Brian Phillips

Proud to be in the trenches with my revolutionary brothers in arms, Bill Kristol and the House of Lords

First time I saw The Apprentice, I thought, "Hopefully someday I will be informed of this man's every bruise or skin condition."

Y’all go get this dog so we don’t have to

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS YOU ALREADY LEARNED WATCHING SPORTS Sports fans already know how to translate the language of power into the truth. They don’t, most of the time, but they can.

this has been knocking around my head for a while, but for real: Sports get people prepared for the bullshit of politics like few other things can channel-6.ghost.io/everything-y...

I didn't say there were no downsides

The site couldn't last 72 hours without you, goes without saying

I regularly check out of BlueSky for about 72 hours and when I come back I'm overwhelmed with the realization that many people I like very much need to check out of BlueSky for about 72 hours

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

The Terrifying Tentacles of Paramount’s Media Empire The Ellisons are building a multicorporate network of data mining, surveillance, news, and entertainment. What could possibly go wrong?

I wrote about the Ellisons' Warner Bros. takeover, which will create an entirely new type of right-wing media empire

If Sun-, Mon-, or Tues- the -day do be,

The game is on Peacock or perhaps N- and/or ABC;

If Wednesday has come round again,

'Tis wise to check ESPN;

Yet if it be long weekend time,

Search Disney's sports verticals, but first try searching Prime

That was the first of several moments when I almost bailed on the piece

🇺🇸 Reporter: You'll concede this is war?

Markwayne Mullin: We haven't declared war. They declared war on us.

Reporter: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war.

Reporter: When you walked up just now, you called it war.

Mullin: Okay. That was a misspoke.

If he'd studied the blade The Beast in the Jungle would have been a lot shorter

Consequences won't hit for what, two years at the earliest? Two years is four thousand years when you're 12

Thanks so much! No, we pitched a continuation but the bosses weren't interested, unfortunately

Wish I'd had space to talk more about this! The debt math is doubly interesting given that Oracle's been tanking after (stop me if you've heard this one before) overspending on data centers. Some of these guys have clearly decided Trump + AI = a future where normal financial math won't apply anymore

Basically interchangeable in this case

And/or they can hire me to write a piece for Harper's about the future of motorsports

None. I've scattered a series of riddles whose answers point to my offline contact information throughout my work over the last 15 years. Whosoever solves these riddles and find me will be my true disciple, and will learn the blade at my hands

The Terrifying Tentacles of Paramount’s Media Empire The Ellisons are building a multicorporate network of data mining, surveillance, news, and entertainment. What could possibly go wrong?

I wrote about the Ellisons' Warner Bros. takeover, which will create an entirely new type of right-wing media empire

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

That’s right

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Michael Jordan

We are the consequences We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable.

Another striking and defiant piece by @erikhane.bsky.social writing from besieged Minneapolis.

"I have come to believe something else too: we are the consequences. We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable."

www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...

Everyone listen to Josh, who was NOT under the influence of cocaine when he posted this

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If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Happy to give them the Nobel Peace Prize but first I'm gonna need about $3000

Anthropic still owes me $3000 for stealing my book