There is no "tension" here if you realize that the voters who are up for grab don't live in mental universe where ideological categories like "liberal" or "conservative" have strong purchase. Rather, their orientation is prosystem vs. antisystem — with conflicted voters having a… https://t.co/ECn8rYw9Ic— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 18, 2025
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Rene Girard on a Cause of Homosexuality
From Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (1978; English translation, 1987); Book III, Chapter 3, “Mimesis and Sexuality” (Pages 337 – 338) “If we recognize that the sexual appetite can …
tom bombadil on X: "i feel like it would be good for society if there was a default job you could go get if you don't know what else to do. idk what it should be, but some people just need direction they struggle to supply on their own" / X
Last month we got news that an mRNA vaccine showed progress against pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest… https://t.co/JKII4beLzv— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) March 17, 2025
I’ve barely woken up 15 minutes ago and I already want to scream and cry and throw up. This isn’t just following national interests or cutting back on unnecessary costs, this is helping a fellow dictatorship get away with countless horrific crimes. pic.twitter.com/WhsC12LX6Z— Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦 (@rynkrynk) March 17, 2025
Republicans have the easiest job in the world. They campaign on the idea that government is broken and ineffective. Once elected, they sabotage its functions, then use their own failure as proof that privatization is the only solution—ultimately enriching their friends.— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) March 16, 2025
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Trump moves to gut several agencies, targeting Voice of America, libraries
The president signed two new executive orders, one that repeals several Biden-era labor and environmental policies and another that severely cuts various independent agencies created by Congress.
One interesting thing going on with Democrats: Those emerging as public-facing leaders--AOC, Frost, Crockett, Chris Murphy, Walz, Brian Schatz, others--are not ideologically uniform. What connects them is communication skill--you either have it or you don't--and a sense of urgency and stakes.— Mark Harris (@markharris.bsky.social) 2025-03-12T15:36:41.307Z
Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...— Evan Hill (@evanhill.bsky.social) 2025-03-13T16:51:36.940Z
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH— Rachael Sirianni, PhD (@docsirianni.bsky.social) 2025-03-15T17:32:48.107Z
zoë on X: "rewatched severance and was reminded of how much i love devon & ricken’s house, the bier residence designed by japanese-american architect kaneji domoto https://t.co/7D3HTIBGwP" / X
house from severance
Ⓢ on X: "tutorial on how you can use textures a thread 🧵" / X
DUDA on X: "new years makeup inspo! christian bale at the premiere of velvet goldmine in 1998 🪩 https://t.co/a2iDzA8M27" / X
christian bale makeup inspo
Bram Cohen🌱 on X: "@eshear The drugs which knock you out are all nasty and result in poor quality sleep with side effects. It's better to push things back from the other end. The ozempic of being awake is caffeine." / X
Why did Apple pre-announce “more personalised Siri”? — Amy Worrall
On Apple's reliance on third party developer support for new features
the smart Siri will need buy-in from developers. Devs will tell the system about nouns and verbs that their apps know about — the semantics of the app’s data model objects, and the actions users can take upon them. Additionally, using this structured data, apps will tell the system what the user is doing right now, thus providing the context that Siri can become aware of. It’s all built on top of the existing Intents and UserActivities that apps have already been using to integrate with Shortcuts, Spotlight, and a bunch of other bits of the system. But using those is optional, and even for an app that’s got a head start, the new supercharged versions will require extra work to adopt.
Gone are the days where an eager group of independent developers would adopt every new technology springing forth from Cupertino, just because. Look at VisionOS — Apple promised the next big thing, but there’s no market for software there. (Jeff Johnson reports that in the first three weeks he only sold 21 copies of the Vision Pro version of his popular Safari extension StopTheMadness.) Beyond that, it is increasingly clear that Apple does things that benefit Apple, and many of those things do not benefit developers.
REPORT | According to Fox News and much of the rest of the media, Mahmoud Khalil has called “for the total eradication of Western civilization.” Even if the allegation were true, it would be protected speech, but it’s not: the phrase appeared on an Instagram post linked to an… pic.twitter.com/Ek1OuxOO52— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) March 12, 2025
I’m glad people are learning that the cost of community is annoyance / inconvenience/ sharing your space and things. More of this realisation please.— martha (@mxmsworld) March 11, 2025
Can’t sleep, time to do a fresh reboot of VV’s talking points— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) November 23, 2020
House Budget Allows At Least $2.8 Trillion of Deficit Increases-2025-02-21
Trump claimed we’re going to balance the budget, but he just pushed the House to pass a bill that will add literal trillions to the debt and deficit.
Isaac Saul on X: "One thing a lot of people aren’t ready for is that if this recession comes, a lot of people in the Trump camp are going to celebrate it. Job losses and the stock market, GDP, 401ks etc falling will be celebrated as a way to wash out inflation and cheap labor. Gonna be wild." / X
documentation of people in the Trump crowd framing recession as a good thing
DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.
Jeff Stein on X: "Elon Musk's pick to run the Social Security Administration, now taking over the agency, is out with a statement today in which he acknowledges that people in the Social Security database who are over 100 years old are "not necessarily receiving benefits" Trump had said "millions https://t.co/NFya0iRi3h" / X
From Tangle newsletter on Trump's address to Congress.: > Trump is still repeating a lot of nonsense about Social Security payments to 150-year-old Americans. To recap: We know the Social Security Administration (SSA) issues erroneous payments. Last year the SSA inspector general found $71.8 billion in improper payments from 2015 to 2022 (about 0.84% of the $8.6 trillion in payments over that time). Another inspector general report from 2021 found that the SSA made $298 million in payments to 24,000 dead beneficiaries. But Musk has made much more sweeping claims on X and is pretending DOGE uncovered this. A lot of people explained to Musk that he was misunderstanding the data he was looking at, but he has not corrected the record. Now the president is running with it, even after his own appointed Social Security administrator said “recent reporting” (from Musk and Trump) was misinforming people about fraudulent payments.
ok maybe sean baker really is following those fucked up social media accounts for research lol pic.twitter.com/mo9WyPmf7h— 𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓷 (@shereeny) March 4, 2025
Absolutely. Zelensky simply pointed out: diplomacy is great. We tried it. Putin breaks his promises, so what kind of diplomacy are you talking about Vance? And since Vance has no answer he goes on the attack.— Joost Brugman (@brugmanjoost) February 28, 2025
Here is a direct transcript of the exchange. Everything was basically normal, until this: J.D. Vance: For four years, in the United States of America, we had a president who stood up in press conferences and talked tough about Vladimir Putin, and then Putin invaded Ukraine and…— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul) February 28, 2025
6. In closing, Zelenskyy was set up. There was no good faith effort to support Ukraine or come to a peace agreement because Trump does not care about Ukrainians sovereignty. He care about "making a deal." Any deal he can sell to Americans that he brought peace--even if it doesn't…— Terrell Jermaine Starr (@terrelljstarr) March 1, 2025
Meet the most over-engineered navigation bar, which automatically adds a feathered mask to ensure legibility on any background. Individual views can opt out (like the trailing button, which requires a background blur). pic.twitter.com/00XQ3k0Zhh— Julien Sagot (@Barbapapapps) February 26, 2025
You’re about to hear all kinds of things about a bill called the SAVE Act. Congressional Republicans are using it as a cover to take away voting rights from thousands of Americans—all while claiming it’s about stopping non-citizens from voting. 5 things to know 🧵👇🏻— Congressman Greg Landsman (@RepGregLandsman) February 21, 2025
brit @ EAG bay area! on X: "imo a strong and under-leveraged dating strategy is having a large body of public writing that expresses your interiority. a portfolio of work offers way more signal than a date me doc, which tend to fall short of expressing a comprehensive aesthetic" / X