lanekisonak

*gestures wearily* all of this

[lanekisonak @lanekisonak]

Pinning this for the duration. https://t.co/zJ8XVz31re

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

We're in a pretty fucked up situation.

[lanekisonak @lanekisonak]

It’s been said a lot but this war is a strange one

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Trump says bombing will stop based on request by Iran's leaders, but will resume tomorrow if a deal is not signed, according to Fox News report.

[Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17]

70% of people think AI could cause large-scale job losses. And 27% of people even think it could cause humanity's extinction.

That sort of tension means AI's status as a bottom-two issue *probably won't last*.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

UPDATE: Iran now has 2–3 days to make a deal or they’ll have 2 weeks to make a deal.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I think it’s really under-appreciated that a core fact of American politics is Republicans have this extreme outlier view of health care that no other major political party in the world tries to uphold.

[Miles Brundage @Miles_Brundage]

People outside of AI don't freak out quite enough in response to new system cards because, even if they do read them, there is a lot of unstated context missing...

For example, here is some context on one paragraph in the executive summary of today's Fable/Mythos card.

[lanekisonak @lanekisonak]

The 2024 ratification of January 6 continues to mark our national life

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

So election denial's just gonna be a regular thing for the indefinite future huh. Seems dangerous

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

I basically think the average voter is pretty wrong on:

1) Nuclear power (it's good)
2) Foreign aid (we spend very little on it and should spend more)
3) Climate change (a majority say they're not willing to have any additional amounts of their tax money spent on climate. The national average willingness to pay for things that help with climate is ~$300 per year)
4) Immigration (I think it's broadly good across the board, and definitely good to get more high skilled immigrants specifically)
5) Price controls in general (bad!)

I'd like governments to patiently nod along to voter concerns but quietly approve more nuclear, spend more on foreign aid, pay way more on climate, and allow at least more high skilled immigrants. I just flat out think it's wrong for politicians to have 1-1 similar views to the median voter and sometimes they need to diverge.

[Samantha Ruddy @samlymatters]

The girl in your freshman social studies class who raised her hand to ask why there’s no white history month is running half the major news outlets.

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

This is as close as you’ll get to a right-winger just admitting that they are totally uninterested in what is true or false; they simply demand to be assuaged.

They must *feel* calmed and satisfied. In their view, we all exist only to serve their feelings.

[lanekisonak @lanekisonak]

lol (anxious)

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

In April, Polymarket odds of Democrats taking the Senate were above 55%. Now they're at 46%

[napkin @napkinx3]

do a lot of people really have imaginary friends as kids or is it something popularised by media

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

The Senate confirmation process is meant to prevent the President from filling key roles with people possessing the "pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure." (Hamilton, Federalist 76).

The president, of course, wants such figures. The Senate should do its job and deny him such figures.

[Fisted Away @fistedaway]

Please: be respectful of the host nation’s culture and traditions

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

underheralded "old school" environmental victory, the waters around new york are much, much cleaner and can support all sorts of charismatic megafauna

[lanekisonak @lanekisonak]

Let’s go Brandon

[Sohrab Ahmari @SohrabAhmari]

My sense --- based on talking around --- is that President Trump wants out of this conflict ASAP, and that his patience with Bibi is running extremely short.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

wE nEeD sOMeOne wHo wiLL sTAnD uP tO tRUmP 🙃(mind you, Mills did this 1) publicly, 2) to his face, and 3) a month after his inauguration when he was at his most popular and law firms, universities, and the media were all rolling over for him.) *That* is political courage, folks.

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

I absolutely cannot justify it, but deep down I sorta believe that if we’d built more housing from 1980-2016, Trump wouldn’t have been elected.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

Mike Lee sowing, Mike Lee reaping

sorry, man, they don't love you like that

[Ben Axelrod @BenAxelrod]

Airports really need to reach a consensus on whether we’re leaving laptops in the bag in the security line.

[Mariana Alfaro @marianaa_alfaro]

I am so hype for this World Cup bc we’re going to hear sentences like this that have never been uttered before