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could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

submitted 13 days ago • 413 comments

The best part of this is Patrick Deneen saying he has “no specific recollection” of Hegseth’s thesis after writing a whole ass Substack post about how he was his favorite little bow tie Princeton conservative.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I assume we'll be hearing about this from the New York Times for four weeks straight, right?

submitted 14 days ago • 38 comments

“Martha Stewart still looks amazing”

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It’s not enough for Trump destroying the rule of law, alienating US allies, gutting public funding of science, and every other terrible thing—he’s going to give this century to China. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Things I never expected to read in my lifetime, episode 328:

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Not all lawyers were guilty of minimizing trump. However, lawyers do have a bias toward procedure that can lead them to downplay the actual threat a would-be tyrant poses.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

How exactly under a carbon tax do we measure emissions that are side effects of production? (For example, burning forest to clear ground for grazing cows). Is it just statistical modeling?

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

As the measles outbreak in Texas keeps spreading, parents who previously chose not to vaccinate their children are now lining up to get their kids the shots needed to protect them from the serious illness.

submitted 88 days ago • 407 comments

The problem with the fine-tuning argument is that it assumes the probability distribution of the constants is uniform. How do we know that? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 112 days ago • 163 comments

Have to admit I wasn’t expecting to be explaining the concept of anisogamy on Inauguration Day.

submitted 123 days ago • 14 comments

Framing the relationship bt Silicon Valley and the rest of society using social contract theory is a fascinating move. When did I sign this contract? Is it a hypothetical contract I should have signed? Can contracts never be renegotiated?

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

the feeling of your irreversible life choices coming home to roost

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

This is super interesting, especially the point that there are not enough ways to fund /low-risk/ but important work like maintaining software. open.substack.com/pub/theinfin...

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently if you ask ChatGPT to create an image of an analog clock showing a time (e.g. 6:40) it is incapable of presenting the hands in the correct position:

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

Even Rousseau (no fan of medicine and a “wellness” booster) admits this:

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

Fukuyama predicted this! (Not even joking - this is the Last Man part of the "The End of History and the Last Man")

submitted 160 days ago • 16 comments

Beautiful morning in Palm Springs:

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Since Paul Krugman is retiring from writing opinion pieces for the New York Times, here's one of my favorite essays of his about comparative advantage and intellectual culture--"Ricardo's Difficult Idea" web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

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Noah is wrong on details, like institutions” vs “races” is a false dichotomy and self-determination -/-> “ethnostates are good,” but the bigger point of the post is correct and people who say the line about indigenous land really owe us details about what they actually want.

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

Jordan Peterson’s turgid word vomit

submitted 179 days ago • 0 comments

The Brouwer fixed-point theorem implies that for any polling forecast, there is some forecasted outcome that will be confirmed by actual voters--even if voters take the forecast into account:

submitted 187 days ago • 1 comment

I'm partial to the "egg sticker price" explanation here. A lot of people, rightly or wrongly, associate Harris with inflation and think the economy was great under Trump.

submitted 199 days ago • 1 comment

okay so like --huge red shift in latinos specifically --downballot Ds outrunning harris by large margins --abortion passing handily in blood-red trump states takes are flying fast and furious--i'm certainly guilty here--but no one has a coherent story to tell about the whole picture yet

submitted 199 days ago • 34 comments

Friendly reminder that Mandates® are not a thing and elections don't reveal the will of the people.

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine a disclaimer like this for any other Nobel prize announcement: "We're not totally sure if this thing is the Higgs boson, but the LHC is cool and the result is strongly suggestive."

submitted 221 days ago • 0 comments

Even as the number of deployed warheads has fallen the number of nuclear powers has risen, and this will only get worse if South Korea, Poland, or Saudi Arabia (maybe Japan??) decide they want nukes: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 227 days ago • 0 comments

A perfect illustration of what fills the void when local journalism dies--half-baked, poorly-sourced "reporting" by partisan hacks.

submitted 253 days ago • 0 comments

Fantastic reporting by NewsGuard - the OH pets story was literally fourth hand and there's zero evidence for it according to the people who made it www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/origins-ha...

submitted 253 days ago • 7 comments

As important as it is for some audiences to diminish and minimize the Trump and the MAGA GOP as “weird” and “creepy”, their fundamental danger also can’t be understated.

submitted 276 days ago • 0 comments

"Rather than admit that tradwifing out seven children while your husband spends 16 hours a day at FoxConnUSA is not what most Americans want, Roberts has no choice other than to argue that we actually do want this but the Elites and the Uniparty have brainwashed us." newrepublic.com/article/1846...

submitted 287 days ago • 0 comments

The Summer Olympics need summer camp games: tug-of-war, capture the flag, hide-and-seek tag, sack races…

submitted 288 days ago • 0 comments

Still cannot get over how amazing Kristen Falkner's attack in the Olympic road race was today. Attacking the breakaway like that is risky, but the chasers couldn't organize and just weren't strong enough! youtu.be/XJse6aLQT8Y?...

submitted 293 days ago • 0 comments

Periodic reminder that in addition to being truly awful on policy, Trump's administration was full of George Washington Plunkitt-level corruption and graft:

submitted 295 days ago • 0 comments

Synchronized diving is a silly event. Diving is a solitary performance and there's nothing added when two divers try to mirror one another perfectly. If synchronized diving is so special, we should have synchronized gymnastics, skateboarding, etc.

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