As a person who overreacts a lot we are still underreacting

never fucking forgive them for what they've done to the computer

Passive US equity inflows US are typically in the multi hundreds of billions per year. At least 300 bln. That's a lot of money, but just three IPOs this year (SpaceX, Anthropic, OAI) could hit $150 bln in capital raised. It's not a zero sum game but on the margin, that's a big hole to fill

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

One day I'm going to have to read books by liberal historians about how we all naively sleepwalked into fascism and they might even be written by the same people who spent a decade calling us melodramatic alarmists for saying it was coming.

Unmedicated ADHD: my plans for today are none of my business

The gap between class war and 'ID politics' is where members of the groups are disappeared

comedy option: China should do this

for me “doom scrolling” is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

honestly if the administration was trying to install shohreh aghdashloo as the head of the iranian government it would factor favorably into my calculus

Wow! Some guys have all the luck! This Polymarket trader predicted Venzuela, Maduro, US striking Iran, Israel striking Iran, US striking Iraq, Khamenei, and cartel strikes.

Is there a place past gallows humor? Because it feels like we’re entering the realm of phylactery humor, or The Endless Shrieking of the Void humor when we have to decide our emotional response to <waves hands at everything>

I get tired of American voters being pure innocents who can never be judged for their shitty, shitty choices.

My boyfriend came over to meet my new kittens… and this is how it went. 🥺🐾

whenever I feel existential despair this never fails to turn it around

the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough

The Romans conquering and digesting Ancient Greece really is a case of my favorite historical phenomenon, "the homophobic gays have defeated the gay homophobes"

One of the most relevant, unequivocal lessons that Confucius has to teach us is when a student comes to him to say "I'm going to change things from *the inside*," and Confucius responds, "What, are you fucking stupid."

If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

do you all have a moment to discuss the Good News of seitan

It's breaking my perception of bad things kinda being an outcome of distributed independent groups of people deciding to bee greedy assholes when like, no, apparently there's just a couple extremely monstrous people propagating evil like a cartoon villain.

Co-sign this and add that for everyone who isn’t a cishet white guy, it’s also blackpilling on a personal level both in terms of the viability of certain career paths and the knowledge your potential coworkers would toss you in a gas chamber to play with toys for goals they don’t even believe in.

Glory to the heroes of the Republic 🫡

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

if you don't like how SCOTUS interprets the constitution, you can amend the constitution, which SCOTUS will then interpret any which way they like including the exact opposite of whatever you wrote literal end of the republic shit

the fact that this bullshit has even reached the supreme court is completely disqualifying to the entire field of law

pouring one out for the systems thinkers who can see the abyss and have to live with the darkness

I need people who were wrong about everything to actually look back and recognize that there was a reason they were wrong and maybe they need to update their understanding of the world. Otherwise they don't really think they were wrong.

learned today that renee good had tried to move her family to canada after the election, and when that didn't work they moved to minneapolis because it was somewhere she could see as safe for a queer family. i think that broke something inside me.

For the rest of my life: "We can't pay for--" fuck you they paid for ICE to ravage our cities. "We can't just defund--" fuck you they abolished the Department of Education.

But generally speaking I think that if you say "we should treat the police, we should treat the state actors like they treat us" and that's interpreted as a threat then everyone knows very well what the score is.

Really it’s a wild strategy to instill an entire generation with such a level of existential dread that they basically believe their futures are forfeit dead-ends, and then also tell them “if you talk back to us we’re going to kill you”. Almost have to admire the uh, boldness of it all

I’m inventing a fractal anger where I’m mad on every separate level at the same time

So when can you start

the heat death of the universe sounds even better

If LLMs were pitched for only what they're genuinely and undeniably very good at–helpful digital assistants for experienced programmers–they'd still look like an economically transformative invention. But the coked-out overleveraged tech dudes running things want addictive digital friends or AGI

Nut Luncheon

"time is controlled by a team of wizards in boulder colorado" yea ok sure. and fort collins is the backup. whatever dude

Programmer joke: "In the future we won't need programmers. We'll just need people who can tell AIs very precisely and in full detail what we want them to do using language the AIs understand."

A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.

I'm just going to post this song as often as possible until it's sweeping the nation. I want to hear this playing in supermarkets.

GOODS: international freedom of movement CAPITAL: international freedom of movement LABOR: not so fast pal

I hope everyone who publicly supports Trump realizes that means for the rest of their life, and for as long as their name is remembered and spoken, they can be described as a supporter of a fascist, as a supporter of a rapist, as a supporter of a racist

It’s really tough for Republicans when they discover that they also have to live in the same world they force us to live in