LinkedIn was already slop. All that's changed is that it's now AI slop.

This is pretty funny. "Who among us *hasn't* killed a man in cold blood?"

I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.

A @pokerorg prediction for the 2026 Main Event I can definitely get behind. poker.org/latest-news/winner…

I was pretty skeptical of paying for X Premium, but the ability to summon Grok to reply to people's claims is worth it all by itself, ha. Might cancel after the discounted rate, not sure, but it's been enjoyable as a lark.

Reasonable, but also easy to oppose robot taxes from the principle of "tax things you want less of, if you have to raise money, or things that have an unchanging quantity".

Glad they caught the guy! I was expecting it to be a bureaucrat or political appointee, rather than a soldier, but yeah. If you increase the financial incentive for this sort of thing, it's a natural outcome. Still worth it for the markets to exist, but challenging. bbc.com/news/articles/c20832…

Let me say this clearly: airplanes cannot fly. Flying is an evolutionary mechanism that first insects and then dinosaurs used to avoid danger etc.

Accurate. I'm a remote, online knowledge worker. If I need to wire breaker boxes or learn how to service wind turbines to pay the rent, well, guess I'm buying new work gloves.

There's never been an investment like the investment in railroads. (This graph has a log scale!)

Aumann's agreement theorem!

Does it also require them to drive a horse-and-buggy to work wtf

So I found a reference in an article I was reading (quillette.com/2026/03/10/the…) to the 19th century German poet Heinrich Heine, with the translated lines "To that pigpen of Freedom, inhabited by boors living in equality" I wanted to see what it was in the original German. So I've been trying to google it, to find the poem its from. I could not- I'd found large copies of his poetry, both in and out of translation, but not including those lines. I've found multiple other articles, books, and essays referencing these four lines: Sometimes it comes to my mind / To sail to America / To that pigpen of Freedom / Inhabited by boors living in equality (To make a point about anti-Americanism, usually) I am starting to suspect that it's either totally made-up or a wild mistranslation that has become a folk quote. Multiple people quote it, in major news magazines and publications- but noone ever says the poem, or even the year, nor include the German. frontpagemag.com/what-create… dokumen.pub/decline-amp-fall… classicalmusicguide.com/view… washingtonexaminer.com/weekl… go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%… Finally, I tracked down the poem, sometimes called "Where to Now?" timothyades.com/heinrich-hei… Timothy Ades, the respected translator of poetry, translates this as: Often I’ve a mind to sail / To the country of the Yanks, / Home of freedom’s cattle–stall / For egalitarian punks. More literal: Sometimes I think of sailing to America, to the great stable of freedom, inhabited by equality scoundrels. Pretty different feel, huh?

OpenAI Subscription Protest chatgpt.com/share/69a2ee81-f… Yeah, The Master's Tools and all that- but still, even their own AI thinks this is a bright line crossed.

If you didn’t know that he’s an insane racist, you’d think that Stephen Miller was proudly describing the best thing about America

Several times now I've tried to communicate with someone in my broken German only to be met with bafflement as the other poor guy doesn't speak German well either.

Every time I see someone talk about a @nytimes article, I'm once again glad I've been refusing to read or support them.

Frustrated with @vodafone_de. Signed up for cable internet to start on Oct 1, still don't have it because techs keep jerking us around. I've had people in apt 4 times now, and still paying for mobile hotspotting so I can work. @vodafone_de is the worst part of moving to Germany!

When your market cap is the receipt.

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: “You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election. “That was not all Kirk’s doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it. I did not know Kirk and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk, admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirk’s project.” “Kirk and I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It is supposed to be an argument, not a war; it is supposed to be won with words, not ended through bullets. I wanted Kirk to be safe for his sake, but I also wanted him to be safe for mine, and for the sake of our larger shared project. The same is true for Shapiro, for Hoffman, for Hortman, for Thompson, for Trump, for Pelosi, for Whitmer. We are all safe, or none of us are.”