Trump’s “pool guy” who never did a pool and never worked for Trump. And never did a big government contract. When the real story eventually comes out, it’s going to be a doozy.
It is ridiculous to pretend X moved to the right because people left and not because it got bought by a neo-nazi who deliberately runs it with the overt goal of promoting his views and suppressing those he dislikes.
You can't have influence on X, The Everything App by design because it was purchased with the explicit goal of keeping you from having influence on there, no matter how much less important you feel here. That's the end of the discussion.
We Are All NPCs in the Eyes of the Lord: an essay on the films of Robert Altman
…bro
This awful movie isn't a national security film. It is THE national security film. It's one of those dumb films that accidentally stumbled into multiple prophetic insights, like Demolition Man. The big thing everyone already knows Toys got right was drones, but it called a LOT of things.
Once again pointing out that the plot of Sicario was CIA/Spec Ops shit into Mexico really being cover for a conspiracy to return power to larger and more powerful cartels further south. Which, well…
Trump has publicly championed the U.S. steel industry, and yet, the White House just secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for Trump's $400 million ballroom project.
This Sicario business is like a perfect storm for the Subset of BlueSky. Throw in a little JJA, Berlin, a Phantom, Holosuns, Georgetown vs GWU vs Johns Hopkins, counter-intelligence vs counterintelligence and the servers can melt.
There’s a really good Rand report from early 2000s about how we / COLAR crushed the cartels and as a result FARC took over production and distribution and almost captured Bogota. I think about it a lot.
Holy shit, the CIA is doing targeted assassinations in Mexico now, like, semi-officially:
This is a terrible idea. Setting aside the geopolitical implications of the CIA killing people on Mexican soil, and the potential for the cartels to retaliate against the US, blowing up a car in traffic is asking for a mass casualty event that takes out innocent bystanders.
Literally a heist from government coffers and/or de jure instead of de facto impunity for tax crimes. We fought a revolution to not be ruled by a king.
THIS IS WHAT RIGHT WING EVANGELICALS ACTUALLY BELIEVE — "personal relationship with Jesus" translates to an unlimited and unqualified indulgence for wickedness, at least if you're a powerful white man who serves their cult.
When TBS started airing reruns of SEX AND THE CITY in syndication, they couldn’t air curse words or graphic content, which meant that Samantha was essentially not in the show anymore.
I dunno. Maybe because that's a stupid thing to want?
Congrats again to the 99 Senators who voted to confirm this guy because it’s a Big Club
I'm struggling to understand why dressing up as the foreign leader you kidnapped is cool. Like, even if you think abducting Maduro was great, why would you want to walk around in his clothes? What's the message exactly?
Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst said the estimate increased “because of updated repair and replacement of equipment cost and also just general operational cost.”
I kinda love that even the most practical ideas like "we need hulls, so buy overseas designs that can be made quickly & relatively cheaply in those countries' shipyards" can mutate into stupid shit like "build nuclear capital ships in foreign shipyards that have never done anything like that before"
As Leah points out in her article, the class she visited was very much about HISTORY, not current events or politics. Here’s a thread where I talked about the idea behind it…each student did an independent research project on one far right activist from the Cold War era.
It’s a class on the history of the far right in the US and each student will design and execute a research project on a Cold War era figure about whom almost nothing has been written, but for whom there is an enormous primary source archive available to work with. 1000s of pages of FBI files…
The premise behind this work of “watching the far right” that groups like the SPLC have done (and which the ADL used to do), is that movements organized around white nationalism and/or Christian Nationalism pose a threat to US democracy as it’s generally been defined since WWII.
White nationalists and Christian nationalists have long resented groups like the SPLC and ADL which kept close tabs on them, because their political strategy depended heavily upon them being able to duplicitously pass themselves off as “normal” participants in democratic politics.
Just as Donald Trump refers to accurate reporting he doesn’t like as “fake news,” right wing actors have long referred to accurate reporting on their activities which make them look bad in the eyes of the portions of the public they’re trying to recruit as “radical left lies.”
It's hard to believe, but this really is the official position of our country's Very Serious Financial Analysts: "it would simply be too horrible if the strait stays closed, so … [closes eyes tight, taps heels together] … it won't!"
(Analysts at JP Morgan get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to write this bullshit.)
Just to be clear:
The dynamics of inventory depletion leading to price increases and economic pain which then contribute to pressure for resolution are valid—and I had, perhaps incorrectly, assumed are obvious.
The assumptions for the base case are what I find ridiculous.
…bro
This is the whole issue that I suspect is underlying the markets being quiet: the strait will open because the strait not opening is really bad.
And I suspect the unspoken assumption is that Trump will declare a fake victory and make a deal. But Trump is very dumb and Iran is really feeling its oats.
But if I had to guess, yeah, Trump packing it in is the most likely result, so it’s not a crazy assumption if you have to make one. But it be wrong very very easily.
I think this is true. When the GOP breaks the rules, it’s (obviously wrongly) seen as a Dirty Harry antiheroes who break the rules but get stuff done type thing whereas Democrats breaking the rules is seen as a hypocritical hall monitor and/or women and minorities not knowing their place thing.
Microsoft researchers find that for non-programming tasks, LLM agents aren't ready for work. For long, truly complex work, they're only currently ready for Python programming. It's great that MS researchers have the independence to publish papers like this.
Q: To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal with Iran?TRUMP: "Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody."
There are going to be so many nasty ripples hitting highly salient corners of industry and daily life over the next 6-8 weeks that simply cannot be drowned out with press conferences and Fox News programming, and are increasingly likely to leave Trump’s presidency mortally wounded by Labor Day.
By sheer coincidence of timing, my and @cshalizi.bsky.social new @knightcolumbia.org piece on how bad ideas about AI helped fuel the DOGE madness knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a…
A lot of the complaints about public health officials are people wondering why they weren't treated like adults, and then turning around and demonstrating why they weren't treated like adults by completely misunderstanding and misrepresenting what's going on and blaming someone else for that.
I know we keep saying it over and over again but Trump is an explicitly unique individual in American history because the media by and large abjectly refuses to cover him the way they would any other human being who has ever lived. Any other human being and this would be a gross outburst.
Don’t assume that I don’t know how to read merely because I’ve massively misinterpreted what you wrote. I actually understood it perfectly, I’m just also annoying
It’s not that I don’t care I just don’t give a care
when you think about it actually it's your fault that I've chosen to interpret your words this way
[…for the purposes of clarity…any resemblances to other dialogues, discussions, comments, threads, persons, personages or applicable online peroration…living or dead…or live…or unalive…throughout the hypothetical myriad realities embraced in perpetual fractal recursive parallel entropic pathways of quantum collapse by various theories of branching dimensionality in all their foamy fuzzy quarky ways…is entirely co-incidental]
[…like…I’m not having a dig at anyone…that I know reads this stuff]
[…it just…look…maybe it’s…better…this way…& not with what would otherwise be where all the bro’s are…& maybe joke’s on me that way…but…it seemed funny to me…not sure if it seemed funny enough to justify beating it over & over that way like a point that didn’t need to be labored in the first place…but…well…I guess but a couple of things…one of which being…on my end…doesn’t even make pareto compliance for the why-would-you-even…the other…would be a whole other post…about a series of posts…that have since been removed…about the story of a lady who wrote a story about being a parent & one way that had been pretty scary & how in the end when it didn’t go as bad as it could have they looked at some things in a different light…& of the internet…& the sort of people who read more outrage-bait posts for longer than it would have taken to read the thing they were baited to be outraged about which would avoid them doing things like calling a generally pretty nice-seeming lady a bad mother & having her have to admit that might be the limit for her not doing things she generally would never…like call someone a stupid c-word for not fucking reading the shit they think it’s ok to claim gives them the right to say some shit about on the internet where any fuckwit might find it…&…that would involve posting a bunch of stuff that lady has subsequently removed from visibility…& also be way the fuck longer & angrier than this was…& most ways I can look at that it seems like the person in that picture I feel bad for wouldn’t appreciate that…so…I…needed something else to do…& wasn’t sure I trusted where I’d wind up if I started…you know…typing?]
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I loved all the bros. I read them in various levels of emotion, and it was narrated in the tone of Ortho Bro.
I loved all the bros. I read them in various levels of emotion, and it was narrated in the tone of Ortho Bro.
I cannot BELIEVE you’d write that shit about me in a post! WTF?!
Bro!