thought I had found new pope’s bluesky account for a sec

Wow the graphics at the Met are insane

One of biggest personal frustrations with the “blogs replaced journalism” transition with online writing is it gave rise to this particular class of writer (Yglesias, Singal, Weiss, Sullivan) who could easily say who they hate in four words, but instead create a career-long milieu of deniable hate.

It has been really jarring to know things like “we’re living in an active authoritarian state” and “we’re enabling an ongoing genocide” and then interact with folks every day who literally have no idea about those things, but it’s instructive because that is the info reality for majority of people!

This is just a huge blindspot for economic freedom and liberty beat folks in general - there’s this culturally entrenched belief that fair competition and mobility is a natural, default state. A hesitancy to think of their principles (good principles) as artificial.

I don’t think Bezos intends to be successful in his stated goal, so it’s a moot point, but theoretically I don’t think he is equipped to produce an Opinion section on free markets and personal liberties. Would he defend the government’s obvious role in securing those principles? Doubtful!

Yeah I think it’s the type of twist you’d see in a S3/S4 of Westworld (not good, too mystery box-y). I hope they don’t go in this direction, but I could see the temptation narratively

This is why my tinfoil hat theory is it’s a severed company town. The world is too weird, there’s too many little slip-ups, and the ease with which they lied to innies with the fake newspaper talking about worldwide praise for their revolution at the beginning of this season…

It’s literally his one trick and he has done it so many times we’re all sick of it. All his fans have started emulating this exact adversarial interrogation management line too, just as everyone in tech thought they could emulate Jobs’ success by being a self-centered asshole. It’s so dumb.