14 To Life

Would 14 year old you be proud of who he became, why or why not?

Oh, for sure. My path at 14 looked like either death or prison, or that in the opposite order. My life was very terrible when I was 14, for a variety of reasons.

But now, I own my own place1, have plenty of money, friends, and most importantly I have a loving, lovely and wonderful partner to spend my days with. And who tolerates my incessant punning, sometimes across 3-4 languages at once.

I fucking won at life and my 14-year-old self would both be surprised and could not wait to be out of that hell and to be here instead. But I’m here now, and I’m very grateful for it every day — and that my past self had the will and resilience to endure what I did. Many people tried to break me. None succeeded.

  1. With my partner.

Decline and Fall

UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos. Schools across the country are cutting back as US research takes “severe blow.”

What we’re doing now is some of the dumbest set of actions I’ve ever seen any country do on purpose to itself. No one can tell me Harris would’ve been worse than this. We didn’t need an enemy to destroy us. We’re doing it ourselves, and for no particular reason at all.

PS2

I do not like this post. Not at all.

Videogames are something I never really got into and I never owned a PS2. But I do remember that release day as it was all over the news.

Razor Raiser

That Covid was a lab leak is to me nearly certain. Nothing else makes any sort of sense, given the evidence and Occam’s Razor. Of course it was kept quiet. I mean, first of all, that’s what intelligence agencies generally do is keep shit on the DL. Second, everyone is eager to kowtow to China because they are a big dog with stacks of cash.

Germany’s foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. Correct.

DOGE Is Courting Catastrophic Risk.

Why America Struggles to Build. How Economic Policy Can Remove the Real Barriers to Progress.

Politics has devoured nearly everything else, laying “this sort of totalizing claim on peoples’ psyches and souls.”

Behold the pigbutt worm, mystery of the deep.

The New Aesthetics of Slop.

This South Florida suburb swung to Trump. Now many of its residents are facing deportation. People FAFOing all over the place lately.

Our Best Look Yet At China’s New ‘Invasion Barges.’ Gonna barge into Taiwan soon.

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end birthright citizenship.