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Did you listen to the KYE about his book? They do the lord’s work by diving into this stuff but I do wish there had been an additional debunking episode focusing on the intellectual lineage of right wingers believing this thing no liberal actually think
whole thing is absolutely awful, but this... please do not have children if this is how you think about human beings
haha i feel like this show helped me *get* rush for the first time, but i know that if i lived next door i would have been less enthused
I watched A Sorority Mom's Guide to Rush (a new reality TV show) was so charmed and moved by it that I had to talk to the producer! It just so happened to be Vanity Fair's Rush Week www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
lmao i am DYING here, this is so stupid
me too!!!! honestly would have done anything to help it survive but apparently the owners were not interested in that
this is *exactly* why the birthratecels are so obsessed with it—like most conservative shibboleths, there is absolutely no policy lever that exists other than authoritarianism, so you can just holler about it in newspaper columns and never expect anything real to change
affecting* lol sorry i can't spell in the mornings
this is such a good story of a process so old it pissed marx off—capital has a way of effecting the motivations and very being of ownership to the point that their interests are entirely opposed to the rest of us humble workers thebaffler.com/latest/a-fai...
we’re about to see a second wave of teen reddit atheism the world has never seen before
The *months* where sirens were going at *all hours* of the day! You get to the point where you don’t hear them anymore!! And have to remind yourself that each one is an individual and a family tragedy
I live one block over from the nursing home where Andrew Cuomo killed the most elderly people, I saw the freezer trucks with my own two fucking eyes
What school closure discourse is a reminder of is that there are a lot of ppl in this country, cutting across the political spectrum, who reject the very concept of tradeoffs or that there could ever be a situation where all solutions have downsides & you just gotta pick the least bad one.
It was the wedding of one of my neighbors from my freshman year of college, so I was looking at all of these men, truly good men, who were once boys, and it made me so emotional
Every so often I turn to Max and say, “please take note of this exact moment so you can remind me of it when I next feel like all hope is lost,” and today was one of those times
Omg I would die for this man and his uncle dance moves
It’s the day after a beautiful wedding, and Max and I were lugging our suitcases down the Main Street of Brunswick, ME, just clattering on the brick latticework, and I was struck by how wonderful it is to be alive
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
he looks like when the doctor pulls you out from your grandparent’s hospital room and says “we’re not totally sure what’s going on but it’s not looking good”
tfw you’ve touched the forbidden object and your life force is slowly draining
He never looked *great* (even in the 80s) but he certainly only started looking Stay Puft about two weeks ago lol
This was a fascinating read! I do really disagree with those readings of Weapons and Nosferatu—I loved them, partially because I saw them as thuddingly obvious commentaries on topics of Public Concern: Nosferatu is the battle between science and religion, Weapons is child abuse/public schooling
That said the poster does scream “tfw you’ve heard the song 2112 for the first time”
Lmao but also this show is really good! Weirdly good in fact
Banksy/Adbusters-core was corny as fuck but substantively correct about how power functions in a globalizing world!!!
What surprised me is how open they are about it!!! They’re like “we go to brunch and wind up talking to important people”
I’ve gone into a lot of conversations hoping to plumb the depths of their thoughts on these things—do they really disregard germ theory? But nope, too dumb to really narrate their own experiences let alone have meta conversations about truth
I struggled to understand why he’s doing this now after being more normal on this front in the first term. Answer from my reporting is that ever since COVID, Mar-a-Lago has been a mecca for the dumbest people alive, and these people egging him on to destroy everything about traditional medicine.
I just touched my first real Labubu (at a bar in Maine lmao) and it was actually really adorable and had a lot of sweet little details—sparkly eyes!—that the Lafufus lack
I highly recommend! “We Never Dated” is maybe my favorite song of the year?
Also Tears for Fears but that makes more sense lol
Legggggoooooo
Zach Bryan:Ed Sheeran::Sombr:Bruno Mars
Seems impossible that 20 year old could possibly be inspired by both Steve Winwood and U2 and yet, I have the evidence Right Here!
New Sombr album is excellent!!! Poses the question “what if Coldplay wasn’t a cultural dead end?” And answers it with a lot of rock bangers. Also the title—I Barely Know Her—is hilarious
The best ones are such tone perfect satires of Curtis Mode though, so I love it. I think video essays are “over” but I am also feeling an urge to start making them like never before! I might do it lol
My man was simply building his down line. Unfortunately, due to the laws of exponential growth, that poisoned the global population of 13-year-old boys
I literally could not fathom the Andrew Tate Phenomenon until I heard a set of British journalists explain that he recruited teenagers around the world into an affiliate linking scheme that flooded the Boy Internet with advertisements for his Pimpin’ Hos Degree
@coreyatad.com hits the nail square on the head in this post!!!! www.justatad.xyz/p/new-kinds-...
Hustle Culture is about turning all the guys you know into the same Type of Guy, like an MLM, which is very different from the informal Know a Guy Economy
This feels very connected to the great Elephant Graveyard explanation that moments of social disruption cause Guys to want to leave where they are and become Totally New Guys. The Guy Economy is very threatened by that www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...
That said, the music was incredible—well deserved Oscar for it!
I think the media tends to believe that Americans are just naturally conservative! Anything they do that reflects far right tendencies or beliefs are true and inevitable, any altruistic or empathetic urges must be exogenous
I’m 8 years older than my youngest sibling and my main memory of road trips with him at that age is being the person who supplied the snack sized bags of Goldfish and then pull the ones that got thrown from everyone else’s hair lmao
Disney songs, blocks and letters in a bag, hourly bathroom and wiggle breaks
I love Nolan and I think that comparison helps me understand why I *hated* The Brutalist. Dialogue doesn’t have to be naturalistic to sound good, but it does have to convey something to make it worthwhile. I thought the Brutalist was a totally empty movie
The Brutalist was the most excruciating example of this I have experienced in years. Nearly four hours of wondering “Has Brady Corbet ever listened to someone speak before????”
Precisely! But moderate conservatives struggle to admit this because it means they should have been listening to the leftists they were dunking on and excluding from society from the 1960s to November 2024
I’m posting this while sitting in an Irish bar in Boston wearing a Yale Daily News hat, clearly I live in William F. Buckley’s America! Thanks, I hate it
Been thinking about this ever since Sam Tannenhaus said on KYE that he originally imagined his Buckley biography being a story of triumph. He sees Trump as invalidating the project, but I think the project was 100% successful, but the consequences were clearly incredibly shitty
People like Bill Maher saying this about the New Deal Order is how you know Bill Buckley actually won the culture war, even if everyone hates living in the reality he designed for us
Haha, it’s a national chain! Very, very popular at every wedding I’ve been to in the last five years
To be fair, I think a previous version of me would have avoided all men approximately my age in situations like this because I was expecting rudeness! So perhaps it’s just that young men persist in being self-absorbed and nothing has really changed lol
I’m on a greyhound bus, with like three empty seats and the guy I sat down next to, probably 25 or so, looked at me rudely, then immediately got on a phone call and started *complaining loudly about me* for like 3 minutes until I finally got up and moved. Like, what?
I don’t really believe in most generational difference but I do think a subset of Gen Zers are significantly more rude to strangers than I have ever encountered in my whole life
We saw them opening up for Taylor Swift last year, and though I’ve been a fan since Warped Tour 2006, I was shocked by how good they’ve gotten. She’s at the peak of her powers rn
Look at the mitochondrial damage on this mf. Inflamed as hell, just seriously fucked up mitochondria.
Just watched an interview with Suzy Welch (Jack Welch’s widow) where she said it was hard for her to come to terms with the fact that her children were not work oriented and her oldest just wanted to work in corporate for Dungeons and Dragons. Psychedelic!
Hey. I directed Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz's Lie Detector Test. youtu.be/zvJ9VfachEs?...
the worst thing is that now autofill is using LLM responses and not previous search queries. and in books you can't even keyword search anymore!!!
Max and I were in the middle of a Douglas Sirk marathon(?) and my mom called to tell me about Saundra right as she found out about Chadwick Boseman. She was like, "well, this is the worst thing that has ever happened to us...oh and look at that, CHADWICK BOSEMAN is dead too???"
He died the same day as my beloved cousin and man I think that was the worst day of my life. Literally couldn't get out of bed for a week due to the grief
In a Deftones shirt!!!!!!
woo so excited for you, you're going to rock this job!
Yale sent out the video of you three introducing the course in an alumni newsletter, and it was so good! I know you’re going to do great and I can’t wait to watch the recordings
Aunt Gladys from Weapons only her witchcraft forces you to use therapy speak before you kill the intended victim
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
honestly Eat, Pray, Love and this new one would make a great double header for @ifbookspod.bsky.social
omg i am working on a story about this right now and this is it EXACTLY. people talk about being at Mar-a-Lago like it's the french court in the 18th century
aw i'm so sorry, this sounds awful! why are people like this??????
Dad was an elder at an Orthodox Presbyterian Church (breakaway sect of the J. Gresham Machen breakaway PCA focused on premillennialism), which had like 35k members at the time of the murders. If just one of those members commits a pretty horrible crime with a religious focus, that's CRAZY
The Frontline doc talks to the dad of John Earnest, who murdered people at a synagogue after engaging with pro-mass shooter content a bunch online. The dad knows he was into patriarchal, antisemitic stuff—that was part of his religion—but "didn't think he was violent." What does that mean to us now?
Clearly it's partly because our American "normal" tolerates some pretty fucking bizarre and threatening behavior. But I am fascinated by the way compulsion and magical thinking are exacerbated by the forms of community that draw socially isolated teens into them
As a digital native millennial, I've always really struggled to totally understand how the internet takes an otherwise "normal" kid and turns them into a violent nihilist, but it really is something we have to get better at discussing because it is happening a BUNCH
this PBS Frontline documentary about Terrorgram was one of the most harrowing things I have ever seen!! The story about the raised really Christian kid who shot up a synagogue near his house has been haunting me ever since www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
this is correct, but also, there are far-right occultic groups that have *explicitly* made this into a formal thing
Max enjoyed Weapons so much that he has begun rethinking his distaste for horror films, which means good things for me and my movie consumption
a technology that does this is an evil one, even if some of its uses aren't so bad. human judgement matters, folks. a teenager went to jail for doing this once!!!!
Annnd here’s the ESPN story that’s at the top of its page right now.
glad i already pressured my recalcitrant boyfriend during the previous wave of taylor engagement speculation and now we are happily married 🥲
"Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married" awww i love her
omg taylor and travis are engaged, it's like a national holiday for cheugy women everywhere!!!!! including me www.instagram.com/p/DN02niAXMM-/
it occasionally feels like LLMs are technology we perhaps *could* have made earlier except that in an era with more shame we absolutely wouldn't
as staff writers become rarer, it feels like internally this element is also falling away for us too! like the idea that writing and editing is a back and forth or a dance between peers is starting to disappear
I have always understood that this GOP argument was downstream of segregation, but man it is still crazy to see how much the opposition to federal power was entirely about its relationship to black people
The next Democratic administration needs to strip all the gold and icons out of the White House like radical Dutch Calvinists in the 1500s
It sounds naive, I'm sure, but looking back over the last 20-odd years of discussions about what is wrong with academia and how or how not to fix it, the idea that scholars produce knowledge (not just jobs, tech, or texts), and that that is an important social good, is largely and strikingly absent.
yeah, it's hard not to feel like the last decade was full of people strategically lighting their own infrastructure on fire to make sure that no one ever did anything smart or meaningfully subversive
I was recently thinking to myself "man, it's great to be a sunday school teacher now, so I can have a reason to buy and read lots of picture books" and then i realized I was doing that even when I had no reason to be doing so!
ok i feel like AAVE has a LOT of solutions for this. like "was up in" is how i believe my grandmother would express that sentiment
Yeah, the challenge with it is that it treats certain movement symptoms but doesn’t reverse any neurodegeneration or brain network changes. So it can be great for certain people/specific points in disease progression but it’s not a magic bullet or cure
Yes, it’s gotten a LOT better even in the last 5-10 years or so. I have a movement disorder (not a candidate for DBS at this point) but this looks about like the tech I’ve seen at my neurologists office for the people that have gotten it
I think this is Deep Brain Stimulation and pretty widely available in the US right now? An incredible medical breakthrough, but about 30 years old.
Yeah, but having a phone during a lockdown does nothing to prevent gun violence? It might make a parent feel slightly more stressed temporarily, but it doesn't change what actually happens during it
I get that, but as a former teacher, I do think there is something valuable about learning to get through that fear without your parents! That might not work for everyone, but I think it's worth remembering that it's possible
That makes sense, though my perspective as a former teacher is that the availability of cell phones in that situation has eliminated the presumption that your kid would be okay unless you were informed otherwise. I think we should try to get back to that place, though i know it's hard
truly wtf is wrong with parents who need to be in contact with their kids at all times??? don't you need a little break from time to time, to pretend to be the person you were before you brought new life into the world?
have you seen the documentary about the stunt actor who suffered a spinal cord injury on set? The movie ironically really emphasizes exactly how great an environment it was for the kids and how that has lasted into adulthood
Oh, I think there is this way that people now think of her as a very interior writer and kind of an influencer, when really she was engaged in a broader discourse that doesn't register to modern readers. so a lot "wow she's documenting something cool" and missing the critique totally
Joan Didion, though I do think her current-day superfans are resonating with something real in the work, even if I find it silly