I am increasingly convinced that the main political division of our times is between nihilists and people who think that shit matters, and this is taking me down some weird paths, but so be it.
whenever people get into arguments about bluesky versus twitter I just come back to the fact that I don’t want to spend time on a platform where the biggest voices are the worst people on the planet
Micah
Ntina Tzouvala
The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square.
These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere.
Your participation is not going to change this graph
www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...
Vikram Bath
My new essay at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social: “Mosaic of Deterrence”
The war on Iran is the culmination of a long strategy: first strangulation, then destruction. From weaponized finance to asymmetric deterrence, and the limits of imperial coercion.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mos...
Iranian resilience in the face of US-Israeli assault
