Alex Norris

You are a better writer than AI. (Yes, you.) YouTube video by josh (with parentheses)

Have you seen this? I feel like it's explicitly putting these two things together

youtu.be/V5wLQ-8eyQI?...

I have thought about gulpo at least once a month since I first saw him fifteen years ago.

Following this account is like how Inspector Clousea has Cato attack him when he's least expecting it, but with Discourse.

Pictured is gulpo, the fish who eats concepts, from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Gulpo is devouring the concept "HOW DO YOU USE SOLAR WHEN IT GETS DARK" and gulpo is labeled "HOW DO YOU USE FOSSIL FUELS WHEN THE US ENTERS ITS 10 MILLIONTH WAR OF CHOICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST"

Weirdly, people who don't understand how identity salience works move to the right even when the left does not run on kicking them out of the country.

A YouTube thumbnail depicting a monstrous and dead-eyed Mr. Beast, mouth wide, in front of the strait of Hormuz. SURVIVING HORMUZ CHALLENGE! WHO MAKES IT THROUGH WINS BIG $1,000,000 PRIZE!

I am begging people to not repost stuff that is a screenshot of a video in an undated tweet. It's good internet hygiene.

(this is a real quote/video from aug. 2025, talking about Trump's security cooperation with NATO. The tweet is recent and is trying to represent the video as recent too)

Yeah like...I know there are a lot of AI written books. Are any of them good? Are any of them something someone would read on purpose, much less in competition with great novelists?

Nobody Puts Bibi in the Corner

Donald Trump was once more Pat Buchanan than Patrick Swayze, but now he's in a dirty dance with Bibi Netanyahu, who's had the time of his life goading America into war. When they're done in Iran, Marco is hoping for a sequel called Havana Nights.

by Maureen Dowd

WAOW (BASED BASED BASED BASED)

Clavicular, the Radical Submissive In 2026, hypermasculinity has one master: the algorithm. Here, John Paul Brammer examines Clavicular's algorithm worship.

For Playboy, I wrote about Clavicular, masculinity, and the digital image www.playboy.com/read/enterta...

I agree with this but think you could point the argument pretty well in the other direction. People in organizing often don't see municipal and state politics as worth contesting, which means the candidates the author wants are not emerging from the grassroots

To be clear, we were not facing a choice between this and telling every white kid slavery is their fault. If we were, though, I would pick telling every white kid slavery is their fault. At least it provokes thought.

OP deleted which is too bad but the point stands 🙃

The current US administration of course won't be looking up from the TV or taking its hands out of the till to handle these problems. But I haven't seen many people talking about these things should be handled when the crooks are thrown out.

So much of the AI discourse seems driven by the lack of political leadership on it anywhere. If the technology has the labor-saving capacity its boosters claim, that's a political problem to solve. Its dangers, too, require regulation and won't be wished away

What is the “equal time rule” and why did CBS enforce it?

Posting about posting is the lowest form of the written word. Toilet stall poetry is a more noble pursuit.

I am happy to welcome converts to the cause, but I wish they'd stop coming up to the pulpit.

Before I explain further, let me offer two important caveats. First, there is no definition of “Christian Zionist” that should excuse, rationalize or justify any form of injustice committed by the modern state of Israel. There is no form of Christian Zionism that should mandate support for the policies of the Netanyahu government. I unequivocally support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, but I have also written repeatedly and critically about Israel’s tactics in its war on Gaza, which I believe have prolonged the conflict and created extraordinary and unnecessary human suffering. Jewish lives aren’t more precious than Palestinian lives, and any form of advocacy for Israel that treats Palestinians as any less deserving of safety and security than Israelis isn’t just un-Christian; it’s anti-Christian. It directly contradicts the teachings of Scripture, which place Jews and Gentiles in a position of equality.

National review article from May 15, 2018: Israel has the right and obligation to defend it's border with deadly force by David French

At the same time, American conservatives should no more excuse every IDF action or tactic than they should excuse every American action or tactic. Israel is a nation that is more dedicated to preventing civilian casualties than even the United States is, but it is not infallible. It needs an ally that can offer constructive criticism. Yet while Israel is hardly perfect, its response to the Great Return March is necessary and prudent. Under no circumstances can it allow Hamas to breach its border fence. Nor can it hold its foreign policy (including the location of foreign embassies) hostage to threats of Palestinian terror or Palestinian riots. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and it will be the capital of Israel in any peace settlement. The only way Jerusalem will not be the Israeli capital is that Israel ceases to exist.

Compare and contrast

Opinion | Whatever This Is, It Isn’t Anti-Zionism

Guy who spends his whole career smearing BDS as antisemitic is suddenly shocked to find a real antisemitic anti-Zionism in the Republican party!

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

Kind of the inverse of Wilhoit's definition of conservatism: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Lincoln sees that in his own time and rejects it

I've heard of ways campaign finance has been taught at UT that I consider controversial but no one gives a shit

Hardly needs to be said, but this rule would be gibberish and unenforceable if everyone didn't already know what topics and perspectives are going to be ruled "controversial"

The enlightenment was a bunch of people deciding that the common civilization to which we are heir kinda sucked and we should build something better and hey I don't think they were right about everything but they were right about that.

Jim Davis is from Ken Paxton's office. There's no "pressure" on UT leadership it has simply been taken over by right wing ideologues

I liked the what happened to a&m article but yeah UT has been on the exact same track. Arguably earlier because of the civitas/school for civic leadership saga. They really just made a "humanities but for the right" school and want to replace liberal arts with it

How do we know this isn't being driven by record hiring by private ed???