huskies are the orange cats of dogs

some people seem weirdly opposed to the idea of accepting that it was a genuine sacrifice we made for others, not a minor implosion

I don’t regret doing it and it was the ethically correct thing to do but doesn’t mean I must pretend I enjoyed it

For some reason staying “universal masking and not getting to see anyone fucking sucked” brings down the ravening hordes of people who enjoyed Covid because finally everyone else was as socially isolated as they always are

We haven’t recovered as a society, and in fact we haven’t even really named it

but when I talk about the lack of distress tolerance for dealing with other humans fueling the AI push, “male loneliness epidemic”, etc.

I think COVID was a huge factor in making it this extreme

Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

When you’re tempted to suggest that we should forgive and embrace MTG because she’s turning on Trump

Remember that she rose to prominence in part by fueling hate and harassment against families who lost children in school shootings

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

"Pay us twice to see the old movie before paying for the new movie. We are giving you homework and making you pay for the privilege. Say, 'Thank you, Box Office Jesus for saving cinema'."

No.

If a college education did nothing but prevent you from ever acting like you were 100% sure about something ever again, & made you feel like you always needed to learn more & question your assumptions, it would be the best education money could buy, & worth the government providing it free to all.

Ok sure? But it’s 2026 and the meanings of things have shifted.

I personally would not be scrawling a symbol that’s tattooed on the chest of one of the most violent white supremacists in our country on my hand.

I’d maybe pick something else.

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Cat Distribution System strikes again

Anne Hathaway's 'Yesteryear' adaptation might change how you see the “tradwife aesthetic” trend A buzzy novel, an intense premise, and Anne Hathaway at the centre of it all.

They will never make me hate Anne Hathaway.

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I remember reading a long time ago that some terrorist orgs had a lot of success recruiting engineers of a certain personality type(who they wanted for obvious reasons), basically because assuming you're highly rational actually makes you really gullible and bad at non-technical reasoning.

I’m so tired.

Anyway, tech lords pivoting hard into authoritarian Christianity is the least surprising thing in the world.

When we talk about needing to get people to improve their critical thinking skills that almost always means:

1) formalize it as a process they’re aware of

2) apply it to the area we’re interested in

Because humans think critically. Full stop. We just don’t do it evenly or consistently.

Critical thinking is not an identity, it is merely an activity.

Everyone does it sometimes, no one does it all the time.

If you see being someone who thinks critically as part of your identity, chances are you are massively Dunning-Krugering it.

Yeah no, that’s exactly the reason/emotion dichotomy I’m calling out as a problem.

There was a study way back when about how people with college degrees were more likely to read and believe their horoscope, because they saw critical thinking not as an activity but as an identity, and believed it was part of theirs.

And therefore, whatever they believed must be rational.

So it’s not surprising that the cultiest group of people on earth (my kingdom for journalists to start really covering tech cults) are getting really into Christianity, and specifically Christianity’s ugliest aspects.

The tech industry is *rife* with people who will tell you how much more logical they are than everyone else while also explaining that they’re on the carnivore diet because their favorite podcaster, who has no medical/nutrition or history/anthropology training, said it’s what cavemen ate.

Actual rationality involves emotional *integration,* not severance from your own emotions.

Just because you are so emotionally stunted that you are *unaware of the emotions you are feeling* doesn’t mean you are more rational. Quite the contrary, in fact.

The emotional processing parts of our brain are fundamental to reasoning. When they get damaged, people can’t do basic logic.

Emotion is not counter to reason.

Like anything else—pain, multiple streams of information, noise—it can *distract* you, but that’s different.

It’s incredibly frustrating to me that in 2026 people are still holding to the idea that:

1) feeling emotion is antithetical to being able to reason

2) not showing emotion is the same as not being affected by emotion

People keep seeing techbros/STEM-only fanatics/Silocon Valley as rational because engineer types like to *think* they are the poster children for rationality and we have allowed our cultural archetype for high intelligence to be them, but

they’re HIGHLY irrational and now -> Christian nationalist.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

This bullet point from Alex Karp/Palantir’s latest diatribe strikes me as the best representation of the whole project.

“The elite’s intolerance of religious beliefs…”

Let me stop you right there, Alex. You just made that up. That isn’t a thing in 2026 America.

In Our Glorious AI Future, There Will Be No Such Thing as Money (For You) “In the future, there is such a thing as money. But there’s no such thing as your money. All the money is our money.”

"In the future, there is such a thing as money. But there’s no such thing as your money. All the money is our money."

The ASHRU Fund ASHRU Fund

The Wexner Foundation's spent decades investing in Jewish leaders. What To Do since Julie K. Brown's reporting + now The Files has been a whole (no)thing.

So some of us from the grassroots created a fund for Wex alum + the J community + beyond to support survivors of sexual violence + trafficking: