the main unsaid part of voter id discourse is that laws don’t disenfranchise the poorest potential voters as much as the least conscientious/lowest executive function ones, and politicians on both sides of the debate are keenly aware of how their likely voters would be affected
Am I allowed to walk into a polling place naked?
If not, does this constitute a poll tax because I'm forced to pay for clothes?
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I lost my driver’s license for the first time almost a year ago to the day, and had a replacement mailed to me in less than a week for the cost of $20. obtaining a voter id is not something that restricts any adult who is able to function reasonably well in society.
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(yes, I increased the threshold to reflect my own judgment on what a reasonable minimum number is to walk away with with kids, yes it’s a bit hypocritical, no I don’t care)
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if you retire in your 40s with > $10M to spend more time with your spouse and kids (an objectively top-0.1% life outcome), I really don’t think you need to worry about whether other people are envying you or not
Let me repeat.
I’ve never, ever, ever met a single person who retired before 50 that I envied or thought had a great life.
If you want to mainline SSRIs and talk about golfing all day long, just do it already.
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I’m out of the math academia gossip loop nowadays but Axiom vibes have been absolutely atrocious from the start
Terry Tao unfairly got a lot of heat, but the biggest fraud in this space who milked the most out of his name recognition is by a far margin Ken Ono.
If you think OAI is the worst at scooping other people's works, you have no idea what AxiomProver been doing.
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chance of being anti-AI given pro-Palestine: 90+%
chance of being pro-Palestine given anti-AI: 60%
chance of being pro-AI given pro-Israel: 30%
chance of being pro-Israel given pro-AI: 50%
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yeah this take is aging well
Nikole Hannah Jones will be interviewed by her daughter for an episode of “This American Life” airing on September 27 at 7pm CT thisamericanlife.org/898/the…
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this is certainly one reasonable reading, but another is that it essentially reads as a longform college admissions essay for her academically undistinguished/uncompetitive child
Nikole Hannah-Jones and I will likely never see eye to eye politically, but the more I think about this article, the more I respect it. She wrote something that directly undermines her own project because her daughter told her she was hurt.
That is an act of love.
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the existence of granular, regional terms for top 1-0.1% wealth are a great illustration of how rich Americans are rather than evidence of any sort of discomfort with wealth:
It shows how uncomfortable Americans are with the concept of being rich that we’ve made up a new term to describe it.
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a year and a half ago I predicted this with high confidence, and it was completely wrong -- LLM-written text has become much more distinctive and easy to spot
this is funny but also a sad example of the inevitable future of twitter discourse -- people in the top 5% of income/education on this site getting completely suckered by LLM text
in a year none of the obvious signatures will remain and it will all be over
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I did not have “Nikole Hannah-Jones writes the greatest article ever published on modern education” on my 2026 bingo card.
In the way that “only Nixon could go to China”, only the author of the 1619 Project could write this. Absolutely filled with all-timer quotes top to bottom.
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the beginning of the article is a slog and generally serves to mislead in a predictable way, but it eventually picks up with this quote, with NHJ’s daughter channeling the (correct) logic of normie parents the country over:
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this is the predictably misleading bit that I refer to — the failing schools that NHJ’s daughter attended were extraordinarily well-funded by national, state, or local standards:
This is the per-pupil funding for the elementary school Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to.
If you subscribe to the funding theory of education, how much would have been enough? It's already crossed the average per capita annual income threshold. Maybe $100k? $200k?
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