This is a meta-comment on Erik's post and the subsequent thread on AOC possibly running for president in 2028. It may be that in general victory has a thousand fathers while defeat is an orphan, but pretty much the opposite holds when it comes to...
Author: Paul Campos
MIT made a big splash a few days ago when it issued a report claiming that the LLMs can now supposedly "do" most undergraduate level work, so that seems like.
Dateline: August 31, 2018 With the 2018 midterms a little more than sixty days away, political observers seem fairly confident in two predictions: (1) A red wave election will almost.
Do you remember the bills you have to pay? Or even yesterday? C'mon Natalie, I know he was before your time but still. [SL]: Andrew Johnson "average", Grant a "failure." Wonder if it was JD Vance or Miller who provided the Dunning School edit to...
Michael Tomasky has a piece highlighting that the economy performs radically better under Democratic presidential administrations than Republican ones: The last three Republican presidents—Bush, Bush, and Trump—have been disasters. The.
Thanks to commenter Judas Peckerwood for flagging this fascinating if terrifying essay from the Guardian, about the evolving understanding of the varieties of human psychopathy. It wasn’t from a forensic.
I vaguely remember hearing about the idea of Trump holding a "convention" for the midterms, but figured the idea was too stupid to actually carry out. Well that was not a very wise assumption: The Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention is quickly becoming a Trump-style...
Frankly at this point I do fear the Reaper, or at least his twisted sense of humor:* Tim Curry. I got quite a shock this morning when maybe three-quarters of.
Interesting video from Paul Krugman, on the last (?) days of Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP1Smaktwhs Krugman points out that Nazi analogies, which back in the day produced enough pearl clutching to turn.
I'm sure Erik and others will have much more to say about this, but I imagine lots of people would like to discuss it now. A message from Dolly Parton's family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9govup-IG3c I know very little about country music, or really the whole cultural space...
The answer seems to be: a huge number. "Researchers considered every former N.F.L. player who died from 2016 to 2021. There were 878. Some died in their 20s, some in.
What sort of people are we dealing with? A couple of stories from an immigration lawyer friend about what the Trumpists have done to the DOJ: Neither of these involve.