Amanda Mull

That’s real

Yes! Precisely!

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

Honestly worst thing is that I did it on like the second one so now I’ve just got a full bag I can’t eat

(I’m fine, it’s a tooth that had already been root canal’d and it’s surface-level along the previous crack and the filling, so it doesn’t hurt and isn’t even temp sensitive. I will see the dentist this week.)

Idk what the most embarrassing way to crack a tooth is but “chomped too hard on Nerds Gummy Cluster” gotta be up there

Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries

By Tesla's own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details | Fortune By NHTSA standards, the Tesla Robotaxis are 8x worse than human drivers.

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

“Turns out you can just kill bad people and everything is fine” - Gavrilo Princip

Couldn’t figure out why there was an “emerging markets transaction” on my credit card and thought maybe it got skimmed or something but turns out it’s because I gave money to a Canadian gofundme? Is Canada an emerging market?????

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."

Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

New York Times: Trump's call for Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces to surrender, with the promise of complete immunity, added a particularly unusual element to the speech. Because the campaign appears to be largely an air operation, there is no one for them to surrender to, no one to take them prisoner or to implement Trump's offer of "total immunity." It may have simply been intended to sow doubt in the ranks if they believed the government was going to collapse.

“Trump's call for Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces to surrender, with the promise of complete immunity, added a particularly unusual element to the speech. Because the campaign appears to be largely an air operation, there is no one for them to surrender to…”

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

This is Trump's former AI adviser

Some AUSA just felt the icy grip of death

There are def places in New York that make weird combos of takeout foods but I think the combo you’re talking about is specifically Atlanta. In NY they’re usually halal places advertised as chicken spots where you can also get, like, Greek food and burritos and ribs and lamb over rice

When you have live coverage of a closed-door event that reporters can’t be in.

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

I’m up partying with Tomorrow England again

I’m in the middle of vacation in Hawaii so this news can’t hurt me

I want you to put the word out there that we back up.

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Gotta point out here that this is another nail in the coffin for treating social media as a proxy for man-on-the-street interviews.

Ya never know where you might go—five years ago if you’d told me I’d be doing this now, I wouldn’t have believed you!

I spontaneously met a sea turtle in the water at Mauna Kea Beach on a previous trip and I felt like a Disney princess

Not gonna lie I’ve been really, really lucky

Whenever the sun sets I think that were some of the last people seeing that one