I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

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Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then?

Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.

Rick Scott says the only way to solve deficits is to eliminate the filibuster. But the deficits he voted for, which of course also had historic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, were filibuster proof. The big issue is folks like Senator Scott keep making deficits larger with tax cuts.

A person who genuinely believed that a population collapse threatened their country's existence would favor dramatically increased immigration to offset declining birth rates. That the Millers favor the opposite is because of racism: a whiter America is more important than a thriving one.

A tweeted photo of Sarah Isgur with Brett Kavanaugh @whignewtons X.com As I note in the book, this is the quote from Texas artist Tom Lea that sits behind his desk...and I'm so grateful that he has helped show me how to live on the sunrise side "I live on the east side of the mountain. It is the sunrise side. It is the side to see the day coming. Not the day that is gone... LAST BRANCH STANDING ...The best day is the day coming, with work to do, with eyes wide open, with the heart grateful."

Just as a very general rule, when a Supreme Court pundit writes the sort of book about the Supreme Court that a sitting Supreme Court justice feels comfortable promoting in public, you should be skeptical of everything else that Supreme Court pundit says about the Supreme Court, forever

I think it's really an underrated moral issue (let along a political economy one) that we've sort of let scams and scam adjacent activities (sports betting, car dealerships, most retail interactions with skilled trades, crypto, etc) pervade the economy from top to bottom.

Obviously not necessarily true about any given person, but I think there is a lot of people who represent themselves as speaking for low income Americans while not being low income Americans.

The touchpad tipping thing is very funny to me, it is (1) the absolute definition of a thing you can just solve by yourself, (2) it essentially only occurs in situations involving non-essential spending, you can just make yourself a sandwich!

how much money does the marine corps lose

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

it doesn't matter that they're liars and bluffers, it doesn't matter that they're pussies, it doesn't matter that they (probably) won't do what they're threatening to do. its enough that they are saying it. its enough that it's possible. this is not acceptable to any living creature on the planet

Congress is so funny. The world could be blown to smithereens and half of them would be like not sure this is a kitchen table issue.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Missing Airman Raises Concerns That Iran Could Gain Leverage Over the U.S.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

They cared a lot about what Europe was supposedly doing when it came to trans people in Skrmetti.

these are exactly the stakes! embracing trump’s view would be embracing the cramped vision of freedom and belonging that we fought a civil war to banish to the ash heap of history

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences.

Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals.

Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

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Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong.

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.

She accepted three.

One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
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Not mine- but love it so much!

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Gosh, perhaps there are fewer campus protests because schools, as The Atlantic urged them to do, aggressively went after protestors. Columbia suspended, expelled, and retroactively revoked degrees in proceedings that were so arbitrary and capricious they were overturned by a NY state judge.

Hear, hear. In so many cases, folks who claim they "aren't political" are just saying they're satisfied with the way the status quo is working out for them.

I think this could go either way, and it's profoundly alarming that it may come down to a single vote. The legal arguments against late-arriving ballots make no sense; the policy arguments are rooted in concern about voter fraud that does not exist. I fear for the midterms. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Market manipulation. The timing of Trump threats (usually Friday nights) then backing down (usually early Monday mornings) on war and tariffs tell you all you need to know.