if only the american veterinary association hadn't alienated conservative dog owners with their progressive positions on gender and race
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if only the american veterinary association hadn't alienated conservative dog owners with their progressive positions on gender and race
A case study in how Cowen's uncritical use of GPT/o3 is causing him to spread misinformation on Marginal Revolution, from @pappubahry.com pappubahry.substack.com/p/misinforma...
Finally we will end the scourge of Lisa Cook buying up all the houses to get tax breaks
I feel like these are just too vague and generic to be useful
Yeah no the American education system is going to die because conservatives want to destroy it and nobody wants to tell them they're wrong
Yeah no social media has destroyed civilization. What do you mean pets are getting rabies because their owners think Rex will get canine autism
I don’t disagree with any of these but I think that thinking they will fix anything re:public trust in universities fundamentally misunderstands the cause of loss of faith in them.
yeah “giving a shit about real problems that are actually occurring” being made into a political liability is just an extraordinarily grim development. you’re incentivized to avoid trying to actually address real things because there’s no upside at all politically.
The enemy is the visa regime. It is beyond ridiculous the amount of paperwork required for an American to visit China or a Chinese citizen to visit America, let alone work or study, and this artificial separation imposed by our governments leads to artificial separation among our peoples.
The universal church does it again
This is like the term "Hitler particles" originating from Trotsky
Fuzao by Faye Wong is such a good album
Like the origin was "holding space for the lyrics of defying gravity" and everyone was like what the fuck is going on, including *all three people who were in the conversation*
Like the entire joke is what a weird term it was!
The term "holding space" was used by precisely nobody until *November 2024*, when it became a meme because of how bizarre it was in the context of a really strange interview with the cast of Wicked
My dad took me to see Faust by FW Murnau a few years back so I could practice my German. He told me this approximately 5 minutes before the movie and was *very* surprised when I told him that a movie from 1926 was silent
I saw this sculpture in London.
The GOAT Louise Bourgeois. Jealous AF
Ban the pill and ladies will revert to their true maga selves
I wasn't actually allowed to watch Pokemon because it was too violent
The Great Filter was just Silicon Valley
I once watched one of the Pokemon movies with my dad and cousin and the first scene was two of the pokemons talking in only pokemon noises and I cannot tell you how relieved that man was after the following scene had like, normal dialogue
Oh god I don't even know
It's just "interconnected urban bourgeoisie in large cities"
It’s so weird that people latched onto a bunch of mostly bullshit justifications for disliking a technology that has immediate obvious negative societal externalities. It’s made it way harder to teach writing but people scream about imaginary lakes evaporating.
If you look at the facts on the ground and the political dynamics, democracy in the US is completely salvageable *if there's political will to salvage it*. I'm not so sure about that part
who's godmother and who's godfather
Malcolm Gladwell: the rice paddies of Northern China is why DeepSeek is superior to ChatGPT
A lot of people on the extremely online left right now seem to interpret "Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" to mean "all antisemitism is actually fine if you just say it's anti-Zionism."
this guy spent his entire life from his early childhood onward in Minneapolis.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
i don't really mind the "bluesky is dying because people are mean to me" posts because i remember the alternative, which was "twitter is dying because people are mean to me" op eds in the new york times
"you can't lose by pivoting right because the left is still going to turn out for you" isn't true in countries with two parties and it's especially not true in a country with five or six
what is it with trots and becoming like handmaidens of fascism
Increasing political pressure on the Fed by half as much as Nixon did, for six months, raises the price level more than 8%. www.nber.org/papers/w32461
Bar owners wanted bars open and teachers wanted schools closed it's not like you need a PhD to understand that one
I think there's a very big dynamic here where bar owners wanted bars open to not go bankrupt and school "owners" are the government and their employees wanted to stay closed to not die. Quite literally doing popularism and... everyone hating the end result
It's kind of funny how the most obvious explanation for why Ashkenazi Jews are successful is "be very educated for milennia and have a lot of networking opportunities"
Wow, a 50 year old divorced man is into a podcast where two women talk about how it's cool and sexy to be a conservative?
One of them is a ludicrous, inconsistent map built off insane assumptions that only an uneducated idiot could make that falls apart within minutes of any considered scrutiny. The other is from a children's books with flying brooms and magic potions
Among the most insane pages on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_(...
New Substack post: I don’t know if someone has started saying that AI will permanently eliminate the need for cities yet. But they almost certainly will. and I think that, in all likelihood, they’ll be wrong . open.substack.com/pub/someunpl...
I think that if her and Jackie acted like Kai Trump and her friend she'd have figured that out already
Trump not showing up in public for multiple days is the strongest argument for him being sick or injured in some way because like, the guy is already orange and talks like a lunatic, it's not like it'd be easy to tell if he was looking bad or was short a few players
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
Leaving aside everything else here, Navarro also has his timeline wrong. Cooks first meeting as governor was in June 2022, when the Fed raised rates by 3/4 of a point, the biggest hike in nearly 30 years. #EconSky
Everyone thinks the discourse on Twitter or Bluesky is the *only* discourse but over on Tiktok they're arguing about whether Trump's granddaughter is a lesbian or if she and her best friend are just a toxic codependent JackieShauna situation
Seems most educators are in favor of banning smartphones in school: "A 2024 National Education Association (NEA) poll found that 90 percent of teachers support prohibiting student cellphone use during instructional hours. Seventy-five percent favor extending restrictions to the entire school day."
One of the crazier facts about Jeffrey Epstein is that he was also one of those "IQ and heredity" (race science) guys and was trying to bankroll a sperm bank for all of the world's Nobel Laureates, as well as "preserving the future of humanity" by inseminating dozens of women
Crazy idea: instead of forcing people to spend four hours a day commuting from the far exurbs, we could build dense housing near where the high-paying jobs are.
Liz Bruenig tier run
i think the explicit goal of things like PragerU Kids, the attacks on teachers and public schooling, the creation of conservative-specific standardized tests, etc. are all in service of isolating children from any kind of "liberal" idea in the hope that they cannot conceive of any other worldview
given that i keep saying mean things about openai i have to add that this is, in fact, a first amendment issue, and many of the remedies proposed are blatantly unconstitutional and/or totalitarian in character
Must be because journalists post alienating things about gender and race on their personal social media
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
i'm sorry but are we seeing what i'm seeing here
"how am i going to explain gay people to my kids" my man I was on a hike with my family and my wife mentioned "grizzly man," I had to explain grizzly man to my kids. you need to get onto my fucking level. we must have talked about grizzly man for forty five minutes and i felt every one
USDOT's insistence that cities remove colored crosswalks has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with LGBT censorship. From the latest episode of @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social
everyone got SUPER mad at rachel zegler when she said this exact same thing
if he says something weird they'll just email him to a different parish
I might quibble with some of the details, but this taxonomy of different abundance tendencies is really useful. A lot of discourse on this website is driven by the mistaken belief that Moderate-Abundance Synthesis is the only tendency out there. www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-va...
NYT: this child genius, personally recruited by elon musk to destroy USAID *looks them up* northeastern grad, dad is a ceo of a snack company, no notable accomplishments that arent “following around Elon musk”, involved in some low level cybercrime working with CSAM extortionists?
POV you're Trudy Campbell and you say that Malcolm X is a troublemaker at the dinner table
they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again
The core PCE inflation rate increased for the fourth month in a row. Annual rates: 1 month: 3.3% 3 months: 3.0% 6 months: 3.0% 12 months: 2.9% But two reasons to be less worried than headline: (1) transitory tariffs & (2) some of this is imputed from rising stock market.
Richard Dawkins moment
Is she going to rebrand it to the Taylor and Travis Rule right now
I do think there's an element of the cost of living crisis that is psychological. And Ella Tummel makes a good case that some of that is built on dirt-cheap fast fashion, where the illusion of affordability masks an industry built on overconsumption and pushing people to always find something new.
only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
There's an old Jewish folk tale where the Messiah will come only once every Jew on Earth hosts a Shabat dinner on the same Friday, which kinda makes the same point. Getting *everyone* to be perfectly disciplined is impossible
The Big Short is *profoundly* controversial but Margin Call is beloved
That's also true
AI isn't a human being. It doesn't have rights. If you asked a magic 8ball if you should commit suicide and it said "yes" it wouldn't be entitled to free speech protections
There's people sincerely arguing that the solution to right wing attacks on universities and the media is for *no* journalist or professor to ever express a political opinion in public
I learned about Abundance from Steve in the first place, so I may have thought this was more obvious than it is - it's not an ideology, it's to do with the material circumstances of ideology www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-va...
Nope, this is a false and incompetent statement by the Vice President, to justify his illegal seizure of our central bank. Untrained politicians have zero technical skill to run a central bank. Voters already do get input—by longstanding nomination & confirmation mechanisms. You know, THE LAW.
I'm going to be honest if the only thing keeping the United States from becoming a fascist autocracy was that no college professors post the word "diversity" on social media for 24 hours you should just move somewhere else because that scale of message discipline is not humanly possible
“Tonight after the match when she won, I was sitting underneath her box and she ran towards the box, smiling as she always does, and I thought she was going to go and hug her coach. But she came to me instead and she gave me five and said, ‘Great photo.’”
unfortunately lurid fantasies of physical contamination and mutilation are central to the fascist imagination so he's going precisely nowhere
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
He does not have to every single one of those, by the way. The first two groups make up 3 million of the 3.5 million
if you put together every single police officer, cop, fed, and proud boys esque militia trump would have 3.5 million people, or precisely 1% of the us population
Most Americans would stop being friends with someone if they started professing support for Hitler. Most Americans would cut off a family member who advocated for removing laws around producing child pornography. We all know this. The question being answered isn't the question being asked.
Sir, how the fuck do you think the world knows he’s a predator?
This is crazy man we’re just totally separating ourselves from the global mail network just so we can do infinity tariffs
What can I say, the cover of the incoming Spanish translation of Blood in the Machine is absolutely incredible.
There's always a housing angle I guess
Treatmageddon
"RIP to vaccines; long live Lysenkoism, miasma, and black bile." defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...
Q: "Are there things about the Fed that you felt majorly needed changing?" Me: "I’m all for innovation and improvement and thinking outside the box ... but it should come from a place of “we’re trying to do better” as opposed to burning it all down. " www.ft.com/content/6835...
"We should get on the offence rather than play defence around the energy transition. With these cost structures and realities, we can seed fear, uncertainty, and doubt on any capital expense proposed by any fossil fuel proponent anywhere in the world these days."
i like the implication that academics shouldn't be locked in a hothouse that nobody else engages with but also that they shouldn't ever say anything, in public, that the median person disagrees with
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.