One might read this headline and conclude the NYT is about to take on any number of military cultural pathologies -- rampant corruption in SOF, mil influencers, vet worship -- but actually it's about taking advantage of "the private sector's newly rekindled interest in the world of defense."

Arnade is just a cultural/aesthetic battering ram for fascist ressentiment. Revealed himself entirely years ago attacking an unemployed academic on Twitter for his "cultural capital."

Stealth Fedora Guy.

This is so grim. I can read a recipe and generate a shopping list in seconds, because a recipe details its ingredients. That's what a recipe is. I hate this phony AI boosterism so much.

This paragraph from the introduction to Robert O. Paxton's The Anatomy of Fascism captures perfectly the futile temptations of catharsis and the utter impotence against fascism of liberalism and its (inseparable) fetish for meritocracy.

One simply has to admit that British tabloids have made an indispensable contribution to human culture and language.