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Thank you to the first responders who subdued the suspect that shot two National Guard members earlier today. It’s an awful thing for a family to learn a loved one was shot while receiving mixed reports of their well being.
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Thank you to the first responders who subdued the suspect that shot two National Guard members earlier today. It’s an awful thing for a family to learn a loved one was shot while receiving mixed reports of their well being.
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The Nuzzi thing is a good reminder that outside the deep structural issues of energy/subsistence, most of what's happening right now is an old-fashioned crisis of elite legitimacy, which sounds comforting until you realize how some of those have turned out in the past
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Nuzzi thing is a good reminder that outside the deep structural issues of energy/subsistence, most of what's happening right now is an old-fashioned crisis of elite legitimacy, which sounds comforting until you realize how some of those have turned out in the past
<Morbo the new monster voice>
3D PRINTERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT.
3D PRINTERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT.
Campbell’s fired the VP recorded saying its meat ‘came from a 3D printer’
Campbell’s fired the VP recorded saying its meat ‘came from a 3D printer’
Welcome to 2025.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
<Morbo the new monster voice>
3D PRINTERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT.
3D PRINTERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT.
My fear when these deployments started was that somebody would get hurt.
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
My fear when these deployments started was that somebody would get hurt.
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God this is so depressing given the political response to it
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
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November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
God this is so depressing given the political response to it
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Here's what you can expect from the launch week of Past Lives: three full episodes, a bonus interview with the wonderful @ceaubin.com on Walter Benjamin, and much, much more. www.patreon.com/posts/one-we...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Here's what you can expect from the launch week of Past Lives: three full episodes, a bonus interview with the wonderful @ceaubin.com on Walter Benjamin, and much, much more. www.patreon.com/posts/one-we...
Their entire economic strategy is (1) fire a bunch of government workers and (2) pray for an AI revolution that also gets a lot of people fired. And somehow it’s not working!
The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Their entire economic strategy is (1) fire a bunch of government workers and (2) pray for an AI revolution that also gets a lot of people fired. And somehow it’s not working!
Curses, hornswoggled again!! If only the, ahem, United States Senate had some power to intervene here!
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Curses, hornswoggled again!! If only the, ahem, United States Senate had some power to intervene here!
Tech CEOs love to compare AI to the invention of the atomic bomb. If that’s true, then government *should* hold the keys — not oddball billionaires fixated on whether this or that model will summon the antichrist.
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Tech CEOs love to compare AI to the invention of the atomic bomb. If that’s true, then government *should* hold the keys — not oddball billionaires fixated on whether this or that model will summon the antichrist.
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
I’m sorry to break this to everyone out there ranking movies but the best Star Wars is by far the 2003 video game Knights of the Old Republic
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I’m sorry to break this to everyone out there ranking movies but the best Star Wars is by far the 2003 video game Knights of the Old Republic
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. Same old story.
Similarly the history of the 2008 financial crisis is a history of free market zealots going hat in hand to the SEC to beg them to prosecute their critics; the Fed for cheap money; and Congress to bail them out.
Similarly the history of the 2008 financial crisis is a history of free market zealots going hat in hand to the SEC to beg them to prosecute their critics; the Fed for cheap money; and Congress to bail them out.
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. Same old story.
Similarly the history of the 2008 financial crisis is a history of free market zealots going hat in hand to the SEC to beg them to prosecute their critics; the Fed for cheap money; and Congress to bail them out.
Similarly the history of the 2008 financial crisis is a history of free market zealots going hat in hand to the SEC to beg them to prosecute their critics; the Fed for cheap money; and Congress to bail them out.
When Obama won Republicans opted to drag out the recovery from an epochal financial crisis rather than give him a “win.” When Biden won they literally rioted.
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
When Obama won Republicans opted to drag out the recovery from an epochal financial crisis rather than give him a “win.” When Biden won they literally rioted.
Me at PAX yesterday
Your cards when you keep a two-land hand, then proceed to not draw lands:
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Me at PAX yesterday
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
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And didn’t @patrickwyman.bsky.social say that Martin Luther was the ultimate poster? Interesting to think whether social media (long touted as a way for people to organize) actually *inhibits* revolutionary change by directing posters online instead of into the streets.
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
And didn’t @patrickwyman.bsky.social say that Martin Luther was the ultimate poster? Interesting to think whether social media (long touted as a way for people to organize) actually *inhibits* revolutionary change by directing posters online instead of into the streets.
Similarly the early French Revolution is best understood as some extremely talented posters getting a bit carried away with themselves
Reading about the bolsheviks and if podcasts had existed back then all these guys would've done that instead
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Similarly the early French Revolution is best understood as some extremely talented posters getting a bit carried away with themselves
If you’re a sane CEO or foreign leader, how do you reckon with the fact that the United States is now 100,000 votes in three states away from turning into a 4chan racist every four years?
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If you’re a sane CEO or foreign leader, how do you reckon with the fact that the United States is now 100,000 votes in three states away from turning into a 4chan racist every four years?
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NYT: “.. high insurance costs are cascading into the broader real estate market, suppressing home values by an average of $44,000 in the top 10 percent of U.S. ZIP codes most vulnerable to hurricanes and wildfires ..”
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November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
NYT: “.. high insurance costs are cascading into the broader real estate market, suppressing home values by an average of $44,000 in the top 10 percent of U.S. ZIP codes most vulnerable to hurricanes and wildfires ..”
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the crimes are obviously worse but there's also the constant indignities of all formal levers of government communication being taken over by people with a schoolyard bully's vocabulary and the pugilistic instinct of a drunk at the second bar that's cut them off that night
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
the crimes are obviously worse but there's also the constant indignities of all formal levers of government communication being taken over by people with a schoolyard bully's vocabulary and the pugilistic instinct of a drunk at the second bar that's cut them off that night
One of the original theories behind crypto was that it would be a hedge against inflation and market volatility.
NVIDIA just posted its earnings. All the major crypto tokens are currently moving in lockstep with its stock price and each other.
NVIDIA just posted its earnings. All the major crypto tokens are currently moving in lockstep with its stock price and each other.
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
One of the original theories behind crypto was that it would be a hedge against inflation and market volatility.
NVIDIA just posted its earnings. All the major crypto tokens are currently moving in lockstep with its stock price and each other.
NVIDIA just posted its earnings. All the major crypto tokens are currently moving in lockstep with its stock price and each other.
Worth remembering that the Joe Rogans of the world don’t think they’re engaged in politics. That’s part of their success and something for political types to remember when engaging with them and their audiences.
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Worth remembering that the Joe Rogans of the world don’t think they’re engaged in politics. That’s part of their success and something for political types to remember when engaging with them and their audiences.
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I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
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MUPPET KNIVES OUT
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
MUPPET KNIVES OUT