David L

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

I'm quite willing to forgive this from a 27-year-old. Welcome to adulthood! A little late to it but happy you're here regardless.

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

So though I know that the forum Nazis are not available to be persuaded, but nevertheless I feel the need to insist: apart from the Holocaust - that greatest of all crimes - the Nazis also did basically two whole other holocausts in scale. You do not, cannot, despise these modern Nazis enough.

Beyond the stupidity of not believing that you need to contribute to society, property taxes serve an important purpose: the opportunity cost of you using that land so that no one else can. Property rights aren't inherent, they're enforced by government, and you should be paying for the privilege

Ukraine took out Yandex, (aka Russia's Google). Contrary to viral posts, this did NOT reduce the number of far-right social media posts. That was just misinformation about misinformation. skepchick.org/2026/10/ukra...

This is an exceptionally good point about the bombing of the Yandex datacenters. If it is leading to a reduction in Russian troll traffic, it won't be because those were bots running out of those DCs. Instead, it will be because the people behind those troll accounts were using tools hosted there

For this.weekinsecurity.com: I recently learned that if you get a suspicious call, email, or text message purportedly from Amazon, you can find out in a flash if it was real or a scam by checking your account's message center online.

Yeah education policy is indirectly one of the areas where we’re most fucked by having an insane and evil right wing party because the liberal education establishment is in many ways extremely bad.

The funny thing is, I don't know if Vance is a racist - I just know he thinks his voters are and they agree. Vance is a cynic who will say anything to get power, who will make up blood libels against Haitians, believe anything. Vance is, if anything, worse than a racist.

Also, we of course understand why some people might think we use AI for these graphics, but rest assured we don't and spent 10 minutes rotating that stock picture of the coyote just right and then another 15 minutes trying to decide what the opacity should be for the stock dust cloud in the back.

How to visit an art museum with someone who isn't used to visiting art museums:

sometimes when i get annoyed about people using AI for everything, I just remember "at least I will be able to think for myself in a decade and not be a zombie" and that gets me through the day

I *did* enjoy this article about trash, but I am afraid this is the type of take that gets you expelled in polite company. Nevertheless www.worksinprogress.news/p/just-bury-...

We've basically run this experiment when we created two German states, both populated primarily by ethnic Germans, after WWII. West Germany got one set of policies, East Germany another and the differences in development are so stark they persist 35 years after reunification.

Look, are we the laughing stock of the world? Yes. Are we losing a war we should’ve never started? Yes. Is all our food poison now? Yes. Are all the jobs going away? Yes. But the important thing is a blue-haired college student I made up in my head feels bad about memes.

On the one hand, I shouldn't wish my country ill. On the other hand, Canada's grandfathers bled with my grandfathers fighting the Nazis. When we were attacked on 9/11, we asked Canada to send their sons and they bled with our troops in Afghanistan. To betray that bond - we'll deserve what we get.

The main thing I got from serving in Afghanistan is that political violence makes people more likely to reluctantly accept fascism, not less, because after a while people just want the violence to stop.

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

ICYMI, over the past two weeks, English-language Wikipedia editors have engaged in a successful effort to change the first paragraph of the Republican Party entry to reflect its current status as a "neo-nationalist" political party. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...

And then actually vote! Politicians feel free to ignore the concerns of young people because the absolute bedrock baseline immovable constant of politics has been that the youth vote won't turn out. If it started turning out, our politics would change substantially.

I have to admit that the one tiny silver lining of our horrific current moment is that you just don’t see people shanking each other over stuff like “is it cultural appropriation for a white woman to sell coconut water” anymore

It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.

Shouldn't use 'Achilles heel' to mean 'salient weakness'. If one thing is your Achilles heel, that means that you are basically perfect at every other thing. If you have several weaknesses of which one is worst you don't have an Achilles heel. You are not Achilles. You are Bob.

What it looks like when you embrace housing abundance

Don't get me wrong - parliamentary systems have their advantages (so do ours), but the existence of Orban and Netanyahu kinda aggressively suggest their limitations as well. There's just not a good solution to 'major party agrees to collectively go mad together because they became a cult.'

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

fucking weirdass weather, culturally significant bodies of water changing color, unusual parasites and ailments running rampant, elder sons suddenly stricken overnight.......

this series of biblical plagues and strikings down around the 250th anniversary is enough to convert someone to, like, catholicism. but the kind that respects the pope

NEW: The brand-new logo of the Donald J Trump International Airport appears to be AI slop, featuring an eagle with garbled talons, an asymmetrical number of feathers on each wing, and more glaring irregularities futurism.com/artificial-i...

Republicans play by flopping soccer rules, turning a light shin graze into a being attacked with a hammer. Democrats play ultimate frisbee rules, calling fouls on themselves for the spirit of the game.

If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

If the message from some of you here is "it's okay to be Stalinists because our opponents are Nazis," be ready for the possibility that - given that choice - people will choose Nazis.

Fundamentally, the story here is that humans are wired for hierarchy - status competition is an instinct we have. But we can and should mock and despise the people who cannot or will not rise above that instinct, the same as we would an adult who refused to ever be potty-trained.

Things I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas

Both Trump and Mamdani have shown two sides of the same coin. Politics is difficult when the focus is trying to please all your donors and lobbyists. If you just focus on what voters want (MAGA wanted racism), it’s easy. I really hope this is the beginning of a reckoning for the Democratic Party

But I';m reminded of Andrew Robert's quip that Hitler might have won WWII if he hadn't been a Nazi, but then he wouldn't have started it. A different, smarter president might have gotten a better deal if he hadn't been Trump, but then he'd have been smart enough not to start the war.

Someone on here had their students write a paper using Claude and then read them all to the class so they could see how blandly similar they all were

REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Democrats want you to believe that sending FIVE MILLION DOLLARS of YOUR tax money to MEXICO to “manage” the “Dick Exploding Spider” population is “normal” SAME SENATOR SIX MONTHS LATER: (walking like a saddle-sore cowboy) This is the greatest public health crisis of our lives,