Love the “sports writers” doing google searches on Viktor Bout and are now posing as experts, decrying “the trade” for BG. This isn’t sports. This is the real world…a world where Viktor Bout did a lot of his dirty work for US backed regimes. But fake expertise always sells.

The whole piece could have been titled: “I agree with Marc Andreesen and feel sad about it so I’m blaming artists.”

So will the WNBA now pay enough that their athletes don't need to play in Russian (or anywhere else) during the off-season?

Still surprising how infrequently "a million or so people died and a couple million more were disabled and it's still happening" is used to explain the surprises in our labor market, elections, mass politics, etc

Democrats have a historically good midterm election and The Hill says they are "a party still wounded from the last presidential election." Democrats in disarray, always!

Also, if you’re a well paid content maker for, say, the NYT, you should be publicly supporting the people responsible for making it a prestige publication that makes enough $$ to pay you the big bucks.

New School students say they’ll occupy the building 24/7 “until the administration resumes pay, full healthcare protection, and retirement benefits to all school employees and until the university reaches a fair contract with part-time faculty.”

Amazing news! Long love Wisdom!!! We love you!

This is too cute by half - Sinema couldn't win statewide even before this move. So now *maybe* she can play spoiler (and finish third as an incumbent Senator), but the null hypothesis was losing this seat.

Here’s how beloved P22 is: He ate a dog and LA’s response is something like “Hey gotta keep your head on a swivel.”

"Not only that, but he was present for beatings, present for force feedings and other forms of torture. As Mansoor describes, not only was he present and observing them, but seemed to take great pleasure in them happening." therealnews.com/gov-ron-desant…

good morning! why are you spending your saturday on twitter?!?!? you should be listening to On the Media (I'm guest hosting this week) first up: Blake Montgomery on how the Twitter Files are newsy, but not any kind of bombshell wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/e…

Finally getting her due. ABA 2023 Bird of the Year

Revisited my 2017 conclusions about signal, noise and digital media cause all this dadadrummer.substack.com/p/everything-i…

I could not be more excited that this is now out! If you want 82 pgs on content moderation system design, here ya go. Massive thanks to the editors of the HLR and to the many peers and friends who made this piece better. harvardlawreview.org