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If the GOP has lost the NYT’s little cartoon people they have lost everything. (NB Once again, we need an animated series with this panel, in this drawing style, where they all live in the same house.)

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Of all the crazy geometric effects that the Hiss containment breach had on the geography of Manhattan in “Control: Resonant”, perhaps the most substantial has been to turn it into a city of Alleys, which NYC very much is not.

Screenshot from early in “Control: Resonant”. An alley.

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Sure, NDPR, email me all the reviews from all the years at random. Why not.

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“This week’s academic speaker at the Horowitz Andreessen Academy was profiled in national media partly for skeevy reasons. No, the other one. No the *other* other one. No, the other *other* other one.”

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The Horowitz Andreessen Academy

Tyler Cowen, Agnes Callard, Andrew Huberman, and Larry Summers are all listed in this boondoggle/rich seedbed for future lawsuits, but none of them is down as an “Instructor”, only as “Guest Speakers”. (I guess the bloom is off the rose for for Steven Pinker?) Apply away, kids.

theacademysf.com

An Academy for unusually ambitious young people. Build your own projects in San Francisco, learn from the people shaping the future, and work inside leading companies.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 23/09/2026

Control: Resonant is just what Manhattan is like now since Mamdani got elected

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 22/09/2026

I suppose it’s interesting to see his long-standing “I call it …” tendencies increasingly coming to the fore as one of the few remaining ways he feels he can assert himself.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 22/09/2026

I’m surprised that instead of “renaming” Artificial Intelligence to “Super Intelligence” he didn’t just assert that from now on the “A” in “AI” will stand for “American”.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 22/09/2026

The Strength of Weak Tie Fighters

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Bluesky undefeated. I guess I have to hand it to this guy.

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The phrase "You have to hand it to..." is usually an admission to grudging admiration. My unpopular opinion, then, is that if one values truth & fearless journalism not beholden to those with power & money, one does not, in fact, "have to hand" anything to corporate-and/or billionaire-owned media.
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You have to hand it to the Times. When it comes to local stuff they are just so good at trolling 90 percent of their own readers while making the other 10 percent happy. I like to imagine that the Real Estate people and the Vows people have a scoreboard, like Legolas and Gimli in Lord of the Rings.
AFFORDING NEW YORK
How a Risk Associate Lives on $110,000 in Lenox Hill
While his mother helped him buy a co-op in Manhattan, Sean de Ganon, 26, has also benefited from learning financial literacy at a young age.
By DAVAUGHNIA WILSON

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While we’re here my other fave bit of etymology is that the “gar” in “garlic” is the same as the “gar” in “Gardena”, as in “Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum”. Gardena is the Spear-Danes, and garlic is the sharp or spear-leek.

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Also one of my favorite bits of etymological trivia. In my line of work you have to be careful because people have a real sweet tooth for bad arguments from etymology, but still, that the word “matrix” derives from a word for “womb” is irresistible.

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You have to hand it to the Times. When it comes to local stuff they are just so good at trolling 90 percent of their own readers while making the other 10 percent happy. I like to imagine that the Real Estate people and the Vows people have a scoreboard, like Legolas and Gimli in Lord of the Rings.

AFFORDING NEW YORK
How a Risk Associate Lives on $110,000 in
Lenox Hill
While his mother helped him buy a co-op in Manhattan, Sean de Ganon, 26, has also benefited from learning financial literacy at a young age.
By DAVAUGHNIA WILSON

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That’s why they carved that poem that goes “Go back home, or at the very least stay in the designated zone” on the base of the Statue of No Transplants that stands in the harbor.

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As an Irishman living in America I naturally remain many miles from Stancil Will, but I keep seeing echoes of him fighting with his own followers where he seems to be speed-running them against their will through physicalism and functionalism in the philosophy of mind, which is pretty funny.

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Niche variant Chuck Tilly Norwood remains blandly pliant and charming but in conversation constantly brings up problems of the state, durable inequality, mass political mobilization, and social change in comparative historical settings.

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Everyone should of course strive to read and learn more in the humanities, especially the most important branch of the humanities, i.e. mathematics.

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This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well

AI and consciousness political 2D grid.

Authoritarian
Al is not conscious and neither am I
Authoritarian
Left
Al is conscious but l am not
Authoritarian
Right
Economic-
Left
Economic-Right
Libertarian
Left
I am conscious but Al is not
Libertarian
Right
I am conscious and so is Al
Libertarian

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I’m at the Military Complex. I’m at the Triumphal Arch. I’m at the combined Military Complex/Triumphal Arch.

Donald J. Trump C @realDonaldTrump
At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19/09/2026

See also: Outerbridge Crossing, the southernmost exit from NYC, linking Staten Island to Perth Amboy NJ, named after Eugenius Henry Outerbridge.

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I cannot believe I just organically and spontaneously got the opportunity to Morgenbesser in real life.

I am coming home with a pastry for myself
For you?
Apple Danish; chocolate croissant
Danish!
Muffin, sticky bun?
In that case I'll have the croissant

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19/09/2026

I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.

Grid of logic gate options as Venn diagrams of Tilly Norwood, Tilly Orwood, Tilly Andwood, Tilly Xorwood, Tilly Nandwood, and Tilly Xnandwood

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19/09/2026

I’m sorry for the poor quality of the photo of this incredible fight—possibly a territorial display, or competition for a recent kill—that I witnessed in the wild yesterday evening, but as you can imagine I was running for my life at the time.

Two tyrannosaurus rexes fighting at a bus stop

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OK news agencies and broadcasters with a presence in the White House Briefing Room, and indeed the WHCA: your test has arrived. It is not hard to pass. You just need to not attend WH Briefings for as long as this rule is in force. That’s it. Does your commitment to a free press mean anything or not?

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Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room! Good catch. You *can* fight in here. That’s on me. I’ve updated the list of rooms that it’s confirmed you can fight in.

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This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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That’s a load-bearing assumption, Dr Strangelove. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

program.
sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the
familiar with the incident said.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also
"almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese
nations.

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This gets at something that’s been bugging me about the discourse around AI/N-S/Tao, etc. A lot of people are converting to what’s effectively a Romantic Author vision where they sound like Captain Kirk talking about how computers can never Love, except about Originality, Judgment, or Understanding.

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WHO MADE THIS I say delightedly as I carefully adjust the screenshot rectangle to crop out the name of the person who made it

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