“Rules for thee, but not for me” like it’s one of the Ten Commandments.

This is the perfect story for our times. P.T. Barnum’s epigram will truly be America’s epitaph.

That’s exactly how I approach it @ryangodfrey.com. Though if I can’t get the ‘gram, I will start firing away.

I don’t really “Juana” argue about it AuntySue, but you’re the one challenging the Actual Dictionary 🤷

Speed running is definitely more fun when it’s elective

It’s not pronounced “oonta,” it’s pronounced “hoonta”.

This is the platonic ideal of a sandwich.

“We know very well what we oppose. What are we for?”

It was catchier when it was taco trucks

Closeup of a section of the back cover of the album Doible Fantasy, with the text “With special thanks to all the people, known and unknown, who helped us stay in America, without whom this album would not have been made. love, John & Yoko”

I guess we’re just a couple of luckless pedestrians

Struck gold!

I like the implication that there were dates who only got the regular vermouth.

👏👏👏 from a constituent

Good luck finding a Nee-doh though

This is what actual leadership looks like

Ah yes, the long and transparent public comment period while this was being developed with the relevant commission involvement. Why didn’t we all think of entering our feedback on the record then?

Plaudo

Ah, the evening call of the Philly sports fan.

Now there’s an evergreen subtweet

How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible shit go on? How long can the body and the brain tolerate this doom-struck craziness?

― Hunter S. Thompson

As an enthusiastic user of em dashes in the Before Times, I empathize. (And FWIW as someone who has worked with you professionally, I find your writing voice distinctive.)

Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

I hope your subject line for the email invite was, "It's going down!"

This is extremely key: when sweeping away fascist regimes, act *immediately* with the momentum of democratic legitimacy to excise the accumulated illegitimate power structures.

Agreed - but they don’t need AR glasses or a car to do that!

Definitely innovator’s dilemma issues, but they have literally all of my software, (at least copies or indexes of) all my files, messages, location, calendar, pix(!), health, etc. — info OAI and Anth badly want. If they can’t do something valuable with this in the age of AI, that’s really on them.

Meta needs a hardware edge as an angle on software (engagement, photos, etc.). Apple has the world’s largest hardware edge. They should innovate in software.

Love this for us