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🧵 This piece is really important, because it gets to something that is a prerequisite for and recurring feature of atrocities worldwide: selective empathy. Most people assume that when atrocities happen, it’s bc everyone involved is a sociopath. Some are. But not all. 1/

he did if he was embarrassed and trying to hide what he had done until the last possible moment while still officially counting as having apologized. Look, it's 33 words, if we want to make a franchise we're going to have to engage in some interpretive choices beyond the text strictly supports.

yep yep yep

"Get my glasses prescription updated every three years like I should instead of every five when my eyesight has changed enough that my glasses give me a headache" challenge, difficulty level impossible.

Somehow it's 6 hours long and split in two parts

and in the DCAU Galatea is Power Girl... hmmm... [takes out notepad and starts a truly terrible storyboard, follows it up with a bulletin board full of thumtacks and string like a crazy person]

I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

I don't think people realize how embedded AI use already is in both the public service and the private sector. This signals perhaps the most massive enshittification of the knowledge economy in human history. Rather than innovation, it will be the death of innovation.

I don't know what will change things, but if no guardrails are put up in a generation we will be a dramatically dumber society. Which is hard to imagine given how fucking dumb we are right now.

I've played around with AI enough to know what it is - and any academic using it as more than a fancy search engine is playing with fire. It is capable of some degree of synthesis, often flawed, and that's about it. If you're letting it do your thinking for you, you're a fraud.

(One of the first things I ever wrote about Trump was about the "big obvious lie" point.) www.niskanencenter.org/authoritaria...

Trump loves telling big obvious lies and this is one of the biggest and most obvious. If there was one fixed star in Lindsey Graham's constellation, it was war against Iran.

LONG SHOT: an old-timey icebox refrigerator. GRADUAL ZOOM. SUPENSEFUL PIANO PLINKING INCREASES IN VOLUME AND TEMPO. CLOSE-UP: a hand on the icebox handle. EXTREME CLOSE-UP. JUMP SCARE VIOLIN DISCORDANT SOUND: a plate in the icebox, empty except for a few plum pits and a handwritten note.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

While we're talking about The Odyssey, can we take a second to appreciate one of the greatest exchanges of dialogue in the history of superhero fiction?

It's hard to regret the clearing of the decks that has made possible Young Justice, The Brave & the Bold, Harley Quinn, and My Adventures With Superman, but the DCAU was an amazing whole thing.

In other words, something that really must be done in order to salvage the separation of powers and democratic constitutionalism *also* meets Freedland's call, because it answers allies' question "how can we ever trust any trade agreement with the US again?" //

In this case: crucial to curbing executive dominance, arbitrary lawlessness, and corruption is curbing emergency powers, including a wholesale rewrite of statutes that preceded Chadha and assumed a meaningful legislative veto that no longer exists. This includes trade rules!

cruelty-dominance, a dumb authoritarian idea of international strength, a zero-sum view of international movement of goods and people, etc. This provides opportunities to the reconstructors.

A constructive point, in light of some "there are bigger problems than Canada's feelings" replies: There are thousands of Trump problems but a few core unifying themes that reinforce each other: corruption, executive power, lawlessness, white Christian nationalism, misogyny...