Louis

*where’s my pa

Schraub has an interesting essay on an analogous position of judicial sadism. “A sober review of the letter of the law means that I simply have to produce a ruling that’s cruel and absurd” is understood as demonstrating virtue rather than ineptitude

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you’re a genius

Agreed it’s not funny ha-ha, more of a “ma ma who’s my pa” type remark

Oh okay, that’s properly a joke. Fair enough.

Hi everyone. It’s me, Stella

genuinely a weird lie, tbh

this is just a lie: the "Trump's Rambling Speeches" article given downthread as evidence does not include filler words or hesitation markers in quotes!

anyway, I am very interested in reading NYT's rebuttal, as soon as you provide one (1) example of the NYT publicly acknowledging and remediating an error first criticized online.

"attack" is a really striking choice of noun for Adam's article, fwiw

people do joke about her fucking Lewandowski, I think. and the plane things, and so on.

oh so you do pay attention to online commentary about your editorial decisions

It’s the sort of orthogonal-to-politics scandal that in another era or context might have been mostly processed through humor but to be honest I have not seen anyone joking about it.

I don’t think I’ve actually ever heard a Noem dog joke?

“jokes”

China repeatedly setting the growth target for "around 5%" energy:

Genuinely bizarre how needy so many of those takes are

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!

Might be the first time I’ve heard you say “nu” and it’s hitting

Experimental participants to us

"“We rely on Hispanic labor,” said Chris Gross, a second-generation farmer who grows sweet corn seed and mint in Wilder. She added, “Nobody thought something like this could happen here.”"

I've posted about this before but I just looked up this article for something I'm working on and I cannot deal with this - the quote, or the way it's presented without direct follow-up or context.
What does "Hispanic labor" mean?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Receipts culture is very strange ultimately. There’s kinda a Ted Chiang about that: “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Fiction”

It is also fair to say that social media is a strange immediacy machine. You couldn’t make “what did Bill Clinton say on some random day in 1985” with nearly as much ease and scale as you now can. Not convinced the answer is people without prior posts.

I don't have a problem with Tim. But I do think it is deleterious that so many smart people spend so much time on X, which has essentially become an algorithmically and AI-optimized far-right MAGA message testing and propaganda machine. People assume X posts represent the masses, but they don't!

Have I read the Tractatus? I have not. Do I believe it is possible to read and understand the Tractatus? It seems doubtful as hell. Nevertheless the heart wants what it wants.

Personally I’ve always been a Wittgenstein I, TRACTATUS-type guy by inclination but the LLM research project really seems like a crushing victory for Wittgenstein II and “language games”