So this is why all of Harry Styles’ friends are in love with American girls...

Podcast for the job you want, not the job you have.

Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...

Really proud of us at @wired.com for this. The work we did on DOGE is some of the work I am personally proudest of, and it's amazing to see that work and impact recognized.

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Oh, I can wear regular pants on bikes any time with bike clips (but thank you!).

I was wistful for fabulous street style, or for flowing coats or architectural dresses, and for the display of people sashaying down the street as lovely fabrics move.

You can have style on bikes, but it’s limited.

And leaving with zero contacts to do future favors.

I have a clown face fidget toy that inflates and deflates just like those two faces.

Stories from the women 20 years ahead of me used to make my hair stand on end.

Now I have to read novels explaining back to me what we dissociated from throughout the 1990s.

Sinclair Lewis, man…

Furious dorks and serious drug addicts.

Germany was miles behind, and they knew they didn’t have the chops to catch up.

Instead they invested in distributing radios to propagandize 1) blaming the Other while inflating German pride, & 2) invading neighbors for resources they couldn’t deliver.

Don’t let your babies grow up to wear Creepers.

Fire the marketing team that didn’t understand how to position 100 little family recorders connected to nothing *against* networked surveillance devices.

This is more like…cassette mail? Almost sweet?

Learning how Florida was worse than the Deep South on so many dimensions during Jim Crow helped me understand our current scene better.

That’s a name for a drunk shark.

It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

Isabel Wilkerson’s subjects took huge risks to escape to The Warmth of Other Suns because picking oranges in Jim Crow Florida was such a brutal, degrading way of life.

Surely that’s a bot?

Indoor recidivists

Side-by-side brisk walks or everyone doing watercolors also acceptable.

This essay savaging the Paul Graham of 21 years ago still has insights on how his mentees and their products turned out like this.

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Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, about to shoot the guy making a massive display of his swordplay

Me in my Subaru watching Usain Bolt

I worry he’s white-knuckling it though. Kash Patel eyes.

Running competitions are just embarrassing at this stage in our evolution, lads. Even the clankers are at it.

Doubling down on my dumb take that any Olympic event that other animals could do better than humans is just showing us up.

I picture orcas in the pool. Horses on the track. But good luck on skates, penguins! Let’s see you row, chimps!

We’re the tool users and connivers. Play to our strengths.

It’s an almost idiot-savant response to a novel about a woman painfully misunderstanding her parallels to Monica Lewinsky…

Both needed a lot more of this constructive feedback.

“I bought a book called Dear Monica Lewinsky and it wasn’t all about Monica Lewinsky as I had been led to believe…and I didn’t like the main character”

Checked the Amazon reviews after finishing a new novel I think is truly brilliant.

So painful. I want to send the writer a fruit basket to apologize for idiot readers.

If you’ve read the thread posted by palantir on X and are shocked, please read this piece that @tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote 9 months ago. Palantir has not been shy about its fascist agenda, and neither has Karp, who has been rambling about Western Supremacy in text & video form for a while now

Descartes has a lot to answer for on journalistic “balance.”

The billionaires are showing us how they’ve always expected to be talked to. No wonder they think we peons are difficult and ungrateful.

Sam Altman has come so far on the strength of being able to talk like this to Paul Graham and Marc Andreessen from his teens on with a straight face.

I’m legit a little shocked that a guy with a Jewish dad and a Black mom is a Mosely fan, though.