One of my all-time favorite type of videos is pre-fame bands playing their extremely famous songs to a tiny room of people, because they're not yet known. A thread of some examples: Bastille playing Pompeii in what looks like someone's living room:

Jim is a tremendous leader; this is a very sad day for UVA. The University hasn't just been a consistently great academic program under his tenure, it's ranked NUMBER ONE in Free Speech by FIRE. ... And all because of a DEI witchhunt? It's a public university and the state of

It's always a pleasure to talk with Dr Jordan B Peterson. We went deep into the mechanisms by which the phone-based childhood brings different consequences for girls and boys -- in developmental trajectories and mental illness: youtube.com/watch?v=AflY1C…

One of the most popular UVA presidents ousted by the party of small government

I have so much appreciation for Helen Lewis and The Atlantic for this article. Link below ⬇️

Just cranked it to my ex’s VSCO. Real Sunday type of vibe.

Crazy take considering a single man just married her this past weekend

Eating pizza, thinking about the hollowing out of American conservatism

She was assassinated and it’s been barely a blip in the news cycle

I know people are going to get on Michelle Obama for other reasons, but what struck me is what a weird thing it is for a parent to say, that “the least” significant thing your reproductive system does is create life. I’d be worried how my kids took that.

We need better conservatives

No ruling party in US history has wasted a decent mandate and a tectonic populist realignment the way the Trump II GOP is doing now. Future political-science shelves will groan under the sheer weight of hefty tomes trying to explain it.

Elon Musk is about to find out why the whole quote is "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit"

The “heterodox” “free speech” crowd has basically forfeited the entire question of the government using visas to chill dissent without uttering a single word of protest.

Great article about Jean-Claude Michéa, one of the fathers of conservative communism — which is really just communism, which is (used to be) inherently culturally conservative. compactmag.com/article/jean-c…

But by definition if you vote for someone, it *must* be aligned with your emotional self-interest in some way and emotional self-interest often drives us more than the material kinds.

One interpretation of architectural politics since WWII: Liberal PMC has included great preservers of beauty and destructive backers of radical uglification (sometimes the same ppl); conservative-populist tastes tend to a blah-functionality middle ground. compactmag.com/article/the-cu…

It’s amazing how many people apparently think a person can’t simultaneously criticize banks or oil companies and not favor abolishing free enterprise…

The scandal isn’t that he checked that box. The scandal is that neither him nor his supporters can be honest about why.

Wow, it’s just like having read Anna Karenina.