Will Cross

The median voter is not a centrist but actually just holds a bunch of mutually contradictory, meaningless opinions.

No words.

And I suppose, that’s what they want.
No words.

I was in NYC on 9/11. I was surrounded by the ashes. I knew people who died.

The enemy on that day was the billionaire failson of a billionaire oil magnate & the 19 assholes he bamboozled into giving their lives for his murderous cause.

The enemy is still billionaires, oil execs & racists like TT.

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

Armed man rammed vehicle into Michigan synagogue and was fatally shot by security, AP source says A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into a major synagogue in a Detroit suburb and was fatally shot by security.

A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroit’s largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside.

And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes it’s exactly because of situations like this that they do.

The sneering arrogance coupled with their lack of knowledge/competence nicely sums up our path to trumpism.

GREAT folks here!

Talk about a Temu trademark threat.

i was counting the minutes

Laughs in "use other than as a trademark."

"Everyone wants to know whether training AI on copyrighted works is legal. The real answer is: it depends—and the boundary between what’s permissible and what isn’t will be far messier than anyone expects."

I wrote a short post about my new paper, Copyright's Jagged Frontier, forthcoming article in the Duke Law Journal, matthewsag.com/copyrights-j.... Download it now on SSRN (who still have it marked as under review!?) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Grammarly has clearly been overreaching itself. I think it's time for the company to be split up, into Syntaxly and Morphologyly.

My school has both a no-AI policy and a “here’s your free Ai account” policy so

The fundamental mistake that the conservative legal movement made in looking at the Warren Court was assuming that it was all power and zero parts persuasion, so all they had to do was capture the institution. They were, I think, half right, but that other half is very important.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

The thing you never stop hearing about the Dem elite — that their messaging on certain issues was captured by a noisy sliver of the population who don’t talk like normal people — is all that’s happening to the entirety of elite gop, admin and otherwise — comms and policymakers

The budget for her ad was more than for the entire NEA.

Relatedly: Learn how to dislike things without making it a moral stance.

I would have given this like a <10% chance of happening (I'm not in the right loops to know about it). Good news.

Wars have public support when:

1) The country was attacked and has a good self-defense case.

2) Leaders persuade the people that a war of choice is in the national interest and important enough to be worth the risks,

And that's pretty much it. Neither apply to the Iran war. Not even a little.

"When we held the vibe coding event, I watched a first-year graduate student make an insightful map in an hour, a map that was at least as technically sophisticated as the one I had used in my job talk a decade earlier."

Yeah, my position on AI risk can be summed up as: "build the system the same way you would if AI was an intern". Would you give an intern full authority to push to prod or let them give legal advice?

My mentions have folks calling Talarico a "fascist" and assuring me that black Texans would never ever vote for anyone who uses Christian language.

For the good of democracy, I'm begging some of you to take a long break from social media. It's not helping you and you're definitely not helping us.

The correct terms for this whole process are political purges and illegal rescission.

But Trump officials (including Elon Musk) say “efficiency” and “private sector” and “waste, fraud, abuse,” and a lot of people—including much of the press—buy it. At least enough to miss the unsubtle big picture.

Like I've been saying, the present and future of the GOP is Nazi.

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

There's one use case for AI that I will personally vouch for: it is a FANTASTIC ctrl+F for large batches of disorganized files. And it works precisely because you're using it not to generate information, but to locate it.

Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.