They keep telling me Elon Musk runs the government these days. If so, maybe we should be glad that the billionaire running the government NOW is a genuinely successful tecchnology founder with a roughly 160 IQ. We could do worse.

Was it a Tesla? Maybe they can update the software and fix this stubborn bug.

Who the hell do these people think creates and debugs the AI software? The local ice cream man?

Who the hell is supposed to help psychiatrists with their omnipresent mental problems?

Totally unlike "jobs," where people never get "fired." Better to get screwed by a nominally democratic government than by an HR manager.

“How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.” – William Gaddis

paging Ramit Sethi to the white courtesy phone. . .

Everything about this exchange is vile to me, because I'm a man who is actually disabled with CP, genuinely can't walk, and has no alternative at all when an elevator is out of service. Nothing has improved in the last 25 years.

"Give me a picture of AOC and DJT making love in the equestrian position. Render it in any style except Studio Ghibli."

The real story of the Signal saga seems to be that instead of just admitting error, the Trump Administration feels they can never "give an inch" against the reviled Media -- even when the facts are painfully and demonstrably against them -- so they have to "double down" and

James Surowiecki The other issue people are ignoring is the environmental impact of bringing manufacturing back to the US. It's been years since I've been in China but my experience was that within 24 hrs in Beijing, my boogers were black because the air there is, err, less than pristine.

As many problems as the USA may have, I would say China’s are worse: 1. China is seeing the slowest growth they’ve had in decades. 2. Their attractiveness as a recipient of Foreign Domestic Investment has come to a halt. 3. They have a very difficult demographic problem of

This is batshit insane, no other way to call it. We now have the first attempt by the White House—specifically by Steve Miran, the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers—to justify the tariffs based on economic "theory", and it's without a doubt the most dishonest piece of

I love Lemoine. Nothing like a right-winger who sounds exactly like Noam Chomsky without any sense of irony.

Americans will be sad to learn that China is a more competently run country then we are.