Logan Smith

Wonderful MMA piece from @benfowlkes.bsky.social on his Fighting Life Substack. Felt compelled to share this with y'all. thefightinglife.substack.com/p/this-is-a-...

Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

Doing Grift 2 during Grift 1 is the hubris of aiming too high and destined to lead to your downfall. If only the Greeks had a story warning about that

The moral is, if you’re appointed Ambassador to Greece as an unqualified nepo hire, don’t try to do bonus grifts. The grift is being Ambassador to Greece. You are being paid to hang out in Greece for 4 years. Grift accomplished

In honor of Spooky Season, some writing I did on the scariest thing of all: philosophy. Some thoughts on the fears of an ordered world and a horrific cosmos. The Horrific Universe: www.themdrm.com/writing/2026....

Wilhoit's Law remains undefeated. "The Law" is insufficiently binding these racial "out-groups" and insufficiently protecting the white "in-groups" so now the slightest whiff of meritocracy is the enemy.

Enterprise software companies had a short-lived run where they competed on usability and product-led growth which seems to be over. Now every SaaS app seems to be converging on the same UX monstrosity, complete with AI features of dubious value.

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Got it for Christmas and forever changed my brain chemistry.

An administration of, by, and for scheming Captain Planet villains.

If Donald Trump were some Hiroo Onoda–style holdout from the old Soviet Union, carrying out a decades-long communist plot to destroy America, it’s hard to imagine what he’d be doing differently from what he’s doing every day. prospect.org?p=144887

I don’t believe in Great Man theory of history but I do believe in Great Dipshit theory

It is not and has never been about wealth or prosperity in an objective sense. It's about control of human beings and the wealthy have more control and power in a desperate, shrinking economy than they do in a prosperous and wealthy one.

Being a billionaire in the United States feels basically identical whether you have $10B or $100B, but feels very different if you can sexually harass your au pair and she can quit and get a different job vs if she is desperate to keep her job and has to put up with it because the economy is shit.

NEW: In a new audio recording, GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx suggests that his campaign filed someone else's large contribution under Marx's name to avoid campaign finance limits.

Someday, decades for now, once Putin’s Russia falls, we will get to see the records from the Russian side and see how deeply, absurdly compromised by the Russian mob/kleptocracy/intelligence services Donald Trump always was.

people need to go to jail for a very long time for this

We need federal privacy protection enshrined in law and enforced everywhere. The people behind this should be put into prison forever. I hate this stupid panopticon society so much.

Wow. From the main entry on the Republican Party. Good for Wikipedia, one of the last vestiges of pure truth seeking and editorial standards on the internet.

Awkward moment in the Brazilian top flight: Coritiba player falls into a tunnel celebrating against Chapecoense, only for the goal to be ruled out for offside

Bauhaus Milhaus

Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time

“If gender turns out to be an arbitrary, transcendable division, and not a permanent and natural one, then what remains of how we order and rank the human race?”

To a hammer everything looks like a nail etc, but I do think that gender is the first and primary hierarchical division of human beings, and that much of the passion of the transphobic project comes from transphobes (correctly) assessing trans people’s threat to all other hierarchies.

Chinese poster for the new Spider-Man film makes me want to start buying film posters again.

like gravity is a theory

It is funny that John Fetterman had a stroke and then became a Republican. I frequently wonder, "why is he like that?" and then recall, "Oh yes, the brain damage."

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Russiagate was not a hoax, Donald Trump was a calculated plot by our geopolitical enemies to destroy our country - and it worked like a charm.

This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.

I like it when Godzilla is a face, but my heart really belongs to him as a heel, whether that's Slow-Rolling Human-Created Catastrophe (Shin), Strange Lovecraftian Intrusion (Singular Point) or Gothic, Wrathful Ghost (Minus One)

But vaccine mandates for soldiers was an intolerable infringement on bodily autonomy. I hate being ruled by the dumbest, worst people among us. It’s like taking 5 points of psychic damage a day.

This is cool

What the fuck is wrong with this man? Truly. I know we all get desensitized to it, but sometimes it just hits you. What the fuck are we doing here.

a group of very violent and antisocial killers have taken over your society and their funders have very expressly said that your very sovereignty is offensive to them. the idea that you might have liberties is unacceptable to them. they've set out to plunder your towns and burn them to the ground

we're in a literal war with these people. and theyre literally murderous, committing (intentional, violent) murders at industrial scale in the caribbean and iran to name just two theaters. theyre also shooting your neighbors in their cars it's just the facts. it's their policy. they declared it