Troy

The best thing I can say about either is that they’ll canbibalize each others primary voters

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I grew up pre-widespread understanding of Gender. lot of folks insisted I was a gay guy & just didn’t know it (some derisive, others hopeful)

A. It sucked

B. It did not cause me questions about my sexuality!

C. Maybe author should introspect on why he thinks he would’ve questioned his gender??

claudine gay

calling gaza protests 'antisemitism on campus' in a vertical on homepage

trans coverage

the list goes on

miss me with that 'sometimes' shit

Me bombing: ha! Fuck yes! Is there any theory more discredited than blowback?

Me being bombed: well this fucking sucks. What the [boom]

“they were too early” imo overplays extent to which it was an “adoption” problem and underplays the decade/s of further tech and infrastructure development that made all those examples much, much more desirable to adopt. Maybe AI gets there for similar reason but don’t think it’s about psychology

Real microcosm of AI (family trip this week), despite a rule of no AI at dinner table:

1. Family sees a neon sign in distance no one can make out

2. Dad feeds a pic of sign to AI to “enhance” and 3 models give dif answers

3. We ask waiter about sign, she immediately knew, all models were wrong

If a journalist supports trans rights, then the nyt denigrates you as an activist. If you advocate for white nationalism, nyt will happily brand you a journalist.

“AI must be incorporated into education now” folks and “AI will be unrecognizable in two years” folks venn diagram a beautiful perfect circle experiencing 0 cognitive dissonance

You’re on Bluesky so that all tracks

Still want us to at least run a trial on doing a prize system instead of patents in some fields!

Ninja turtles logo Janet Jackson rhythm nation

It’s a real bind that every pundit should have to teach middle school for one semester to develop a thick skin but no middle schooler should be forced to listen to almost any pundit for five hours a week

I really enjoyed this for

A. A perfect use of the community meme

B. A very forthright/earnest appraisal of not having left already (and admittedly you are one of 3 ppl tops I still had a Substack account for!)

Troy and Katie mugging at the cam looking silly

Tfw your flight at 2 was canceled for rando crew issue and now you’re playing chicken w the weather on your rebooking…and at the airport bar in the meanwhile

lol can’t argue with that!

One can hope, but the consistent refrain I’ve read from folks was that the court would always do this bc it’s good for the economy (and accordingly is doing what it can to boost gop electoral chances)

That sun was POWERFUL. I was down to a sleeveless vest just trying to walk from Cambridge to downtown.

Aside, per vibe check and your love of rocks—have you checked out the scholar’s rock exhibit at the Harvard art museum in their Asian division? Good rocks.

What next you turn on Steven Pinker?

A great listen. Something I did come away thinking listening to the Mamdani vs rfk headlines: the pundit drive to nuance, contrarianism, and savviness all disappear when attacking folks to their left, everyone suddenly happy to bandwagon, which says a lot about what’s actually animating those folks

1L we learned “property law” is its own thing (instead of just part of torts & contracts) bc property was engine of wealth and gov wanted rules to ensure that engine didn’t lie fallow, was happy to yank it/give it to away if you weren’t using it

It would be great if we took that approach to Capital

I had to get ethics clearance at CFPB to buy staff doughnuts!

But maybe they were right to be concerned

The theory is it’s like polling but money on the line will make it more accurate but the reality is it’s manipulabe nonsense and very bad at predictions?

Wild how much my old, fairly purple home of NM dems gets done to fight for its people and the progressive agenda than my current home, the extremely more blue, MA does

Weiss showing uncharacteristic concision in expressing her vision

I’ve placed one (1) bet in my life & it was 5:1 odds against Josh Shapiro as vp bc of how noxious he is

Most noteworthy part of tracking was

A. How bad betting markets are at predictions & terrible news uses them

B. How full market was of insider traders: he dropped to 0 hours before public news

Yea unclear much is shifting w the winds, campaign v governing, etc, but to extent she is still centrist, v useful to have role models of centrists who understand the goal is to use all levers to get their agenda done. A “center to left, we do everything we can” big tent would, in fact, be v good

Great thread. building on it, lotta dem autopsies focused on “the groups”forcing Harris to take Bad Positions. real betrayal were advisors who just didn’t like those positions and, rather than do their job & come up w good messaging on them, told Harris to stay silent allowing GOP to dominate space

Was at a breakfast spot, someone ordered a sausage egg and cheese, cashier responded “great one breakfast burger with egg” and the absolute horror on the customer’s face

VC and managers everywhere: “They’re lying pieces of shit, just like us”