really funny thinking comparatively about how little trump was successfully charmed by elon or jd vance
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
really funny thinking comparatively about how little trump was successfully charmed by elon or jd vance
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like Bernie Sanders got there by doing #3, Bill Clinton is #2, and I think Donald Trump is probably the defining version of #1.
they all work, and obviously you can mix and match in various ways, and it's a matter of a politician figuring out which kind they are and how to leverage it
they all work, and obviously you can mix and match in various ways, and it's a matter of a politician figuring out which kind they are and how to leverage it
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
like Bernie Sanders got there by doing #3, Bill Clinton is #2, and I think Donald Trump is probably the defining version of #1.
they all work, and obviously you can mix and match in various ways, and it's a matter of a politician figuring out which kind they are and how to leverage it
they all work, and obviously you can mix and match in various ways, and it's a matter of a politician figuring out which kind they are and how to leverage it
thought this was really interesting though i tend to think it would be useful to tug apart some of the different senses of "ideology" being used here (and in the ongoing 'moderation' discourse more generally)
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
thought this was really interesting though i tend to think it would be useful to tug apart some of the different senses of "ideology" being used here (and in the ongoing 'moderation' discourse more generally)
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as someone who subscribes to defector SOLELY for jaguars junction i'd love to know exactly what the uptight college boys in charge think is so "befuddling" about it
I don't know how to make it stop
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
as someone who subscribes to defector SOLELY for jaguars junction i'd love to know exactly what the uptight college boys in charge think is so "befuddling" about it
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jeff epstein and so many ai guys just barely missed each other
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
jeff epstein and so many ai guys just barely missed each other
epstein would've loved chatgpt so much. he wouldve gotten ai psychosis immediately and sent a million emails to sam altman. tragic he missed all this
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
epstein would've loved chatgpt so much. he wouldve gotten ai psychosis immediately and sent a million emails to sam altman. tragic he missed all this
phrenology confirms this, so many keepers have clear "baseball player face" ... these are all 800 OPS guys you can just tell
November 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
phrenology confirms this, so many keepers have clear "baseball player face" ... these are all 800 OPS guys you can just tell
good LLM writing and good human writing have the same problem--lots of resources required to create an idiosyncratic (and likely polarizing) voice for which there usually isn't much demand. in a real sense "why ai writing is mid" and "why most professional writing is mid" have the same answer(s)
Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...
Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
good LLM writing and good human writing have the same problem--lots of resources required to create an idiosyncratic (and likely polarizing) voice for which there usually isn't much demand. in a real sense "why ai writing is mid" and "why most professional writing is mid" have the same answer(s)
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I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
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genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
the decision to make these movies turgid auteurist slogs with rigid continuity for 30somethings who reply to "DiscussingFilm" is one of the pre-eminent signs of the decline of the west
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
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Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
the decision to make these movies turgid auteurist slogs with rigid continuity for 30somethings who reply to "DiscussingFilm" is one of the pre-eminent signs of the decline of the west
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
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god he would have been an INCREDIBLE wide receiver if the US had annexed holland for some reason
Tottenham Hotspur [3] - 0 FC København - M. van de Ven 64'
I can't stop moaning watching this goal
I can't stop moaning watching this goal
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
god he would have been an INCREDIBLE wide receiver if the US had annexed holland for some reason
realizing that cameron winter's mom is the woman who wrote the brooklyn open-marriage memoir from a couple years ago, and mentally adjusting to the fact that basically any way you slice it i am a member of her cohort and not his
November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
realizing that cameron winter's mom is the woman who wrote the brooklyn open-marriage memoir from a couple years ago, and mentally adjusting to the fact that basically any way you slice it i am a member of her cohort and not his
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Good (if characteristically blogstyle) Max Read on “platform temperance” and big tech as big tobacco.
Dickish of me to say, but may I once again note that I made exactly the cigarette comparison, down to the details, in 2012, a time before The Atlantic’s CMS natively supported deks or top images.
Dickish of me to say, but may I once again note that I made exactly the cigarette comparison, down to the details, in 2012, a time before The Atlantic’s CMS natively supported deks or top images.
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Good (if characteristically blogstyle) Max Read on “platform temperance” and big tech as big tobacco.
Dickish of me to say, but may I once again note that I made exactly the cigarette comparison, down to the details, in 2012, a time before The Atlantic’s CMS natively supported deks or top images.
Dickish of me to say, but may I once again note that I made exactly the cigarette comparison, down to the details, in 2012, a time before The Atlantic’s CMS natively supported deks or top images.
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Interesting post: maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...
Platform Temperance
Notes on a new wave of the Techlash
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November 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Interesting post: maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...
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good @maxread.info newsletter on @wertwhile.bsky.social's (also good) proposal for a new strategy in big tech regulation
the grip of Brooklyn Soccer Dads on the discourse has never been tighter
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the grip of Brooklyn Soccer Dads on the discourse has never been tighter
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Platform Temperance
Notes on a new wave of the Techlash
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November 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
good @maxread.info newsletter on @wertwhile.bsky.social's (also good) proposal for a new strategy in big tech regulation
the grip of Brooklyn Soccer Dads on the discourse has never been tighter
maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...
the grip of Brooklyn Soccer Dads on the discourse has never been tighter
maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...
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"One way of thinking about the past half-decade or so of life on the internet is that we’ve all become test subjects in a grand experiment to see just how bad 'good enough' can be."
Good essay by the villain max read.
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Good essay by the villain max read.
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Platform Temperance
Notes on a new wave of the Techlash
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October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"One way of thinking about the past half-decade or so of life on the internet is that we’ve all become test subjects in a grand experiment to see just how bad 'good enough' can be."
Good essay by the villain max read.
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Good essay by the villain max read.
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