Sky Marchini
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this is what really killed the place even before the nazis fully took over
the Venn diagram of “people willing to pay for Twitter so their replies are boosted” and “people capable of making funny comments” is just two completely separate circles side by side
the Venn diagram of “people willing to pay for Twitter so their replies are boosted” and “people capable of making funny comments” is just two completely separate circles side by side
twitter must be dead dead cause someone posted a rat coin purse that would have 2019 twitter losing its collective mind and most of the top comments are bots saying random words or people not nearly amped enough about the rat coin purse
February 3, 2026 at 6:11 AM
this is what really killed the place even before the nazis fully took over
the Venn diagram of “people willing to pay for Twitter so their replies are boosted” and “people capable of making funny comments” is just two completely separate circles side by side
the Venn diagram of “people willing to pay for Twitter so their replies are boosted” and “people capable of making funny comments” is just two completely separate circles side by side
Tooze: "Presumably, the PLA is a super smart organization full of highly wired Chinese technocrats who’ve been thinking very hard about all of these problems."
Chotiner: "Presumably."
Chotiner: "Presumably."
"Presumably, the PLA is a super smart organization full of highly wired Chinese technocrats who’ve been thinking very hard about all of these problems."
yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.
yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.
February 3, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Tooze: "Presumably, the PLA is a super smart organization full of highly wired Chinese technocrats who’ve been thinking very hard about all of these problems."
Chotiner: "Presumably."
Chotiner: "Presumably."
"let's also reactivate the twitter/ecks account and- ahh. that was a mistake."
February 3, 2026 at 3:58 AM
"let's also reactivate the twitter/ecks account and- ahh. that was a mistake."
Yeah you know what fuck this place
January 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Yeah you know what fuck this place
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I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
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At one point you had to put serious work into issuing a death threat. Find someone’s address, write an anonymous letter, walk to a mail box. Do you know how insane you’d have to be to follow through?
Now? Well.
Now? Well.
fact check: I have gotten nonstop death threats all day
January 5, 2026 at 2:12 AM
At one point you had to put serious work into issuing a death threat. Find someone’s address, write an anonymous letter, walk to a mail box. Do you know how insane you’d have to be to follow through?
Now? Well.
Now? Well.
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they’re rebranding wartime rape
January 5, 2026 at 2:11 AM
they’re rebranding wartime rape
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the number of people who can't clock bad AI-generated video footage as such really makes me more sympathetic to the people who fell for the Cottingsley fairies. Our eye for the real in video or photo footage isn't natural, it's a learned skill.
January 5, 2026 at 2:09 AM
the number of people who can't clock bad AI-generated video footage as such really makes me more sympathetic to the people who fell for the Cottingsley fairies. Our eye for the real in video or photo footage isn't natural, it's a learned skill.
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It’s useful to think of the Internet as a medium where consequences for anti-social behavior go to die, which partly explains why our politics got so much worse over the last 30 years.
I have neither thrown nor received a real punch in my life but I kind of think the root sin of the social internet is letting people just say and do things that in the real world would get the shit kicked out of them
January 5, 2026 at 1:50 AM
It’s useful to think of the Internet as a medium where consequences for anti-social behavior go to die, which partly explains why our politics got so much worse over the last 30 years.
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Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
Honestly insane they didn't brief the gang of eight until it was underway
January 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
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I’ll take this a step further: I don’t trust people who don’t hate Trump and the current GOP.
it's good to base your politics on compassion for the oppressed but it's also ok to have a little hate in your heart, as a treat.
January 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I’ll take this a step further: I don’t trust people who don’t hate Trump and the current GOP.
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when baby goes down for her nap right at halftime
January 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM
when baby goes down for her nap right at halftime
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Since TANF was converted to block grants, only 22% of funding goes to cash assistance to the poor. This is Welfare State 101 knowledge. But the Washington Post does not mention that because now the editorial page is a place that draws its evidence from right wing youtubers rather than researchers.
January 5, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Since TANF was converted to block grants, only 22% of funding goes to cash assistance to the poor. This is Welfare State 101 knowledge. But the Washington Post does not mention that because now the editorial page is a place that draws its evidence from right wing youtubers rather than researchers.
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I think it's actually worse than having no plan. There's like 5 competing plans floating in the air right now between the scheming vizier factions and the major Venezuelan power brokers.
January 4, 2026 at 2:58 AM
I think it's actually worse than having no plan. There's like 5 competing plans floating in the air right now between the scheming vizier factions and the major Venezuelan power brokers.
peak wsj article
As white-collar hiring slows down and corporate DEI goals vanish, where you went to college matters again. on.wsj.com/49kNT9z
Elite Colleges Are Back at the Top of the List for Company Recruiters
As white-collar hiring slows down and corporate DEI goals vanish, where you went to college matters again.
on.wsj.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:06 AM
peak wsj article
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"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on January 5 and 6 in honour of those killed and said funeral arrangements would be announced."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
Cuba says 32 Cubans killed during US raids on Venezuela
Havana declares two days of mourning for the Cubans killed in US's raid to capture Nicolas Maduro.
www.aljazeera.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on January 5 and 6 in honour of those killed and said funeral arrangements would be announced."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
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it's good to base your politics on compassion for the oppressed but it's also ok to have a little hate in your heart, as a treat.
January 5, 2026 at 12:45 AM
it's good to base your politics on compassion for the oppressed but it's also ok to have a little hate in your heart, as a treat.
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i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized
January 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized
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the maduro kidnapping is a qualitatively new phase
Can we just stop and put this into perspective:
Our Scandinavian allies put out joint statements today condemning the United States, and Denmark went as far as explicitly threatening military action while hinting at a potential invocation of Article 5.
That’s genuinely fucking insane.
Our Scandinavian allies put out joint statements today condemning the United States, and Denmark went as far as explicitly threatening military action while hinting at a potential invocation of Article 5.
That’s genuinely fucking insane.
January 5, 2026 at 2:04 AM
the maduro kidnapping is a qualitatively new phase
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Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
January 5, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
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Elon decided to make a right wing LLM and confirmed pedocon theory in the process
January 5, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Elon decided to make a right wing LLM and confirmed pedocon theory in the process
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Q: Rodriguez called it a 'kidnapping' of Maduro
TRUMP: That's alright. That's not a bad term.
TRUMP: That's alright. That's not a bad term.
January 5, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Q: Rodriguez called it a 'kidnapping' of Maduro
TRUMP: That's alright. That's not a bad term.
TRUMP: That's alright. That's not a bad term.
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In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
January 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
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Q: What's your response to voters who voted for you who are worried about a forever war in Venezuela?
TRUMP: The voters who voted for me are thrilled. The said, this is what we voted for
TRUMP: The voters who voted for me are thrilled. The said, this is what we voted for
January 5, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Q: What's your response to voters who voted for you who are worried about a forever war in Venezuela?
TRUMP: The voters who voted for me are thrilled. The said, this is what we voted for
TRUMP: The voters who voted for me are thrilled. The said, this is what we voted for