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Williams’s argument has found purchase among journalists he might consider fellow travelers — Yascha Mounk, Bari Weiss and Conor Friedersdorf, among others. It’s also not so new; it might remind some people of the debates about political correctness that raged in the 1990s, though Williams might balk at the comparison. He would prefer that we not invoke history (or context, or ideology, or ideas of “moral clarity”) in our debates. He’d rather we understand current events through the facts of what is happening in the here and now. We shouldn’t have tried, he says, to understand the killing of Trayvon Martin on a continuum of racial violence that includes the lynching of Emmett Till, because doing so flattened the incident into a racial drama and did not deal with specific individuals and their actions. Similarly, he argues, the murder of George Floyd should not be seen in the context of racism and police behavior, but in the light of Floyd’s poverty and drug addiction (and I suppose we are not allowed then to contextualize those factors in terms of race, or the history of labor markets, or the pharmaceutical industry — they are just individual characteristics).

a sharp review of the chatterton book that notes the author’s total refusal to engage with history and his insistence that a “serious” or “good faith” discussion requires participants to exist in an eternal present where individuals exist free of context www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

this sounds insane on its face? voters do not closely follow legislation and policy but they are very aware of the image and vibes of the elected officials. if voters say “we think they are nerds who won’t stand up for themselves” that’s almost certainly what they mean

OK I think this, specifically, is what bothers me about like 90% of online disability discourse.

if ai is doing so much to improve coding why is every single app and website broken

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

I'll do you one better: We're going to raise your taxes, raise the minimum wage, and go after you if you break the law. Working people in a democracy do not need to beg a billionaire for a living wage.

if you make fun of buttigieg a bunch of people who could not finish a red lobster placemat will yell “rhodes scholar” and “veteran” at you like we don’t have recent shit presidents who were those things

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oh another thing is is Democrats adopt a strong anti-scam platform, good chance it negatively polarizes republicans into being actively pro-scam out of sheer negative polarization

Arevon powers 758MW/1.2GWh solar-plus-storage plant in California Independent power producer (IPP) Arevon Energy has powered the second phase of the Eland solar-plus-storage Center in Los Angeles, California.

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LA has a plan to stop copper thieves: Solar-powered streetlights As U.S. cities battle thieves who swipe copper wiring from streetlights, solar fixtures are becoming a financial no-brainer despite their higher price tag.

“It’s been tremendously successful,” said Miguel Sangalang, executive director and general manager of LA’s Bureau of Street Lighting.
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Pet peeve: American elites and celebrities in the early 20th century spoke with a TRANSatlantic accent, combining American and English dialects. A MIDatlantic accent is like Philadelphia or Virginia and it does NOT make you sound respectable!

Yeah idk I know some people are really annoyed by this and that's their right but I don't think the general public cares, I don't care, and the white house should have nice stuff

Nooooo I'm not rich enough I'm gonna get a Brita though now that I've realized the problem

Upzone the white house basically lik

Yeah, the WH complex is way too small for how much the WH as an organization does, if Trump thinks he can get away politically with doing a big reno and expansion he's probably right, let him do it. People love WH events, I don't really care about the rose garden

My worst take is that paving the rose garden and building a big white house ballroom are fine and basically reasonable, they should build a giant beautiful office building too. Trump's worst architectural taste is constrained by the neoclassical style, we can fix it later

The tapwater in LA tastes dry. I know this sounds insane but it does

Did Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre really kill herself or like

Pretty shocked to be getting ads for TikTok featuring Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I can handle being on the ad supported tier of Netflix or whatever but it's really intolerable that my TV, which I theoretically own outright, shows me popup ads

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Restaurants are not always owned by evil corporations, they are more often owned by people who are in the process of making the worst financial decision of their life.

seeing some takes doubting that SCOTUS goes after obergefell and i feel like they all share a common prior-held belief—about the roberts court being judicious on hot button political issues and avoiding bureaucratic messes—that doesn’t hold up since ACB joined the court

I used to believe those stories were silly and unrealistic because if robots demonstrated internality they would be given rights as a matter of course.

I no longer believe this.

From the invention of the term (robot was coined in 1920 from a Czech word meaning Serf or Slave) to Asimov's development of the concept and beyond, the popular idea of a robot is fundamentally that of the happy no-wage worker. How can you not look at that in a Marxist way?

It's technically a fully separate story and timeline from the Mars Trilogy but it has a lot in common. It would be very cheap to make because most of the story takes place on the side of a cliff, meaning there's no way around greenscreens—limited cast, small sets.

If you wanted to do a movie I think Robinson's 1985 novella Green Mars about climbing Olympus Mons would be fucking incredible.