Rob

The thing about Twitter that makes it still have value for me is that it’s basically the last remaining major platform place where you can get a lot of information in text form. You can here, too, but this is much more niche. Everything else is just increasingly visual and I hate that.

Does it have to be SET in the 21st century or just written in it? If the latter, Neal Stephenson’s baroque cycle is in large part about money

I love how when I arrived in Japan in 2019 a colleague told me: “the good thing about Japanese politics is that it never changes”.

Since then, it’s been one insane thing after another.

ela vendo e mostrando os desenhos que vcs postam delas na internet

Long and absolutely fantastic thread on Komeito and what happened to the coalition.

This thread alone is reason to stay on bluesky.

Não era daquele aparato peniano mecânico segmentado?

Connecticut yankee abbreviated, of course, to koneyan

Ah yes, I love “Is it impossible for a Connecticut yankee to use magic from the future in the court of King Arthur?!”

Arguably the only accurate word here is “woman”

Caraca meio que foda-se o robô (com todo respeito), mas essa linhazinha eletrônica do começo da música goes hard demais

I’m old enough to remember the HS-14 🥹

No, just bigger missiles on bigger TELs, forever. Eventually a missile whose TEL cab is in the United States while the back wheels are in Sunan

I went to the Apple Store and complained about my battery life on iOS 26 to an apple genius. She said she turned off all the special iOS effects on her phone and turned them all off for me too. The phone is genuinely better but this feels a little dumb…

Thanks! Quite a bit of chatter I see. Still not sure what to make of it

Where is it from, on X?

Desde o governo passado, eu defendo que, se a direita quer indicar alguém “terrivelmente evangélico”, o tit-for-tat da esquerda seria indicar para o STF a Pabllo Vittar

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

Everything Is Television A theory of culture and attention

1. Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers.
2. Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show.
3. AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones.

Everything is becoming television.

I wrote about why that matters.

www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado welcomed the US strike, describing it as legitimate pressure. She interpreted it as a direct attack on the government, which she said would be overthrown before long.

to be fair, it seems like that part wasn't the problem for the committee!

Q q rolouuuu

Really happy with these photos I took on a random night stroll around Bushwick/Williamsburg

Ume psicopate*

A indicação certa pro STF neste momento é um psicopata que vai tocar o terror no André Mendonça até ele renunciar

Abundance

All taken on CineStill 800T, likely my favorite film stock, on a Canon AE-1 camera

Really happy with these photos I took on a random night stroll around Bushwick/Williamsburg

This is honestly such a good album

Really good piece. I have long held that Anathem, the book about monks in space, was Neal Stephenson’s most prescient work (more prescient than the one in which he coined the the term “cyberspace”), precisely because he anticipated this kind of nonliterate or post-literate society