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As an observer of modern right wing populist movements (i.e., I live in 21st C. America), I’m going to say that claiming subway users are both part of “the plutocratic elite” and yet still “the undeserving poor” is a normal, shockingly effective, rhetorical strategy of the right.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like in Ohio Gatorade is legally considered a fruit.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I am so sick of this boundless veneration for the wisdom of the Founders. In this moment of constitutional crisis, all I hear are endless references to what the Founders could or could not have foreseen, vesting them with quasi-religious significance, and it’s all just fucking bullshit.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

This almost certainly is a delayed consequence of sanctions, right? Years of deferred maintenance, or repairs being done without easy access to new parts, and planes are literally falling from the sky.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

In some ways these actions are the most surprising: we are literally only 50 years from the “you cant even see the hollywood sign” era of smog and they are just *itching* to fill our lungs with this shit again.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Smallest point, but J.D. Vance not buttoning his suit at the Inauguration, in obvious imitation of Trump, is the sort of small sign of fealty that is extra pathetic.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

submitted 56 days ago • 457 comments

Finally finishing the Power Broker for the first time, and man, the city really needed a De-Mosification program.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Say what you will about this Trump guy, but the crushing of liberal democracy is a small price to pay to get rid of daylight savings time *and* the debt ceiling. Maybe he can even get rid of the penny while he’s at it.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Witnessing the denigration of the value of higher education, the assaults on academic freedom and university independence, and the closure of smaller schools across the country, it feels like “the lamps are going out all over [America]; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

One thing we learned from the first Trump administration is the value of *making him fire you.* The rush of public officials to ‘obey in advance’ by folding like this bodes very poorly for the next four years.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Add this to the list of instances of tech-bro illiteracy: these guys watched Gattaca, loved the tech qua tech, and totally ignored the film’s fundamental criticism of genetic engineering (let alone the implicit critique of “meritocracy”). i.e., they missed the whole point of the movie.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Is there a term for something like an “Explanation of Benefits” email from an insurance company that, because it obscures more than it elucidates, does *exactly the opposite* of what it says on the tin?

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Serwer is correct, of course, but this illiteracy is everywhere. I’m reminded of Sam Altman of OpenAI pushing out a voice-chatbot that sounded like Scarlet Johansen because he wanted it to replicate her voice in “Her,” a film explicitly about the *dystopic alienation caused by technology*.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

And that constraining aspiring autocrats is the responsibility of the establishment, for elected officials, civil servants, and party élites, and is not a burden that should be passed to the public in cowardice masquerading as “deference.”

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever one thinks about the pardon of Hunter Biden, the pardon power is itself an anachronism *primed* for abuse and should be stripped from the president whenever we get around to our next constitutional convention and/or post-civil war set of constitutional amendments.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Shooting the introduction of the NYPD in Central Park in Elf like the Nazgul in Lord of the Rings is some truly masterful cinematography.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments