Gotta love the expert quote “All colors are made up by the brain. Full stop,” delivered at the end as if it's a cute closing detail rather than a fundamental refutation of the preceding piece.

Confiscate 99.8% of Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.

like for instance Elon has violated laws and rules around security clearances and government contracting thousands of times. he straight up contacts Putin in secret and smoked weed on camera. all the reason you need to kick the legs out from under his business empire, which is already tottering

Protip, don't sell the meters to a private company for like a thousand year contract

Even in the seemingly-impossibly-narrow sector of "The Nazi-owned social media network where important news happens", it's arguably second place to Truth Social!

"The fight is lost" is a bizarre explanation for why it is essential to be on like... the ninth biggest English language social network. Set aside Bsky, set aside the Nazis - this is not an argument that we have to be on Twitter, its one that we have to be on Facebook, IG, TikTok, Reddit, etc

My 7-year old hit me with "What was world war 2? And also, what was world war 1" a couple days ago during the walk home from school, as just a cold segue out of a game of I Spy.

I have a vague memory of Spartans *beginning* to drill post-Thermopylae, basically believing their own hype into existence. Was that in your earlier series? I first thought to the chat with Steven Hodkinson in Three by Gillen/Kelly/Bellaire, but apparently not. Good excuse to reread though

Yeah but the subtext of comments like that always feel like "DM skill issue" when really it's that the system just sucks for... a lot of storylines

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

Part of my wants to shake my head at the idea that chainmail bikinis are, in the dumbest, most roundabout sense, historical. But I guess I should've expected by just referring to the more foundational principle that Ancient Greece Was Horny

NYT ran 11 stories on trans athletes in 2 days including one about brett kavanaugh’s special POV as a girls’ basketball coach. they sent 6 people to scotus to write up their victory lap & meanwhile this is how far you needed to scroll yesterday to find coverage of ICE in MN.

stop giving them money.

This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.

And yet. There is something more, isn't there? This niggling feeling that there's something wrong. Something more than the material problems I've outlined. So let me be clear: there is something wrong with a social form that cannot reproduce itself. It suggests that, on balance, the people of that society don't think their way of life is worth continuing. (And likewise there is something wrong with a social form that can only reproduce itself given the existence of poor, high-birthrate neighbors to supply a continual stream of human clay.) This is not a point about this or that race or people, because frankly "races" don't exist in any biological sense. This is a problem endemic to the developed world: it reflects something about the societies we have made.

this point in particular is worth underlining imo

Has there ever been a good breakdown on the hit rate of these articles? Like what percentage of "[x] is the future of the party" puff pieces get *immediately* voted out of office, broken down by publisher? I feel like this would have pretty amusing results

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"

you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

Building up also just means apartments over things, and if you're going to live above a business, a library is one of the best possible ones!

My understanding is that the Hungarian Black Army is considered the first professional standing army in Europe. My understanding is also that the Roman Legion was a professional standing army. So assuming that's right: why did that fall out of fashion for 1000 years

I almost wish it was that simple, but the whole movement started with the idea that MMR needed to be 3 shots instead of 1. As always, it's an absurd moving target of dumb

You check out Sunderfolk? It's a bit weird in that it uses a smartphone app instead of a normal controller, but it's very much designed for local coop

Interactive Bike Map Explore the various bike trails available across the state of Iowa with our interactive map, care of the Iowa Department of Transportation.

They're actually pretty good about it overall. More recreational than commuter-y I think, but you could do worse iowadot.gov/modes-travel...

Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

The play call that finally got me to stop watching football for good. After my millionth doomed screen, just a moment of "I don't have to live like this"

if this is discrimination, I’m genuinely unsure what you’re supposed to do when a student responds to a prompt with some religious gibberish

AI isn't replacing radiologists Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

AI has also been claiming to be on the cusp of replacing radiologists for close to a decade. Even beyond the baseline level of skepticism, this is a specific example with a track record of... maybe not total failure, but certainly not success.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

L Ratio would be a pretty solid Gundam name though

Is it not also possible that the American political class is sauceless? I feel like half of our lobbying scandals are like "Awarded company a 12 zillion dollar deal for 100 years in exchange for 10 grand and use of the company timeshare for a summer"

Nothing says American Innovation like deporting your own Secretary of State

"He was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked [absolutely not legal] girls" Just gotta _scootch_ those goalposts down a bit