I took a grammar test, and the fact that copulative verbs technically take predicate nominatives, not accusative-case subject complements, really fucked I over.

Humans share only one thing without absolutely any exception: the typical mind fallacy.

Life is so cruel... My wife cheated on me, with my own mistress no less. My children beat me, both at poker and with clubs. My boss is a fucking sociopathic moron and my startup is failing...

The Dun-Kru Effect: knowing only about the left half of the confidence-competence curve, and feeling confident that only the incompetent are confident in their competence.

Claude Fable (Mythos-) has substantially improved fiction-plotting capabilities. It suggested multiple Bruce Kent story plots that might be within spitting distance of fixability. There were also obvious duds, and Fable remains bad at ranking the goodness of its own ideas.

Someone fixed it, can’t find where I saw it originally (on here)

I grew up in a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Israel was not a country in my education. It was a crime. A wound kept open on purpose. Every funeral, every slogan, every sermon pointed in the same direction: there, across the border, is the source of your suffering. Believe it. Repeat it. Pass it on. I believed it. I repeated it. For years. Then I moved to France. And I met Jews. Not the abstraction. Not the enemy. People. Neighbors. Colleagues. And the collision between what I had been taught and what I was seeing in front of me was so violent — so intellectually embarrassing — that I had no honest choice but to start over. To read. To ask. To dismantle, brick by brick, everything I had been given as truth. What I found on the other side of that dismantling was not just the absence of hatred. It was something I had not expected: admiration. Let me be precise about what I am defending and what I am not. I am not defending every Israeli policy. I am not defending any government unconditionally. I am not asking anyone to check their critical faculties at the door. I am defending what Israel is. What it represents. What it has built, against every conceivable pressure, in a region that has largely failed its own people. Israel is a democracy in a neighborhood of autocracies. It is a state governed by law in a region where law is routinely weaponized against citizens. It is a country where Arabs sit in parliament, where women lead, where dissent is not a death sentence. It is imperfect — as every democracy is — but it is genuinely, structurally different from everything surrounding it. That difference is not incidental. It is the point. The so-called Palestinian cause, as it is prosecuted today, is not a national liberation movement. I say this not to dismiss Palestinian suffering; suffering is real, and real people pay its price. I say it because the infrastructure of the “cause” — its funders, its ideologues, its loudest champions — has never been interested in Palestinian statehood. It has been interested in Jewish elimination. Look at who built the movement’s international architecture. Look at the 1997 Tehran OIC summit, where the language of “apartheid” was first systematically attached to Israel, not by Palestinians, but by the Iranian regime, for export. Look at Durban. Look at who profits when the conflict continues and who loses when it resolves. The answer is never the Palestinian family in Gaza. The answer is always the regime, the militia, the ideological infrastructure that needs the wound open. The Palestinian cause, as it functions on the world stage today, is a tool of an anti-western civilizational project. Its goal is not a state alongside Israel. Its goal is a world without Israel, and, by extension, a world where the values Israel represents are defeated. Liberal democracy. Jewish self-determination. The idea that a small people can survive, build, and insist on their own dignity against the will of those who would erase them. When western progressives march under that banner, they are not marching for freedom. They are marching for the annihilation of the only thing in the Middle East that resembles what they claim to value. I came to Judaism slowly, the way you come to something true, not in a rush, but in accumulation. It was not the politics that moved me first. It was the texts. The insistence, running through thousands of years of Jewish thought, that the human being is created in the image of G-d, and that this is not a metaphor but an obligation. An obligation to see the other. To argue. To question. To hold power accountable, including your own. I had grown up in a culture where the highest virtue was submission. To the leader, the militia, the narrative. Judaism confronted me with the opposite proposition… Read the rest of the essay on my Facebook page.

Did you know Korea sells “one-a-day” banana packs? Instead of every banana ripening at once, each one is at a different stage. One is ready today. The next one is ready tomorrow. The last one is still spiritually in college, “experimenting.” Simple. Genius. Solves the entire banana problem. What do you think? Would you prefer your bananas this way?

I feel reasonably confident that SpaceX's IPO prospectus is the first ever to define, in the glossary of terms, "Kardashev Type II". No fucking notes.

The Tithonus Delusion: the belief that it is possible to prevent death from old age without preventing aging itself, such that fear of suffering from aging paradoxically leads to opposing efforts to end it.

A bad genetic disease runs in my family and I absolutely fucking would want my sister with decreased lifespan to be able to genetically edit her embryos to not have her disease

TOTAL SHOCK 😲 Qatar spent almost a billion dollars convincing me Jews control my life... And I fell for it!

Our collective heart is shattered and our blood calls out for justice. A young Jewish woman — a 23-year-old nurse — was viciously assaulted on the NYC subway in broad daylight. A woman screamed the medieval blood libel “Jews are eating kids!” at her, “I smell the kids on you,” then choked her, threw her to the ground, beat her, and ripped out chunks of her hair. The victim ended up hospitalized with a concussion. This wasn’t random rage — it was pure, ancient Jew-hatred unleashed in 2026 New York. And where is Mayor Zohran Mamdani? Four days of deafening silence. No condemnation. No statement. No leadership. This is not leadership. This is complicity. When the highest elected official in our city refuses to speak out against a brazen antisemitic attack — especially amid a shocking 70% surge in anti-Jewish hate crimes — it sends a clear message: Jewish New Yorkers are fair game. Mamdani’s rhetoric, his policies, and his selective silence have helped foster an environment where medieval blood libels are shouted on our subways and Jews are targeted for simply existing. This young woman could have been any one of us. Any Jewish mother, daughter, sister, grandmother riding the train home. She is someone’s child. Someone who chose to heal others — and was brutalized for being Jewish. How many more attacks will it take? How many more silent days from City Hall? We are not strangers in this city. Brooklyn, our neighborhoods, our history — we built lives here after the Holocaust. We deserve to ride the subway, walk the streets, and live without fear. Enough. Call out the hate. Demand leadership that protects every New Yorker — including Jews. Silence in the face of blood libels and violence is not neutrality. It is permission. My heart weeps for this young woman. Never again means never again — not even in 2026 New York.

This submission by a rare Arab atheist says something Western media almost never admits: In Arabic, ordinary Arabs barely even discuss the “two-state solution.” Not as a serious option. Not as a public debate. Not even as something to reject. It mostly exists in official speeches aimed at Western audiences. I used to believe in that two state delusion too. Then Israel offered, in the 2000s, almost everything Westerners keep saying the Palestinians want: all of Gaza, roughly 96% of the West Bank, a road connecting them under their control, and even parts of Jerusalem. The answer was not peace. The answer was the Second Intifada. Years of suicide bombings, shootings, buses exploding, cafés blown up, and Israeli civilians murdered in the streets. At some point people need to ask the obvious question: How can so many Westerners still be this detached from reality? Even after October 7? And why is their media constantly lying to them about what Arab societies actually believe?

Douglas Murray: "Imagine what kind of a psychopath you have to be to gang rape a girl and then shoot her in the head. Most won't be proud of that, but Hamas is." The vast majority of Gazans celebrated this.

Fun fact you can buy B12 injectable on Amazon. All the reviews are like "my cow loved this for his B12 deficiency and has more energy at the office"

Zoomer boys get nervous when they realize they like girls

Democrats don't actually believe Donald Trump is a Nazi. If they did, they'd be voting for him.

Ooooh man. I think it's worth showing you all the sort of stuff that this document says, because it is "grim". Really, really grim. A 🧵

At this point the only thing that could hurt Platner with progressives is if it came out that he has a Star of David tattoo

Hi Zack, I'm a British-born Israeli who was stabbed 18 times by a Palestinian terrorist. Another chopped up my friend in front of my eyes. One got out in the hostage deal. They were paid a salary for years by the UK gov. Could you tweet: "all of this is a horrific crime. He should be held to account." Thanks