This Buck Mason jacket retails for $398. How much do you think something like this cost in the 1950s? Reply with your answer and then open this thread to see if you got it right. 🧵

Hot take: modern life is wonderful, this is actually the best time ever to have been alive, and the social and political problems that people complain about cause people to lose that perspective.

I joke a lot about embracing "you can just do things." But it's just agency and desire. I know I'm very wired for it naturally, but wish more people would just do things. It's a lot of fun and very freeing to make life happen the way you want it to, whatever your "things" is

I've been thinking about how law reviews (and academics) should respond to AI writing, and this 👇 is my basic starting point. Pangram is a badly designed purity stick.

A rare opportunity to disagree with The Hoff. So first, he is right on all the main points, including flooding and how ugly AI slop is, &c. But I don't love the remedy (and I suspect he isn't too excited about it either?). Pangram is measuring the wrong thing and is also gamable (less so than I thought in the past!). Still the semi lazy can just have Claude generate an article and then rewrite it using meat tokens, and the AI signature disappears without resolving any of the underlying problems. The truly lazy will use AI humanizers, but I haven't benchmarked those. What to do? Use AI to identify works worthy of human attention! AI triage is the only robust way forward IMHO, and also, I suspect that it's being done covertly anyways. A lot more to say but I wanted to outline this quickly

JUST IN: Getty Images files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after struggling with mounting debt & growing competition from AI-generated images.

newspaper editors, you know that i love you how are you not running *everything* through pangram??

One reason Bari has this job is the remarkable success of @TheFP, which, like @CityJournal and @FreeBeacon, pursues stories that people like this leaker think should be off-limits when they concern far-left Democrats who excite progressive media professionals in New York. Sorry, but your enthusiasm for a candidate doesn’t exempt him from scrutiny. The DSA’s favorites still have to answer tough questions when credible reporting raises concerns about their ties to terrorist organizations—even when that reporting emerges from a center or right-of-center outlet. You’d think the whole Hunter Biden laptop episode would have taught newsrooms to have at least a little humility about dismissing reporting based solely on who published it.

You've just died, the 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.

Air Justice.