The Americans prepping for a second Civil War, by Charles Bethea at the New Yorker. They’re joining survivalist communities, canning food and buying guns.
"Want to live a long and fulfilling life? Change how you think about getting old"
Debra Whitman at the Wall Street Journal: Stress about growing older becomes self-fulfilling. The stress itself causes physiological health problems.
Also:
… our expectations about growing older become self-fulfilling because they affect how we behave. For example, while a positive attitude about aging doesn’t take the place of exercise and eating well, a belief that we can live long and healthy lives often encourages people to invest in their future selves by taking more walks and eating more greens.
On the flip side, when we view health problems as inevitable, we’re more likely to see healthy behaviors as futile. [And:] When older people believe that unhappiness comes with age, they are less likely to seek treatment for depression.
Ian Welsh asks: “What is woke?" I’ve wondered that myself. I think it’s just a random word that MAGA throws around to indicate anything Donald Trump doesn’t like. Same with “socialism” when used by MAGA.
That’s not how it started. It started with a specific meaning decades ago, but that meaning has been lost.
"A worldwide Jew hunt"
Bret Stephens cites Amsterdam pogroms and hate crimes in Chicago, Brooklyn, Paris and inside Israel and says:
Notice what these attackers aren’t saying. They aren’t expressing themselves in the faddish language of anti-Zionism. They aren’t denouncing Israeli policy or speaking up for Palestinian rights. They aren’t trying to make careful distinctions between Jews and Israelis. They are, like generations of pogromists before them, simply out to get the Jews — a reminder, if one was needed, of the truth often attributed to Maya Angelou: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Bluesky is probably the new Twitter, says Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day. Threads is lame, he says.
He barely mentions Mastodon. Good. Let’s keep quiet about Mastodon so the clout-chasers don’t notice it.
Also: What if Trump’s Twitter ban helped him win the election? AI is continuing to eat Google and everything else. And: “Weird crypto guys want to buy Greenland and ‘terraform’ it.”
I have cottage cheese for lunch nearly every day. Minnie enjoys it too.
Matt Gaetz: Not just a pedo. Also an anti-Semite.
I’ve been thinking about this quote a lot since election results were declared. Carlin got REALLY cynical shortly before he died. He was sure the world was burning and enjoyed watching it burn.
Some of the reports out of Trumpworld yesterday, in particular, had me alternating between laughing out loud and afraid. And I’ve barely checked the news today.
The undead workforce: AI avatars could keep you on the job after you’re gone. Get ready for your employers to demand the right to create your AI avatar, putting you to work after you’ve quit, retired, been fired or died. My latest on Fierce Network.
I hope Trump supporters get everything they voted for.