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1990s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay exhibit bc veterans and historians can’t agree whether we should celebrate its role in ending WWII or critically assess the decision to use nuclear weapons

2020s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay bc “gay” is a no-no word

Full text here. Click through the reposts for the Elmo gov addy.
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the hubris

This is going to make Randy Moss torching the cowboys for 3 TDs look like a hugfest

If they fire nico this week, do you think there is a chance Luka would re-sign with the Mavs when his contract is up?

So good from Bob. I was a team of this fan when it was single digit wins for the season bad, Shawn Bradley as the centerpiece bad. I am no longer a fan of this franchise and never will be again. Nico can eat a bag of dicks for what he ahs done.

The Case Against Eternal, Binding Loyalty Maybe being eternally loyal to our favorite teams is why they treat us all like they do.

“For many, it seems they went from being an important part of people’s lives to just a basketball franchise that happens to exist inside the city limits.”Bob says it all so well. I will not move on. bobsturm.substack.com/p/the-case-a...

Fuck Nico Harrison

Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

“the Red Sox actually got pretty good value for Ruth”
-Nico Harrison probably

Hmmmm, seems like a missed opportunity

I think we can all agree that the definition of limited conservative government is when an unelected billionaire interferes at every level and juncture

Lee Atwater had a pungent and famous quote about how once conservatives could no longer use the n-word they used things like “states’ rights” to invoke the same spirit.

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration any more — if it ever was — to say they use DEI as the n-word.

Defector | The last good website. Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website brought to you by the former staffers of Deadspin.

I always feel strange doing this sort of thing but Defector.com has had an incredible January, just a ton of really good stories on a wide range of topics, and I suggest subscribing to it. I am biased, obviously, but I am really proud and grateful to get to do this the way we're doing it.

As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.

Been seeing a lot more “if AI isn’t the greatest thing ever, it’s bc you aren’t using it right. Dummy.” Oddly, this is coming from the makers of AI

Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

Monstrous bastards www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care.

But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.

::taps mic::

It's useful to think of NYT as a cult that worships power, influence & the status quo. They will normalize anything as long as it allows them to retain their position. The institution selects for people who share this perspective. Chomsky isn't always right but he was right on this.

The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.

I’m Done ‘Optimizing’ My Lifestyle Vince Mancini on how he plans to resist the tech overlords pushing us to live (and work) more efficiently—and hopefully feel more alive in the process.

GQ asked me for a New Year’s Resolution and this is what i cam up with: I’m done optimizing www.gq.com/story/im-don...

Inside Elon Musk’s Plan for DOGE to Slash Government Costs Mr. Musk has turned to Silicon Valley to help recruit executives who will take up unofficial positions across the federal government.

The question of “why would a tech big shot want to work 80 hours a week, unpaid, on this?” is one with a pretty obvious answer yet I don’t see many news outlets highlighting it. If altruism was any kind of motivation, then we’d have seen one iota of that spirit before now.

How it started. How it’s going

It's one thing to fetishize the founders -- an approach the founders themselves discouraged! -- but it's something else to fetishize the founders *and* insist they said things they actually never said.

Really bizarre.

A John Wick movie where he assassinates everyone shooting off fireworks in a residential area because they upset his dog.