genuinely surprised that could be anyone’s takeaway from this post

for now!

the only difference I can really think of is the good PR is *part* of it, like, you’re rolled if it looks like you’re rolled and not if it looks like you’re not. but it could also bite Mamdani in the ass, I have no idea.

depends somewhat, though not entirely, on people’s attention spans

“Fell For It Again Award” from a mf who’s never, ever going to come close to It

whether or not we need it, we’re gonna get it

your first instincts for what they mean are probably correct

there has been a lot of debate about what Elon has and hasn’t invented, whether those things are good or not, etc. etc. but you can never say he didn’t invent a chatbot that once said he’d would be so hot as a clocky transwoman that he’d rewrite the conventions around it

new political compass just dropped

oh fuck, all of that’s gone??

every too-online person has an influential tweet that truly only they and like 100 other people remember and I just realized the last clause up there was inspired by this tweet:

where's this from?

yeah I'm open to the idea that there was a better option, if people have a name, but there's pretty much no one for NYPDPC that democratic socialists would particularly *like*

anyway, I think there’s warranted criticism of Tisch but I also feel like the degree you’re mad about it should be tempered with how much you had another commissioner in mind

my best stab at this is that there’s still remnants of the New Atheist thing within the Bay Area tech world and there were a lot of British figures in that (Hitchens, Dawkins, Rushdie, Gervais, Fry, etc)