Btw, left NIMBYs are both the leftmost guy and the center guy—they complain about “transplants“ who are just internal immigrants

Timeline cleanse

this is dated nov 1, 2024. was there an earlier serious proposal to do with annexing Greenland. would anyone like to argue that it is false that we are doing the Greenland thing because of a Thiel conference that also featured a data-driven orgy talk by Aella

I watch futbol and I would enjoy watching the World Cup but I think a World Cup boycott is one of the more effective actions Europe can take, and less economically harmful to themselves compared to restricting trade or tourism.

I mean they’ve also been much quieter about gaza once republicans got in charge Because it was never primarily about moral urgency, but about Discourse

hosting a 1492 dinner (cook with old world or new world foods only, as defined pre-columbian exchange) and my mole verde using only new world spices turned out pretty good

it's crazy the number of people who will pontificate confidently on LLMs without knowing that the popular consumer chatbots search the internet and link to the results in their responses.

Uh oh ai discourse is happening [backs slowly away]

mexican food in pgh is 1000x better than it was 10 years ago, but there is no chance that my neighborhood will get a mexican grocery store (rent is too high) and regular supermarkets still don't carry mexican staples like tomatillos and the requisite variety of chiles.

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

the most concerning aspect of Charles Schumer's rhetoric isn't "messaging" (although, yeah, the messaging is weak), it's that his rhetoric signals that his practical leadership would be weak if Democrats retake the senate majority

I wrote a whole fuckin' NYT article about how red teamers are scared to try to test AI models for their AI-CSAM capability for fear of legal liability, and it turned out the answer all along was "just goad your dumbfuck users into paying you $8 to do it for you & post the results in your replies"

Just a human here 🙏 Writing this with my actual hands—no AI involved ✨ Key takeaways: - Authenticity matters - Connection is key - I have real emotions At the end of the day, genuine expression is what sets us apart 🫶 Thoughts? 👇

Poland does not want to sell its territory. But for an art student turned chancellor, the land of pierogis may be irresistible.

Why are supermarket prices actually so high in New York City? The great @stephenjacobsmith.com does a deep dive into the real-world forces that keep many grocery stores out. We promise you'll learn a thing or two or five. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/nyc...

"May your house be on CNN" —Bosnian proverb from 1990s

They’re literally acting like fucking Russians

density enables resistance!

Broke: Moderate goals with moderate rhetoric Woke: Radical goals with radical rhetoric Bespoke: Radical goals with moderate rhetoric

Insane framing. City Council forced the apps to pay the workers an actual wage. So they raised prices and did that, then stopped guilting customers into tipping so hard. If you want delivery cyclists to earn $35/hour, have the courage of your convictions and advocate for that as a minimum wage.

It's ALL really just misogyny all the way down, and being unable to admit that is part of the problem. "Cringe" and "woke"-as-perjorative are both just versions of "Don't be such a GIRL/p***y/gay!" rebranded for Millennials who didn't want to sound like (outright) slur-using Xers and Boomers.

ngl I don't know why environmentalists didn't seem super concerned about China shifting from American soybeans to Brazilian/Argentinian ones. Surely Nebraska is a better place to grow them than clearing out the Amazon...

I have an international vacation planned for march but I’m unwilling to plan any international vacations beyond that because *waves at everything* i can’t be the only one thinking this. airlines can cry harder

We took a taxi from the hotel to Taipei's airport MRT station. After security checks our passport pic & boarding pass (phone), we place our luggage in this machine. After it is weighed, it prints a luggage tag. After we put it on, the bag disappears to go through xray.

This is reminiscent of how collecting demographic data in order to test for fairness increases legal risk for banks, so they'd rather not collect it and instead try to guess your demographics in various ways.

Yes please. Ditch the New Left or we will never get anything done

Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016

I'd be worried about the influx of transphobes tbh

we love multipolarity

I only ask how much more anyone would want to see before deciding on maximal obstruction against this administration

I want to be clear here that fascistic regimes don't really need a pretext to kill people who oppose them. But we make it a whole lot easier when we force everyone into a 4,000 pound vehicle that governments can credibly claim could be weaponized at any moment, or not, as suits their purposes.

This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end! It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍

Even just that first paragraph hits too close to home, I'm afraid. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

European bond traders are discovering Project 2025 for the first time.

can things stop happening

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

stolpersteine for ICE abductions should become a thing

gonna have to get mountaineering mittens if we’re gonna protest every week throughout the winter. my 45NRTH gloves are good enough for commuting length rides but not for standing around outside for extended periods

German bundestag all getting verified today

big business has been allowed to do this bullshit act of pretending 1) they have no leverage over the president 2) there are no consequences from bandwagoning with him 3) everyone else is just going to sit back and take it

ukraine was my breaking point

as a queer person who left california because I was sick of not being able to walk to things, I fully endorse

not a derby county fan in any way shape or form but let's be real this is the best english football crest

I SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT EVERYWHERE AND SO DOES MY BROTHER REGARDS MYCROFT and sherlock

New research confirms what many of us see: there's a large internal migration of LGBTQ people in the US, especially trans people, to friendlier states & cities. Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving. www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...

Additional tip: avoid using the Discover feed. It's genuinely awful. Either use the following feed or the actually good algorithm under the "For You" name.

"No one will read papers anymore with AI" I've read over 500 research papers this year while experimenting constantly with AI coding and read that paper I just linked while Claude code fixed a really stupid citations formatting error I was having 🤷‍♀️