Kristin

damn this guy women-be-shopping-ified the concept of travel. they said it could never be done. amazing work king.

It’s very funny that the left wing is subject to constant internal and external hand-wringing about the Crisis of Masculinity and the right wing is full of guys panicking about how sex with your wife is gay and traveling makes you a woman

Some people talk about AI like a little kid who’s mom or dad told them about something cool and they furiously try to tell all the other little kids about it at school the next day

Watched Missing (1982) and am filled with rage and sadness. It’s crazy how jarring it is to see older art that is so pointed in an era where most movies are either literally sponsored by the US military or have to make it into an allegory like Superman did.

It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.

Two new articles I hope will be read together:
1) On how medical ideology trains US doctors into compliance with fascist violence
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lUTb-CmV5...
2) How doctors can refuse fascism and instead join the tradition of the Hippocratic underground
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I’m finishing up a year on a fancy fellowship in the UK and headed back to the US soon and can say the top thing I’ve learned is that if someone’s entire pitch for power is that they are “reasonable” or “the adults in the room” they fundamentally don’t believe in democracy and you need to run

I don’t remember Zohran giving any advice about getting laid and I think in the last poll I saw he had like 85% approval with young men who voted in the primary?

Kill Switch

Saw a bunch of folks talk about some issues with Substack and decided to move stuff over to beehiiv. Please check it out!
killswitch.beehiiv.com

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I’ve been one of your constituents since 2018 and you are a quintessential example of the rot at the core of American society. People like you should be disregarded and shamed by the public. I hope the people who are dead because of you keep you up at night.

under PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP we have eliminated WOKE DEI so that our WARFIGHTERS can focus all their energy on being the MOST LETHAL FIGHTING FORCE.

Chris Smalls Released from Israeli Custody Early Thursday morning, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced that Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls had been released from Israeli prison.

BREAKING: Chris Smalls has been released from Israeli detention & is returning to the United States

paydayreport.com/chris-smalls...

Heard somebody say France recognizing Palestine is a preemptive land acknowledgement and I can’t stop thinking about it. I feel like I’m going crazy watching no one in power do anything. It’s like a million slow motion car crashes all at once.

"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." —Omar El Akkad

I think this stems from these words being disconnected from original meaning, so different social groups use them differently. In other countries (and traditionally) liberal means supportive of market-based economics. People need to be more willing to meet others where they are with language.

RFK Jr. plans to fire advisory task force that determines which cancer screenings to recommend because they’re “too woke”

Holy shit we’re legitimately at “some cancer screenings are too woke.”

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

continue to think we are in the very early stages of thermostatic opinion on this and they are already not prepared to handle young blonde white woman screaming get a real fucking job

Even assuming an LLM stumbled into a revolutionary scientific discovery, it would only be an untested hypothesis. A lack of hypotheses is not science's problem - it's $$ for the research to test those hypotheses that's sorely needed. And, that's being cut to fund LLMs.

You can talk about being family friendly, and offer money for people to have more kids, but you can't really build a thriving and attractive society via authoritarianism. People who know better, who value freedom, with options - they will leave.

The Lobbyist for Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Berkshire Hathaway, Big Pharma, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, and Walmart Experience

in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.

I am against robot Hitler and think the decision to create him was bad.

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Read the National Domestic Violence Hotline's 2022 report--coming from people who ACTUALLY work w/ victims, unlike Eric Adams: 70% of victim survey respondents who called the police on their abusers regretted their decision & wouldn’t contact the police again

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions | TechCrunch Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.

Elon Musk said Grok 4 is “maximally truth-seeking.”

But if you ask Grok 4 questions about controversial topics, one of its first steps is to search for what Musk has said publicly about the topic, and then it shapes its response around that.

Yes, really:

techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/g...

@Acyn Question: Is there room for you and Mamdani in the Democratic Party? Phillips: The answer, ultimately, I think, is no When you have socialists in the Democratic Party, I don't know how anybody could argue that that would be beneficial for the party or for the country 1:19 AM · Jul 10, 2025

Everyone like this needs to be hounded out of the Democratic Party. These are people who genuinely believe a permanent Trump/GOP trifecta is a better outcome than policy being slightly left of their preferences. They are a major reason why millions of people who agree with Dems don't bother to vote.

I feel like this is all just personal grievance and not even ideology?

a lot has been made of the fact that younger voters don’t view Trump as “abnormal” because he has dominated the scene for their entire political lives

that’s true but it swings both ways, “only centrism can save you” isn’t compelling to those people