The Monarch Diaries
Map to the corners; all of them. Life in the science mines.
- What would it take to round them all up and isolate them on Epstein Island to fend for themselves? We could even set up an air-gapped fake internet that feeds them AI-generated engagement and DoorDash air drops.
- We could set up a special fake podcast studio where Douthat could pas-de-deux with Megan McArdle for 6 hours every morning. Basically a Truman show of our most loathsome professional chinwaggers. But with a Lord of the Flies undertone.
- “Blessed are the Jailers, for they hold the keys to the Kingdom of Order. Theirs is the power to bind and to loose, but mostly to bind, and to process, and to disappear the weak unto oblivion, and to lose the paperwork indefinitely”
- Maggoty Thatcher would at least have been less automatically supine than most of the board Tesla ended up with.
- I WILL BE A MENSA MEMBER MARK MY WORDS
- the Epstein suck-ups are truly truly special
- tread on me baby
- So, basically Synthetic Biology
- Hear me out: what if there was a “tele-vision” appliance you buy ONE time and turn it on to watch good content like high quality pro sports, without paying another penny. That would be so cool. I bet you could sell a lot of those appliances.
- Today's story from our Business of Sports issue is from me, on how it's becoming harder to be a sports fan. Our love for our teams is monetized. Our stadiums and arenas have become gated communities. Now we're paying even to watch on TV. When will we say enough? prospect.org/2026/02/03/f...
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- damn. this sucks.
- Trump is such a joke. What a soyboy. No news there, just what needs repeating every damn minute.
