i've always thought claude would be more of a mohist

idk, quoting the moscow trials here kinda makes it sound like Tooze is also living in his own silly narrative construct

sleeper 8s and 9s across the continent getting activated like clive owen, disappearing into the nearest powder room and emerging with heavier foundation and contouring

he keeps it out of BAM, thankfully, but you can tell what's going on whenever he very selectively tweets about politics (for instance, he's completely swallowed the twitter files bullshit about the stanford internet observatory)

he's such an intentionally obscurantist writer, and lately has been clearly cooking his brain in the right-wing SV VC bubble, that it's become impossible to tell when he's full of shit

or they're fourteen

There are tons of AI-generated background noise/ambient/'mood music to work to' channels on YouTube and Spotify; I could easily believe that some huge percentage of office workers throw them on in the background for a couple hours a week.

We just saw these guys execute a woman in cold blood and then laugh about it. Risible to think they could simply be productively 'redeployed' *now* let alone after 3+ years of recruitment aimed at neo-nazis. Even if you disagree with 'defund' rhetoric, lustration and mass discipline is essential.

Yeah, I think it's tacky and vulgar. I think saying it is 'aggressive' or 'hostile to children' is laying it on a bit thick. You ever take your kids to the zoo?

I think the sock is probably just a tacky knickknack rather than a dagger poised above the heart of childhood.

Yeah, it sounds like your principles are not so much about 'good and evil' as they are 'the strong do what they can'.

Murderous, like the guys subverting constitutional government in order to carry out a campaign of random murder on the high seas?

Safe to assume every White House aide has a Polymarket account

I think the Marty character probably does fill the hole left by his old dreams with the project of raising his kid, in a way that's going to completely fuck his kid up.

going to bed here must feel like getting into the cockpit of a japanese fighting robot

Dodgeball; potentially any Kevin Smith movie