One of the main lessons of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism is that we must actively think in the now, and try to grasp new realities on their own terms.

Apparently Jeff Landry is characterizing his new Ambassador position as “a volunteer role to make Greenland a part of the US” and I don’t even know where to begin

Merry Christmas from my fans in Russia!

Okay, look, I just think that certain Korean dramas should have a “this show is really good but everyone dies” warning label. I’m not saying I wouldn’t watch, I’m just saying I would like to be prepared.

As someone born and raised in the Los Angeles Metro area, let me just say that rain is a fantastic Christmas present, all I’ve ever wanted.

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

Hey quick thing: Dementia is a disease, not an insult. OK bye!

Who could have seen it coming? (Everyone.)

Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”

I am seeing videos on Instagram about "the Great Millennial Career Crisis" and I am tempted to respond "this is significantly worse if you are a non-white person because pay and promotion discrimination didn't get better despite increases in education, personal effort and experience".

online dating

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Louder for the people in the back: The floodplain IS the river.

Starting the fireplace and went to grab an old newspaper for kindling. Found this page from January 2023.

Hero. ❤️ '43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding. archive.today/2025.12.14-1...

My personal opinion: use whatever toilet you are most comfortable with. It doesn’t bother me. Because I’m a grownup who doesn’t invent things to be afraid of. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the good that you do persists in this world

Ok, I’m going back to playing the French Game, this football is boring now

In Colorado, representatives of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are negotiating with elections officials to work out a new program to register more Native people. The idea is running into a legacy of violence and mistrust.

"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."

This is an unequivocal public policy failure. This is a political choice that has been made, not an inevitability. These deaths do not routinely happen in other countries, even the ones with guns. F**k the second amendment, it’s time to get rid of the guns.

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

I wish this wasn’t happening. I wish this never happened. I wish this wasn’t something I ever had to take mandatory annual trainings to “prepare for”, or something I used to include a paragraph about in my syllabus boilerplate. I wish it wasn’t something I thought about when I work in my office.

"don't you want to speak to your dead grandpa using ai" I think we should bring back proper necromancers and then set the skeletons on anyone who can rotate a pdf

I am horrified for all the FEMA staffers who are smart and caring and capable. I am horrified for the states, counties, and municipalities that will find their finances smashed by disaster recovery. I am horrified for the lives that will be lost and ruined. www.thehandbasket.co/p/conspiracy...

Data Centers in Space are the new Hyperloop

I say this as someone who LOVES international law: the law of the sea is real boring. Probably the least exciting international treaty. Like infrastructure, it’s boring because it works. Also like infrastructure, nobody wins when Maritime Law gets “interesting”

Really helping my theory that is better not to think of the Democrats as a party but rather a jobs program for consultants

When you drive north on I-5 from Seattle to Vancouver, you get to see one of the most beautiful valleys as you pass through Skagit County. The entire area is now under evacuation orders. 😢 I hope everyone manages to find safe shelter. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Now THAT’s what I call a Thanksgiving treat.

I can’t stop watching this. Paging @neolithicsheep.bsky.social.

Anyway, whether discussing James Carville or Marjorie Taylor Greene, this applies:

I don't think that word means what you think it means, Google

Based on the ads I get, Instagram clearly thinks I’m a fat childless black woman and frankly, that’s two outta three and a compliment.

Listening to the news in French- of course they’re talking about ICE raids- and I’m reminded that in French it’s l’ICE, and I’m never going to be able to refer to them as anything else. If only there was a special shampoo for fascists.

If the New York Post knew about all the kids who call me auntie they’d implode

Great, short read by Jonathan Zasloff on how "passive virtues" undermine both the constitution and democracy: legal-planet.org/2025/10/24/h...

I know it’s not completely his fault, but wow, does that kid look like what ChatGPT spits out when you say “make me an image of an 16 year old who wants to be Mussolini when he grows up”.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Me: (doomscrolling, muttering) that’s not how this works. That’s now how any of this works. My niece, 7: not how any of what works? Me: um. I was just reading about… someone…being wrong about… laws… (closes news)

Nesiamun speaks for us all

This Yougov survey contains an important finding: people who rely heavily on ChatGPT rate it as being "good" at tasks that we ABSOLUTELY know for sure it is very bad at imo, this is a strong piece of evidence these heavy users simply do not ever check outputs yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Alternative headline: Acting Head of IRS Resigns Rather Than Break the Law

LTO-9 tapes are 18TB, cost under $100 each, and last for 30+ years making them the most efficient cold storage solution on the market, which every competent IT professional knows, but no im sure you can just dump all of that essential data in some shitty budget cloud storage service lmao

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.