Matt Costlow and I have talked about writing a critical review, but for now the highlight reel. First & most glaring, the push for POTUS to retaliate immediately against a very limited DPRK strike using strategic weapons from the US homeland (ICBMs). Why is this a big problem?🧵

I’m all for new tent encampments, but before you build them you should need to engage with the stakeholders in a series of community meetings, have some design review, and ensure that the tents align with the existing character of the community.

Open Source Stupidity (OSSTU) Starfish 'Client states, am I right? Can't live with 'em, can't get over the sunk cost fallacy to change the situation.'
'Tell me about it brother. You raise them right, you give them the tools they need for world, and when they use those tools like assholes suddenly everybody's mad...'

America and Iran becoming friends after bonding over their difficulties in controlling their regional proxies and clients would be the funniest possible outcome of this war.

In hindsight we’re very lucky Neil Armstrong didn’t have strongly outspoken and weird political views. We could have had a second Charles Lindbergh situation.

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Together with the Walmart tweet there’s a very specific kind of person online who is constantly fuming about this point because it’s absolutely true

Europe in the year 2034, a vision: The AFD congress adopts its new leaders, a Turkish lesbian with a Greek girlfriend, manifesto of declaring Kemalism as a honorary racially Germanic ideology

Imagine trying to explain to someone in 1914 Paris, Rome, or Warsaw.

Europeans waving a common flag, listening to a common anthem & wanting a common Parliament.

Unthinkable. Utopian. Impossible. That would be the common reaction.

I thought the critique towards Yarvin about how the kings can be bad was marginal relative to everything else, but he really ended with the situation in which he was promising Lee Kuan Yaw but ended up cheering for Trump or Putin.

building more housing makes housing more affordable. period. full stop

Max V Karlsson Och folk har mage att påstå att högern inte värdesätter kulturen

if your Hillary Clinton derangement syndrome gets to the point where you defend the assassination attempt of a 15yo girl you need to get shoved in a padded room fast

Den siste mohikanen 🪓😇 🚜 6-8 skivor bröd PeterOlsson 'Jobbpendling i april', olja på duk, 2024

climate activists sure seem to spend a lot of time advocating for very specific forms of non-action.

always 'someone has to do something!' followed by 'wait not that!'

the most insidious form of climate denial is actually the belief that we can't solve the crisis with tech. 1/4

the distribution of TikTok’s user base is really weird and I think this explains some of it

the degree to which israeli officials mishandled the gaza conflict, even from their own ethnonationalist lens, is something we will be discussing for a long time after this conflict ends.

This graph is horrifying, and for once it's horrifying bc of its content

How it started/ How it's going.