it makes me pretty uncomfortable

the shift from a 1st draft to a 2nd draft for me usually involves opening up a new blank document, split screening, and rewriting each sentence one at a time to make sure they sound right.

i live next to a bank and just saw an opossum run through the drive through atm lane.

i just think its funny to send a text saying "you applied with us recently" when it was 6 years ago, and i quit after 2 weeks

i didnt do another political job for like 3 years because it was so insanely awful and i assumed they were all like that.

i had a job 6 years ago phone banking against collins for 50 hours a week and it was by far the worst job i ever had and lmao just got a text from them being like "hello you applied for a role with us recently, we are hiring, pls apply"

Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr. 1954-1961 by Whittaker Chambers

much of this is pleasant chatter between friends, but its also got some real gems of political theory scattered in it. intriguing how chambers was so apocalypticly right wing while holding onto a dialectic framework that lends itself to pragmatism. you can tell he chilled out post-witness.

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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yeah sure!

yeah its supposed to snow a little here tonight.

ah yes, tchaikovsky, that classic 1970s artist

yeah....its not great. entirely targeted at children. total sports, bathroom and locker ban in schools

theres a chance that its signatures will get thrown out in court, which we'll know pretty soon if thats happening, but if not yeah were probably fucked.

if you want to hate the people of this state even more: very likely a horrible anti-trans ballot question passes by a lot this november

i think her initial biggest fuck up was waiting so long to actually announce because she assumed there'd be no competition. platner had the whole summer to build momentum

it doesn't really have much to do with platner. the rumors that schumer was trying to coax mills to run started well before he got recruited.

i think she literally just doesn't really want to be doing it. the whole thing is kind of sad

in any case, the referendum results were overturned by the court and the NECEC was finished and is currently in operation. not sure anyone really noticed or cares, and environ nimby types have moved onto a new clean energy project to oppose (off shore wind port)

they're unrelated issues. maine's grid troubles date back well before NECEC was an idea (from my understanding they're due to deregulation in the 00s), and the point of the corridor is mostly to bring hydro power to massachusetts, rather than the local grid.

its worth the context that maines grid is already in a terrible state. youve got a combo of some of the least reliable/most outages, with some of the highest prices. i think its worth being a bit more cautious than other states that are a bit less of a shit show

cause shes a corporate hack

its not actually a ban (idk why everyone is framing it that way). its a temporary moratorium that lasts until the february while the state department of energy figures out the energy impacts.

i think this is a pretty limited view of film

i dont think ethics, with its emphasis on static transhistoric principles, is a very useful framework in politics, either for denoting what is "good" (which imo is generally contingent) or for understanding the mechanics of how a society functions and changes

bernstein believes that the positive politics of social democracy is the most essential part, and you dont need dialectical materialism to justify it. you can just assert that its good by rooting your worldview in ethics.

my view is the inverse: i'd throw out the politics and keep the dialectic

the thrust of the text is that since marxism's program is rooted in dialectics, if one can demonstrate how society is developing contrary to the laws marx outlined (which EB does), then the whole thing falls apart. thus to save social democracy he rejects dialectics as his basis in favor of ethics

A People's History of Quebec by Jacques Lacoursière and Robin Philpot

proceeds at an absolute breakneck speed. this made it a quick and easy read, but it also felt like every time i was settling into a period, it'd jump forward and move to something new. so mostly left me wanting more. still enjoyed it. def had a bit of a nationalist pov.

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