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[doing backing vocals for Sam Cooke] Science Book
December 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
[doing backing vocals for Sam Cooke] Science Book
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especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
especially in the dark hours we need to remember that we are going to win
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it
December 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it
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Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care
Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT.
To AI-proof exams, professors turn to the oldest technique of all
A small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful AI platforms.
wapo.st
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care
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one time i saw a guy in a fedora and trench coat leaving a convenience store and was in the middle of thinking “well well well if it isn’t mr internet” when he handed a homeless man a sandwich
December 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
one time i saw a guy in a fedora and trench coat leaving a convenience store and was in the middle of thinking “well well well if it isn’t mr internet” when he handed a homeless man a sandwich
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A well-lived life involves doing a lot of thankless, constant, mostly-uninteresting effort and that's something that will be lost on people who mostly experience life through fictional narrative, or even non-fiction told in a narrative style
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A well-lived life involves doing a lot of thankless, constant, mostly-uninteresting effort and that's something that will be lost on people who mostly experience life through fictional narrative, or even non-fiction told in a narrative style
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable
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The main thing I want you to understand is that if you're like an unironic Bluesky liberal the people who control the heights of American culture and the intelligentsia genuinely despise you and would prefer the company of fascist pedophiles.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The main thing I want you to understand is that if you're like an unironic Bluesky liberal the people who control the heights of American culture and the intelligentsia genuinely despise you and would prefer the company of fascist pedophiles.
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on the one hand this is extremely tragic, because it means people don't remember how much we've lost. on the other hand, it does mean that someone like Mamdani who can break through and have both a positive message, and a chew with their mouth closed and actually be professional and adult stuns them
Gen Z has a hard time contextualizing how aberrant Trump is because he's been the focal point of US politics for a decade at this point. Like I have a bunch of fully adult coworkers who don't really have much political consciousness that predates 2015.
The media failed broadly, and continues to do so, but in particular Gen Z media and Latino media REALLY fucked up. Built an entirely fake fucking candidate to vote for.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
on the one hand this is extremely tragic, because it means people don't remember how much we've lost. on the other hand, it does mean that someone like Mamdani who can break through and have both a positive message, and a chew with their mouth closed and actually be professional and adult stuns them
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The thing about Trump is that he was a phenomenon we might never actually see again - coddled by the press almost from the womb and famous for most of his life - and betting that things will stay the same when he's dead seems like a mistake, but what do I know, I just post online
October 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The thing about Trump is that he was a phenomenon we might never actually see again - coddled by the press almost from the womb and famous for most of his life - and betting that things will stay the same when he's dead seems like a mistake, but what do I know, I just post online
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It’s like doing drugs at work or sleeping with your coworkers: if you can’t do it without getting caught you’re too irresponsible to do it
October 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It’s like doing drugs at work or sleeping with your coworkers: if you can’t do it without getting caught you’re too irresponsible to do it
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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
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You can tell it's not about crime when they start listing shit they want to get rid of. It gets into contempt of the aesthetics of addiction and homelessness and ethnic communities. Crime is the failure of the outgroup to make itself invisible, not concrete harm to society.
October 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
You can tell it's not about crime when they start listing shit they want to get rid of. It gets into contempt of the aesthetics of addiction and homelessness and ethnic communities. Crime is the failure of the outgroup to make itself invisible, not concrete harm to society.
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I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale.
If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood
If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood
October 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale.
If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood
If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood
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would you want a cancer diagnosis deliver in careful stilted formal language or “the tumor is like, crazy fucking big dude. bummer about that. we’re gonna zap the hell outta it fr tho”
October 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
would you want a cancer diagnosis deliver in careful stilted formal language or “the tumor is like, crazy fucking big dude. bummer about that. we’re gonna zap the hell outta it fr tho”
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Kaleb Horton on heartbreak
September 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Kaleb Horton on heartbreak
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I genuinely love seeing amateur art because I genuinely love seeing how other people perceive things. To me, there's no information on earth more useful, more wonderful, or more enlightening than how other people process living.
September 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I genuinely love seeing amateur art because I genuinely love seeing how other people perceive things. To me, there's no information on earth more useful, more wonderful, or more enlightening than how other people process living.
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Kaleb spent so much time worrying about finding full time work and that was obscene because he was one of the best writers out there, someone I always wanted to be more like as a writer. What this system does to its best is a crime.
It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.
September 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Kaleb spent so much time worrying about finding full time work and that was obscene because he was one of the best writers out there, someone I always wanted to be more like as a writer. What this system does to its best is a crime.
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RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
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September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
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i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.
September 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.
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we just need Bold Journalism! guys there is more Bold Journalism than it is humanly possible to read. much of it is very good. very little of it matters. I would rather win than lose the right way.
September 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
we just need Bold Journalism! guys there is more Bold Journalism than it is humanly possible to read. much of it is very good. very little of it matters. I would rather win than lose the right way.
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It was an extremely blackpilling moment when people got furious at the idea of democrats paying influencers. everyone on the side of democracy thinks they’re too good to be a party hack, everyone opposed to it embraces the role with glee.
But changing that requires a level of involvement and discipline that a lot of D-bashers actually have no appetite for.
September 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It was an extremely blackpilling moment when people got furious at the idea of democrats paying influencers. everyone on the side of democracy thinks they’re too good to be a party hack, everyone opposed to it embraces the role with glee.
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People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel
September 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel