Learn some history: this is how authoritarian regimes come to power. The German press and judicial system did exactly the same thing to enable ascent of the Third Reich. This is Trump’s m-o.

My family was in Germany during the war and their strategy of keeping their heads down and hoping it would pass didn’t work. By 1945 most of the homes and the family business had been bombed into the ground and most of the men had died or disappeared in Russia.

I sleep well at night knowing I won’t have to explain to my grandkids someday that I was one of the good Germans.

“Let’s not shit on the news anchors who are just doing their jobs.” - Hannah Arendt

No one has even presented a reasonable argument. :(

I actually don’t think I’ve ever related to a Jez article so hard before. I’ve been increasingly in the grip of baby fever for the last few years, and yet- climate change was always lurking in my head. Then on Nov 9,2016 I decided that going forward, before I had kids, I would need a little more certainty that there…

I’ve never found the lack of a Snow Crash adaptation particularly baffling — I always assumed Hollywood was just really bad at casting/unwilling to cast a half-black, half-Japanese actor in the lead role for a major sci-fi movie (and that Snow Crash wasn’t quite popular enough for them to whitewash it).