Sam Bakkila

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Turn the volume up!!!!

It’s also wild that where there was an opening in Shanghai after Sinner pulled out, someone else in the top 10 can’t capitalize, it goes to then #204 Vacherot.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

This is basically the plot of Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin except more exploitative...

Mary Robinette Kowal has some very smart thoughts about puppetry and fiction that would probably be useful here: writingexcuses.com/writing-excu...

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

thank you! it's so hard to find information about ballot measures that I didn't realize that your post from last year popped up when I was trying to figure out what people were saying this time around

I think you linked to the wrong source? It doesn't say anything about the ballot measures

It’s only populism when people are getting paid fedsoc money to do outrage kayfabe with bot farms on social media, otherwise it’s time to just focus on the content and not the count

NYT leading with some story about Santos rather than the largest protest event since 1970. A reminder that the collapse of news into entertainment is one of the reasons we got here.

It's kind of both??? The greek verb odussomai actually means to hate, so there's one word that predated the name... Odysseus is hated/cursed by Poseidon, which led to all of his trials/journeys, which then gave us the story of Odysseus, which now gave us new meanings associated with his name.

I thought he was very against delaying armageddon. Isn't that literally his whole "don't immanentize the katechon" bit that he printed on shirts? Which literally means: don't bring into being the thing/institution that will hold back the antichrist from starting the final battle.

The Horror Zine in question

Thinking about how human cloning technology could be used to not only revive famous musical acts, but make them even better. Just imagine Crosby, Crosby, Crosby, Crosby, Stills, Stills, Nash, Young & Young

i think the key to understanding a lot of establishment discourse is that basically only the left and liberals are capable of being viewed as subjects capable of judgement which is why GOP rule is essentially treated as a force of nature

that's what I was thinking, except I think Ostapenko was ranked higher than Iga in their first meeting in 2019

I don't think the liberal Christian you QT would disagree with this? Their point is not like fuck the Romans, but to indict oppressive political empires (and our human tendency to create and get caught up in them) as part of the ways that humanity has sinned.

That is so beyond frustrating! I wonder if the instructor used AI to generate the syllabus, and didn't realize that the AI was pulling from your work without attribution.

I read the book! The excerpt was ill chosen. She didn't really "try to kill Rayya", never got past making a plan. She also didn't really abandon Rayya, she stepped back & re-entered her life once someone else who wasn't trapped in a cycle of enabling/codependence had helped Rayya get clean.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

Her account of the story on Glennon Doyle's podcast a few years ago contains 90% of the interesting material in her new book, so maybe check that out instead?

I think it's useful as self help for people with codependency or sex/love addiction, and a lot of people who liked Eat, Pray Love would like it. But it's definitely not as fleshed out or as well written as her novels.

She writes and talks about the plan as if it got further than it did, including later admitting to her partner something like "I tried to kill you," but there was really no substantial step towards putting the plan in action.

I read the book and found that the excerpts and reviews were very misleading... perhaps an attempt to create buzz/controversy? There was no attempt. There was ideation and a plan that never got put into action.

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Today, JD Vance urged Republicans to put on the "full armor of god" to fight their opponents.

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It's all the same talking point, folks: politics as holy war

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

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It’s also indicative of the problematic way the administration blurs the lines between elected officials and pundit, television personality, model, podcaster, etc. It positions whoever is favourable of Trump as if they have been elected democratically to officially represent or serve in office.

It’s not pedantic. It’s a response to the right treating this as if it were the assassination of an elected official via their rhetoric and lowering of the flags (incl by Dems like Josh Shapiro). This situation doesn’t require us to let the right turn him into a solemn/honored figure.