@michaelgerber.bsky.social
Boss @ American Bystander. Proud papa of Barry Trotter. Cerebrally Palsied. Survivor of bonus mystery illness. Lover of print comedy & cartoons, Worsley acupuncture, qigong, trains, chicken curry. Mayor of Santa Monica (unofficial).
The barrier to entry in this “critical minerals” / “reindustrialize” / “defense tech” cultural moment just does not exist.
People cook their brains on X, think everyone who came before them is stupid and slow and poor, they just need to shout “Let’s Build!” on Substack, & they alone will fix it.
'claude can now research like a phd student!'
bullshit, pour a bottle of department reception red and 6 pints into that motherfucker and it ain't gonna go home and finish its chapter for tomorrow morning
National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026
there is a child-like naivety to the way business leaders approach sociopolitical problems that would be really sweet if it wasn't coming from the leader of a company with 30,000 employees and 3 billion dollars in revenue
oh fuck off
Could America please be known for something else?
if i was kamala harris i would be the presumptive governor of california and would be doing my “i told you so” media circuit 24/7 rn
Trump says when oil prices go up, “we make a lot of money.”
Just to be clear: “we” is not you.
Another word you might use for it is "looting".
"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
I'd practice Buddhism, but I'm trying to escape attachment
Constitutional amendment to launch billionaires into the sun.
BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent
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Trump’s power and by extension his entire movement are built around the idea that by asserting something you manifest it in reality. Even if it’s not true many people will behave as if is so you can get away with it.
It is alarmingly effective in law, domestic politics. It cannot unblock a strait.
"you have to read to the end of the book," a difficult lesson to learn
I maintain that the issue is less that those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it than those who do learn history are doomed to watch it repeat over and over.
Great news.👇
our boy's on it
Speaking as a writer who hated publishers so much he was forced to become one, Chandler's crotchetiness is wholly deserved.
If this is how he was in the 1940s, today most of his earnings would go to hiring hitmen.
If anyone is following this, the UK will release the first Mandelson ( Epstein) documents today.
Saying that you -must- be grateful is what domestic abusers and Russian prison guards do. You must take the violence and say you like it. It is a mark of fascism.
The irresponsibility of this war…well, some regime is gonna be changed, and not necessarily Iran’s
Among Oak Park high schoolers in 1984, Al Jorgensen was the koolest
Unlike the real dude, he can also wear hats
My reading glasses holder
it's weird that there's both "this will change everything and unemploy millions, wait why do you dislike it? that's so irrational." and "this doesn't work, it's also bullshit and hype. we also must kill it before it kills us all." camps as well.
If only there was a historical example of a right wing, ultra-nationalist movement supported by about 30% of a country that scapegoated a religious minority by blaming them for having authoritarian designs on the country.
This video is imparting genuinely amazing news about the shingles vaccine, but also contains a description of vaccines that made me laugh so hard I had to sit down. “We inject the dead version so that when the live one shows up it knows we’ve killed before” is both accurate and SO FUCKING FUNNY
Big news for fans of research that makes you LAUGH, then THINK!
“During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country. We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the USA this year.” #IgNobel #scicomm
just asking, but under Sharia Law could we impeach a President?
As someone keeps on reminding me, this war makes a lot more sense once you start treating it as “content creation” by sociopaths.