“brainrot” was first used by Henry David Thoreau in 1854.

Hollow Knights existence and sucess is a great reminder to never take a redditors opinion seriously

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

My latest The Atlantic reviews how Trump's 2nd-term economic policies - import substitution, "emergency" declarations, personal dealmaking, fiscal/monetary recklessness, & govt control of private enterprise - increasingly resemble post-war Argentina. That's not a good thing.

Alan Greenspan used to track cardboard boxes and trucking volumes as a barometer of the US economy. Cardboard and package materials have dropped to 2015 levels. 1/

The Japanese are a very fine culture.

“The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident” Every day this line feels more and more relevant.

Everyone needs to hear this…

Oh my goodness he's still watching the games.

The smartphone era has been an extinction level event for hobbies. So many pastimes have disappeared or are in the process of disappearing into the glowing event horizon of the screen

feynman used this technique to solve some of the hardest problems why aren't more people doing this?

Do you want to know the best assessment of the American religious landscape right now? I provide a first look at the share of Americans who at Protestants, Catholics, and non-religious in today's post. And try to tamp down any 'revival rhetoric ' graphsaboutreligion.com/p/have-we-reac…

My thesis has always been that screens trick you into thinking you're productive while sitting. If you make a rule that you can only scroll while standing, your phone addiction will die immediately, violently even, with no other changes necessary.

there's a whole video game on why this is a bad idea

.Donald J. Trump just signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Ro Khanna and I forced through Congress. Attorney General Pamela Bondi now has 30 days to release these files.

I can't wait for Hollow Knight 3: Skarrsong. x.com/ShitpostRock/s…

It is so unfathomable now to imagine living through a government project like this in real-time. Like, imagine an entirely new transit system just appears over a decade to completely remake a major city. People don't even pretend it's possible anymore. They'll make a light rail

Watching where all the chest-thumping about the evils of “virtue signaling” and the perils or “suicidal empathy” have gone, I think a lot of folks from techworld would benefit from reading some Judith Shklar. politicalnotmetaphysical.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/jud…

1927 Paramount Studio, map of possible filming locations