Ben Novack

I saw someone here warn against anthropomorphizing Trump, and it's the best description I've seen of the way the media covers him.

Yes! John Brown and Jayhawks stole from slave owners.

If you thought it was OK to steal Black people from Africa and keep them as slaves? Then they thought it was OK to steal them from you and set them free, and to steal all your other stuff and keep it.

If you didn't like it? They took you out.

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

Asking Trump to extricate us from this war is not unlike asking a poodle to change a flat tire. Hopefully someone will come along and change it for us but it won't come from any affirmative act he takes, because he doesn't know what's happening.

This is a confusing response. Anthropic is the one that does NOT want unrestricted use. Why would you want them to lose?

it is genuinely very funny how many big name/shop analysts have gone on tv in the last 24-48hr and been like "man we didn't think this administration would be so stupid" like, come on

the early cypherpunk meme about how technology is untouchable/untouched by governments was foolishness, especially around the time it got packaged as consumer marketing

The constituency of Americans who see DEI as detrimental to the country is vanishingly small, the sort of constituency that can easily be ignored if politicians want to ignore it.

A meme with four images and advice for resetting them for Daylight Savings Time. Image 1 -- "A Smartphone: Leave it alone, it does its magic." Image 2 -- "Sundial: Move one house to the left." Image 3 -- "Oven: You'll need a Masters in Electronic Engineering or a hammer." Image 4 -- "Car Radio: Not worth it, wait six months."

hea'ds up

Gotta say this is a very challenging geopolitical environment in which to keep one’s nervous system regulated.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Probably my biggest all-time setting loves:
* Planescape (2nd edition). DiTerlizzi is everything.
* Nobilis - rich and poetic and so confident in its own alternative… morality?
* Tribe 8 for having such a huge scope but also a very very small world.

Monte Cook Games’ Gods of the Fall is a properly wild new take on a fantasy world and I wish it’d gotten a lot more attention.

@steph_mcca banks email like "Ummmmm we have a MESSAGE for you. In your INBOX" and then the message is like "Hello we are your bank"

As one of the fifteen or twenty genuine Liberal Internationalists in the US, all of whom are active on this site, I do think we really need to confront the fact that a genuine liberal-democratic "rules based" international order cannot be underpinned by arbitrary and hegemonic US military might.

I maintain that simply arresting Elon musk and making a real example of him is the quickest way to global stability

Working on some new home decor

No it's awesome, it wasn't absolutely perfect and also it was super woke because we weren't dominating and fucking over everybody else all the time and sometimes we even had to be polite to people who didn't speak English and that's just the worst and also we had to have friends fuck that

Having faced no consequences for anything, Trump has noticed that he has the world’s largest military at his command, and believes he has found a brilliant solution for solving problems that no one before him was smart enough to discover: just kill everyone in your way, until they obey you.

it's sparkling conflict you fool, it's only called a war if it originates in the Department of Wa- hold on, my producer is gesticulating violently and handing me a note

what’s even more extraordinary is that the economy was mostly doing okay despite his absolute best efforts - as damaging as his tariffs and immigration policies are, we hadn’t tipped over into a recession

and so, unsatisfied, he decided to kick the economy in the dick with a huge oil shock

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

Not an original observation but this man is so clearly mentally incapable and should be removed from office immediately.

Capone went down for tax evasion.

If a tree falls on your enemy, you don't cry he had an easy death. You dig a deep hole to make sure he stays in it.

Extremely interested.

"demolish the ballroom" needs to be a very clear goal of the next democratic presidential nominee. im very serious about this.

This is the perfect splurge. It’ll bring you joy but you’d never rationalize it without the “excuse.” And it becomes a memento of the work you’ve done in this awful time. For gods sake it’s housing!

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

"America was pulled into a stupid unwinnable war that further wrecked the economy and got Americans killed, as a personal favor to Benjamin Netenyahu" is *probably* the worst-possible scenario for American Jews. You might as well say we had to protect the blood Matzah factories.

NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?

WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.