Dan

It’s fair to say that a lot of people online, ✨especially✨ young groypers, are speaking a language mostly unintelligible to the modal human being.

Dumping our negative emotions onto other people is selfish behavior. The last thing we should want to do is demoralize our allies. We can argue, we can debate, but we should process our despair privately, and then look for ways to help, no matter how small.

a lot of people are understandably frustrated by the fact that various technological and cultural factors have put everybody together into the same room at all times, which makes Doing Politics annoying some have reacted to this by wishing we could make it 2006 again

99% of trans voters vote for Democrats and 99% of Democrats vote for good trans policy this "fight" is between vocal trans people who (correctly) fear a retreat on trans issues and vocal partisans who (correctly) believe that Dems are very good on trans issues each pointing at each others' worst 1%

I think it's bad that Congress won't impeach a president who literally announces his crimes.

recalling that the actual quote from Max Weber about "slow boring" is 180 degrees away from limp dishrag centrism. he explicitly says you have to be a hero who reaches for the impossible

Imagine thinking “My billion dollar idea is ruining the concept of dogs.”

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

Zelenskyy that restrictions on Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone." www.ft.com/content/e267...

One would be good and the other would be bad because one cause is good and the other is bad. We are not in the realm of procedural justice concerns anymore, liberalism is not obligated to be neutral on the question of its own existence.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

What’s astounding to me is how “the president builds himself a palace with money given directly to him in secret by the richest people in America,” literally the most straightforward and worst executive-branch corruption story in US history, just gets shrugged at because Trump is unapologetic

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

btw thank you Mr. Secretary for announcing to all the world's potential psychopaths that they can get a livestream of their martyrdom sponsored by the United States government if they shoot up a federal facility

in the 20th century we were involved in a lot of horrors, and the response to those horrors was to do things to make them more scarce. then everyone forgot what causes the horrors, and people were like maybe the horrors were good actually? and that's why measles and public executions are back.

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

babe please stop offloading your cognitive processes to GIF replies all your friends are worried about you

Tragically, this was not to be the kind of content we would get on Bluesky.

The US and the EU rejected a declaration by member countries of the UN that pledged international collaboration and solidarity in preparing for and responding to pandemics. Yes, you read that right. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...

It was clear from the beginning that the situation on the USS Lincoln needed to be taken seriously. Instead of being honest about it and supporting our servicemembers, Trump and Hegseth denied and minimized what was happening. Failed leadership.

[type ag into google] On my computer: agE OF EMPIRES II On Richad Hanania's: agE OF CONSENT BY STATE

That 2025 stint when every institution scrambled to bow before the eternally beloved god emperor's million-year reich was weird at the time and only looks weirder and weirder in hindsight. Way way way weirder than any of the alleged excesses of Woke 1

Not to be all "My Wife" but my wife works in this field on the government side, and every time somebody says that the kids are being taken away for no reason or for some politically charged reason I really challenge you to stop and think about whether that's the whole story

Tbh the modal intervention is with a family that actually doesn't seem to give a shit at all but just doesn't want the kid taken *away* because that *belongs to them*. But they don't "want" the child. They just don't want someone else to have them.

One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person

Trump was riding a sugar high after the Maduro raid and wanted to do "Venezuela" in Iran. If you believe the Iran War was launched because of US national security, I have a bridge to sell you.

I do not think that AI will collapse but I do think Oracle might and it’s an outcome we should all be rooting for mightily

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

it is hard to figure out how to convey this fact in words but there is so much rationalist pro-rape propaganda that it is nearly impossible to figure out which pro-rape propaganda to talk about without it sidetracking me forever i maybe should have included this

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Here’s a great explainer on the AI rationalist sex cult from @nathaliemarechal.net : www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

Why talk about how nuts the AI rationalist sex cult is, and not just focus on the (very real) risks and harms of AI? Well, when we're discussing "who should get to regulate AI, and how," I think it's VERY relevant to talk about the antisocial, unsettling ways many people running US AI think.

This story also doesn’t state how far up the food chain this got before someone called “bullshit” but evidently got pretty far if we were preparing to seize said ship

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