low-level intelligence loser

at first I thought "plenty of people make typos on dates" but that addition is uhhhh

yeah, he is indistinguishable from like 90% of upper-middle-class kids in a wealthy suburb. "well-to-do" is a good way to put it. also impressive that he went into public service and didn't rely on family connections for some BS $250k/yr consulting job right out of school

not remotely. prior to this job he made, like, 170k, and his wife is an illustrator. they're doing better than a lot of people their age in NYC but not even close to practicing lawyer or doctor levels - "decently successful 30something" is a good descriptor

rare Tina Brown W

they're so much more enlightened and progressive than the rest of us, which is why they talk about marginalized communities with the same language people use for outdoor cat populations

not to be a huge dumbass, but doesn't that mean it's just at the secret level? TS is what's "exceptionally grave". also, every classified document is locked in a safe unless you're in an area that's its own SCIF

love it when GEHA sends me an EOB that takes five hours to actually retrieve because they follow the website design principle of "does not work"

that being said it doesn't help that the people who are most loudly upset are caricatures of the worst kind of "activist"

the fact that it's immediately devolved into sub-discourse about Will Stancil the way everything always does gives me pause to say the least

Stancil is simultaneously not anywhere as bad as his unhinged haters seem to think and also some of his behavior and ways of dealing with shit is not great, barring further details we just don't know

it's very possible that Will Stancil was unfairly cut out because God knows organizing can be like that sometimes but it's not proof the group is full of wreckers or whatever

boy I really hope the rumors about Hegseth's wife aren't true for her own sake

Thanksgiving sandwich from MGM Roast Beef. honestly any sandwich from MGM Roast Beef

every single thing that comes out about this guy w/r/t women just gets weirder and worse

was lucky to EOD long before all the small companies where everybody used to work got warped by self-important DHS contracts

also a worrying amount of MIIS grads telling themselves it's just until their IC FO comes through, desperate to believe they'll have blue badges instead of green and they definitely aren't destined to be a mid-level program manager living in Ashburn

why do I know this username? I know he was involved in some extremely dumb shit before but can't for the life of me remember what

"what are we, brown people??" points for trying I guess

insane to accuse anybody of porn addiction when this pathologically porn-addicted "analysis" frames the entire phenomenon of resistance to ICE as inherently sexual. and the specification of *white* women is...boy, I don't know. it's real bad

the extent to which he influenced Twitter joke writing, cadence, and vernacular is impossible to overstate. plus the jokes themselves - how many of us go around muttering "check this shit out motherfucker"

these were all over my in-laws' YouTube commercials (in a very white, very rural part of New England) and they're creepy as fuck. I want to prosecute everyone involved

is the verb for reversing the Joining "unplurb" or "deplurb"

the only thing I've seen that was funnier than the passive-aggressive drone on Pluribus was the automated translation on Pluribus

obviously polys are fake but the story here is a guy clearly trying to exceed his NTK for Probably Not Good reasons, staff insisting he follow the rules and getting retaliated against

everyone I know who works in AI and enjoys it doesn't do consumer-facing stuff. hmm

the anti-AI stuff is rabid and often totally misinformed in every possible way but I don't blame people for being rabid after they were told they would be replaced and their livelihoods were unnecessary

not a UI person but I feel like Tahoe should have had a unifying vision beyond "blurrier and also worse"

if somebody obliterated me from orbit like this I would never get out of bed again but unfortunately mattyg has no concept of shame

Kate Wagner is a good writer and she does not deserve to be pilloried because people can't read. if you pruned the indulgent stuff out and reorganized a little this is fine

this piece is not great but it's also not nearly as bad as the people quote-dunking it seem to think, that said I feel like her editor did her dirty here. this feels more like an indulgent first draft