I don't have it to hand but I am reminded of a line in C.S. Lewis' Abolition of Man where he comments that he is aware that he doesn't like young children but considers that a personality defect of the sort everyone has and ought to work to overcome.
He hardly treats it as normal for men!
Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done.
Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.
child smiling I ride perfectly when biking to school so my councillor doesn't need political courage to build in systems where I can make mistakes. - Sarah, Age 9
the reality of road safety campaigns
@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
vs Spicy Liberalism (Rorty)
More higher ed discourse like this please
This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist
The debate with Zizek is just delightful.
Z tries to hold JPs hand as he gently walks him into the deep end of the pool but JP flails and drowns himself in like 2ft of water.
two years in a row I've gone to Budapest in April. Regret not having booked a ticket this year too!
We didn't clear house following Reconstruction or following the Civil Rights Movement and we absolutely have to do it next time.
*gestures broadly at everyone in the Trump administration*
hate to link to econjobrumors (there are some really gross comments) but people know things: www.econjobrumors.com/topic/why-di...
great time to remind everyone that Don Rubin is literally in the epstein files
Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.
how much did the pentagon lose this month
oh no
Short form video isn’t that antisocial, doesn’t rot your brain that much, and is not addictive in any normal sense. It’s less antisocial than the 90s era habit of watching TV for 9 hours straight because it encourages participation and sharing. And it’s mostly not AI.
when we win, besides woke 2.0 and nuremburg 2.0, might I also suggest reconstruction 2.0?
Not only unambiguously bad but also unambiguously massive fucking losers with precisely zero qualities remotely close to redeeming.
“President Trump has threatened to destroy a civilization, today at 8pm… how, how does an investor process that? Is it a bigger downside risk or upside risk?”
- CNBC anchor
Trend in average number of cars per household. City of Paris shown in light blue; Paris metropolis overall in middle blue; Paris metropolis outside of Paris in dark blue.
Trend in gas sales in Paris and the near suburbs, in thousands of tons.
Gas stations in Paris metropolis. Light blue dots show stations that were open in 2024. Dark blue dots show stations that closed between 2019 and 2024.
Paris metropolis: Striking reductions in car use due to proactive efforts to encourage bike, walking, transit:
—Less car ownership: From 0.5 cars/HH in Paris to 0.36, 1999–2022. Outside of Paris: 0.88➡️0.8
—35% less gas sold 2005–24
—15% fewer gas stations between 2019–24
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see you here again in two weeks or sooner
I realize one is not supposed to say this in politics, but it is just clearly the case that 77,302,580 voters have blood on their hands for this, bear real, moral culpability for deciding that it was a good idea to put idiot Fox News Grandpa back in power for [reasons].
Threatening genocide normalizes genocide.
In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president
While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.
Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:
As has been oft noted, it is telling to compare the practices of genai firms with the act for which Schwarz was maliciously charged
