He was a childhood friend (before heel turn) and is dead to me now. Gone!

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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.

There’s still time to publish it! Didn’t you see Money Stuff today?

I think the solution here is to become a curator of your own ssrn e-journal

M&A, VC, Crypto / Event Contracts

They said on-line isn’t real life, and Bluesky is a niche social media site.

But here is @akalhan.bsky.social getting “Kavanaugh Stops” into the Boston Globe!

With a pic of Kav looking a little petulant too (but then when doesn’t he?).

Glad to see this is sticking to him.

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

Glengarry Glen Rock?

And let us not forget

You know who would have an interesting perspective on this question? The late, great Robert Cover

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Lmao anil, this cuts deep

University general counsel, university trustee, university president

oh really

Student protests are basically a necessary condition for any democracy movement

open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

"The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president’s favor."

Reminder that what is offensively called Ireland's "great famine" or "great hunger" was in fact a colonial genocide by England.
It's crazy that people still think it's because "Irish people literally just ate potatoes and whoops, there was a blight suddenly"...

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

I actually conceive of it more like tending to the sand trap in golf: you scatter the sand behind you to obscure that you have left fresh footprints in an untested and untrodden trap

This is a recurring tactic: use strangely fine distinctions to create logical epicycles which then function as wedges to disrupt settled law. He did the exact same thing by arguing that technical international law principles historically explain (and thus drive) how the Citizenship Clause operates.

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