The thing that's post-modern about all this is that *even though* Iran has launched record attacks there are still record amounts of oil coming out of Hormuz But *even though* there's record amounts of oil coming out of Hormuz the threat of Iranian attacks is pushing prices to record highs

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AI is going to reinvent socialism from first principles not because the computers will be better at central planning or anything but because Sam Altman needs a command economy to support his data center habit

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Credit where its due: www.bkmag.com/2026/10/29/m... - Thank you to everyone who protested this and to the @mayor.nyc.gov for heeding the call.

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This is, by far, the best piece I've read on the Senate race in Michigan.It's a state race, not a national one. It's not about moderates vs. liberals. It's about divisions in the party specific to MI. It's also takes the Islamaphobia and racism seriously. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

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Pretty wild that ProPublica dropped an unbelievably damning article about pay-to-play corruption by Collins and the entire national political press conspired to make it go away.

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