It's 100%, 53% of them just haven't landed on an excuse yet.

Stop getting your book suggestions from TikTok and try Lithub, The New Yorker or The Times and you'll never have this problem again.

Some of you taught Kamala Harris a lesson.

Sometimes the frustrating part about writing is not knowing what the next bit is, or the shape of the whole thing, but also knowing the answer is already in your brain somewhere. You read and research and talk to others, but these only point you to something you already knew.

Weirdest phenomenon of the 2024 election was probably the leftists who were convinced Trump was secretly more pro-Palestine than Kamala

There is no AI economy. It loses hundreds of billions of dollars and all gains are in speculative valuation. The only one making a profit is Nvidia, and it doesn’t make anything. It resells Taiwanese chips to companies that use them to lose money.

addicted to saying “it’s not looking good for Madame Bovary” as i finish each chapter

Like everything ⁦John Burn-Murdoch⁩ makes, this chart is amazing. The sharp decline in conscientiousness and rise in neuroticism among young people is astonishing. But also of note: literally every age group has gotten less extroverted in the age of the smartphone

Scarborough loses patience with Mike Lawler after Lawler lies that Republicans didn't actually cut Medicaid: "You know their business better than they know their business? Congressman, you can keep talking if you want to, but are you saying you know doctors' business, you know

No, AI is not gutting workforces. Employers and executives are gutting workforces. AI is not autonomous, it lacks agency, it isn’t doing this. Human employers and executives are doing this, and they’re blaming AI as a way of dodging responsibility. fortune.com/2025/08/06/ai-…

Thinking about giving physical reading packets to students again. Nice and grainy so if they try to scan it in for an AI to "read" it's not going to know what the hell it is. Plus the physical copies in the classroom makes the discussion so much better anyway.

There are a lot of days when you have no idea if you're a good parent or not, but today my kids can't stop taking about how excited they are to have a sleepover in the public library, so I'm taking it as a win.

Terrific!

Starting to think it *wasn't* a medicine-informed movement centered on serious concerns about women's sports

“Both sides are the same!” If Obergefell falls, blue states will still have gay marriage. Red states will not. Blue states have pro-choice protections. Red states do not. While you say “Both sides are the same”, real people pay the price.

Oh do markets not like lending to countries that announce they will be faking their jobs data

On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters." On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident. Real macho stuff.

Hey I sort of did write a novel about eel migration!