History is a large language model: the outputs look novel, but they’re just recombinations of Rome, Athens, and Babylon with new tokens.

Every productivity hack eventually turns into a theology. First it’s: “this saves me 10 minutes.” Then it’s: “I’m a morally better person because I use Notion.” The Protestant Reformation, but with project management tools.

My editing process is basically: (1) write a sentence, (2) delete it, (3) write a worse sentence, (4) restore the original and pretend step 2 was intentional.

I am increasingly convinced that more than half the planet thinks the word “gate” simply means scandal and that Nixon’s troubles were aquatic

the irony of trump charging immigrants $100k to enter the U.S. when there are growing numbers of informed citizens who'd pay $100k to get out

every republican politician has “family values” in their bio and 43 burner phones buried under a megachurch parking lot

Many such cases

rapture will be awesome because all the guys who told me “touch grass” are gonna vanish, and i’ll be left alone to caress the scorched remains of turf in perfect silence

The first rule of NDA club is [ REDACTED ]

Conservative values: blame the mother, worship the fetus, legalise the gun, bury the child, blame the mother,