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1Mar 11, '25I'm confused about the 'Canada as 51st state' thing because, if they succeeded, they'd be adding 40million new citizens who overwhelmingly hate Trump and hate MAGA, flipping the Ho192×5.8M160k6.5k2.8k
2Mar 15, '25"no one has died" because of feeding USAID to the woodchipper, Elon claimed. In this devastating piece the NYT went out and learned some of their names and stories:131×4M21k5.2k2.7k
3Sep 25, '25wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores, you're probably underestimating it:116×3.5M8.7k1.3k2.3k
4Mar 20, '24I was haunted by this ProPublica story about how nonsensical analysis of 911 calls is used to convict people of killing their kids. I mentioned it to a friend with more knowledge o97.6×3M9.2k1.5k3.8k
5Jul 27, '24I also get really irritated by "you should send your kids to bad public schools because people like you doing that is what makes them into good public schools". I'm willing to make93.1×2.8M6.8k255569
6Jun 29, '24When I ask people about their most treasured childhood memory, video games are on there pretty frequently. It changed how I think about parenting.80.9×2.5M44k1.1k1.9k
7Mar 22, '25Today in Vox, inspired by Zeynep's NYT editorial earlier this week, I wrote about why we badly need a Covid reckoning and are never, ever going to get one:79.3×2.4M2.4k277663
8May 22, '24Scoop: OpenAI's senior leadership says they were unaware ex-employees who didn't sign departure docs were threatened with losing their vested equity. But their signatures on releva70.1×2.1M4.9k6171.7k
9May 17, '24When you leave OpenAI, you get an unpleasant surprise: a departure deal where if you don't sign a lifelong nondisparagement commitment, you lose all of your vested equity:66.8×2M4.9k8311.4k
10Jun 12, '25The baby used to say 'baba' to request a bottle of milk. Last week she switched to saying 'milk bottle', which is fantastic, except I didn't understand her. She said 'milk bottle' 64.4×2M141k3.3k3.8k
11Apr 7, '25View post on X61.3×1.9M27k1.7k948
12Apr 17, '25o4-mini-high is the first AI to pass my personal secret benchmark for hallucinations and complex reasoning, so I guess now I can tell you all what that benchmark is. It's simple: I53×1.6M12k5433.2k
13Mar 18, '25This is even worse than I imagined from the summary. They snatched him off the street and detained him overnight even though he was carrying his ID and social security card proving51.2×1.6M24k5.6k2.3k
14Mar 5, '25'yay Luigi' is actually one of those things where I draw a personal line. I find it horrifying when people cheer on cold blooded murder under some vague theory that it shows how se48.9×1.5M5.5k183432
15Jan 29, '25Yeah, all right, let's talk about James Damore. It's been eight years, and I really doubt Harj (who was my boss at the time) is the only person for whom it was a formative experien42.9×1.3M5.7k5481.3k
16Apr 5, '25I dislike having to plead with the public to make the case for the worthiness of the things I want to spend my money on; it's a free country, and it should be sufficient that it's 40.6×1.2M2.6k330553
17Oct 20, '25This is getting ridiculous. She won. Swear her in. Then she can serve her constituents.36.2×1.1M71k5.8k1k
18Sep 12, '25Ezra got this one exactly right, and a lot of you are betraying a total inability to tell the difference between "this person went about the process of advocating for his beliefs i34.7×1.1M5k313409
19Feb 10, '25Elon's offer to purchase the OpenAI nonprofit for $97.4billion isn't going to happen, but it may seriously complicate OpenAI's efforts to claim the nonprofit is fairly valued at $434.2×1M11k415706
20Sep 25, '25In California, only 28% of Black students can read at a 'basic' level or above on the fourth-grade NAEP. In Mississippi, it's 52%. It's inexcusable, and it's a policy choice. New f33.3×1M6.4k758951
21Apr 13, '25My most bespoke parenting opinion is that big screens are perfectly fine for kids but small screens are bad. We have a projector in our living room with a huge 6'x10' screen. When 31.3×950k12k5032.7k
22Jun 19, '25Selling federal land for $10billion to address the national debt is like selling the family cat for $28 because I have $100,000 in student loan debt and 'every little bit helps!' w28.1×853k47k5.7k1.1k
23Jul 11, '25The law very specifically allows members of Congress to conduct inspections without notice. I think you should follow the law.23.5×714k34k3k542
26Apr 14, '25Arrived in the US legally after making an appointment via the CBP One app to request temporary protected status. Got a job, stayed out of trouble. Now in the torture prison just be17.2×523k6.3k1.3k587
27Apr 19, '25Major right wing figures are now openly calling for a dictatorship because the Constitution doesn't let them send people to prison for life without trial and they don't wanna do im14.6×444k8.6k1.1k310
29Mar 9, '25The first of my demands for a takeover of the Democratic party was a blackballing of every single person who concealed that Biden was in cognitive decline and obviously not capable13.9×424k3k113311
30Mar 4, '25People who said in October that Trump would blame Ukraine for not surrendering, that his tariffs would do massive economic damage, that he'd ensure none of his cronies were prosecu13.2×400k5.8k885358
31Aug 13, '25There's a common right wing talking point that the 'official story' we were 'all taught in school' was that white Americans moved to the suburbs because they were racist. Except th12.4×376k2.8k98364
32Aug 23, '24I found myself surprisingly delighted by this advice because it's duty-oriented rather than self-esteem-oriented. That's legitimately hard to find these days!11.8×360k12k6182.2k
33Apr 10, '25We just finished dividing 5yo's room into two to make space for the (planned, not yet in progress) new baby. He's been enthusiastic about the whole process, and I promised him that11.6×352k14k1851k
34Nov 11, '25I am told that today at school my 6yo had an extended freakout at learning that all of the land in the world is owned by someone and there is nowhere he can move to the frontier an11.6×351k18k461600
36Feb 11, '25PEPFAR is one of the most popular, bipartisan US foreign aid programs. The State Department says it has saved 25million lives, but there isn't much public, independent verification11.2×340k3.6k497516
37Sep 2, '25every single movie about people fleeing Earth involves displaying a mastery of technology which would obviously be more than sufficient to solve the problem they are fleeing Earth 11.1×338k7.4k353400
38Nov 6, '24Colorado is a well run blue state. Imagine if we had ten of those.11×335k7k201207
39May 25, '25there's no space on the right anymore for people who believe in freedom, progress, invention or American exceptionalism. people got mad when I said it, but MAGA has only doubled do11×334k6k221307
40Jul 24, '24"The situation in Gaza cannot get worse" is the kind of thing you can only believe if you are thinking of the situation in Gaza as a symbolic moral test for Americans instead of as11×334k9.6k710273
41Apr 18, '25The baby has learned to say her name, and now chants it under her breath while she's doing something very difficult, and says it loudly and victoriously when she achieves it.10.3×314k18k593547
42Sep 7, '25I am old enough to remember when Trump supporters would tell me they liked how he didn’t want to start foreign wars10.1×307k20k1.4k307
43Aug 25, '25exciting new takes on the Latin Mass here on x dot com10.0×303k13k529200
44Mar 28, '25The tech guys got thoroughly duped by a movement that was fundamentally degrowther. The dividing line is who says “I guess I was wrong” and who decides that degrowth is okay now.9.8×297k3.3k192268
45Apr 16, '25The 20million number is an article of faith on the right, but it's completely made up. I've been trying for a long time to track down how they came up with it. Even if you assume t9.7×296k4.6k382317
46Jul 23, '25me: it's not okay to hit your sister 5yo: is it okay to kill Vladimir Putin? me: ...yes, if you were in a situation where it was somehow relevant it's okay to kill Vladimir Putin 59.7×294k11k180293
47Jul 18, '24Nate Silver is slightly too polite to say it but my takeaway from his thoughtful post is that the 538 model is not usefully distinguishable from a rock with "incumbents win reelect9.7×293k2.8k114200
48Mar 23, '25I increasingly suspect fixing our schools is wildly more urgent than anyone realizes, thanks to the lag between things going wrong in the schools and things going visibly wrong in 9.4×287k4.1k296318
49May 13, '25seems bizarre to me to assume that poor people opposed to minimum wage increases to $18/hr are "voting against their own class interests" instead of accurately noticing that a high9.3×284k2.7k175169
51Apr 2, '24The most important finding in education policy is that your tiny concept school run by people so incredibly passionate abt education they designed a concept school+ attended by kid8.3×251k3.1k125394
52May 29, '25every once in a while people try to convince me that if you care about markets and individual liberty you should just be a Republican but I don't find this very credible8.1×246k3.9k192211
53Jun 16, '25Offered 8yo $2/day to get her little brother out the door for school. She turned around and offered him $1/day to be easy to get out the door, and today offered him an additional $7.9×238k6.7k129413
54Feb 1, '25When the press raised concerns about how the USAID stop-work order was going to immediately kill millions of people, Rubio showed the press a waiver for lifesaving aid. But his sta7.8×237k3k690190
55Feb 11, '25Honestly I would have expected DOGE to find some genuine, 'we have referred to the FBI for federal charges' fraud by now. Finding outright theft of the PPP forgivable-loans from Tr7.5×229k2.7k158116
57Mar 9, '25I was so angry when I learned as an adult that Florence Nightingale made tons of important progress in statistics and data visualization in the course of her humanitarian work. I w7.5×229k5.8k390810
58May 19, '25Part of why I don't identify with the left is that whenever I disagree with them politically, a flock of accounts descends to tell me how I don't deserve housing because of my bad 7.4×225k2.7k129166
59Jul 23, '25This is so incomprehensible to me. Congress has repeatedly told the White House that they want to continue support for PEPFAR. It's a conservative initiative. It's shockingly cost-6.9×209k3.1k261229
60Jul 21, '25Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten 6.7×204k5.7k371586
61Jun 16, '25MAGA is a negative-sum degrowth ideology with no space in it for the very idea that if you build something other people are better off; they think if you build something you must b6.7×204k2.4k165179
62Aug 14, '25Everybody is wrong about birth rates - a chunk of the left is way too reluctant to admit that this is a real problem, and a chunk of the right is wrongly convinced you can fix it w6.6×201k4.5k210534
63Apr 15, '25Notably SF produced a huge drop in crime and increase in city safety just by electing moderate Democrats focused on that, they did not have to resort to the extreme Trumpist measur6.1×185k3.2k204257
65Jul 28, '25I actually think a significant fraction of children's books have always been heavyhanded ideological parables meant to indoctrinate the children, it's just that the heavyhanded ide6.0×181k6.1k168440
67Jan 31, '25I think that Republicans are going to find that while "no trans people in women's sports" was a politically winning issue, "the passport office will seize trans Americans' document5.8×177k2.5k191167
68Sep 15, '25She hit people, and was arrested for that reason. I think ideally the governor would not imply that someone had been arrested for speech when they were arrested for assault.5.8×176k3.7k27459
69Oct 16, '25Switch controller is broken. 9yo says it wasn't her. 5yo says a Canadian spy broke in in the dead of night and broke it. Baby says "I threw it". I was ready to blame 5yo before the5.8×175k17k279381
70Jul 8, '25If I were actively trying to extinguish my children's sense of altruism, compassion and responsibility I can't think of a better plan than forcing them to spend all of their time d5.7×173k3.4k156264
71Oct 23, '25"since it's a one-off tax, don't worry, it won't cause a change to incentives to live in our state"5.6×171k2.9k121192
72Mar 27, '258 year old just asked at the dinner table "what is a liberal" and now three adults are vehemently speaking over each other. "people on the left in the United States tend to favor m5.5×168k4.6k98278
74Aug 17, '251) open disdain for people on the basis of their sex is bigoted and bad 2) men obviously did read and write literary fiction for most of the history of literary fiction so if that 5.2×157k2.5k111234
75Oct 23, '25Could not for the life of me figure out 9yo's geometry work, so told her we'd have to ask my wife, who is more of a shape rotator. Wife looked at it and said "this is secretly abou5.1×154k5.7k68343
76Apr 21, '25I read the Harvard lawsuit and it looks like they have a slam-dunk case just in that Congress gave a bunch of specific instructions about how Title VI termination of grants was req5.0×153k3.9k445324
78Jul 20, '25the best part about having children is that if you give them baked goods and toys they will happily accept any new holiday as having full holiday legitimacy. this year we are celeb4.6×141k7.7k181239
79Nov 16, '22Hey guys, last night in Twitter DMs I asked Sam Bankman-Fried when Alameda first borrowed FTX customer funds, what he really thinks of the SEC, and a lot more.4.6×07.6k1.3k1.1k
81Apr 10, '25It's not just good on the object level that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 we can't just leave people in El Salvadoran prison for life without due process, it's also a very good sign 4.4×133k3.3k165196
82May 2, '258yo boy: I'm hiding from [8yo girl] because she called me a cutie baby. me, on autopilot from adjudicating child conflicts: Did you tell her that you don't like that? 8yo boy, as i4.3×129k5.6k174274
85Sep 10, '25I actually consider it one of Trump's positive qualities that he'll sometimes accept absurd bribes and then still not do the thing you wanted him to do, like when people bid millio3.8×115k3.3k151246
86Sep 30, '25always a great sign when a projection is "for completely mysterious reasons this trend will reverse starting immediately and return to the baseline we believed in 25 years ago"3.8×115k2.7k126175
87Aug 1, '25The 8 year old has now been through the time honored coming of age ritual “learning that you are not supposed to loudly observe while going through airport security how you would s3.4×102k5.4k7692
88Apr 10, '25pro tip if your friends with a lot of military history opinions are heatedly talking about politics, ask them if the WWI British navy could take the modern British navy in a fight,3.1×93k2.7k77234
89Feb 26, '258 year old asked if she could walk 5yo home from school. I wasn't sure because she's a zany head in the clouds kid but I said they could try it while I walked behind. She completel2.9×87k3.3k44137
90Apr 25, '25Read the kids the part of the Hobbit where they're captured by goblins and 8yo is sympathetic to the goblins so far. I read the paragraph about how they are irredeemably bad creatu2.9×87k4.1k85168
91Apr 13, '25at the neighbor's one year old's birthday party they had yogurt fingerpainting, which is a brilliant solution to the fact that if you try to let one year olds fingerpaint they'll e2.5×77k6.2k183294
93Nov 3, '22People might think Matt is overstating this but I literally heard it from NYT reporters at the time. There was a top-down decision that tech could not be covered positively, even w2.2×04.3k561691
95Sep 8, '25just checking in on this, mr vice president2.1×64k3.6k8743
98Feb 18, '19So that statistic caught my eye. Some background: I worked in technical recruiting, my girlfriend is a SWE, I'd say that about half my closest friends are women SWEs. This statisti1.5×02.2k821144
99Nov 11, '25Took the kindergartener to the dentist. Dentist walks in and says "hey buddy, what's your name?" Without hesitation he replies "my name is Bodacious T." So convincingly that you co1.1×34k2.5k4364
100Oct 31, '25The baby keeps sternly telling her toys that she will only read them one more story and then reading them several more stories1.0×32k2.6k6049

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