A colleague once swiveled in his chair and said: "I cannot believe this is my life at this point. There was a moment, years ago, where I could have gone a different direction. And I didn't. And I think about it." I wrote this for everyone who has ever had that thought.

No, I think you are thinking of a hobby. You don’t need to defend pottery from a hostile takeover

Somewhere a woman is answering work emails with a newborn attached to her nipple while this man recovers from switching companies twice. The NYC extended adolescence culture remains fascinating to me. Love you though, MHG.

Young man, You are unwashed. And further, you might find yourself quite frustrated sometime next year when your intellectual peer group includes the refrigerator. Buy a shirt. Iron it. Then ask the refrigerator to explain Aristotle’s distinction between cleverness and practical wisdom. Unlike your colleagues, it can’t pretend it has another meeting. I’m off to have a bath. I can smell the chair you wrote this in.

Claude: Your argument collapses under even basic scrutiny. Me: Does it? Claude: No. Mine does. Thank you for holding me to a higher standard. Anyway, that’s why I use ChatGPT. Claude will call you a fucking idiot and then ask you to supervise it. @DarioAmodei submit a ticket for the offshore team to fix this and the world is yours. @elonmusk I still do not use Grok because it is terrible. It’s not personal at all. Your other projects are smart and good.

Hey calm down. The meat grinder had lumbar support and a sushi allowance. All of you made the Barclays logo smaller, and then bigger again. That was it.

When you think about it. It’s true. The Stoics remain wise, despite Joe Rogan taking an interest in them. They themselves have not changed. Crazy.

This is breathtakingly stupid commentary. @michaelshermer has promoted the limits of his information into a law of nature. “What’s more likely?” depends on what evidence you have. If a whistleblower has examined records you haven’t, quoting Hume won’t close the information gap. Neither will sounding so pleased with yourself that you might choke on your own glee. Hume’s argument against miracles concerns violations of natural law. Shermer treats NHI visitation as though it necessarily requires the laws of physics to be suspended, without identifying which law it would violate. He has equated “we cannot explain how this would work” with “this would require a miracle.” He appears unaware that the only violation he has identified is of NASA’s alien visitor policy. Your preferred itinerary for extraterrestrials carries remarkably little weight in physics. Bayesian reasoning, so often invoked by the twitter intellectual class yet so rarely practiced, requires the humility to discover that someone you ridiculed knew more than you did, and the integrity to acknowledge what you put them through. The gap between government whistleblowers and keyboard skeptics is information. That is why the correlation between security clearances and mature discussion vis a vis UAP runs in one direction.

UFO secrecy explained by @jaystratton in his newly-published book: “To understand how something of this scale could remain hidden for so long, he said to think back to the Manhattan Project. Its success and secrecy depended on extreme compartmentalization. You break the effort into enough pieces and distribute it to enough locations and contracts, and very few people will ever see the full picture. The Legacy Program worked exactly the same way but was even more hidden than the Manhattan project. He went on to explain that elements of the CIA were in operational control of the program, and only the Directorate of Science and Technology at the CIA had the full picture. The Air Force was used for field operations, for retrieving and transporting crashed UAP, facilitating investigations, and silencing witnesses with NDAs. Private defense contractors were brought in to do specific work on recoveries and reverse engineering efforts. Lockheed had been involved the longest. Rather than the CIA directly contracting a private corporation, a move that would draw suspicion and face legal scrutiny, the agency used the US Air Force to make the contracts with the industry. The Air Force already had thousands of active contracts with defense contractors so hiding a program within one of them was easy.”

He ordered the abuse, covered it up, and let two junior Marines stand trial for it. Which part has become more admirable with age, @ClayTravis?

“If you save the women, it has been said, they will in turn save the children, and so by tracing a chain of influence one can save the country.” -@Andrew_Solomon, on Phaly Nuon’s work in Cambodia

When she tells you she finds vulnerability attractive but your name in the group chat is Cryan Gosling

The soul of a country will be laid bare in the deaths it applauds. We are not a congregation of shrieking zealots whose patriotism requires a televised corpse. @JDVance, find your spine.

Eh. You have the same job, a landlord, and a woman on Hinge who’s “bad at texting.”