Dems need to stop pretending young people are closely analyzing the text in WaPo or NYT copy and start thinking like Charlie Kirk www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

So I have multiple follow up questions

Tyler Robinson Was Practicing Web Browsing Exactly Right, By Ezra Klein

Bitcoin blockchain is now against that poor TAMU girl's religion and is in VIOLATION OF THE LAW. I'm calling on President Trump to shut it down. mempool.space/tx/6cb50656b...

This whole situation at TAMU is brain-bludgeoningly painful. The person who should be fired is the admissions officer who admitted a student who believes that the literal act of becoming aware that some people identify as non-binary is "against their religion" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Subway just did an inflation by 4.7% in time for the school year And I have the receipts

Not sure if this comparison has been made yet ....

Many of us were very vocal (I said this directly to the CAS Dean) that this line about 'tenure doesn't mean you can't get laid off' was not working I'm glad they listened

Big picture, this is a W for humanities and the concept of academic tenure. Hopefully, it sets a bit of a precedent in the case that other universities try to chip away at tenure.

Looks like the administration may have backed down on closing departments and laying off tenured faculty? We just got an email from the university president saying this:

It seems like all the viable strategies at this point involve some sort of accelerationism.

But whatever, the revenue is just pouring out over Agate Street in Eugene

"After multiple incidents of good faith being abused, we've enacted a zero tolerance policy for good faith. Thank you for your cooperation. " -Bluesky

Peak #blueskyism was Dave Anthony saying "hey I noticed an entire generation of males is actively losing their way, could be bad, let's try to figure out what's going on here" And Bluesky responding with "Dave u must like rape"

As University of Oregon employees brace for layoffs next week, faculty members say leaders have given them no voice in budget deliberations.

Oregon House Democrats grew their majority with Rep. Cyrus Javadi switching parties. Read more from @miamaldonado.bsky.social, who went out to the coast to profile Javadi earlier this year and has the most thorough report I've seen: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/05/c... #orleg #orpol

Just a couple dudes, diagnosing and solving fascism, through FIRST PRINCIPLES ARGUMENTS (to hell with the people that have spent careers studying this stuff) using LOGIC and REASON and it's happening here, not on X

Crazy. At my undergrad almost 30 yrs ago, similar story - student accesses flaw in system, CS department kicks him out (becomes math major instead) and the school assigned the student a 20 page paper (not 750 words) on ethics of computer privacy, which leads the student down a cypherpunk rabbithole

Reminder 92% of crypto is just douche-vibe signaling

Bad news about this if passes; now only *criminal* trans people will own guns

Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto down 45.83% this week, probably on the news that they are a Bitcoin treasury company

Dammit people who discuss units should learn units "modern nuclear power plants generate between 1 and 1.6 GW of electricity per reactor per hour" My car goes 60 MPH /day on the freeway www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...

Yeah people will die but this is the kind of SCIENCE that an IRB would never approve wapo.st/4p68Vzy

guys Trump didn't have a stroke, it says so on the Bitcoin blockchain mempool.space/tx/1b2369ed9...

Fees are low mempool.space/tx/4c26afab7...

Read a book, folks. Responding to anti-democratic power moves with anti-democratic power only legitimizes the power moves and facilitates the death spiral, especially bad if they already have the upper hand. Charlie Munger Jr is right. You can't authoritarian your way out of authoritarianism.

A key tell that someone is falling into blueskyism is that they use "centrism" with the same command of meaning as Glenn Bleck uses "Marxism"

NSDS

Trust Bluesky to not see even a hint of irony in saying "rent-free" about someone while posting a screen shot of their comments from the other site.

@edzitron.com @davidgerard.co.uk Do either of you know of a good source which breaks down the global consumption of energy (hard numbers) of the training portion for the AI models? Working on a piece demonstrating how the pivot-to-ai strategy for Bitcoin miners could wreck Bitcoin security

Of course there's not a futures market on polymarket predicting if Trump will make it to September, because that would be too true to the original aims of crypto as envisioned 30 years ago.

The Washington Post is not allowed to mention the concept of the Network State. But I wrote about how Trump's Gaza fantasy is a pure expression the Network State ideology, as is the lust for stealing Greenland. www.techpolicy.press/trumps-gaza-...

$Naka is "a provider of integrated healthcare services and a Bitcoin treasury vehicle"

You do have to hand it to @davidgerard.co.uk for anticipating and front-running the motto of the entire Bitcoin mining industry by two full years davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2...

Fucking this is real

In the math department at Oregon when we do hiring, we have a motto "Hire people who are better than you." If the bottom 10% of the department is going to get trimmed every budget crisis, this obvious sets up a conflict of interest.

The constant whining about the NYT for Bluesky points demonstrates how absolutely clueless the majority of Bluesky users are about why democracy is failing, and how out-of-ideas they are about how to fix it. So tiresome.

What's going on at University of Oregon and my take on it. We know that there's a massive budget crunch which puts UO in a hole. Essentially, rising compensation and expenses and diminishing tuition revenue create a operating budget gap. /

Now the flexing begins. Fascist flexing is when fascism really starts. It’s when the fascists blatantly violate norms, law, because they know that no one can stop them, “what are you going to do about it?” That’s the line they’ve been waiting to say, it was all leading up to this, open sadism.

In retrospect, the targets for University of Oregon non-residents was batshit crazy tuition.uoregon.edu/long-term-pr...

We will probably never really know who was president during the Obama-Biden-Interregnum

Posting an unsourced screenshot containing false or misleading statements and inflammatory accusations and then *disabling in the replies* is generally bad practice and should be frowned upon.

Why I detest Elon so much, in a nutshell: there are two responses humans have to being given massive power and influence. One is to become more careful and responsible with that power, the other is to say "I don't need to be responsible anymore". Elon is the HGH extreme version of the latter.

"Yeah, they eventually eliminated the humanities and tenure, but at least there were a couple glorious quarters where student workers were given 6 mental health days"

What's that, like 1 vetting for every 2 tax-paying household? Totally normal and reasonable use of taxpayer resources. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is a bizarre story I just learned about; apparently University of Oregon spent three-quarter of a million in legal after the free speech violation of *blocking* what appears to be a professor-troll www.ifs.org/news/free-sp...

Each year is brighter than the next!