“When a newspaper is felled by careless or malicious owners, millions of people are hurt, in big ways and small ways and ways that are impossible to measure.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Amanda Gorman poem For Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
Poem by @amandagorman.bsky.social (via Twitter):
For Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
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This feels like a visual representation of the AI bubble…
This is such an important article. We need to think seriously about what constitutes critical infrastructure and dependencies on non-state actors that are arguably even less constrained than state actors. Would we entrust China with our water supplies? (Admittedly China owns 9% of Thames Water.)
Controversial take possibly but he also lived long enough that a sizeable chunk of the US population will now remember him as a patriot who stood up (in the face of conspicuous silences) as he watched the Republican Party that he helped to build disintegrate.
"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president
Blistering perfection from Eliot Cohen. “All bad, but—considered in the context of a speech that weaved and staggered like a drunken man in a dark alleyway—less menacing than one might think.”
Interesting that he would use the word “drafted” in front of this crowd…
As a one-time international student who watched the last few months in horror, I found this passage moving. And it’s doubly meaningful that it’s a Reagan appointee.
Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Things are so bad, I laughed out loud at the “he knows about rigged elections better than anybody”… Erdogan’s expression is priceless.
Because somebody got in his ear about how this could make him look better… anyone trying to predict “policies” misses the point that this is all narcissistic ego. So anything can happen and change. His echo chamber will celebrate whichever option he chooses.
The question was basically, “Do you like to sound tough,” and he said yes, but there’s no reason to think he’d back this up in a meaningful way
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I’d add the total absence of a sense of social responsibility from major corporations.
The tariffs sounded like a shakedown but this is next level mobster speak: The Trump-appointed chair of the FCC, Brendan Carr, went on a conservative podcast and threatened Disney, which owns ABC, saying, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Melania wearing a bar suit
A minor, sartorial point but it annoys me that Melania keeps wearing the Dior bar jacket. Christian Dior sought to channel optimism and honor his sister in his fashion as she’d returned from Nazi camps as a member of the resistance. You might even say it’s an antifascist piece of fashion history.
The notion too that JD Vance is grieving a “friend”... This is about positioning himself in the succession line. I’m reminded of this chilling article by a former “friend” David Frum: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
This the same guy who came to Munich to lecture Europeans on freedom of speech. “You can embrace what your people tell you, even when it’s surprising, even when you don’t agree.”
A grid of black-and-white, often askew photos of buildings and kids and a horse-drawn carriage.
Turns out the 1940s NYC Tax Department photographs (by WPA photogs) include outtakes, and they are so wonderful! 1940s.nyc/outtakes
😳 “I’m Not a Crook” – Baby Nixon Tries to Clear His Name 👶🕵️♂️
Straight face. Full diaper.
🍼 Baby Nixon swears he “earned everything he’s got” — meanwhile, the toy box is empty, the juice is missing, and nap time records mysteriously vanished.
Another presidential meltdown, now in Pampers.
From @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine,” the chef José Andrés writes about Gaza.
He didn’t call the police on his students and while he was more draconian in suppressing direct action from students, he didn’t demean them and especially understood the larger threat, ie “the suppression of the liberty and autonomy that is the lifeblood of a university community”.
Researching Father Hesburgh (Notre Dame) for my book and this stopped me dead in my tracks. hesburgh.nd.edu/fr-teds-life...
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
I think we can safely assume Trump bombed because the taco stuff got under his skin… somebody who wanted him to bomb told him the Iranians were assuming he wouldn’t and were playing him.
Wonderful news! The video of his arrest remains one of the most chilling things I’ve ever watched. It was an opening salvo and too many people shut down their humanity - he was in a university building, his American wife was 8 months pregnant - because they didn’t like his political views.
𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.
See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com
my soul left my body watching the fox news feed glitching out as the tanks roll past the president’s observation stand and the announcer’s voice echoes across the mostly empty streets, “special thanks to our sponsor, palantir”
That civil-military gap looking wider than ever.
Seems relevant too that Californians and Trump supporters are over-represented in the Marines so it’s also about playing to divisions *within* California itself. Not a good development whichever way you look at it.
