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Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
'oh so you want china to beat us' bro what the hell do i care leave me to the humble life i am trying to build for myself
i dont understand what winning ai means and why i should be scared of not winning ai
September 17, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
Any time my family in Iowa talks about Reynolds-era ed policy (writing massive checks to private schools, this blatant cash grab in Iowa City)—I just hear the cash register sound effect at the end of every sentence.
Shout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
Uncertainty in leadership, curriculum surrounds UI Center for Intellectual Freedom
In the barren walls of his Calvin Hall office, where the Center for Intellectual Freedom resides, interim director and University of Iowa economics professor Luciano de Castro shuffles a stack of pape...
dailyiowan.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Any time my family in Iowa talks about Reynolds-era ed policy (writing massive checks to private schools, this blatant cash grab in Iowa City)—I just hear the cash register sound effect at the end of every sentence.
I suspect that, if the midterms are a blowout and mark MAGA's decrescendo, we're going to see tech oligarchs pivot to "we're taking a step back from politics. starting in 2020, we got a little too carried away and went overboard in BOTH directions"
September 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I suspect that, if the midterms are a blowout and mark MAGA's decrescendo, we're going to see tech oligarchs pivot to "we're taking a step back from politics. starting in 2020, we got a little too carried away and went overboard in BOTH directions"
Interesting that not one of the courageous athletes who took the brave step of implying Sweeney is a skanky hoebag had anything to say about the GAMBLING APP of it all. Sweeney is wrong to promote a corrupt industry. Who cares that she busted out the big naturals to do so?
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Sydney Sweeney's 'sexualized' sports betting ad slammed by Canadian athletes | CBC News
U.S. actor Sydney Sweeney is once again facing backlash over an advertisement. But this time, she's enraged female athletes around the world with a nude sports betting ad — and her response.
www.cbc.ca
September 15, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Interesting that not one of the courageous athletes who took the brave step of implying Sweeney is a skanky hoebag had anything to say about the GAMBLING APP of it all. Sweeney is wrong to promote a corrupt industry. Who cares that she busted out the big naturals to do so?
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
there’s a male loneliness crisis you say?
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story.
It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵:
www.wired.com/story/burner...
It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵:
www.wired.com/story/burner...
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
www.wired.com
September 14, 2026 at 4:29 PM
there’s a male loneliness crisis you say?
I'm going to need everyone who insisted that the vibe shift was real to personally apologize to me. Ezra Klein may go first.
September 13, 2026 at 11:58 PM
I'm going to need everyone who insisted that the vibe shift was real to personally apologize to me. Ezra Klein may go first.
Why is there an Elizabeth Holmes documentary in 2026? I was sick of hearing about that googly eyed bitch in by Q4 2016.
September 13, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Why is there an Elizabeth Holmes documentary in 2026? I was sick of hearing about that googly eyed bitch in by Q4 2016.
Come From Away is an awful musical. I group it with all the bullshit 9/11 exploitation cultural detritus (e.g.: those treacly country music songs). Idk why there’s a such a push to elevate it right now.
September 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Come From Away is an awful musical. I group it with all the bullshit 9/11 exploitation cultural detritus (e.g.: those treacly country music songs). Idk why there’s a such a push to elevate it right now.
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very boring to say this but the most likely "AI kills all humans" scenario is just the one in which AI execs, out of a mix of zealotry and short-termism, install as president a visibly decaying fascist who starts weird wars he can't end
September 9, 2026 at 2:04 PM
very boring to say this but the most likely "AI kills all humans" scenario is just the one in which AI execs, out of a mix of zealotry and short-termism, install as president a visibly decaying fascist who starts weird wars he can't end
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I'm a white-knuckle hater of the "both parties are the same/uniparty" blackpill, which really crumbles if you compare GOP state trifectas and Dem trifectas for 10 seconds.
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
heartlandsignal.com
September 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I'm a white-knuckle hater of the "both parties are the same/uniparty" blackpill, which really crumbles if you compare GOP state trifectas and Dem trifectas for 10 seconds.
I read once that there was a straight line connecting "McCarthy-era purges of the US government's foreign policy/military apparatus" to "the US getting into Vietnam". Idk how true it is, but it comes to mind every time Hegseth fires a 4 star general.
A four-star general launched an independent review into Kid Rock’s taxpayer-funded “joy ride” in a military helicopter.
Five days later, Secretary Hegseth fired the general.
He is purging our military of experienced leaders to cover up his own corruption.
wapo.st/3Uuf51X
Five days later, Secretary Hegseth fired the general.
He is purging our military of experienced leaders to cover up his own corruption.
wapo.st/3Uuf51X
September 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I read once that there was a straight line connecting "McCarthy-era purges of the US government's foreign policy/military apparatus" to "the US getting into Vietnam". Idk how true it is, but it comes to mind every time Hegseth fires a 4 star general.
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I love journalism and journalists
September 7, 2026 at 11:35 PM
I love journalism and journalists
I will be Pete hegseth’s biographer one day. I’ve already come up with the title of my opus—Pete Hegseth‘s Empire of Shit: Shit-posting while Shitting the Bed.
September 5, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I will be Pete hegseth’s biographer one day. I’ve already come up with the title of my opus—Pete Hegseth‘s Empire of Shit: Shit-posting while Shitting the Bed.
Sometimes I randomly remember that JD Vance changed religions to impress his boss.
September 5, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Sometimes I randomly remember that JD Vance changed religions to impress his boss.
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Libertarianism for me, Flock cameras and robot cops for thee
September 1, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Libertarianism for me, Flock cameras and robot cops for thee
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Every Republican candidate and elected official must immediately condemn Republican influencer and activist Catturd for this terrible opinion, since those are now the rules.
September 1, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Every Republican candidate and elected official must immediately condemn Republican influencer and activist Catturd for this terrible opinion, since those are now the rules.
oh?
JD Vance: "If you look at his politics, it is all about saying, 'This group of people is good, this ethnicity is bad, and I'm gonna fight to give from the bad group of people to the good group of people.' I think that's a despicable way to think about your fellow Americans."
August 31, 2026 at 7:50 PM
oh?
The tone is much more shrill, but isn’t this basically JD Vance’s proposal for a better future?
I dunno much about Maness or Anderson but Schlicter is a straight-up fascist who wants to among other things "use the law to ensure blue submission" and "imprison dissenters" to achieve the aim, "force them to be like us."
August 31, 2026 at 2:45 PM
The tone is much more shrill, but isn’t this basically JD Vance’s proposal for a better future?
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Totalitarianism differs from authoritarianism, Hannah Arendt wrote, since conventional authoritarians want power and corrupt benefits—and mostly leave people alone if they don’t get in the way—while totalitarians reach into the private sphere, aiming to forcibly control what everyone says and does.
I dunno much about Maness or Anderson but Schlicter is a straight-up fascist who wants to among other things "use the law to ensure blue submission" and "imprison dissenters" to achieve the aim, "force them to be like us."
August 31, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Totalitarianism differs from authoritarianism, Hannah Arendt wrote, since conventional authoritarians want power and corrupt benefits—and mostly leave people alone if they don’t get in the way—while totalitarians reach into the private sphere, aiming to forcibly control what everyone says and does.
One of the greatest pleasures in life (for me) is my Friday morning babka ritual. On Friday--and only Friday--a bakery near me sells chocolate and cinnamon babka and every Friday morning I buy a loaf of each and a wee coffee and it puts a real spring in my step.
August 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
One of the greatest pleasures in life (for me) is my Friday morning babka ritual. On Friday--and only Friday--a bakery near me sells chocolate and cinnamon babka and every Friday morning I buy a loaf of each and a wee coffee and it puts a real spring in my step.
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I say this as an old who doesnt get the appeal of piker at all beyond the fact that he's handsome. I think that's probably good! I was born in the 80s! who cares what I think!
August 27, 2026 at 5:19 PM
I say this as an old who doesnt get the appeal of piker at all beyond the fact that he's handsome. I think that's probably good! I was born in the 80s! who cares what I think!
look, it's a bunch of pigs reveling in slop, producing yet more slop. it's just pigs and slop all the way down.
Fox host: WNBA players are “proving that women shouldn't have a league. It's too dramatic.”
August 25, 2026 at 8:59 PM
look, it's a bunch of pigs reveling in slop, producing yet more slop. it's just pigs and slop all the way down.
Just fucking stop with "household voting". It's only attractive to stupid weak people who deny they have agency and don't want to make choices. There's a reason the ugly, attention-crazed media slut who won't stop caterwauling about it plays tedious word games when he describes it. It's shit.
August 25, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Just fucking stop with "household voting". It's only attractive to stupid weak people who deny they have agency and don't want to make choices. There's a reason the ugly, attention-crazed media slut who won't stop caterwauling about it plays tedious word games when he describes it. It's shit.
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you need to read the use of "woke" here with a hard R
Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley (Gift Article)
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2026 at 1:14 AM
you need to read the use of "woke" here with a hard R
1). He’s so insufferable. You can tell he practiced this in a mirror.
2). Pre-Trump 2, I only ever heard the “51st State” line from Canadians (it was cringey then for dif reasons).
3). I wish Dems would just come out and say “This ain’t happening. If there’s a 51st, it is DC.”
2). Pre-Trump 2, I only ever heard the “51st State” line from Canadians (it was cringey then for dif reasons).
3). I wish Dems would just come out and say “This ain’t happening. If there’s a 51st, it is DC.”
August 24, 2026 at 6:20 PM
1). He’s so insufferable. You can tell he practiced this in a mirror.
2). Pre-Trump 2, I only ever heard the “51st State” line from Canadians (it was cringey then for dif reasons).
3). I wish Dems would just come out and say “This ain’t happening. If there’s a 51st, it is DC.”
2). Pre-Trump 2, I only ever heard the “51st State” line from Canadians (it was cringey then for dif reasons).
3). I wish Dems would just come out and say “This ain’t happening. If there’s a 51st, it is DC.”