genuinely fascinating that we’ve hit a point where the full monetization of the internet and ai bot takeover has led to a majority of people wanting tech minimalism
Instead of any economic agenda, the animating ideology of the modern Western Left is Gaia-Worship. It was famously articulated by Paul Ehrlich, who hatefully conceptualized the entire humanity and civilization as a disgusting blight that must wiped out in a genocide of billions.
Western leftists are so unserious because there's already an obvious alternative to free market housing, it's state commieblocks. But they don't even support building commieblocks at a massive scale
"Solid B cities might not have the MoMA, but they are likely to have good museums, a great brewery scene, a functional bike path, and a minor-league stadium. To live in a place you can afford with a municipal government that works, this hardly seems like a consolation prize."
The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying.
This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you.
In the US Senate, I’ve got a plan to ban it.
Trump has unwittingly become the salesman in chief for Chinese green technology, and may ironically end up being the single most consequential American president for climate change in the process 😅
By 2029 globe emoji neoliberals will be pushing landback bills in major metros nationwide to do massive dense development that circumvents zoning regs and environmental review, while Kate Willett will be talking like Custer
In a world where many democrats have embraced pie-in-the-sky middle class tax cuts, leave it to a democratic socialist like Mamdani to seriously engage with budgeting tradeoffs and embrace an efficient broad based property tax increase
Pizza making has been fully automated. This has been true for years.
But if you go into a pizza shop across the country, it's mostly still people doing it by hand.
Can automate != will automate
A lot of the media covering this case is deliberately hiding the name of the judge who let this family killer off, so I'll say his name again: Bruce Chan.
Like many things, here in 2026 conservative men are driving their $80,000 trucks to get a 1000 calorie milkshake with a bit of coffee in it while lib men are walking to the Yemeni cafe on the corner and getting coffee so black that it has never seen the sun
Just saw a Ryan Gosling interview where he says he liked the story of Project Hail Mary because it has the message that the future isn't something to be feared, it's something to be figured out. And that's a message he wants his kids to hear. Awesome.
the founding fathers saw islam as a really cool foreign religion and catholicism as basically a mental parasite commanding a legion of violent fanatics
A few years ago, Revolver News coined “male-to-male transsexuals” to describe the performative masculinity of Black Rifle Coffee and similar conservative projects.
Markwayne Mullin is the textbook example of male-to-male transsexual
We used to have these. They were called Apartment Hotels. They’d consist of a single room with a bathroom, housecleaning, a cafeteria and lounges. Imagine being able to rent month to month and not need to furnish an apartment. It was ideal. Nuts we got rid of these.