (Patel) on a party inside a hallowed watery graveyard for the fallen

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

"let people enjoy things" well i enjoy rigorous cultural criticism how about that

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Is that gyre wider than the last time we looked? Hard to say, we should it probably put a gauge on it or something. Anywho, that's me done. I'm on the mobile if you need me, thought I'd take some sandwiches and a folding chair down to the abyss, for a bit of quiet time like.

They're telling me that the falcon can't hear the falconer, but tbh that's to be expected, they have pretty small ears and you don't train them that way.

Yep looks like the old is still dying, no sign of the new getting any closer to being born last time I checked. Dig in lads, seems as if it's time for another morbid symptom.

I am someone who genuinely likes talking to strangers at bars, on airplanes, and in public places in general, which probably explains a lot about how I am online as well.

ill never stop loving this idea that propaganda doesnt work on democratic voters. anyway.

I’m very pro “a lot of games don’t actually need to have chat” for a reason

"The whole thing reeks of the 19th century unraveling of Civil War and Reconstruction gains — that racist, reactionary era they forgot to teach you about in school and tends to rattle your faith in the American narrative when you finally do learn about it." gift link: share.inquirer.com/QeS10J

It really is somewhere in between hilarious and deeply (if not at all surprisingly) embarrassing that book publishers still haven’t figured out that Bluesky is The Premiere Social Media Platform for People Who Actually Buy Lots of Books.

There’s something uniquely pathetic about a once-prominent national newspaper doing a PIVOT TO VIDEO in 2026: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/wors...

why would i want to watch a podcast. podcasts are for when you are doing something else

Grandparents who fought in WW2 and who will deliver an ass-kicking for any kind of Nazi talk.

Wait. Excursion? Like a Viking River Cruise?

broke: effective altruism research teams spending millions of dollars on low-probability catastrophic risks instead of funding basic shit we know reduces existing infectious diseases woke: some guy deliberately seeding measles in low-vax daycares to win several mil on Polymarket

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

Ezra Klein’s main contribution to American political discourse is to mislead his audience about prominent far right figures, sanitize and normalize them, tamping down opposition. Charlie Kirk did politics exactly right, be more like him. Elon Musk cares only about cars and space, admire him. Etc

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

I was thinking about ASO today because it being May 4, Hoth came up, but this short thread is what you should really be reading this week.

I think about this all the time.

Just caught myself wondering whether Minimum Viable Product is how Prosperity Gospel expresses Matthew 25:40.

SPIRITED AWAY

Georgia's supreme court elections are in just 19 days. And they're so important: Two liberal attorneys are aiming to oust a pair of GOP-appointed justices. Voting rights already were a defining issue, & that was before Callais heightened the stakes. So much to unpack here. NEW in Bolts:

This is, unfortunately, where I find myself. I don’t like the guy. I am not at all confident he won’t turn Fetterman. He had a Nazi tattoo and has a history of saying shit that doesn’t align with the values I want to see embodied. Were I a Mainer, I’d hold my nose and vote for him over Collins.

I'd go further. This SCOTUS isn't democratically legitimate, but there are other sources of legitimacy: legal/rational legitimacy is also available to courts that abide by the rule of law. But the Roberts Court doesn't even have that. It is *categorically illegitimate.*

This is a much better and more polite answer than the one I was cooking up so let’s go with that

fix your goddamn hearts

And I didn’t even realize it until I stopped coming home with my clothes smelling like that.

This has some real Statues Honoring Robert E. Lee energy.

Lost a family member recently, and with the experience came some odd, odd thoughts, including "How much American wealth is tied up in unredeemed savings bonds sitting in random relatives desk or dresser drawers?"

to take this further, most ppl genuinely do not fathom just how much alcohol consumption has reduced over the last 200 years or so. those mfs were downing ale at breakfast, beer at lunch, burgundy and spirits all night and between all of this they were doing glasses of sherry and claret

how do I get hired to illustrate fancy tinned fish packaging

Anyone who mocks Ocasio-Cortez for being a bartender - rather than seeing those skills are a significant part of her arsenal - is the sort of person who's never in their life gotten a free drink.

Fresh off his trip to Hungary where he begged Hungarians to back Viktor Orban, J.D. Vance has decided world leaders shouldn't meddle in other countries' politics.

Behind every extrernally lauded ‘disruptor’, there seems to be a half dozen (minimum) actual subject matter experts shaking their heads “no” and grimacing dramatically. Good to keep in mind, for those of us prone to a bit of epistemic…moseying.

if you are this dude PLEASE message me on signal

I don't know, guys. The president started a war with no plan and crashed the world economy, is building immense monuments to himself, is making billions off the presidency, and is now attacking the Pope while presenting himself as Jesus. Maybe the political class should abandon the inside voice.

we will have to see how well he follows through but so far the rhetoric from Magyar is a pitch perfect model for what we need from the next Dem administration no mercy, no reconciliation

the republicans have, for the last decade, transformed into a party whose animating concept is contempt for virtue and character, these values are simply incompatible with a political party led by donald trump