I’m not a fan of the “move fast and break things” philosophy because breaking stuff often results in bad outcomes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Not sure I get all the agita about the Super Bowl yesterday…like did a huge part of America forget that for years in the 50s, the top rated TV show centered around a Cuban immigrant who frequently spoke in Spanish (without subtitles)?

Oh boy…it’s always fun when people who don’t know the first thing about Machiavelli try to call on him to justify their tyrannical leanings…

It’s almost like someone took every kooky accusation about the “New World Order” from the Far Right (detention camps! Rejecting the 2nd amendment! Mysteriously cabals of rich pervs! Undermining family values!) and figured out how to make those same people go “Yeah, I’m ok with that”

“I don’t want any more embarrassing cancellations of performers at the Kennedy Center!” The monkey paw curls another finger…

I oppose Amon Bundy on everything…but I’ll at least say he’s a man of his principles…unlike just about every other militia weirdo from the 2010s www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

File under: excrement rolls downhill www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

By the time this is done, some intern is going to get blamed

Just imagine if FIFA used this as justification for withdrawing their peace prize…Trump would have bombers in the air within the hour

Somewhere in hell, Osama bin Laden is looking up and saying “At least it’s another real estate guy realizing my dream of destroying America”

Just saying…if I was the Danish Ministry of Defense, I’d be putting together classes on IED construction and emplacing arms caches.

The only Peanuts Christmas special I want to see…

Over the past few months I’ve spoken to a number of intelligence analysts in the private sector about their use of LLMs in their work. A number of concerning observations 🧵 1) Overwhelmingly, LLMs are thrust upon them by management with no training or direction other than ‘use it somehow’.

Copy from immigration and paste on to so many other issues… www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Some people commit violence to further an ideology… Some people adopt an ideology to commit violence…

Followed one account yesterday and got blocked by 125. Not for anything I posted or liked…just for following an account. That’s what social media takfir looks like…

Big opportunity to make money now in Syria for anyone who can sell Harlan Crow an Assad statue to go with his “garden statues of dictators”.

Bonus points if there’s a Mario accomplice…

Someone at McDonald’s deserves a HUGE raise for identifying the shooter. Also, another datapoint that “see something say something” really does work.

True! And the exact same happens with any platform that becomes (through accident or design) an ideological echo chamber. You can still have robust TOS and active Trust & Safety policies but diverse voices are essential for conversations.

Had HAMAS not attacked Israel, Hezbollah and Iran would have been in better positions to make up for the loss of Russian support in Syria. Nobody should have been surprised at how strategically stupid the Oct 7 attack was (or the cost to Palestinian civilians).

Interesting watching people who spent the past decade praising institutions and the legal system, and decrying violent extremism now cheering on a murderer. Folks trying to make this guy their own version of “Saint Elliot”. I’ll pass.

It’s getting lonely being lawful good in the U.S….

The answer is encapsulated in one of my final arguments with my father who, explaining why he, an educated, upper middle class man who suffered financially from Trump’s financial shenanigans, supported him to the hilt said: “Because they take us seriously and don’t look down at us!”

The lesson I don’t think Democrats will accept (yet) is that the emphasis on racial/gender/orientation identities has clearly outrun its relevance. I suspect most people just don’t think primarily in terms of BIPOC, LatinX, LGBTQIA+, etc (including themselves!)

The war won’t end until one of the belligerents has had enough. And as both Hamas and the Israeli government see this conflict as existential, and neither prioritizes the safety of the Palestinian people, people will continue to die, regardless of what the U.S. does.

Fascinating watching the comments on this video on Mastodon which pinball between “hilarious mocking of Trump!” and “you’re spreading fascist propaganda!” youtu.be/3BrCvZmSnKA

Last night’s debate in 3 minutes… youtu.be/KekChFdIe00

Unexpectedly great story about Colonial Williamsburg and the work of the interpreters there. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“I want every single one of us to fucking get rich…I want to be sitting on a yacht in two years with every one of you,” Inevitably, scratch any far right militia “patriot” and there’s a con man underneath. Usually a dumb one but still dangerous. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

True…also, we can’t hold voters blameless in this. The fact that Trump is a lying, self-serving, con man is already baked in for most people. ~30% like him for that, 40% hate him regardless and the rest don’t seem to care about it at all.

I always think about my time in the Army and the sub population of soldiers who would talk nostalgically about how their fathers would beat the shit out of them. It was so weird…

That’s an actual apology, too.

I would really like it if someone could identify a real problem to solve rather than just plastering AI on everything within reach in the hopes that it turn out useful.

Who would’ve guessed that slogans like “Genocide Joe” and “Killer Kamala” would result in not getting a prime time speaking slot in front of 20 million? Left activists continue to make really dumb, self-sabotaging tactical decisions.

Tony Evers seems like he was hitting the sauce…

Lots of great things about universal #healthcare but having 3 relatives in #Sweden going through #cancer treatment, really highlights some ways that system is seriously behind American medicine. Communication with patients is slow & creates major anxiety, treatment can take MUCH longer than the U.S.

Brilliant piece breaking down the claims and counterclaims surrounding the military service of our two vice-presidential candidates. Given how few people serve it can be easy to miss a lot of the context & nuance that are important to the military/veteran community www.politico.com/news/magazin...