We all know where we stand on Our Present Horrors but if I never have another social media chat about Dem strategy or purity tests or vote blue no matter who, etc., would I miss it? I think I would not! Anyway, I'll try to do better and not let the dumbest response to a post define my experience.
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Republican|North Carolina District 8
Mark Harris
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Voting Record — 613
Yes75%
No25%
Present0%
Not Voting0%
Party align93%
Cross-party1%
Mark Harris
U.S. RepresentativeRepublicanNorth Carolina District 8
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This is sobering. It makes me want to curtail my own bad habit of letting the scolds, cranks and people who live for the pleasure of screaming at their mostly-allies define my experience here as much as they do. And we need more people posting about fun cultural stuff in the spirit of conversation.>
...and, like clockwork, the "You're doing it wrong" crew has arrived. It's the "Learn to code, bro" team all over again, now with a shiny new toy with which to beat people over the head.
[checks with AI]
Great Expectations or maybe The Shining.
I am real
"I can help with carpooling" is my new go-to
I agree, but who are we to contradict?
What are you talking about? There's nothing wrong with AI fact-checking!
I think the novel's take on money culture could land very well if handled smartly, and other elements...need rethinking, but I think it can be done.
I kind of love the news that we're getting streaming series of both The Corrections and Bonfire of the Vanities. Both novels present (different) extreme adaptation challenges, but this has been a miserably risk-averse period for streamers, and I'm for anything that fights that.
Pam Bondi right now.
If you've read my Nichols biography and want to see a Mike-as-Miranda moment, I refer to the section about Mike's reaction to an actor who didn't bother to learn his lines during auditions for HBO's adaptation of Angels in America.
In which Meryl Streep confirms that when you are seeing Miranda Priestly, you are seeing her version of her longtime collaborator Mike Nichols (specifically the side of him that Tony used to call "Scary Mike").
Mike knew, and was delighted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eryb...
A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line.
This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
This is where two of the big forces in journalism, tech "innovators" and money dildos, combine to degrade what you do and make you feel that it's not valuable. If you need the job, absolutely go for it and take their $$, but remember that you're better than the role you're being told to play.
This sounds like one of those jobs where your function is to be a tube that sucks things off of various sites you find on the screen on your left, passes them briefly through your keyboard, and splurts them on to the screen on your right.
I'm not digging up the "worst person you know just made a good point" pic but...this is Bret Stephens on the White House ballroom. And it's a solid point.
Also, the first night of Passover is weird timing for a Presidential address.
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Voting History
613 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-15 | H.R. 164 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 28 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 28 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 153 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-14 | H.R. 152 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-13 | H.R. 192 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-09 | H.R. 23 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-07 | H.R. 29 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | Motion to Commit with Instructions | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-01-03 | H. Res. 5 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-01-03 | — | Election of the Speaker | NOT_VOTING | — | — | Johnson (LA) |
| 2025-01-03 | — | Call by States | PRESENT | — | — | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.
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