Here's your period reminder that "Luddite" does not mean "hates technology/progress". It means "hates how technology/progress benefit only the bosses while the workers get the shaft".

Over the last several years my left and right hands have taken turns passing the same 100 dollar bill back and forth, and I'm proud to report that thanks to this investment my net value is now one trillion dollars

Ring’s alert app and Citizen are absolutely toxic to society.

The United States also already has a major physician shortage, which is bad now and projected to worsen to pretty extreme levels as Boomers continue to age. Making H1-B visas dependent on a $100K bribe is going to cause thousands of medical students & residents to stop coming here every single year.

If you've ever wondered "Why don't farmers speak up about what Trump's doing to them?" I'm a farmer, and I wonder the same. youtu.be/1bu9Pu83YrY

Never in doubt. #Eagles

like this

Dude, if yours shrunk don't use it to measure everybody else's.

Goddammit I was so fucking close

This bit of political art I saw yesterday in Arlington (and which has been there since at least Tuesday) must have required some non-trivial effort to create and put in place.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.

And yes, I am going to keep shitting on Ezra Klein until one of us is dead, and depending on fate and cosmology, probably after that. It’s Ezra’s obligation to work to find common ground with me.

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

Donald Trump has long treated 14-year-olds as adults so this makes sense

Javy Báez and I talk plate discipline

would not have predicted five years ago that I’d be getting a vaccine in each arm ahead of a health department meeting where a guy who deposited a bear carcass in Central Park might limit access to immunizations

I think we all still drastically underestimate how the modern Internet and how we interface with it just melts brains.

Researchers tested AI's sycophancy by putting in a bunch of r/AITA posts and seeing if AI would agree that people were jerks. They found 42% of the time, AI got it wrong. I tested this out myself, nearly every time, AI couldn't catch the verified Asshole www.businessinsider.com/reddit-aita-...

One of the things that I like about Robert Redford is that I won’t get kicked off Bluesky for quoting him accurately. "Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it." — Robert Redford #RIPRedford

Exponential growth curves simply don’t exist in real life. Instead, you have sigmoid curves, where you eventually hit resource limits and growth rapidly plateaus. In the case of AI, they ran out training data a long time ago, and the models require unsustainable amounts of computing power.

One of the goats right from the start.

RIP. I thought he might be too handsome to die. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

/2 Promoting civic ignorance is an absolutely central component of the project of Trumpism.

The ideal number of subscribers to The Washington Post is zero.

silence is acceptance National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Bad Keyboards Thread: So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but mainly because I like being a chaos gremlin. Most recently, the Juggling Keyboard: bsky.app/profile/foon...

Yeah this has outstripped the post-9/11 frenzy even, especially when you factor in that the entire country was genuinely traumatized by 9/11 while most people didn’t know or care who Charlie Kirk was

It is very funny that people think their neighborhood Catholic priest has had their brain melted by online bullshit as much as they have.

anyway 💁‍♂️

this is bluesky pandering at the highest level, just shameless behavior by which I mean “go birds”

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

Always nice to see the Chiefs lose. Eagles fans think it's an emotional rollercoaster but imagine how it is for their fanbase. I mean, you get pardoned for J6 and then you need to watch this happen.

I've been to buffalo wild wings maybe 3-4 times in my life and each time the server forced me to go in the back and milk the hot sauce directly from the creature.

Do you think we will go back to things being not absolute awful horrid trash garbage bullshit ever again

nypost inciting violence on my no-glorifying-or-inciting-violence app? but that’s illegal!

Oh! Oh my.

The psychic wound establishment figures felt from "cancel culture" -- that brief, nightmarish moment when the hoi polloi were freely talking back to them -- so cosmically exceeds the size & impact of the phenomenon itself that pretty much only psychological explanations are sufficient.

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that

All right, I wrote about it:

Imprisoned for dance crimes

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

Get in, losers. We're posting John Berkey spaceships.