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a LinkedIn post that says, “absolutely insane the way AI has eaten all of your brains, what the fuck is wrong with you people”

just snapped and posted this on LinkedIn, I couldn’t take it anymore

The New York Times clearly just saying Crockett is a progressive and Talarico is a moderate because Crockett is black and Talarico is white

This is eccentric by the standards of the median British voter, and British Muslims have far more socially conservative views than the median voter, by a huge distance. This is especially true regarding homosexuality and the role of women. The most ruddy-faced bar room reactionary at the 19th hole is a blue-haired college radical in comparison. (Incidentally, I’m also not sure how the Green party squares their environmental transport policy with the fact that British-Pakistanis tend to favour cars, as social conservatives with families.)

Thank God Muslim voters in Manchester overwhelmingly decided to vote for the female candidate in the party led by a proud gay Jew, then. Guess your analysis is wrong!

I just looked at the most recent issue, and there is in fact an essay I could read in it. I won’t, but I could.

Does anyone actually read the papers that get into phil review? I recognise that I’m in a niche area, but I haven’t read one since undergrad.

This seems extremely false. Some of it has been your virtue.

What Trump Sells Is Impunity Trump stands out in the GOP not for his racism, but his vision of emancipatory irresponsibility.

“It was his very lifestyle that offered something worth aspiring to. Not a vision for society, but a vision for the individual: to say, do, and be whatever you want without consequence—not in spite of cruelty or selfishness, but because of those things.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-trump-s...

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Let me know when he finally gets around to writing Why I Am a Destiny, and Why I Am Dynamite.

At least on the Canadian side, I expect that we’re all watching olympic hockey. Not sure about anyone else.

I'm a law guy, not a politics knower, but "Trump illegally taxed/stole $175 billion from Americans" seems like good messaging.

Apparently one thing worse than a NIMBY is a concentration camp NIMBY.

Well, why pose the evil demon if Descartes will analytically prove that God exists only pages later? It’s just a tool to focus a reader’s attention.

And remember also that it was never a huge part of Nietzsche’s actual work. He just kind of threw it out there and it stuck for some reason.

But even in that situation, the meaning is essentially that even the single life you live is infinitely important because you’re living it and must choose how to live it. If it is recurring or not, that doesn’t actually change the fundamental lesson.

There’s a lot of literature on this, of course, but as I understand it, Nietzsche isn’t in any way concerned with the capital-t Truth of the eternal recurrence. It’s no more real than Descartes’ evil demon.

Likewise. It’s not about grammar, though. It’s about signalling one’s education, which does in fact require that a person be correct about a thing.

Seth Harp @sethharpesq X.com Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT challenged me to a debate on foreign policy. We recorded a 90-minute segment for his show, Interesting Times, on 1/15/26. But I defeated him so decisively that he refuses to air the footage. What an absolute coward. Today 11:41 AM Hi Is the NYT still planning to publish the interview I did with Ross three weeks ago? Today 1:01 PM Hey Seth, we've been working through the edit and it's looking like we aren't going to be able to make it work. We were kind of pummeled by the news cycle in the last 6 weeks and are going to pivot away from this story. Thanks for the time you put into it and for your expertise. Unbelievable cowardice on Ross's part and a giant waste of my time. I'm going to make it known what actually happened: Ross challenged me to a debate on foreign policy, got crushed, and doesn't have the intellectual or journalistic integrity to air the footage. Delivered

Seth Harp @sethharpesq. •6h Five days after we recorded, an editor of mine asked me how it went. I told her that @DouthatNYT was surprisingly unprepared to defend his point of view, and I suspected even then that they would spike it. From To seth.harp@protonmail.com * T Jan 20 凹 了 介 → It seemed to go just fine from my perspective although it did get a little heated towards the end when we debated foreign policy. I was somewhat surprised that Ross wasn't better prepared defend his point of view. They may still decide to spike it, we'll see. SH Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ••• On Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 at 11:41 AM, wrote: That's great —how did the interview go? {7 54 • 1.3K ill 38K

Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 5h I also told an editor at Harper's, on 1/30/26, that I suspected the NYT would spike the interview rather than publish video of me dog-walking @DouthatNYT and making a mockery of his defense of US regime-change wars ... Friday 12:35 PM It's been more than 2 weeks since I was interviewed for Ross Douthat's show. I murdered him in our debate over foreign policy and was genuinely surprised that he wasn't better prepared to defend his point of view. Now I'm concerned that he will spike the episode. Do you have a sense of how far ahead they usually record? Also I really hope I get to hear this My sense was that it was about a week Suspicious 4 17 44 • 1K thl 32K 贝 企 Seth Harp @sethharpesq. •5h Ross @DouthatNYT was unprepared to take on a subject matter expert, floundered around, and became irritable and sarcastic towards the end. But spiking the episode is ten times worse for his journalistic credibility than simply losing a debate, which happens to us all.

Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 5h ... Ross @DouthatNYT's producer blames their decision to spike our foreign policy debate on the crazy news cycle. But the last three episodes they've aired have been on Roe v. Wade, Covid-19, and young men's church attendance. OPINION Interesting Latest Feb. 5, 2026 Interesting Times with Ross Douthat The first draft of our future. Mapping the new world order through interviews and conversations. Every Thursday, from New York Times Opinion. Q Search Why Ending Roe Wasn't Enough for the Pro-Life Movement Activists won the legal battle. Are they losing the culture war? By ROSS DOUTHAT Jan. 29.2026 A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a 'Fringe Epidemiologist' Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public's trust in the Covid era. Now it's up to outsiders to restore it. By ROSS DOUTHAT and SOPHIA ALVAREZ BOYD Jan. 22,2026 No, Young Men Are Not Returning to Church All the religious trends you're wrong about. By ROSS DOUTHAT and ANDREA BETANZOS 18 17 75 1.5K ill 38K Seth Harp @sethharpesq. 1h I'm hearing that prominent guests are cancelling scheduled appearances on @DouthatNYT's show due to his lack of journalistic integrity. Why would you spend hours, days, or weeks prepping for an interview when you know the show is rigged to ensure that you don't show up the host? 3 223 ill 4.4K 贝

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it.

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I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead

A diagram showing different colored humans. The title reads — There have been 646 measles cases confirmed in the current South Carolina outbreak (as of Jan 20, 2026) Red human — unvaccinated (563) Black human — unknown vaccination status (58) Blue human — partially vaccinated (12) Green human — fully vaccinated (13) Receiving both doses of the measles vaccine (MMR vaccine) is 97% effective at preventing measles.

Measles has one of the highest basic reproduction numbers (R₀) of any disease (12 to 18), meaning one infected person can spread it to 12 to 18 others in a fully susceptible population, making it extremely contagious. Need 95% vaccination status to achieve herd immunity. Get vaccinated!!

Incredible that they published it.

It’s entirely credible and aligns with what actual linguists, neuroscientists, psychologists, computer scientists, etc. have been saying all along.

True. Lesbians would never name a child Charles.

In sum:

America, the concept? Trash, settler colonial, throw it out

America, the people? Incredible, salt of the earth, would die for them

I’ve seen them described as male to male trans people, which seems most accurate. The point is not therefore to look good, but to look masculine. And men are not, of course, stereotypically beautiful or handsome.

Help us make hope normal again.

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Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

Stop using ring cameras! Ffs.

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i just don't think people like gavin newsom and amy klobuchar actually believe in anything but helping themselves, and the farther away from power they are, the better off we will all be. and if you think we have to settle for them, that's a skill issue

This is a misunderstanding about how political rhetoric works.

As a party, you need to play whack-a-mole with issues. Any of an opponent’s issues or views that polls positively should get knocked down. If it’s underground already, it doesn’t need more knocking.

Abschied bis Herbst: Dänisches Digitalministerium kehrt Microsoft den Rücken Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.

The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is moving away from Microsoft and switching instead to Linux and LibreOffice
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