“We have been committed to nothing so much as not producing anything.” @ddayen.bsky.social prospect.org/world/2025-1...

made a sign for tomorrow, but i worry i may be pushing at the bounds of free speech with this kind of radicalism.

i know we’re all supposed to hate the groups, but i say we start a group called “citizens united against citizens united”.

is anyone keeping a database of the black letter crimes that members of this administration seem to commit with some frequency, so that a next administration can finally take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed?

there is a line. you can be on this side of it or that side of it. the line is bad, but if you say so you’ll be placed on that side of it.

a touching, beautifully crafted, film and a straightforward depiction of where our current direction of travel leads. www.netflix.com/us/title/820...

i’ve signed a memo expanding my authority so you must do what i say.

the 12-year-old just had me take a look at this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wu4...

No one should be remotely surprised, but this conversation between @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and @hurricanexyz.bsky.social is remarkably deep and wide-ranging. Exceptional. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

they have learned the key to power is named Brazen.

pretty soon if it isn’t in-person theater, it’ll just seem cheap and tawdry. ht @brandonfriedman.bsky.social

you ask a gen-alpha-er what they want to be when they grow up and they say “i want to be canceled when i grow up so i can be famous and make a lot of money and run the government.”

"The old world is dying, and its creators are pretty quiet about it." ~Atrios www.eschatonblog.com/2025/10/the-...

somebody’s going to make an algorithmic ai-generated porn app that examines users’ scrolls and pauses like tik-tok and modifies what it generates accordingly. some strange shit gonna evolve in that ecosystem.

i can’t speak for other people, but when *i* listen to you, i do not consume you.

much more dangerous than being straw manned by other people, it is so easy to fall into a practice of straw manning oneself: getting cornered into defending a simplification or caricature of ones own views.

“Let me repeat that—social media silos are fighting against web links, the foundation of the open web. They do so to ‘encourage’ content and discussions on their own platforms, noble goals a stakeholder wld say, except that now these platforms are filled with politics, rage, and AI slop.” @alexn.org

kafkaesque as aspirational (from a political movement that uses orwell as an instruction manual)

with apologies to @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, shorter Peter Thiel.