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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
Least woke president
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Least woke president
Even granting motherhood as womanly in the conservatives paradigm, I don’t understand this distinction about the masculine provider. Mothers feed children with their own bodies, women acquire, prepare and serve food, etc—how are these behaviors properly showing dependence? Isn’t that providing?
You might have read something about Ross Douthat’s podcast last week. Becca Rothfeld reviews the new book by Leah Libresco Sargeant, one of the guests on that show. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | A conservative argues we need to value ‘women as women.’ But what does that mean?
Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that we need to better acknowledge human need and vulnerability, and that valuing women “as women” is a start
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Even granting motherhood as womanly in the conservatives paradigm, I don’t understand this distinction about the masculine provider. Mothers feed children with their own bodies, women acquire, prepare and serve food, etc—how are these behaviors properly showing dependence? Isn’t that providing?
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
I’m really hung up on the statement that truth-seeking is the work of capitalism
Ross Douthat has evidently discovered Japanese salaryman work-life balance, and seems to think it will somehow lead to a revival of American masculinity rather than crashing birthrates and a spike in the suicide rate.
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I’m really hung up on the statement that truth-seeking is the work of capitalism
Only 5 years ago my husband’s boss commented to him that the other, female manager was obviously less committed to her job because she had kids
My mother was the breadwinner in the family, first to get a college degree in the family, and when she was pregnant with me her boss came into her office, told her that she'd never be the same accountant again, and fired her on the spot. That was in nineteen eighty two
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Only 5 years ago my husband’s boss commented to him that the other, female manager was obviously less committed to her job because she had kids
SweaTarts
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Starwurst
Starwurst
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Swedish fist
Swedish fist
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
SweaTarts
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Ohhh, the east wing is where the woman stuff happened, everything makes a lot more sense now
October 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Ohhh, the east wing is where the woman stuff happened, everything makes a lot more sense now
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
This is all incredibly rich coming from the administration that just paid tens of thousands of federal employees to not work for months on end
Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.
Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"
October 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is all incredibly rich coming from the administration that just paid tens of thousands of federal employees to not work for months on end
*K-pop demon hunters voice* Shutdown, Shutdown, Shutdown down down down
October 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
*K-pop demon hunters voice* Shutdown, Shutdown, Shutdown down down down
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New from me: Russ Vought is using federal employees as hostages in federal shutdown negotiations, threatening mass firings if Dems do not accept Trump's terms.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just allowed Vought to impose a de facto impoundment of foreign aid.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just allowed Vought to impose a de facto impoundment of foreign aid.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...
Shutdown hostage taking
Russ Vought's threatens more mass firings; SCOTUS blesses his de facto impoundment
donmoynihan.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
New from me: Russ Vought is using federal employees as hostages in federal shutdown negotiations, threatening mass firings if Dems do not accept Trump's terms.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just allowed Vought to impose a de facto impoundment of foreign aid.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just allowed Vought to impose a de facto impoundment of foreign aid.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...
Curious if this impacts the shutdown negotiations. SCOTUS effectively greenlighting impoundment further weakens Congress’s assurance any funding will be spent and increases the need for executive promises or stricter requirements in the law
September 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Curious if this impacts the shutdown negotiations. SCOTUS effectively greenlighting impoundment further weakens Congress’s assurance any funding will be spent and increases the need for executive promises or stricter requirements in the law
They never should have killed Google Reader
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
They never should have killed Google Reader
To build on this, some other commonalities: visceral storytelling, well-defined genre conventions that afford pleasure in both expectations being met and subverted, (often) centering female experience
My pet theory is it’s like watching horror movies; a way for straight women to confront latent fears and process societal ills in a controlled way. The genre convention of always having a HEA is key.
August 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
To build on this, some other commonalities: visceral storytelling, well-defined genre conventions that afford pleasure in both expectations being met and subverted, (often) centering female experience
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He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.
August 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
Maybe I just don’t really understand the implications here, but knowing that music can also be broken down on a mathematical level makes this less surprising or impressive to me. Much of human creation is bound by unseen rules and systems.
The fact that human language can be broken down on a mathematical level like this to such an extent, WITHOUT building a genuinely thinking mind behind it, is an immense and deeply unexpected discovery about language and cognition.
This is something that shouldn’t be possible, and now it is.
This is something that shouldn’t be possible, and now it is.
August 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Maybe I just don’t really understand the implications here, but knowing that music can also be broken down on a mathematical level makes this less surprising or impressive to me. Much of human creation is bound by unseen rules and systems.
This is ancillary but it has to be a purposeful choice to make the positive number red and bright and the negative number a neutral black that doesn’t draw the eye.
Harry Enten: "This is an abject disaster for the president. Voters on Trump on inflation - look at where his net approval stands today on inflation. My goodness gracious! Into the gutter we do. H's 25 points underwater! ... the wrath the voters feel for Trump is transferring over to Republicans."
August 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is ancillary but it has to be a purposeful choice to make the positive number red and bright and the negative number a neutral black that doesn’t draw the eye.
Really dislike the framing of this one, highlighting women who are happy about leaving the workforce without sufficient attention to how it’s coerced or even dangerous given the current economy and job market. wapo.st/4fwa5Qt
Mothers are leaving the workforce, erasing pandemic gains
Working mothers are leaving the workforce in large numbers due to return-to-office policies and caregiving responsibilities.
wapo.st
August 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Really dislike the framing of this one, highlighting women who are happy about leaving the workforce without sufficient attention to how it’s coerced or even dangerous given the current economy and job market. wapo.st/4fwa5Qt
The wastefulness of this genuinely makes me feel sick
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The wastefulness of this genuinely makes me feel sick
I was born within a couple weeks of LL and the Olsen twins were born around then, too. I remember being disgusted and disturbed by the way they talked about her and about all 3 girls turning 18, knowing that reflected how grown men saw and talked about me, too.
Chances are you’ve heard this gross little nugget at some point, but it’s worth another listen.
Lindsay Lohan was 17 when these two grown men discussed her breasts and fantasized about how her troubled relationship with her father would make he better in bed.
Lindsay Lohan was 17 when these two grown men discussed her breasts and fantasized about how her troubled relationship with her father would make he better in bed.
July 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I was born within a couple weeks of LL and the Olsen twins were born around then, too. I remember being disgusted and disturbed by the way they talked about her and about all 3 girls turning 18, knowing that reflected how grown men saw and talked about me, too.
The White House statement | Wikipedia
July 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The White House statement | Wikipedia