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this song always gets me goin’
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
this song always gets me goin’
My opinion on Star Wars is that Mandalorian seasons 1 and 2 were amazing and season 3 was really bad
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
My opinion on Star Wars is that Mandalorian seasons 1 and 2 were amazing and season 3 was really bad
Engaging with Will Stancil gets a lot more engagement than I’ve ever had. Interesting in experience and I will try to write less sweeping statements (eg, “most people” instead of “anyone”)
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Engaging with Will Stancil gets a lot more engagement than I’ve ever had. Interesting in experience and I will try to write less sweeping statements (eg, “most people” instead of “anyone”)
The idea that if Brooklyn rents were at Dallas or Houston levels anyone would still choose Dallas or Houston over Brooklyn is kind of insane
While it’s probably true that housing costs are keeping people out of CA and NY, there’s this notion that middle America or the sunbelt will empty out and depart to Brooklyn if Brooklyn built more units, and I’m pretty sure the people who believe this all live in Brooklyn already
Will is totally I missing the rejoinder. Way more people would live in the Northeast and coastal CA if we allowed for abundant home building.
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The idea that if Brooklyn rents were at Dallas or Houston levels anyone would still choose Dallas or Houston over Brooklyn is kind of insane
Michael Burry has hundreds of millions of dollars. Why does he need to charge almost $40/month for his substack?
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Michael Burry has hundreds of millions of dollars. Why does he need to charge almost $40/month for his substack?
Why aren’t there more Civil War movies and tv shows? Who doesn’t want to watch Grant start from nothing and take over at Cairo down to Vicksburg? @jamellebouie.net
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Why aren’t there more Civil War movies and tv shows? Who doesn’t want to watch Grant start from nothing and take over at Cairo down to Vicksburg? @jamellebouie.net
I love a War of 1812 reference
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I love a War of 1812 reference
I wonder what the Scottish towns in 1760 North Carolina would have said if someone told them they had to “assimilate?” Would the spit have been in the face or at the feet?
Nalin Haley: "It's irresponsible to have legal immigration."
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I wonder what the Scottish towns in 1760 North Carolina would have said if someone told them they had to “assimilate?” Would the spit have been in the face or at the feet?
I feel like I just hallucinated. Did he really say “under any President, Democrat or Republican, they’re gonna care about American people’s healthcare and if they can put food on the table and try to bring down costs”??? Mark! No! Republicans DO NOT CARE ABOUT THIS. That’s the essence of the fight!
Mark Kelly notably declines to endorse Chuck Schumer as the leader of Senate Dems going forward
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I feel like I just hallucinated. Did he really say “under any President, Democrat or Republican, they’re gonna care about American people’s healthcare and if they can put food on the table and try to bring down costs”??? Mark! No! Republicans DO NOT CARE ABOUT THIS. That’s the essence of the fight!
As a busy dad with a sick kid, struggling to follow the contours of the Dem cave — that said, it looks like they funded SNAP to set up the same fight in January, right?
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
As a busy dad with a sick kid, struggling to follow the contours of the Dem cave — that said, it looks like they funded SNAP to set up the same fight in January, right?
If Dems run on impeachment I think they win the senate
McCaskill: There's people like Sherrod Brown and Roy Cooper that are very happy tonight. We didn't think the senate was going to be in play next year. I think after tonight, it’s in play.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
If Dems run on impeachment I think they win the senate
It was weird watching the World Series and the announcers talking about George Springer like some kind of WS legend, not as a fucking cheater. The dude should have been banned from baseball not praised on national tv for his outstanding stats from 2017
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It was weird watching the World Series and the announcers talking about George Springer like some kind of WS legend, not as a fucking cheater. The dude should have been banned from baseball not praised on national tv for his outstanding stats from 2017
@mikepetriello.bsky.social who starts game 7 for LA now?
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
@mikepetriello.bsky.social who starts game 7 for LA now?
Seems like the Tolkien discourse since DHS posted a shire meme forgets entirely about WWI and WWII. Sauron is Hitler. The orcs are Nazis. The central dilemma is whether to use the weapons of evil against evil and whether that makes you evil as well.
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Seems like the Tolkien discourse since DHS posted a shire meme forgets entirely about WWI and WWII. Sauron is Hitler. The orcs are Nazis. The central dilemma is whether to use the weapons of evil against evil and whether that makes you evil as well.
If Tolkien’s orcs were a stand-in for a people it was Nazis
Tolkien's orcs do reason like a human being does, which is why he spends quite a bit of his notes trying to wrestle with the implications of that. But I think it's stupid to think he /consciously/ intended them as a /stand-in/ for a particular human people, culture or ethnicity.
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
If Tolkien’s orcs were a stand-in for a people it was Nazis
If AI is so good, why can’t my iPhone auto arrange my apps to be useful
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If AI is so good, why can’t my iPhone auto arrange my apps to be useful
Is he allowed to push Ohtani off the bag like that?
October 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Is he allowed to push Ohtani off the bag like that?
It’s lame how people think they’re too cool to care about the destruction of the White House. It’s the people’s house, he has no right to do that. It’s an abomination and it takes nothing away from criticizing the other abominations to say so!
October 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It’s lame how people think they’re too cool to care about the destruction of the White House. It’s the people’s house, he has no right to do that. It’s an abomination and it takes nothing away from criticizing the other abominations to say so!
LLMs are intriguing but it’s undeniable that basic search engine function has declined dramatically. It was way better when Google would just highlight some FAQs than this garbage where you have to ask exactly the right question to get an answer and even then it’s garbled.
October 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
LLMs are intriguing but it’s undeniable that basic search engine function has declined dramatically. It was way better when Google would just highlight some FAQs than this garbage where you have to ask exactly the right question to get an answer and even then it’s garbled.
What’s so funny about this is that the Trump admin is obviously anti-capitalism.
🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What’s so funny about this is that the Trump admin is obviously anti-capitalism.
My boss asked me to see if AI could help me improve our contract templates. I ran it through Copilot and it spit out complete useless jibberish. Maybe someone lawyers will be helped by AI, but it is not this day.
September 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My boss asked me to see if AI could help me improve our contract templates. I ran it through Copilot and it spit out complete useless jibberish. Maybe someone lawyers will be helped by AI, but it is not this day.
I’m not a huge fan of this thing where we just assume in the discourse that the suspects arrested for crimes (Mangione, Robinson) are in fact the culprit. It’s not a conspiracy to say we should wait until they’re proven guilty.
September 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’m not a huge fan of this thing where we just assume in the discourse that the suspects arrested for crimes (Mangione, Robinson) are in fact the culprit. It’s not a conspiracy to say we should wait until they’re proven guilty.
Exactly this. Performing opposition is the absolute key.
Even if the outcome is the same -- the Republican majorities + Trump get what they want -- I think there is value in *performing* opposition, in two ways. First, it motivates the base. Second, it dramatizes the conflict to draw the attention of the politically inattentive.
September 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Exactly this. Performing opposition is the absolute key.
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... making it a direct assault on Trump's authoritarianism. Despite what all the consultants think, Americans don't want a king & respond badly when informed what Trump is doing.
HOWEVER. The counterfactual in which Dems win the shutdown necessarily involves Dem unity.
HOWEVER. The counterfactual in which Dems win the shutdown necessarily involves Dem unity.
September 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
... making it a direct assault on Trump's authoritarianism. Despite what all the consultants think, Americans don't want a king & respond badly when informed what Trump is doing.
HOWEVER. The counterfactual in which Dems win the shutdown necessarily involves Dem unity.
HOWEVER. The counterfactual in which Dems win the shutdown necessarily involves Dem unity.
Just one question, who wants to listen to an AI podcast? The human element is what makes it interesting.
“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan
Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Just one question, who wants to listen to an AI podcast? The human element is what makes it interesting.