It’s refreshing to see trash that takes itself out.
Let me get this straight… a white FBI Director (Chris Wray) gets fired and replaced by a brown minority Director (Kash Patel) and members of the FBI's DEI office are now protesting and threatening to resign? 🤡
— Gain of Fauci (@DschlopesIsBack) January 1, 2025
The irony is ALMOST too good to be true. 😂 pic.twitter.com/7jcWkzpiPl
Thoughts from Robin Hanson.
…are starting to realize their entire industry is worthless.
There are certainly some things of value, but they may be offset by all of the negative value.
Looks like we’re on the verge.
NEW: Marc Andreessen reveals how Trump's DOJ appointee, Harmeet Dhillon, is poised to demolish corporate DEI policies.
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 28, 2024
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Dhillon, a fierce critic of woke corporate culture, is now leading the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
"The Justice Department's Civil… pic.twitter.com/mqMAJg1Ybb
RIP. I’d have a lot to say, but for now, de mortuis nil nisi bonum.
[Update while later]
I’m watching the Packers/Vikings game (rooting for Green Bay to get the division championship for the Lions), but Ed Driscoll has a lot of links.
[Monday-morning update]
The under- and over-appreciated Jimmy Carter.
And there is no love lost from Sarah Hoyt.
[Update a while later]
He was a terrible president, and a worse former president.
There are people who don’t have three days of canned food? We could go a month, not because we’re survivalists, but because we shop at Costco. Maybe it’s a European thing?
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she had stocked up on canned food to last three days in the event of a possible Russian cyberattack.
— Clash Report (@clashreport) December 27, 2024
She urged all Danes to also follow the recommendations of the Danish Emergency Management Agency. pic.twitter.com/byFGvwcZhL
Another is the cover up of the Biden crime family, about which half the country remains ignorant.
It’s ignorant, ostentatious support of anti-Semitism and terrorism, by people who don’t know the name of either the river, or the sea.
Thoughts from Eric Raymond:
Today's big beef is between tech-success maximizers like @elonmusk and MAGA nationalists who think the US job market is being flooded by low-skill immigrants because employers don't want to pay competitive wages to Americans.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) December 26, 2024
To be honest, I think both sides are making some…