alarmist morisette

What? Left? They're not left. They're "enlightened centrists" if anything. At least 2 have already done their "why I left the left" song-and-dance.

I follow the @kenwhite.bsky.social rule - am I ever likely to have a satisfying interaction with this person? If the answer is obviously no, then that's a block.

Fundamental aggressive ignorance is a block. I'm not having people spread bullshit, intentionally or unintentionally.

Progressive challenge: campaign against your current opponent instead of the previous Democrat.

Status: not started.

Progressive challenge: acquire basic knowledge of civics and Constitutional law.

Status: not started.

It's time

he kept Oz out of the seat. That's not nothing. But it would now seem that we need to keep Fetterman out of that seat.

Bastards.

I’d like the war to end tomorrow. Unfortunately, wanting isn’t enough. Trump has the instruments to end it.

Push the russian economy over the edge by tightening sanctions and seizing the shadow fleet, arm Ukraine, and provide strong security guarantees.

hmm still too many people in that picture

You don't need to believe that you're a bad person or that you've done something morally wrong or made any sort of choice at all to be able to recognize and sincerely regret the negative impact you may have had on someone. The ability to do that is critical to a functioning society

He may have bobbled the insult and overgeneralized too much beyond tech, but he's basically right that many tech leaders are basically clout-chasers who drift from job to job doing things that impress their LinkedIn feeds. That's the point.

Just give them ATACMS already! jeez

Do I detect a plea for help here?

and a gear pocket, it would seem

Given that pretty much every other CEO rolls over and shows its belly when Trump barks, why wouldn't Hegseth have good cause to expect things to keep working that way? Why would Anthropic be able to hold a line that even Google wouldn't?

The first step infighting anti-Semitism is not posting dumb word games like "actually Palestinians are Semitic"

The only commonality they have as Semitic people is that they have ancestral claims on the same land which is... kind of the whole issue here.

Get ready for every skeptical "pro-peace centrist" to get 100% behind the Iran invasion for regime change and WMD disruption.

They lied about their positions in 2003, they lied in the runup to the 2004 election, and think you won't notice their next flip-flop.

She knows nothing, she has achieved nothing, she is a pick-me who comes from a particular company and a particular culture where people just say stuff.

significant quantities of yellowcake from Niger, many people are saying it

Good, he's learning to play Russia's game of lies.

This has changed everything I thought I knew about Russia.

"you know, if you reduce down to first principles, the basically thing is, like, data is the future. There's got to be investment in the synthesis of that. And most people are ignorant to these things."

Makes you wonder if some people kinda know that their readers won't follow them away from Twitter because they're Twitter-specific bots.

I guess we have different ideas about how firm her principles really were.

Seeing how many "principled intellectuals" found reasons to go MAGA, or got their brains cooked on Twitter from negative polarization, I can't see any reason to believe that Rand would be better than the rest of them.

There is nothing she adored more than telling rich people what they wanted to hear, framing it as forbidden wisdom. She'd have been tenured faculty at Bari Weiss's Grifter University.

All of her principles were negotiable except for her own sense of superiority. Ayn Rand would've been in a throuple with Sean Hannity and Elon Musk.

hoarded billionaire investment capital

Its disposal of surplus, a useful thing.

Who could’ve possibly anticipated it would be a clown show?

You don't like it? I love that shit