Skyler Adleta
@SkylerAdleta
Catholic / Writing on politics, culture, industry, etc. / Electrician / Construction Project Manager / Husband & Father
I think the commentary on efforts by universities to screen applicants for "civility" with essay prompts and peer-scored Zoom sessions is mostly missing the salient point. Yes, the tools are absurd. But the bigger problem is the category error of treating civility as something…
I wrote about the civility mania sweeping elite college admissions for @nytopinion nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi…
I’m growing to appreciate @RepThomasMassie more in recent months. He doesn’t seem plastic, or singularly devoted to leader worship. Massie on @TheoVon’s podcast explaining how the best of intentions of many in D.C. end up bowing to the national Party machines.
There is much reason for U.S. optimism during the now and future techno-industrial revolution playing out across the world. @bungarsargon via @TheFP thefp.com/p/here-come-th…
Colbert’s show was apparently horrendously unprofitable. If any of us were working in a position that was draining value at a company, we would be sent packing. Colbert was made exceptionally wealthy while his show produced no value. Why are people rallying around this?
Live: Protest against firing of Stephen Colbert in NYC x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
One fine day, an American entrepreneur woke up and said, “I got it. I figured out the name for the business.”
I love everything about this.
Some of the stuff people think is funny/clever/nuanced to post on this app is baffling at times.
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
AI will inevitably lead humans to settle for lower quality, uninspired “creative” outputs in favor of low costs and the convenience of not collaborating with other human professionals with refined tastes and particular standards. But our tech lords are unbothered by such things.
Keep seeing people talk about how the quality of CGI has degraded since the early 2000s. I remember Michael Bay’s Transformer films getting made fun of by snobs precisely because of their heavy CGI use, but now people are looking back and realizing just how good they are, that…
Fewer features? Ford literally made a car that could fly.
This is why American car makers want Chinese cars banned from the U.S. market. Because they want to continue selling us overpriced vehicles with fewer features.
Tragic news continues to arrive in these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza. I express my profound sadness regarding last Thursday’s attack by the Israeli army on the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City, which as you know killed three Christians and…
Nowadays, praising an elite figure with the the phrase, “he or she spoke truth to power” really seems to mean, “We’re not exactly sure what he did, but he didn’t cross any of the lines we drew in the sand”. In other words, he wasn’t disruptive to power at all. He was a good boy.
Stephen Colbert is the best in the business. He always told truth to power and pulled no punches. We need more of that, not less.
He got over the dread fast. Hours later he announced that he is introducing @xAI to children. AI won’t kill us. But if we further use it to bypass healthy human thought—making sense of emotional context, absorbed information and our instincts—we’ll feel dead. Let the kids be.
We’re going to make Baby Grok @xAI, an app dedicated to kid-friendly content
The counter-argument is going to be that we are just demanding moral justice. But I don’t think we care about that so much. I think people are addicted to seeing people fall from high pedestals and rejoicing in it. @FOMO_sacer via @unherd unherd.com/2025/07/the-sa…
The summer/part-time job ecosystem taught me and my friends that there is a reality on the other side of school where you could win or lose based on work ethic, reliability and your ability to collaborate. Crucial experience. @herandrews via @commonplc commonplace.org/2025/07/16/are…
The first chunk of this podcast has some of the most wispy, convenience-seeking theology I’ve heard a person try and put forth. Support of abortion is not a compatible belief with Christian teaching. @jamestalarico via @joerogan podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…