Joshua Foust 🪖🎮

Yes

Not WORSE, but like, at least as bad and more explicit

Can’t emphasize enough how the Dunkin’ one is worse.

Jenna Maroney wearing the Jenna’s Side hat, saying “Jenna’s-Side, Jenna’s-Side, I’m not hearing it, Liz.”

American politics, c. 2025

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

The thing is it’s obviously a mortal threat to his career

This represents much more academic psychology research than anyone in that field is comfortable admitting.

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

When they first restricted crypto mining, a bunch of miners moved west to Kazakhstan, and instantly caused such a massive energy crisis the government nearly collapsed in early 2022 and only survived because of Russian intervention.

Anyway, Texas crypto is booming 🙃

It’s a strongly concentrated example of “learn from your own past”

This is why I harp on the media political economy so much. Right wing messaging has *deep* pockets with no equivalent on the left. Progressive and liberal donors just don’t want to fund information ecosystems to counter this.

Buddy, why are you still trying to do grand history

My guess is random shop worker in Cambridge has no idea who he is, but he’s very high profile as an antagonist on Martha’s Vineyard

This is aimed at keeping the left out of any national politics in the future. It has zero anti-fascism or anti-authoritarian substance.

It’s very obviously doing a “pick me” so the fascists target them last, and the fact that no one involved seems to be interested or care is really embarrassing.

Some other invited speakers:

- a Trump White House AI adviser
- a billionaire energy hedge fund guy
- an effective altruism guy
- an Nvidia guy
- a Hoover Institute guy
- two AEI guys
- Oren Cass
- Virginia Postrel
- Reihan Salam

It’s the same old garbage that’s failed our society, not innovation.

Seeing them feature Spencer Cox — a man infamous for stabbing queer people in the back for political expediency — really highlights the work that “Abundance” is aimed at accomplishing on the left.

You can get a 90% match on a person from their 6 most visited websites, can you imagine the kind of profiles they're building from people who talk to ChatGPT for an hour a day? They can build predictive models of your likely beliefs, education, earnings etc, that can be APPLIED TO NON-USERS!

The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made How the success of a singular video game led to crises for almost all its creators

Not a gamer but really enjoyed this - a vivid piece of writing that perfectly captures concepts and personalities on.ft.com/45tSZiV

This is great community mobilization. I love how we are steadily making Harry Potter toxic even for soulless cash grabs like this.

how many stories covering protests in a major paper in the past 7 months do you think mentioned trump called for the assassination of an activist by cops and police obliged him during his first term

YouTube video by 11 bit studios The Alters | Launch Trailer

Okay, so The Alters is an absolutely incredible game and you should play it toot sweet

An nice upside of being this far north and east is that there are some really good artisanal maple syrup brands

A tableau of different varieties of peaches, partially sunlit, with bushels of sugar plums in the background

It’s stone fruit season, motherfuckers

Honestly, like it’s a Saturday I need at least two hours of sitting in an arm chair sipping coffee and reading a book before I’m able to see or do anything outside

I am a morning person! At home. But leaving the house? Before 7? Hell no.

I like farmers markets but I don’t like farmers markets hours. I can never wake up early enough to get the good shit.

“… and is married to a senior local Republican official.”

🙃

There’s nothing wrong with presenting that report, to be clear. But the habit of posting unsourced caps without alt text is just bad practice generally, and when it ends up misrepresenting something as immediate when it’s not that’s worse. It’s how people get lulled into accepting bad content.

Please don’t do this. The cap is unsourced but it isn’t about “now,” it’s an 18-month-old cybersecurity firm report trying to get earned media on a white paper. “Twitter” doesn’t have bots because it doesn’t exist. X is almost certainly full of bots but we don’t know how badly from this cap.