Howard Gutowitz

In this house we believe: Popperian epistemology. The Anthropic Principle (At least on some branches of the multiverse). All species die, including necessarily this one.

Graham Planter doesn’t have a Nazi tattoo. He has a Nazi SS tattoo. The ones they wore in the death camps. So it’s not just about Nazi ideology, it’s the tattoo the people planning and executing the Holocaust had. If I had somehow “accidentally” gotten a tattoo like that I would immediately drop what I was doing and get it lasered off my body in extreme shame. Platner described it to others proudly as his “Nazi-style” tattoo, according to CNN. Go look at my tweets when Nazis marched on Charlottesville. I criticized Trump relentlessly for his weak response and “both sides” nonsense. That was a refusal to condemn. What Democrats are doing is worse. We’re embracing this person as our standard bearer for the Senate.

I just can’t fathom how third-world nonsense that I used to hear from illiterate villagers in my town growing up in Jordan is now being repeated as sacred truth by American intellectuals, journalists, and politicians. I just heard the hateful MTG @mtgreenee on Tucker’s show saying that President Trump had to make a deal and pledge allegiance to Zionists in order to become president. God is my witness, I heard the exact same thing about other American presidents from a mini-market owner 25 years ago, a man who never went to school and probably never left his village in his 80 years.

There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

saw her in person in a debate, she was _so_ uninformed and stupid.

An extended minimal dialogue scene. No camera movement, no spectacle, just performance-driven. It's pretty dang cool how much nuance you can start to dial in

Lenin in one hand, Cartier on the other.

Here is Gaza. Destroyed by Israel. According to antisemites, this destruction explains or justifies attacks on random Jewish people in the UK. Except it's not Gaza. I lied. It's actually Homs, in Syria. Destroyed by Assad. Nobody ever attacked random Syrians over this.

@wesyang Excellent steelmaning, but you left out the part about the Joos.

The Case for Harris: toxic white male Joe Biden stuck around far too long and threw the election into disarray, putting a POC woman out on the glass cliff like they always do, with too little time to introduce herself and her many accomplishments to the world. She deserves a chance to run a full campaign.

This is another example of why walking across an entire city, or a region passing through cities, gives you a better understanding of a place. When you walk across Milan, or from Dusseldorf to Bonn, you see that Europe isn't nearly as economically wealthy as the US. If you stick to tourist centers -- London, Paris, Milan -- you only see the wealthiest, and not the often dreary suburban apartment block bleah where most people live

Is that how the "progressives" all immediately decided that it was a false flag operation?

Mount Bokty, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 The distinct “layered cake” appearance results from colored chalk and clay bands that have been exposed and sharpened over time.

This @nytimes reporter is deeply concerned about @elonmusk. nytimes.com/by/kirsten-gri…

Sometimes someone says something so breath-takingly stupid that you have to question the validity of everything else they might have to say on any topic.

I like this Bruce Sterling quote because if Mars had the population density of the Gobi Desert there'd be about 140 million people living on it

@herandrews @dlondonwortel thanks. Just ordered it ($200!).

@dlondonwortel Everyone who reads The Power Broker should also read the 950-page memoir Robert Moses wrote on his own behalf. Gotta hear both sides.

A smattering of my NYC books - what else should I pick up?

I’d wager that a solid 80% of counseling and education “doctoral research” is either autoethnographies or interpretative phenomenological/thematic reflexive analyses.

I didn't like her from the first thing I read of hers. I guess more people are waking up now but boy has it taken a long time!

🚨PRINCE REZA PAHLAVI JUST WENT FULL NUCLEAR ON THE ENTIRE EU PRESS & PARLIAMENT! 🔥🧨 I want to speak DIRECTLY to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I held TWO MAJOR press conferences — one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Over 150 JOURNALISTS showed up. We spent MORE THAN TWO HOURS with them… And guess what? NOT ONE SINGLE of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 IRANIANS SLAUGHTERED on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th! NOT ONE asked about the 19 political prisoners EXECUTED in the last two weeks. When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death — CRICKETS. Not a damn question. I stood right next to a grieving mother and father who lost their sons in that massacre and begged them to listen to their stories… NOT A SINGLE ONE of those 150 journalists asked them a thing. Let that sink in. My 40,000 BRAVE INNOCENT COMPATRIOTS who were butchered fighting for liberty? They don’t give a damn. They are too busy criticizing America and Israel for taking out the dictator who’s been slaughtering our people for 47 YEARS — instead of going after the regime that’s actually doing the killing! They’d rather dig up Iran’s history than talk about what’s happening RIGHT NOW or the free democratic Iran we’re fighting for. One EU parliament member even had the nerve to say Iranians aren’t ready for democracy. To that coward and to every fake journalist in the room I say this: Iranians aren’t just “ready” for democracy… 40,000 of them just DIED for it! And I will NOT let their blood be in vain. SO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR: Whether Europe stands with us or not… Whether your journalists do their damn jobs or not… Whether your politicians grow a spine or not… I WILL FIGHT FOR MY PEOPLE AND MY COUNTRY. Even if we have to do this ALONE — we are fighting until IRAN IS FREE! 🇮🇷💪 #RezaPahlavi‌ForIran @PahlaviReza

I haven't laughed this hard in years. You can thank me once you finish watching it. Trust me, it's good. 🤣

it has taken quite a while, but I feel that @elonmusk is now making something quite interesting and powerful out of @twitter. Referring to @grok + community notes. You say community notes predate Musk and ok, but there is synergy there to be further exploited.