Nicholas Adams

Out of curiosity, wtf is Bondi doing there?

Honest to god, they just don’t believe in public health.

1) obviously fuck that guy and his terrible opinions.
2) anime avi twitter is a cesspool and it took effort not to be negatively polarized against those people.

Sure, but who could have predicted this?

*reads contemporaneous reporting and policy analysis from mid-2025*

Oh, everyone. Everyone predicted this.

Perhaps the best, by that i mean the worst, exemplar of NIMBYism.

Concentration camps are cool, but not in my neighborhood

My basic threshold for whether to take pundits’ sense of what’s newsworthy is the heir contemporaneous treatment of the Clinton email shit.

This is an incredible account of a system doing its best to function.

Hard not to view this as its own thing and not as an exercise in comparative politics.

I feel like this presupposes a single type of processing correlate of consciousness. That the only way to know that what a computing substrate is manifesting is interior experience is if it is doing something like what our brains are doing to achieve the same result.

This isn’t obvious to me.

This first part of this take—AGI is impossible—never made sense to me. You have to imagine there’s something metaphysically unique about gray matter to argue that running consciousness on silicone is impossible.

Coheed and Cambria lyrics.

Au contraire! Nirvana is only achieved by asking to speak to the manager!

The USSR was definitionally a multicultural economic zone.

The mongol empire was a multicultural economic zone.

What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.

So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.

Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
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Have we confirmed this isn’t AI?

The average dem voter should never forgive The Party for forcing Harris/Walz to stop calling these people weird. They’re fucking weird.

Proton pumps in his cells cease functioning. Malinin dies instantly.

I hate you for reminding me Michelle Bachman exists.

Has anybody checked whether David Foster Wallace is in the Epstein files?

Follow up Collapse with: Russia’s Crony Capitalism (Aslund), Imitation Democracy (Furman), and Lenin’s Tomb (Remnick).

Good for “how we got to now.”

Sigh. *contrast

Popper, by contract, seems like a failed version of the cult leader type, and he’s not happy about it.

Been on the “wealth corrupts” train for a while, but still truly shocked.

I thought you wanted to talk about the Olympics?

Okay, you’re welcome to. I wasn’t.

[pulls out the Broad Brush] I think this lack of understanding is essential. “Understanding” is a pink job—mom’s job. One only tries to understand another to achieve comity. This administration sees empathy as weakness. They strive only to dominate, to which “understanding” is an impediment.

Really starting to feel like I’m the only person Epstein didn’t email. I have to live with that.

It’s very important to note that this claim of a pre-balkanized American culture is utter bullshit. American culture was always multi-faceted, but white people suppressed the spread of the non-straight WASP facets and claimed they didn’t exist.

I’ve been feeling pretty sanguine about federalism lately, which is assuredly not where I was 10 years ago.

The kettle?