What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:
"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."
This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.
11.10.2025 10:51 β π 1472 π 601 π¬ 73 π 82
What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine
Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.
Re-upping:
Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.
In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.
As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.
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11.10.2025 16:57 β π 374 π 145 π¬ 30 π 22
This guy was a law school classmate. He was an unrepentant bigot then and continues to be today.
12.10.2025 03:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Also: if you work for ICE, even if youβre not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, youβre part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
12.10.2025 00:54 β π 16761 π 3898 π¬ 337 π 110
For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.
If Portlandβs blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.
12.10.2025 01:29 β π 2310 π 671 π¬ 28 π 24
I really feel like millennials especially resent the copyright theft part of these AI data centers because of this.
08.10.2025 17:34 β π 152 π 33 π¬ 3 π 0
Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
11.10.2025 17:32 β π 10736 π 3222 π¬ 63 π 76
βCan you explain this gap in your resume?β
Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: βI was selling drugsβ¦ ,uh, to children.β
12.10.2025 01:39 β π 2134 π 319 π¬ 26 π 4
Americaβs brain drain
No words
30.05.2025 12:23 β π 2053 π 797 π¬ 87 π 155
Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.
11.10.2025 17:57 β π 159 π 77 π¬ 3 π 2
The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesnβt understand how the economy works
10.10.2025 22:18 β π 6607 π 1345 π¬ 290 π 54
My first thought was βwow I hope this guy didnβt give out his name because he could absolutely be chargedβ and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.
This manβs account is shocking. His neighborsβ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
11.10.2025 01:01 β π 8122 π 2699 π¬ 185 π 204
I mean I donβt want to hand it to <waves around> anyone but I take your point!
11.10.2025 01:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Because I teach corporate laws and bylaws are relevant OBVIOUSLY, people
11.10.2025 01:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
100% would take that cle
11.10.2025 01:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I do appreciate that my work spam folder is a mix of CLE solicitations and a variety of statements from Chairman Bob Avakian (?)
11.10.2025 00:55 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
All of life is an effort at improving the R^2
10.10.2025 22:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Probably should be fewer law professors as politicians, then!
10.10.2025 01:40 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0
I feel like this is a scene in A FISH CALLED WANDA
10.10.2025 22:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ownership of US corporate equities by institutional investors + some top %ile of households (by wealth)
10.10.2025 11:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And I think my friend @ofsevit.bsky.social was on at least twice?
10.10.2025 01:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Hey, Tom, RIP.
If it helps fill out the character vignette I went to a Car Talk live taping when I was 14
10.10.2025 01:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
I would probably rather be governed by any randomly chosen set of citizens of the Peopleβs Republic of Cambridge than almost any other polity in the country, but thatβs just me
10.10.2025 01:44 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Was! Former!
10.10.2025 01:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
She is apparently among the worst bosses in Congress!
10.10.2025 01:42 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Probably should be fewer law professors as politicians, then!
10.10.2025 01:40 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0
Jeeeeeeeeesus
10.10.2025 01:21 β π 177 π 21 π¬ 7 π 0
Would we not assume βrap battleβ presumptively implies malice
10.10.2025 00:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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