Profile avatar
hillharman.bsky.social
1,325 posts 169 followers 115 following
Prolific Poster

He absolutely got 'em with this one. Sick burn, Dr. Fukuyama

the reporter who asked trump about "TACO" did the right thing but also probably caused a global economic depression

Basically just needed Chelsea players in front of the net so he could bounce it off of them into the net.

‘Assist’ doesn’t do justice to Palmer for those two Chelsea goals. Magician

Classic NS, & I mean that in a friendly way. No experiments in quantum physics will, or need, resolve this issue. But I'm sad that I can't get at the article all the same. (BTW there is no "partial free will". Either we have it or we don't. Whatever volition we have is obviously highly constrained.)

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

I think Trump should be allowed to run for a third term as long as Obama can also run for a third term.

Love how the press keeps praising Trump for press availability where he constantly reveals that he has no earthly idea what is goin on in his admin and the press does nothing with it.

This man, Judd Stone, has argued some of Texas' most evil cases in front of the Supreme Court. He defended the state's abortion bounty hunter law, sought to dismantle tribal sovereignty, and repeatedly asserted Texas' right to seize control over the southern border and immigration policy from Biden.

REPORTER: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign students visa? TRUMP: On what? REPORTER: Foreign student visas TRUMP: For the French? REPORTER: All the foreign students TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?

just going on the teevee and admitting it's all first amendment violations

This is for me personally one of the saddest things about being alive now rather than then.

This is really worth reading. Elon must have been on a heroic dose when he gave these quotes.

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

Perhaps the dominant personality type of our time and it sucks so bad.

Once the dominos start to fall, the recriminations are going to be insane.

Trump corruption story so bad it gets the rare straightforward NYT headline www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

the hard truth is, millions of young men in america are addicted to gambling on their phones. if we want to recapture their demographic we must pass legislation that makes it illegal for them to lose at gambling

I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal

Wow. Thanks, Google. I was *way* off.

I can’t get over this. Plopped those dry mashed potatoes down with an ice cream scoop. Pattypans look like they were cut with a lawnmower. This is sub-Applebees level.

Vital point here. The frames of political discourse — which are shaped by the structure of the info environment and by both strategic & organic communication — shape how people interpret their own experiences. We're not dealing with a problem of bad "facts" ... but one of corrupted sensemaking.

A nation, and soon a world, by and for philistines.

mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-house-...

Damn good point.

this is the funniest way to describe brian fucking eno

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

personally I'm wondering whether DOGE can get away with more when the spotlight glare of Musk publicity moves on www.theverge.com/politics/673...

As one gets older, one has a responsibility to not get so mad at the kids today that one becomes stupid and evil.

16 Dems voted with the GOP to throw the country into a major Stablecoin financial crisis in a few years. This Prospect article by @ryanlcooper.com summarizes the issues. We're going to be using taxpayer money to bail out a lot of private entities when the Stablecoin crisis hits. 1/2

More than 700K Americans died from COVID after he wrote this. We still have not achieved herd immunity.

Dick Cheney in 2002:

"materialism is bad boohoo things won't make you happy" that's a trinketless mindset, those are the words of somebody who doesn't have cool stuff

you’re finally starting to ask the right questions. follow the money

These people are total marks.

UPDATE: UnitedHealth deliberately changed patients to "do not resuscitate' so that they would be left to die in any medical emergency as they considered especially critically ill patients to be 'a waste of money' regardless of patient's desire to live.

it might be interesting for the Democrats to experiment with becoming a political party.

Update: Despite widespread reports of Musk “stepping back” from politics, he is still standing near enough by that the President runs US foreign policy in the insane way Musk wants it run and waves at him while doing so.

“That palantír really tied Orthanc together.” - Jeffrey the White Russian

Wish I were in Bilbao watching this turd bowl.

The Left has clearly failed to take advantage of the cadre of Marxist judges in the Federal judiciary.