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I’m not sure you can read this much into the goofy choices of the ultra-wealthy, but it’s a funny read all the same.

This is full of spoilers, so don’t want it till you’ve seen the show. Adolescence was one of the best things I’ve ever seen on television. Just incredible acting and technical mastery.

I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans. I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior U.S. officials, up to and including the vice president.

So, quite literally.

Rachel Cohen’s resignation letter from her law firm, who is capitulating the Trump, is a good read.

The husbands being described sound, unsurprisingly, pretty dreadful. This is a pretty depressing article, all in all.

I’m not quite sure what I’ll do with this space, but I like the ideas behind smol.pub.

A fantastic and timely video essay on the Charlie Chaplin and The Great Dictator.

A good summary of why the Democrats are one giant shrug emoji of a political party, just the biggest group of loser ass losers.

It’s pretty frustrating Ford will win again, despite being so thoroughly useless and corrupt.

Making the case for large language models. This was a good read on a topic that often feels very polarized.

If super science is a possibility — if, say, Claude 13 can help deliver cures to a host of diseases — then, you know what? Yes, it is okay, all of it. I’m not sure what kind of person could insist that the maintenance of a media status quo trumps the eradication of, say, most cancers. Couldn’t be me. Fine, wreck the arts as we know them. We’ll invent new ones.

Everything is so terrible it’s hard to point to a particular article that sums up the terrible neatly. This one looks at the sort of right wing we are dealing with at the moment: abject loser machines, I guess.

The reporting about what is going on in America right now seems to really underplay what is taking place. And I think talking about what is happening plainly makes you sound like a crazy person. If everything Trump, Musk, and friends were doing was happening in Afghanistan it would be framed completely differently.

The news about DeepSeek reminded me of this old memo, purportedly leaked from Google, about the future of AI.

They are protesting the county’s racism party trying to reinterpret their countries founding treaty with the Māori people.

America voted for more of this.

Our bodies are festivals of variation. And in sports, we celebrate those differences—until we don’t. In certain sports, people are much more skeptical and far less accepting of variations among women athletes. With all our uniqueness, it seems strange to me that we laud some anatomical variations and are so hostile towards others. What matters is not whether a particular variation is common or rare, but how we perceive it in terms of the societal categories we have made. And because of our perceptions, some athletes end up adored. Others are shamed for some of the very characteristics that could help make them great.

It feels like you could write this story every day for the last year. The NY Times looks at all the death Ramy Nasr has had to deal with due to the war in Gaza.

Were it not for his children, Mr. Nasr said, he would not want to go on. “I wish I had died alongside my siblings,” he said. “Those that die are better off.”

The web design for this little anthology of modern religion essays is great.