I'm biased, but the Apple Watch was the first new Apple gizmo in the post-Jobs era and as I argued in Optimizer a few weeks ago, it's set the blueprint for modern wearables...
Also, Cook himself said health will be Apple's greatest contribution to mankind so 😜
www.theverge.com/tech/915976/...
A breakdown of Palantir's fascist gesture -- be softer on your electeds, recognize "national cultures" so you can make denigrate while peoples without deliberation or human rights, and Silicon Valley needs to give people something more than iPhone apps -- but definitely not housing and health care.
This is just eugenics
More significant recession indicator - 1) widespread reenchantment amid epistemic crackup or 2) wishful reports of Gen Z Christian conversions?
Anyway, I'm looking forward to his new book.
Consider how Vance has wanted to be regarded and the social and professional circles in which he's aspired to feel comfortable. Silicon Valley, Yale Law School, finance. Not a lot of room there for an evangelical, especially when his whole bit is to renounce his backward past.
If JD disagrees with the Pope, why isn't he just a Protestant? My take: his whole thing is a very deep self-hatred based on class shame. He wants to be taken seriously by "serious" people. I don't think there are any Pentecostal Chua pets.
“JD Vance responds to Pope Leo.” Like all these guys, JD’s true calling is a YouTube reaction-video channel with seven thousand subscribers.
pulitzer grade journalism to assign the clavicular interview to a man who looks like that lmao
Worth another plug: Anyone who wants to understand Doug Wilson & Pete Hegseth should read Michael McVicar on Rousas Rushdoony:
i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”
For the latest in first amendment Lochnerism:
Weingarten has been wrong on every major issue facing educators: she embraced testing, charter schools, an abandonment covid protocols, now AI. Her mantra is always the same: we need to welcome the systemic changes imposed by neoliberal administration, so that they appear inevitable
Most people use "Christian nationalism" as a catch-all, as if there was one united movement aiming for Christian power.
But there are actually 3 distinct movements competing for power in Trump's America — with different theologies, different strategies, and real tensions between them.
My latest.
This skill also will continue to increase in value, as fewer people are capable of it. This is my pitch to would-be humanities majors (and, by extension, their apprehensive parents). In a world where almost no one can pay attention, listen to other people, and think clearly... what if you could?
you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women"
Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds?
www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
New post! The people who actually know Jaden Ivey are worried about him. The people who've never met him want him to keep talking. I wrote about the difference. www.readtpa.com/p/useful
It is really frustrating that this will be viewed as a win for liberals when it is honestly a win for conservatives (and a national embarrassment) that the Court granted cert to begin with.
"a term popularized by Palantir" we are cooked
if a leftist says he's anti-zionist because of the war crimes of a sovereign nation the times will suggest he is an anti-semite.
if a conservative says that he is "j-pilled" the times will say it's about foreign policy.
Congratulations to The Drift’s Senior Editor @erikmbaker.bsky.social! His book, “Make Your Own Job,” just won the 2026 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award from the Organization of American Historians.
www.oah.org/2026/03/26/o...
Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed.
Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...
I should’ve said implication (on my reading!), not argument.
Yes, although I think in some cases it's fine to gesture toward (or subtweet) something. If the whole piece were actually a "takedown" of the whole discourse, this would be a problem, but that's not what he's doing. (The headline[s] does kind of frame it that way, but that's not on the author.)
At any rate, it's at least interesting (to me) to ask whether the FCC should be considered CN and, if not, why not.
I suppose he could have gone into a fuller critique of Perry et al., but that would distract from the piece (although maybe it should've been two pieces anyway, one about WCN and one about the book). But I do think you can mention a body of literature without giving it a full treatment.
Fair enough, but isn't the line about "scoring high" a reference to the sociological literature? I'm not interested in defending the piece one way or the other. I think his point is just that the soc. definition would include the FCC but they're never mentioned, so it doesn't work historically.
No, it's true that he doesn't engage it (which I think is fair enough, since it's a review of a history book, so he's mostly working with Sutton's framing). But I think that when he says there's no "stable referent" I take that to mean that the sociological definition wouldn't work historically.
