I think the fact that Samuel Moyn has nothing smugly snarky to say means that even he comprehends how bad the optics are in his interview with Douthat.

He’s just awkwardly standing there like that old Ned Leeds meme.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h ago

How it started / How it’s going The greatest geopolitical disaster & failure of any president in the history of the Republic

I was thinking about this show the other day. It got a lot of hype way back when. I wasn’t aware that so many heavy hitters were involved in it.

Brian Ruh@brianruh.bsky.social · 13h ago

You know what series I never hear anyone talking about these days? Keitai Sousakan 7. Yeah, it’s about anthopomorphized cell phones from nearly 20 years ago. It’s silly, but there was a great list of directors, too (including Miike Takashi, Oshii Mamoru, and Kaneko Shusuke).

Eh. Korea and Japan don’t have access to automatic rifles. The mass stabbings during the 90s and aughts would’ve been significantly worse if they were mass shootings.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 15h ago

people love to post about how "you're not gonna like it when there's millions of unmarried aimless young men" and like Japan and Korea have been running this field experiment for years and they're mostly just playing video games and jerking off

I like being passionate about a state that I can’t legally vote in

I do find it amusing that Piketty is in the Business section at Barnes and Noble.

This is the part where “everything is political” or “politics is everywhere” rings true. You’re going to make everything and everyone look bad who’s associated with your bio.

Snowden St.@snowden.st · 5mo ago

"If you drive like a jerk, don't put a Christian fish on your car", but for online behavior. For real. If you're someone who likes to be grumpy and brusque with people online, no shade to your hobby, but you really should take your political affiliations out of your bio, imho.

The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships to colleges across the state, with many would-be freshmen finding out only weeks before their move-in date. Nick Judin reports:

‘Soul-Crushing’: 170 Foster Students Denied Scholarships at Last Minute Across Mississippi

The State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships weeks before classes begin due to lack of funding.

mississippifreepress.org

the really wonderful thing about the argument of "you were never killed by something if you had a pre-existing condition or there was some other factor involved" is that it would make all deaths mechanistically impossible

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wonder will Alex Berenson now change his health reporting? Or will start pushing a "died with" rather than "died from" framing?

when fitness influencers say that flys are useless and don’t do anything

What’s sad is that I reckon even illiterates are significantly better at judging context and social cues than the median BlueSky user.

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 2d ago

im sorry for saying bluesky was illiterate i had twenty people prove they cannot read on the other platform today

Max miller is accused of forgetting that he needed to direct his violence and emotional distress at Haitian children not his own

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 2d ago

I have to quibble with the senator’s contention that max miller isn’t fit to serve in the U.S. house because his former son in law seems to be an incredibly abuse and emotionally unwell man, the two leading qualifications for being a member of any Republican led state delegation to Capitol Hill

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

This guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.

Had a weird time trying to explain to my wife who Paul is from Spider-Man. And why it was so funny when he died.

This is a candid description of the fate of a lot of reporters/journalists who transition to Substack. There might be more money in the latter. But institutions like Legacy Media are better at stabilizing employees than freelance or contract positions. Regardless of whether it feels that way.

Really doesn’t bode well that a bunch of people on here and Twitter are looking at the latest Spanish-Moroccan border flare up and going “Israel must be secretly orchestrating this”

Wait. Torrance has Jiro Style Ramen now???

If I recall correctly, it was even worse than that. Grandpa forgot to take his injection and insisted that he was helping “us”. Everything he touches gets wrecked.

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d ago

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

Ok. Milly’s Pan Pizza in Chicago lives up to the hype. Definitely deserves its spot as number one in the city.

a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.

‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating

The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.

politico.com

Um...yeah. Comparably speaking, there's a reason why you don't hear much from the Dirtbag Left of the 2010s anymore. Many of them were too professionally difficult to work at any institutions beyond a free lance capacity.

E.J. Fagan@ejfagan.com · 4d ago

Senior Republican congressional staffer on trying to recruit new policy experts: “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”

I think the creatives who already started their careers and progressed to more managerial roles will be fine. But like other parts of the knowledge *and* creative economy, those who are just beginning their careers or never progressed to a managerial or executive role are up creek.

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing

I think that I once opined that there isn't anything analogous in U.S. history to the inter service rivalries in Japan. But I've also said that the current administration is more comparable to Imperial Japan than other Quasi-Totalitarian States. cc: @sharonk.bsky.social @aelkus.bsky.social

I've been doing a lot of thinking about how generative AI impacts information science and libraries. Also, trying to figure out why AI literacy is not a satisfying approach. I'd love your thoughts. informationmatters.org/2026/07/ai-i...

AI, Information Shock, and a New Information Science - Information Matters

We are living in the early stages of an Information Shock caused by generative AI. Information Shocks are rare, but historically transformative. This one will require a reinvention of information scie...

informationmatters.org

...And he's back.

I think that a lot of users on this website grossly underestimate how bad Ross Douthat's "replacement" will be. I know that sounds like a given, but can you imagine if the NYT replaced him with someone *as* bad as Chris Rufo or Richard Hanania? I don't think it's outside of the realm of possiblity.

The sensible conservatives(TM) of Ex-Twitter insist that Hillsdale is actually a good college

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congrats on getting Hamas to say “okay fine, we’ll disarm after Israel totally withdraws” and Israel to say “okay fine, we’ll withdraw after Hamas totally disarms.” No one’s accomplished that before, better make it the top headline.