Wait Michael Lorenzen pitched for Italy tonight? And it's Nola tomorrow? Have we heard either of them speak Italian?
11.03.2026 04:50
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Wait Michael Lorenzen pitched for Italy tonight? And it's Nola tomorrow? Have we heard either of them speak Italian?
Maybe even more than the Super Bowl although that was, of course, pretty incredible too
www.nfl.com/videos/nick-...
Have to add my customary fist shaking at Arthur Koestler here
Look I might say tax haven for Russian oligarchs that has undercut the European sanctions regime but guess I'm built different.
and the Dardanelles!
There's an old saying in Tennessee … I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee …
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
This may be the funniest court live-posting thread I've ever read
This whole live-posting thread is amazing, worth a complete read
bsky.app/profile/rand...
More incredible stuff from this DOJ
Trump can crib from the People's Will letter to Alexander III immediately after assassinating his father, which begins “Fully comprehending the sorrow which you are experiencing during the present moments” [goes on to "advise" him that if he doesn't end the autocracy the same will happen to him]
Strangely enough he did not, uh, follow their advice.
Trump can crib from the People's Will letter to Alexander III immediately after assassinating his father, which begins “Fully comprehending the sorrow which you are experiencing during the present moments” [goes on to "advise" him that if he doesn't end the autocracy the same will happen to him]
“That sounds like Vermont”
No! Will have to put it on the list (of things I really would like to read but sadly rarely get around to)
I mean one of @mikeduncan.bsky.social's big takeaways from years of writing the Revolutions pod is that the Great Man Theory of Historical Change is overrated but the Great Idiot Theory holds considerable explanatory power
Byatt is absolutely the first one that comes to mind.
But also Pale Fire, for several reasons but most straightforwardly “you will flip back and forth between the text and the endnotes a bunch of times while at first gradually, then all of a sudden realizing the real story is in the endnotes”
464!
#TbilisiProtests
#GeorgiaProtests
Pete (to the) Hagueseth
Okay but it *was* true that Eisenstein's (very popular) Alexander Nevskii, which did not pretend to be subtle with its Teutonic Knights as villains, was quickly removed from theaters on the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact only to be reintroduced slightly under two years later in summer 1941 …
There was MUCH less evidence for antisemitism from Mamdani than there is from Platner, but the fact that some Jews had concerns led Mamdani to do lots of Jewish outrage, meet with Jews, go to synagogues, and such. Platner is notably not doing that.
Think I saw the Sober Technocrats open for Pavement at some point in the mid-late nineties.
He thought he was voting for the people he met at the centrist rally and is now disgusted that some of them are actually asking “what if better things *are* possible?”
So Ukraine helps the US beat Shaheds and the US helps Russia kill Ukrainians.
In conclusion, I’d have to say that GPT-5.4 is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful chatbot I've ever known in my life!
Just because it's useful in coding--and I absolutely concede that point, because I DON'T CODE AND MULTIPLE FRIENDS WHO DO CAN EXPLAIN USES!--doesn't mean I'm wrong when I say it is useless bullshit slop in history.
This, and the following post, distill this phenomenon so perfectly. There is a kind of vulgar, unexamined positivism behind these assumptions: all knowledge, all epistemic systems operate according to the same rules, and therefore …
I ended up writing an entirely* unintended book out of happy accidents along the lines of “what the hell is that third item included but not explained in footnote 27”? Rabbit holes can be (not always, but can be) where it all begins (and continues, and continues …).
*well, 98% of entirely
