Josh Hilby
@ilprofessore.bsky.social
Witticism 1. Witticism 2. Finale.
I named my fists Joseph and Schumpeter because you’re about to get creatively destroyed.
I named my fists Voight and Kampff because you're about to question the nature of your existence.
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I named my fists Joseph and Schumpeter because you’re about to get creatively destroyed.
This is excellent.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is excellent.
They are literally just copying Clear And Present Danger here. They can’t even war crime in an original way.
On the horrific news that Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of boat bombing survivors, remember: The Trump Murder Memo "authorizing" the strikes preemptively clears those carrying them out. That's unusual. And we still haven't heard from the commander who resigned:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
They are literally just copying Clear And Present Danger here. They can’t even war crime in an original way.
I’m sorry to report this is just standard neo-Americanism. Pulling the ladder up from behind ourselves is a great American tradition.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I’m sorry to report this is just standard neo-Americanism. Pulling the ladder up from behind ourselves is a great American tradition.
That would be ex exhibit one of 5000 of the first successful Hatch Act prosecution in history, circa 2029.
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
That would be ex exhibit one of 5000 of the first successful Hatch Act prosecution in history, circa 2029.
Presidential/SCOTUS protections do not keep you out of Den Haag. Broseph better get comfy never leaving the country.
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Presidential/SCOTUS protections do not keep you out of Den Haag. Broseph better get comfy never leaving the country.
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Who’s gonna tell ‘em
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Who’s gonna tell ‘em
I love when things like the definition of c*nt get redefined before our very eyes!
a cartoon character with the words what a time to be alive below him
ALT: a cartoon character with the words what a time to be alive below him
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I love when things like the definition of c*nt get redefined before our very eyes!
DO NOT, under any circumstances, let Olivia Nuzzi see this.
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
DO NOT, under any circumstances, let Olivia Nuzzi see this.
Bsky is absolutely dripping with bots. I probably block 10-12 a day.
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Bsky is absolutely dripping with bots. I probably block 10-12 a day.
This quote alone tells me he understands fuck all about statistics, peer review or how even the simplest of science is done.
“The entire purpose of science is to search for existential truths,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told me. “It’s not subjective. It should be objective. I believe science is a place where you can find unity if you can get a conversation going.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This quote alone tells me he understands fuck all about statistics, peer review or how even the simplest of science is done.
Because he’s a dude with a surname Kennedy that has never had any reasonable expectation or limit set on him in his life? That’s why.
“The entire purpose of science is to search for existential truths,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told me. “It’s not subjective. It should be objective. I believe science is a place where you can find unity if you can get a conversation going.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Because he’s a dude with a surname Kennedy that has never had any reasonable expectation or limit set on him in his life? That’s why.
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I was a lifelong opponent of trigger warnings. Then I read Ryan Lizza's most recent Substack post.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I was a lifelong opponent of trigger warnings. Then I read Ryan Lizza's most recent Substack post.
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The fact that this took so long should be a cause for reckoning. One thing we have to understand is, most people aren't changing their news sources when their news sources are embarrassingly wrong and late, and we need to deal with that urgently and swiftly
Finally, the media worm is turning on Trump:
*NYT reports Rs quietly looking beyond Trump
*Axios says "red alert" time for Trump/GOP
*Politico reports MAGA culture-war now failing
*Trump clearly declining in many polls
On the pod we parse through all this evidence:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
*NYT reports Rs quietly looking beyond Trump
*Axios says "red alert" time for Trump/GOP
*Politico reports MAGA culture-war now failing
*Trump clearly declining in many polls
On the pod we parse through all this evidence:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.
newrepublic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The fact that this took so long should be a cause for reckoning. One thing we have to understand is, most people aren't changing their news sources when their news sources are embarrassingly wrong and late, and we need to deal with that urgently and swiftly
Something something bidenomics. Biden Biden. Old. She just isn’t presidential. Something misogyny something.
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Something something bidenomics. Biden Biden. Old. She just isn’t presidential. Something misogyny something.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social shame theorem strengthens.
Nuzzi vs. Lizza vs. the group chat
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-ecstas...
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-ecstas...
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social shame theorem strengthens.
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MEN RUIN WOMEN’S LIVES AND END THEM, in the workplace and beyond. This is the only conversation we should be having in this vicinity www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/w...
20-year-old woman killed in attack by male coworker because he said he 'did not like her': Pros.
A 20-year-old Minnesota woman was reportedly killed in an attack prosecutors said was carried out by a male coworker who said he "did not like her."
www.nbcchicago.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
MEN RUIN WOMEN’S LIVES AND END THEM, in the workplace and beyond. This is the only conversation we should be having in this vicinity www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/w...
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"If the data is accurate...it would call into question the business model of OpenAI and nearly every other general-purpose LLM vendor" www.ft.com/content/fce7...
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"If the data is accurate...it would call into question the business model of OpenAI and nearly every other general-purpose LLM vendor" www.ft.com/content/fce7...
Never Take a side!
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Never Take a side!
This is yet another example of cultural flattening we all need to avoid at all costs.
“it’s a tiktok trend” are four of the most ominous words in the twenty first century english language
It's a TikTok trend basically. I've had discussions about this with our video guy at work. We hate it, but also that's "the thing" now and so everyone adopts that style.
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is yet another example of cultural flattening we all need to avoid at all costs.
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In 2016, I got death threats when I posted about Katie Johnson on Twitter.
Johnson is the woman who says she was raped by Trump when she was only 13 years old.
I watched the entirety of her video testimony and found it credible, which I say as someone who has worked with CSA survivors for decades.
Johnson is the woman who says she was raped by Trump when she was only 13 years old.
I watched the entirety of her video testimony and found it credible, which I say as someone who has worked with CSA survivors for decades.
The National Enquirer tried to catch and kill the Katie Johnson story. Then they got ahead of it in an attempt to discredit her. And many of us bought it—hook, line, and sinker katemanne.substack.com/p/they-tried...
They Tried to Bury the Katie Johnson Story
And we, the public, let them convince us it was bogus.
katemanne.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In 2016, I got death threats when I posted about Katie Johnson on Twitter.
Johnson is the woman who says she was raped by Trump when she was only 13 years old.
I watched the entirety of her video testimony and found it credible, which I say as someone who has worked with CSA survivors for decades.
Johnson is the woman who says she was raped by Trump when she was only 13 years old.
I watched the entirety of her video testimony and found it credible, which I say as someone who has worked with CSA survivors for decades.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Pretty much all I remember for LDLAW.
Thanks Shannon.
Thanks Shannon.
Military ethicist here. I used to be Associate Chair of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at USNA. We consistently taught our midshipmen that they should refuse to obey illegal orders. The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes this obligation clear. “I was just following orders” is not an excuse, period.
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Pretty much all I remember for LDLAW.
Thanks Shannon.
Thanks Shannon.
Ok hear me out. Freaky Friday, but MckEnzie Scott is suddenly given Elon Musks fortune. (No body swapping grossness, ew). And Elon Musk is still in South Africa. That’s it. That’s the film. Call me @clmazin.bsky.social and @johnaugust.bsky.social, let’s make this thing.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ok hear me out. Freaky Friday, but MckEnzie Scott is suddenly given Elon Musks fortune. (No body swapping grossness, ew). And Elon Musk is still in South Africa. That’s it. That’s the film. Call me @clmazin.bsky.social and @johnaugust.bsky.social, let’s make this thing.