Still from Goyte's somebody that I used to know video. my guy was all about the complaints but now that the wall's also telling her side he's gone all white
every man a gangsta till the wall start singing back
Indian Armoured Corps chat with civilians in San Felice during advance towards Sangro
Indian soldiers advancing in Italy
China doesn’t have the ability or the interest in plugging the holes that the US is leaving in the global order and I am so tired of this framework for trying to understand America’s loss of global standing
I think it's under-covered that there are a significant number of people on social media who are either (1) deeply committed to propagating lies about or (2) are regularly having disturbing hallucinations about the city of Minneapolis.
Either way I wish they would get the help they need and desist.
5/ Anyway, one point I made yesterday at Racket is that the city is authentically divided; it’s not even weird or bad, it just is. A black-white “checkerboard coalition” of more conservative voters (50% in last mayor’s race) vs a middle-class/DSA/young coalition (44%). racketmn.com/dear-strib-t...
the funny thing about "they hate us for our freedoms" is that there really is a nugget of truth
the father of a lot of what we consider "Islamic jihad" as a contemporary ideology crashed out after going to jazz clubs
An obvious truth that NHTSA and state DOTs don't talk about:
Less driving --> Fewer crashes
I think high public office is something that requires judgement and perspicacity, proven leaders need to be tested and show their commitment to be put in charge of hundreds of thousands of people. but reducing it to fan culture makes all of that secondary to seeing your fave get the big award
Okay in all seriousness I would have voted for Biss and I’m happy he won. But losing an election really sucks, especially if you thought you wouldn’t! It’s basically the worst feeling short of someone dying. So genuine condolences to Kat who did much better than I would have expected at the start.
Guys I promise you that THIS STUFF MATTERS
It doesn’t mean that the establishment is always right or whatever, but if you just try to skip past all this without understanding it, it’ll blow you up four times out of five. It’s the foundation of politics
On social media it is almost always obvious WHAT people want to hear, and what you’re expected to say. The game becomes correctly performing those views to earn an attentional reward and avoid mob punishment.
Traditional pols can do this BECAUSE they’re traditional: they’ve managing many relationships with influential players and organizations, which they’ve built up over time. It makes the pathway to challenge them very narrow. If you seize the seat in an insurgency, you won’t have that. Dangerous!
Bluesky/Twitter have produced a group of people who spend ENORMOUS - I mean ENORMOUS - amounts of time following politics from the top down, like sports. They know half of Congress, but aren't personally involved to the extent that they'd know who their state rep is.
It creates some blind spots!
I once asked a very famous political strategist who gets tens of millions of dollars to do polling and messaging for the Democratic Party if he knew who his state rep was and he had no idea. It was very revealing
I return a lot to de Romilly’s observation in her book on Thucydides, where the end-state of imperial politics is inability to coexist because that requires constraint, and disaffected imperial citizens wed their ego to the state’s imperial power and experience its constraint as a loss of freedom.
this is like 90% of the reason i'm studying economics
yeah there's some weird and self-serving shit in EA, but the basic idea of "it matters if things work. we should try and see if the things we are doing work." is *shockingly* controversial and groundbreaking in parts of the non-profit sector.
therapy is not very effective a lot of the time. it is often the best tool we have but it's not a very good tool, psychiatry as a whole is a deeply uncertain and often ideological field. relying on it as a solution to societal problems is sketchy at best.
Katie Porter was my #1 but after announcing no state income tax im a bit lost.
All I'm asking for is: “stop raising cattle and hay in the desert.” www.landdesk.org/p/the-alfalf...
This is New York. "Very quietly but forcefully intervened to stop a bad situation from getting worse" is our ethos.
Maybe this is just me, but I kind of think massive military operations, in which we're demanding unconditional surrender as the outcome, probably should be authorized by Congress.
don't forget, kids:
until the polls close, political prediction markets serve as merely a proxy for vibes, leavened by polls
after the polls close but before races are called, these markets become highly useful as proxies for models built off real vote count and demographic data
Genuinely think at this point people are ignoring the many indicators of a prolonged military engagement that’s likely with Iran (regional escalation, the entire track record of the 20+ year aftermath of every comparable U.S.-led regime-change operation since 2001).
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
The bad news is the Timberwolves have the 2nd-toughest remaining NBA schedule. The good news is a team they’re holding off, Denver, has the toughest. Lakers are 9th, Houston is 11th, Phoenix 15th. www.tankathon.com/remaining_sc...
the piano analogy is perfect bc even a technically flawless performance falls flat without it. you can hear the difference. same with prose. fluency isn't the point. aliveness is.
someone convinced a bunch of sensitive types that “getting so hurt by life that you give up on the possibility of people getting better, and retreating to consolations and private friendships” was somehow a moral or intellectual flex. very embarrassing
Jimmy Carter walking by uniformed men with guns.
Americans upset about high fuel, low economic growth, persistent inflation, declining manufacturing jobs,and foreign policy fiascos in Iran?
Welcome, Dark Jimmy Carter