If you’re invited to a natural disaster politely decline. (I’m safe and evacuating for a little while until power comes back and water distribution is more widespread. Forgive me if I unfollow / mute if you share photos of WNC.)
The NYT put its entire institutional ass on the scale for Adams while knowing exactly who we was, and we should not forgive it for that.
I think the oldest political opinion that I came to on my own and didn’t in any way inherit is that the state should not have the power to kill people. (I joined Amnesty International when I was 16.) It is an uncomplicated belief. All of the moral prevarication exists on the other side.
an under-discussed dimension of this scotus majority is its bloodthirstiness. it has not yet seen a prisoner it wasn’t ready to execute in the name of some properly orderly process
AI is a desperately mediocre confabulating plagiarism engine designed by tech bros with no talent, who are laying waste to the creative industries and artists livelihoods, and using planet-killing amounts of electricity and water to make the shittiest and most boring simulacrums of human expression.
Having seen Ta-Nehisi instantly be proved fucking right: the institutional treatment of Rashida Tlaib reminds me of the structures of control and permission in the West Bank. So many checkpoints. So many places where you are defined entirely by the other.
It’s simple. For Any writer who defends Nuzzi, the next time they write anything, the first question is, are you fucking your source?
(Someone point James Bridle to this thread.)
The funny thing about Mark Robinson, as people have noted here and at the bad place, is that he’s the kind of Forum Guy for whom you have to create the lightly-moderated “anything and everything” category as your sequestered “town square”, and that is more or less how his campaign has gone.
I got to see many fancy cars in a field yesterday and the most remarkable thing is that they made it there in one piece:
