Shouting into the Void

the real thing with zohran is he comes across as very normal by politician standards but really is *extremely* good at the Happy Warrior thing. it’s one of those things you can’t teach that

Myself and others have been yelling and screaming about that fact that "Young Republicans" are literally every worst kind of terminally online loser you can think of. From Groypers to adherents of Tate and BAP amont countless others; to have not noticed this trend is to have been willfully ignorant.

Teen Vogue and WIRED are both part of Conde Nast. If they've cut the politics coverage at Teen Vogue... it makes me worried they'll cut Wired as well. I hope not, but...

anyways

www.npr.org/2025/11/03/g...

The American voting public's total lack of object permanence is a concerning phenomenon that doesn't get enough attention, especially among pundits who claim that this or that is the core grievance or most important issue for the median voter. The median voter doesn't know who they're voting for!

Also, I retroactively appoint Kamala Harris President of the US effective 11/06/24. About as effective.

In Chinese American Families, There’s a Generational Split on Mamdani

One of the most striking things about this piece to me is the observation that Chinese-American elders are being force-fed far-right media in exactly the same way as their English-dominant white peers.

You just know that things are going fantastic when current events prompt you to look up the Nixon administration's legal justification for bombing Cambodia in 1973.

wow you're telling me that zoomers will come out for a candidate that goes out of their way to activate them

A lot of people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel shows why it's important for businesses and the public to understand that two-thirds of Americans are not Trump voters

A lot of people just don't understand how unpopular Trump is to everyday Americans www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

This Bloomberg article detailing how the Koch, Thiel, and Rockefeller families are financing VC firms that aim to gut nuclear regulators in order to enable "move fast and break things" startups to "innovate" in the nuclear plant space makes for a good pairing that Spotlight article on DE nuke com.

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

When 2024 was about R+1.5 this presents a near 10pt shift and puts Iowa/Alaska/Texas/Ohio Senate into the *something* happening zone

absolutely hallucinatory man they really memory-holed her entire campaign

mostly I feel this fails to understand how fundamentally most desk jobs are social jobs.

I reflect on this grimly: if we are lucky, RFK Jr. will be the cabinet secretary that kills the most Americans by his malice, whereas if we are unlucky, it will be Hegseth who does it by his incompetence.

But *fundamentally* Big Boy War is won with spreadsheets, it is won with production, it is won with research and development.

Troop training and fitness matter, but on the margins. In WWII, we buried the better men in steel; the USSR buried them in just more men.

Spreadsheets win wars.

“Humans can just go get manual labor jobs if desk jobs are repaired with AI” is both not going to suffice to provide enough jobs and is also going to result in massive societal anger because manual labor jobs often *are terrible*, which is why people have worked hard to avoid them for generations.

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news

Honestly, I kinda want 2028 to be Trump versus Obama just to see Obama’s political instincts unleashed on a man he truly despises.

I'll partly disagree: Johnson's term as Speaker would end the minute that the previous Congress does, so he wouldn't have any residual authority. Of course, if there were widespread challenges to the election of members, that would cause a different kind of chaos. This swearing-in context is unique.

FWIW, like 99% of actual AI researchers are left of center. The correlation between education and and voting Democrat is basically the strongest its ever been.

And it’s bizarre that Republicans handed it to them on a silver platter.

i genuinely cannot stand actual european elites condescendingly explaining american public opinion to americans. reminds me of when some british lady IRL tried to tell me she understood southerners better than i ever could, a southerner who lives in the south.

The ideal of anonymity is it lets you explore and discuss ideas without serious consequence. The frequent reality of anonymity is folks using it to be cruel without consequence

oh, dear lord, barry.

"wife mad at you? d.e.i." is gonna be kicking around in my head for a minute

Dems *really* need to embrace anti-corruption

Cuomos somewhere in the city rn frothing at the mouth and screaming vitriol upon seeing this ad where Mamdani speaks Arabic