Stu F.

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

Absolutely incredible that the guy who is (supposedly) trying to put nazi tattoo story to rest would go on a nazi-adjacent (at least!) podcast in *January* and say he was a longtime fan.
Does he just have no campaign staff at all at this point? Or do they just not bother to try?

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

Homer Simpson in a frame from SO5 E08 made on Frinkiac.com, sitting at the kitchen table: “Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals … except the weasel.”

But in some ways we are so much alike, y'know?

Still shot from the AMC show Rubicon (2010) showing three people, a woman and two men, standing in a cemetery in the snow

If only they'd gotten to make a second season

Good afternoon. "Alexander Kustov" was a multi-year sociological study conducted by Notre Dame University and Substack, with support from Anthropic. The study is now complete, and we thank you for your time.

KU will use millions in tuition and taxes to pay its student athletes as faculty fight for a raise KU Athletics projects an almost $15 million deficit this fiscal year. University general funds are being used to fund a $20.5 million pool to pay athletes while faculty and staff are fighting for rais...

How things are going at a university where the basketball coach makes $8.8 million a year:

relieved at least that almost every f'cking comment in that thread pointed this out to OP

right though I have wondered over the last year how authentically

like I trust more his more centrist buddy Murphy, who at least seems to not be playing games if that makes sense

Sorry reference is to this
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Schatz interesting as well for slightly different reasons
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This and it’s not particularly close. Stop the nonsense, folks.

Nothing more calculated to make my blood pressure go through the roof.

… and now a couple of people have pointed out that this hasn't been reported anywhere but this guy's substack which, well, potentially also makes my blood pressure go through the roof.

anyway now that we live in a world ruled by the americophiles whose intellectuals (coughs “intellectuals”) like to style themselves as westernizers

those intense salon debates between the westernizers and the americophiles about whither Ussa

… the good news is that you are the second person on my timeline who has now questioned this in the last ~5-10 minutes

lmao DAN GOLDMAN is saying ABOLISH ICE? that's so funny. amazing work from Lander and proof the act of primarying matters, no matter the outcome of the election. some really influential people could stand to internalize that.

I believe every claim of the AI enthusiasts: it does simplify your inbox, Yascha Mounk did use it to write theory papers, you can write 1000 manuscripts for a hundred bucks. But I am a solid month into using the most expensive Claude Code for the most basic tasks and I cannot trust it.

I would like to remain open-minded about this. I am also using the full-freight, enteprise version of Claude Code running 4.5 Sonnet to compare the text of two PDF files, and it repeatedly pulls out false text and quotes. This is the simplest of tasks, and this is March 2026.

Does this source go by Vay Jee Dance? Or perhaps Day Vee Jance?

I cannot state with enough emphasis how refreshing it is to see someone of Steve’s intelligence and stature openly stating the obvious. The reward for being right though, is an absolutely shitty reality.