Paul Topping

@realtimers.bsky.social Bill should bring this up during his next dinner with Trump. Perhaps having dinner with a POS liar who sides with sexual predators is not the good idea he thinks it is. Bill, why do you serve to normalize this guy? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-crue...

Just bought Kate in Kharkiv a coffee for her excellent work. buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv

This is great news! That she is even thinking about it proves how out-of-touch she is. No, it's not "her turn". www.axios.com/2026/09/20/k...

@rhodesben.bsky.social Excellent segment on Fareed Zakaria's show this morning.

It doesn't have to work 100%. In focus groups, many Trump voters talk like they buy the whole Biden weaponization meme. It's the Fox News effect.

No way! I can't even imagine eating these, let alone that they taste good. Perhaps the ultimate frankenfood. www.foodbeast.com/news/a-food-...

... and because the Star Trek franchise has grown stale and uninteresting in Paramount's hands. techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/x...

It's not so much about rich people's pay as their need to share their success with their employees. This is better than taxing them because it creates synergies. @TheEconomist www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

www.economist.com/podcasts/202... A good summary of AI's world models, but this is just wrong: "I think there are a growing number of people who are looking at what you have with the top tier of AI agents now and going by any definition of AGI that isn’t unachievable, we’re there already."

I disagree. Bondi is Trump's fixer, not a proper Attorney General. Her only rational choice is to attack her opponents. She's very good at it. Depth has nothing to do with it. This is the job she chose.

Ends with: 'Asked how he would compare the president with Lincoln, who freed the slaves and whom Claremonsters regard as a model statesman, Mr Kesler hardly pauses: “Like Lincoln, he’s a defender, really, of human rights.”' Missing an "LOL" I think. www.economist.com/united-state...

Good one! "That is the problem with big echo chambers: from the middle of them, you can’t feel the walls." www.economist.com/culture/2026...

To my way of thinking, "he didn't have to do that" means the shooting was unjustified and, therefore, a crime. www.comicsands.com/smith-good-s...

Obviously MAGA is now behind the overthrow of Maduro because it was successful. Before, they recognized that such an effort had a good chance of failing. But, most importantly, they don't care at all whether it was legal or the right thing to do. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

This is the way! www.noahpinion.blog/p/where-does...

It's what Hitler would have done.

Yeah, that's not how I remember it. No one held back because there were too many guilty politicians. Instead, the guilty politicians successfully blocked our efforts to obtain justice. And, by "guilty politicians", I mean virtually all Republicans.

Not measuring the true impact of a policy change IS ignoring the possible harms of well-meaning policy. We should decide how much weight to give those hurt by a policy rather than have that done for us.

Obviously. My point is that the losing side has to be quantified for a fair assessment.

Yeah, I don't listen to women, I just vote for them, Hillary and Harris. Your insane takes on people are why Trump won. Take a chill pill and look around you.

All this talk about MTG and her possible changes in position makes me wonder why it should matter. I would assume that most of those commenting would never vote for her no matter the office she seeks. I certainly would not.

For 50 years the right has been telling us that the appropriate response to this is to open fire on these goons. They say we need assault weapons as a bulwark against a tyrannical government snatching people off the streets.

I'm surprised to see this kind of thing in 2025. Anyone who thinks the OS or the programming language one uses makes a good programmer is himself not a good programmer. www.yegor256.com/2025/10/05/w...

Excellent article by @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social taking issue with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social‬'s recent “[Charlie] Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way” article. As Grossman says, the MSM "are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith". This is exactly the problem.

A good rant on science criticism from Sabine Hossenfelder. youtu.be/ZO5u3V6LJuM...

Any journalists thinking of writing about AI should read this excellent article by Melanie Mitchell first. aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...

So much for Charlie Kirk being against political violence. They are all liars! Every single one of them!

But also:

Er, no he wasn't. Free speech but hateful, lying, lacking good-faith argument, and promoted violence. He had the right to do it but we do not have to like it or honor it. Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Every Democrat should listen to this podcast. It shows why Dems are losing right now: youtu.be/SJHNayq91Rs...

Ukraine and the West should be thinking up excuses for Putin to withdraw from the war he started. I can't think of any good ones but my hope is smarter minds can come up with some. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

A new publication. I'm interested to see what they have to say. The Argument www.theargumentmag.com

This is right! The Democrats Are Losing Voters — But They Don’t Really Want to Hear Why www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-democr...

"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship." It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.

Short answer: yes, it does. popular.info/p/does-trump...

Is Trump trying to make America less attractive to immigrants by making its citizens poorer, destroying its health and educational systems, and generally making it a nastier place to live for non-rich folk? Sure seems like it.

An excellent debate! youtu.be/Mq_-WNRwcjc...

Jane Goodall Returns From Latest Expedition With Annoying Chimp Accent theonion.com/jane-go...

This is important!

May it rain on the stupid military parade! #NoKings

Musk will undoubtedly point out that giving rich people a tax break, throwing people off Medicaid, and increasing the debt were NOT what voters wanted. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Except that David Pogue is a science and technology journalist so Musk's response is not totally out of line, regardless of what we might prefer.

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

Such a smart person is fooled by ChatGPT. How embarrassing. No, don't believe the hype. www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

AI is not coming to take your jobs. Not this AI anyway.

But the automobile was the death knell for buggy whips. techxplore.com/news/2025-04...