Jacob 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Decided to put my name to this. I am not an Ancient Roman Republic orator if you can believe it.

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Land in NYC and San Francisco is so valuable now that reclaiming land from the sea today, as happened until the 1970s across America's greatest cities, would be like printing money. There is no engineering reason they can't – only a regulatory one.

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

Occasional lateness is part of life: traffic, misplaced keys, a delayed train … these things happen.

*Habitual* lateness is 100% a moral failing and trying to frame it as a pseudo-disability is arguably an even greater moral failing. Just be on time for things.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The Trump admin has already authorized almost $20 billion for Iran—before a final deal is signed.

If a deal is reached, Iran could receive nearly $500 billion. All to end the war Trump started.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

This is like when Asians in San Francisco pushed back against pro-crime policies and anti-merit in schools.

Urban whites are responsible for leftist insanity, nativists prefer to blame immigrants.

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

Crazy that some people in France are concerned about air conditioning contributing to climate change, when this is their electricity mix:

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

The invention of the printing press didn't just make information transfer more efficient. It made the whole culture put more weight on the words in front of them.

Before the printing press, you might only have had access to a single copy of Aristotle or whoever. This scarcity made ideas slippery.

Even if you had evidence that disproved Aristotle, it was easy for someone to argue that Aristotle didn't really mean that - maybe the scribe made a mistake copying the book.

But once you had a uniform printed text, with many identical copies, the written word became more load-bearing. When actual evidence conflicted with authority, it wasn't so easy to ignore.

Arguably this was a major contributor to the Scientific Revolution. Ideas became more rigid, easier to pin down - and so easier to test and disprove.

The broader point is that the shift from oral culture to written culture didn't just happen once. Writing has become more and more load-bearing over time, as technology has changed, and it's hugely changed culture with it.

And if writing remains the key component of how AI gets up-to-speed with tasks, then this process could get accelerated.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Beginning to eke out into the press. Rubio knows this is a turd and he's absolutely fine with letting Vance own it publicly. https://t.co/0xgbLzhoTY

[Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg]

Donald Trump summoned the Smithsonian's Lonnie Bunch to the White House in order to criticize him for excessive wokeness. But he forgot the purpose of the meeting, and instead talked about Oval Office chandeliers, the space shuttle, his need to rename Dulles Airport after himself, and his desire to paint the Old Executive Office building white. All the details in this story:
https://t.co/dIjguQVYFT

[Luke Metro @luke_metro]

is the gov just holding back Fable until OpenAI catches up

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

A lot of people are saying this proves Tulsi isn't a Russian asset.

My follow-up question: why exactly was one of her cult handler's main goals to use Tulsi to prevent the ouster of Bashar al-Assad?

[Ilya Somin @IlyaSomin]

A literal example of the broken window fallacy.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

There is a Type of Person who sincerely thinks that what's holding back progress is people like Ezra Klein, and they've convinced themselves that but for Ezra - who is to the left of like 90% of America - regular Americans would turn into revolutionary soldiers for socialism.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I don’t really know anything about Dialog other than that I got blind invitations twice (didn’t go) and both times they touted various attendees to me, so it didn’t occur to me that it was much of a “secret.”

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

It's been clear for a while that it was going to come to this

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

MAHA going well I see

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Trump ran against the Biden record. Then he:
– Raised gas prices
– Launched foreign wars
– Dangled $300B for Iran
– Backdoor-forgave student loans
– Raised taxes (tariffs)
– Blew up the deficit
– Worsened inflation
– Weaponized DOJ against enemies
– Pardoned swampy lawmakers
– Let his family cash in
– Nationalized businesses
– Blamed corporate greed for prices
– Executive overreached
– Said an armed protester had it coming.

I hope all the MAGAs who despised Bidenism are enjoying the sequel. The remaining economic, foreign policy, and small-government conservatives who did not abandon their policy beliefs (what they call “RINOs”) are just sitting back saying “I told you so.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

This stuff is the Dems' answer to MAGA, and it's just as insane

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Non-voters have been studied to death and they come in two varieties: people whose politics are bizarre (e.g. single-issue fireworks legalization voters) and people who simply cannot grasp that politicians control the government.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Oh the mask is FULLY off from the man now.