there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!
Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic”...
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
there’s this constant mythology about the elusive centrist voter who isn’t represented by the media but whenever they use examples of people not represented by the media it’s always people like alan dershowitz who are still represented in the media and almost exclusively so!
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
"Jobs don't exist anymore" is a phrase I've repeated to myself a lot. No idea what the hell most of you do all day but if someone is paying you to do it, hold on for dear life, because if it goes away it feels like it's probably not coming back. Either that or I'm just particularly unemployable.
“Stella why do you put up with x or y” what would you like me to do man. I was unemployed for 18 of the last 36 months. Jobs don’t exist anymore. We take what we can get now, warts and all.
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"Jobs don't exist anymore" is a phrase I've repeated to myself a lot. No idea what the hell most of you do all day but if someone is paying you to do it, hold on for dear life, because if it goes away it feels like it's probably not coming back. Either that or I'm just particularly unemployable.
Every great product, once it's established itself as a primary operator in its market, is deliberately made worse and worse by its provider in pursuit of greater profit and exploitation of the consumer. I don't know how we can observe this process & still believe in the rationality of capitalism.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Every great product, once it's established itself as a primary operator in its market, is deliberately made worse and worse by its provider in pursuit of greater profit and exploitation of the consumer. I don't know how we can observe this process & still believe in the rationality of capitalism.
heard someone say that calling trans women women was a "linguistic formality" and it highlights how liberal ignorance of our lives has evolved their supposed allyship into a kind of paternalistic pity in which they feel they are burdened w pretending im someone im not bc it's the "nice" thing to do
its really frustrating that "the truth matters and so does doing the right thing" is not a valid reason for supporting trans rights in mainstream discourse. rn the popular conception is that trans rights are a kind and gentle lie
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
heard someone say that calling trans women women was a "linguistic formality" and it highlights how liberal ignorance of our lives has evolved their supposed allyship into a kind of paternalistic pity in which they feel they are burdened w pretending im someone im not bc it's the "nice" thing to do
One thing you quickly learn about conspiracy theories is that a whole lot of them are just someone accidentally figuring out what capitalism is but being a little too racist or something to take the next logical step
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
One thing you quickly learn about conspiracy theories is that a whole lot of them are just someone accidentally figuring out what capitalism is but being a little too racist or something to take the next logical step
there are some people who post because it's their job, some people who post like it's their job, and some people who post in spite of their job. you really want to avoid that second one
April 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
there are some people who post because it's their job, some people who post like it's their job, and some people who post in spite of their job. you really want to avoid that second one