The three stages of life:

1. Too young
2. Too busy
3. Too old

You're asking for a steelman?
Iran has been severely degraded, in human leadership, weapon systems, and proxies. It will take 5-10 years to build back to regional hegemony aspirations. Meanwhile the inexperienced new leadership may not be able to stop the next internal anti-regime uprising.

when you are desperately struggling to figure out how to keep a losing war from becoming a complete quagmire, the worst thing you could do is send signals that all but boot-licking yesmen will be fired

genuine indictment of US Senate. It was obvious from start that this guy is a made-for-TV empty suit with no ideas beyond smirking culture war symbolism. Completely unqualified for the position, and the Senate had a duty to say so

I wonder what he gave up for Lent.

It is unclear to me what logical relation your question does or even is meant to have to the post I made. Great big plate of non sequitur spaghetti.

frank sinatra has a code

I skim-read read it as 'repeatedly' rather than 'allegedly' and it was even more fun. A spree!

It is a problem when the president of the United States sounds like a used car salesman trying to hook the country on a pre-owned war.

In a talk right now which takes it as obvious it's wrong not to pay for public transport as a user. I agree! But this would absolutely be incredibly spicy on Vaguely Antisocial Leftist Internet. Gonna ask the speaker what they think of BasedLenin6942067's counter argument that they deserve a swirlie

Ugh. I'm not a fan of MJS, but this is absurd. If you try to destroy people for using words imprecisely, you'll end up with no one speaking but those who have nothing interesting to say and those who actively enjoy verbal bloodsport.

A Kalshi ad that says "We don't do death markets"

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

Philosophical thought experiment meets gothic horror, in rhyme.

Eastern APA tenure track job interview, circa 1997

time travel movie where these people go back to ask Mayors John Purroy Mitchel, John Francis Hylan, and John P. O'Brien why they haven't said anything about British Mandate Palestine

a bell curve for bell curves

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

We're beyond posting misinformation now. People are unleashing autonomous systems that create new misinformation, targeted against innocent people.

There seem to be many people who never learned that you must take responsibility for your toys, even when shiny and new
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

readymade concentration camps

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.

Kant and external law What, if anything, can stop Donald Trump? Not international law, as the President made clear in a recent New York Times interview, the week he declared

this week in the TLS I ask whether Trump can really has his own morality - and whether laws are good for Kantian autonomy

www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Trump’s Board of Peace has divided the globe. Here are the participants. Invitations to join the board have prompted a wide range of responses, from eager assent to hedging, wait-and-see statements from bewildered world leaders.

source: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Board of Peace as contentious middle school sleepover

"hundreds of years ago... we had boats landing there, also" is a remarkably efficient view into the current presidential mindset

it's like an 80s movie where some snotty 12 year old wished on a magic xylophone to be president and now all the real world leaders are having to promise him more screen time or else

'Perfidy Hegseth' sounds like a Dickens character who tricks children into trading their last chestnut for bitumen

it is a generational catastrophe for rule of law that everyone in the US now takes it for granted that federal investigations are simply politics by other means

If someone in 2013 read the sentence, “Today NATO warned President Donald Trump that the US should not invade Greenland,” they’d think it was a mad-libs.