No true bill

Shut the fuck up

They discuss this in the OddLots podcast from Monday--a relevant difference is that they were laying fiber speculating that it was going to be used in the future. But the data centers are at 100 percent capacity *today*

Midwit meme: -lower quartile the godfather is so cool mobsters are like a warrior aristocracy -peak: nooo mobsters are violent thieves -top percentile: yes that’s why they are like a warrior aristocracy

My evolving views on mob movies

ICE and the Azov Battalion are demographically the same people

It was really the worst of both worlds. Harris did say she thought he was a fascist, but without any real conviction and mostly treated him like a normal opponent

did you mean “avoidable” instead of “unavoidable”

I think that’s true. Like cheap AI transcription is almost as good as the best stenographers at this point, yet we still have court reporters for depositions

I less think “AI will be too expensive“ and more like ”AI is cheap but paradoxically does not have significant GDP effects”

i think there’s an under-discussed potential endpoint to the AI boom: “what if we made AGI but nobody came”.

It is funny how many people believe in democratic centralism for centrist democrats

This is a horrible way to think. It’s not enough to have voted for Harris, or to have knocked doors for Harris (I did). merely acknowledging the obvious fact, which is that Biden was providing arms to war criminals, means you are responsible for electing Trump.

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

RVTRN

the title is literally from a weatherman manifesto!

A few years ago, people would’ve called the lack of moral complexity on the part of the villains in One Battle After Another hackneyed. real testament to how bad things are that Sean Penn’s character seems like he could be a real person

Paul Thomas Anderson made a movie where he looked at the camera and said the exact kind of leftist he is

It’s really surreal the degree to which he called everything

Trump believes in justification by works, Protestants devastated

One Battle After Another was certainly timely.

But also what I’m talking about is that a lot of this website is white male lawyers (myself included) who picture themselves as naturally in charge

i don’t think they’re superior at all

I actually think part of the issue is that it elides how you actually get political power. Okay, I’m an angry, qualified PMC with a plan for destroying MAGA. What steps do i need to take to actually enact these plans? We don’t talk about that

Lmao I’m not comparing us to MAGA, I’m comparing us to other people opposed to maga

Not at all. I think what I’m describing is an elitist thought process, not a democratic one

But bringing in the Texas guard adds a bad wrinkle to that calculus

But I think it’s much more likely to come from ICE than anyone else. Of the people with guns, the guard is the least likely to open fire on protestors

I think what’s really dangerous is that Miller clearly *wants* a violent confrontation

many of us, myself included, are play-acting at what it would be like to call the shots in some great historical drama

The biggest fault of this website is not that we’re politically aligned, it’s that so many of us have a certain kind of PMC brain where we imagine ourselves as the people uniquely capable of understanding and managing the country’s political affairs

I think we are in a profoundly dangerous place, but I also think a lot of people on here are hyping themselves into a state of constant terror

Anyway, as I said to theo at the time, I think he’s right that a lot of these are scams, but the particular one he thought was a scam is not a scam