A Quote

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

A Nerdy Thing

AI will never replicate this.

Aaron and Katie

Letting Katie Phang get away showed me just how venal and outright chickenshit MSNBC had become.

If you want the truth, ask people whose integrity isn't tied to a paycheck.

Maggie

A Bit More

... on Moral Licensing.

Noted

He did manage to cop a feel though.

You Are Not Crazy

I can cook up a fat juicy Conspiracy Fantasy with the best of them.

Humans are really good at doing that because the False Positive(*) is what has kept us going and turned us into a dominant species to rival the dinosaurs.

We've honed Pattern Recognition to a fine art. The problem is that bad actors are well-schooled in the techniques that can be used to co-opt that instinct, and turn it against us.

They've known about it for quite a while, and they've used it to great effect.

You can be forgiven if you've hit on the possibility that Trump orchestrated the shooting at the WHCD last night in order to facilitate his Big Beautiful Ballroom grift.

I just really doubt there's any connection - ie: I don't think anybody put the shooter up to it - but Trump is obviously cunning enough to take anything that happens and twist it into a link that he can say necessitates doing some bullshit thing he wants done. And he knows the MAGA rubes will eat it up and go right along with him

            (*)

It Ain't Easy

If you don't stand for something, you're gonna fall for just about anything.

Hawk Today

There's nothing sadder than an attention-starved attention whore.

"Malignantly Uninteresting Contrarian"

Here's Monte

They're so deep in the closet they can see Narnia.