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October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I think that we should have a barometer for every day the govt is shut down that is just Mike Johnson applying more and more blush
October 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I think that we should have a barometer for every day the govt is shut down that is just Mike Johnson applying more and more blush
The Hegseth meeting with the generals is probably a pissing contest, but I can’t help but think of this.
September 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Hegseth meeting with the generals is probably a pissing contest, but I can’t help but think of this.
I’m taking Tylenol tonight in solidarity with my autistic brothers and sisters.
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I’m taking Tylenol tonight in solidarity with my autistic brothers and sisters.
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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
Satan is hiring!
July 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Satan is hiring!
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it's weird to think that this group of people who've seized control represent the very worst aggregation of ideas and policy positions in modern history. eugencists, violent nationalists, openly authoritarian. just sneering nihilism. even reagan and bush pretended to care about some stuff
July 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
it's weird to think that this group of people who've seized control represent the very worst aggregation of ideas and policy positions in modern history. eugencists, violent nationalists, openly authoritarian. just sneering nihilism. even reagan and bush pretended to care about some stuff
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it’s not a dark enlightenment, what we are undergoing is a dark reenchantment.
people’s understanding of the world is increasingly formed by sources seeking to intrigue or awe, rather than inform with anything like procedurally vetted approximations of mundane truth.
people’s understanding of the world is increasingly formed by sources seeking to intrigue or awe, rather than inform with anything like procedurally vetted approximations of mundane truth.
July 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
it’s not a dark enlightenment, what we are undergoing is a dark reenchantment.
people’s understanding of the world is increasingly formed by sources seeking to intrigue or awe, rather than inform with anything like procedurally vetted approximations of mundane truth.
people’s understanding of the world is increasingly formed by sources seeking to intrigue or awe, rather than inform with anything like procedurally vetted approximations of mundane truth.
That episode of The Rehearsal seems even more timely after Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
That episode of The Rehearsal seems even more timely after Colbert.
This is what it feels like to be a bystander running through the streets while Godzilla and a slightly more offensive monster duke it out.
BREAKING: Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show reut.rs/3TNpulG
July 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is what it feels like to be a bystander running through the streets while Godzilla and a slightly more offensive monster duke it out.
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I did some research and reporting to try to understand why Elon turning Grok "anti-woke" also made it into MechaHitler, some interesting stuff in the guts of LLMs. feat @theophite.bsky.social prospect.org/power/2025-0...
How Did Elon Musk Turn Grok Into MechaHitler?
The malfunctioning xAI chatbot provides some insights into how large language models work.
prospect.org
July 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I did some research and reporting to try to understand why Elon turning Grok "anti-woke" also made it into MechaHitler, some interesting stuff in the guts of LLMs. feat @theophite.bsky.social prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf
Only in America could a white man with a current net worth of $2 billion see himself as part of a victimized group. 🤦♂️
July 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf
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I just can't grasp how my countrymen can't understand this: undocumented immigrants come here and as soon as they can start contributing to the economy -- whereas rounding them up and detaining them, or deporting them to third party countries, COSTS BIG MONEY. Make money vs cost money. So simple.
July 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I just can't grasp how my countrymen can't understand this: undocumented immigrants come here and as soon as they can start contributing to the economy -- whereas rounding them up and detaining them, or deporting them to third party countries, COSTS BIG MONEY. Make money vs cost money. So simple.
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it’s wild how hard it is for andreesen et al to accept the concept of privilege, so much so that they have reversed it
just total denial of obvious objective reality because it’s offensive to their conception of self to admit that not every single thing they’ve achieved is 100% by their own efforts
just total denial of obvious objective reality because it’s offensive to their conception of self to admit that not every single thing they’ve achieved is 100% by their own efforts
July 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
it’s wild how hard it is for andreesen et al to accept the concept of privilege, so much so that they have reversed it
just total denial of obvious objective reality because it’s offensive to their conception of self to admit that not every single thing they’ve achieved is 100% by their own efforts
just total denial of obvious objective reality because it’s offensive to their conception of self to admit that not every single thing they’ve achieved is 100% by their own efforts
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It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”
America, we have the opportunity to do something so diabolical, so cathartic…
#loveisland
#loveisland
June 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
America, we have the opportunity to do something so diabolical, so cathartic…
#loveisland
#loveisland
He is walking these dogs
House Speaker Mike Johnson is piling onto the Republican attacks aimed at California Gov. Gavin Newsom, telling reporters the Democrat should be “tarred and feathered” for challenging President Donald Trump over immigration enforcement. bit.ly/4dTe8pk
June 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
He is walking these dogs
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going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
March 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
I wrote about Elon Musk, Cyberpunk, trucks, and Losers.
open.substack.com/pub/lizwestb...
open.substack.com/pub/lizwestb...
Losers™: Cybertrucks
I bet Harrison Ford hates it.
open.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I wrote about Elon Musk, Cyberpunk, trucks, and Losers.
open.substack.com/pub/lizwestb...
open.substack.com/pub/lizwestb...
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This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.
February 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.