That people like working with you is a skill I see many technical people ignore yet it is often the biggest thing holding them back in their careers.

200 billion dollar valuation btw💀💀💀

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

Knew what this was going to be before hitting play. Was not disappointed.

he’s just cooked. going to be interesting i guess to see who manages to consolidate power within the administration while Granpa periodically flings turds over the curtain

I've posted this before but feels like it should be required reading for everyone at this point: Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco, an essay which attempts outline and explain the common features of fascism, a difficult task given their contradictions. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

Portland declares ICE facility out of compliance, demands its clearance. www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

(*raises hand*) It's not a "problem," assholes.

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

If you are grieving this hate merchant today, you are every conman’s mark. I can guarantee that you will find yourself forever bewildered at how everyone you’re surrounded with takes advantage of you. But don’t worry, at least you hate the same people, which makes it all okay, doesn’t it?

Hard to argue that 9/11 wasn’t vastly more successful than the perpetrators could possibly have dreamed. Easy to draw a straight line from that single event to the fall of American democracy we are witnessing.

Okay we're there.

Más allá del desastre narrado en el artículo, me pregunto por qué se evita hablar de la respuesta más evidente: quitar las concesiones actuales y dárselas a empresas serias, que cubran sectores amplios. ¿Cómo es eso de nada más dejar la ruta botada? www.nacion.com/revista-domi...

the H1-B thing seems unlikely to withstand a court challenge, but it's still deeply funny that it's basically a nuclear warhead aimed at businesses and executives who've been grandiosely and publicly kissing his fucking ass for nine months

pov: u just bet $600 billion on probabilism solving all the problems

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

It is truly astounding that the moderate from Buffalo can make this endorsement but the self-identified progressive from Brooklyn seems unwilling or unable to do so.

Latest article for @ForeignAffairs The US can no longer be considered a friend of democracy, as such the existing democratic states need to think strategically about protecting themselves and even starting a fightback. There is no point in pretending everything will be ok.

In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Todo esto es cierto, pero lo que la izquierda progresista no está viendo con claridad es que la violencia empezó hace rato. Y es violencia de Estado. Preocuparse por la gente que celebra la muerte del propagandista Charlie Kirk es ver un árbol y no el bosque.

If you see something graphic a thing you can do is not instinctively hit repost but take a few seconds and consider if everyone wants to be traumatized by that and choose not to be the person who forces it into their feed non consensually.

Elon Musk, who has sued advertisers for not advertising on his platform because of its content, is now suggesting that a television channel lose advertisers because of its content.

Every conference should have a track dedicated to Gen AI applications. A whole track with all the Gen AI talks. Over there. Down the hall. Yep. Keep going. Just a bit farther. Okay, yeah now open the door. Uh-huh. Now close the door behind you. YEP RIGHT THERE.

going to keep saying: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

The funny thing is the more advanced obscure computer security stuff I do – the less I can talk about it, and the more I can talk about Taylor Swift

usually you have to work harder for evidence admissible in the hague

Secretary Hegseth has ordered the destruction of all unidentified ships in the Caribbean. Except for those ships that are believed to be carrying rum.

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

Abysmal reporting. Level 4 isn’t something you ‘achieve’, like a videogame. It’s something you design for. I’m watching through my fingers.

I know there's a lot going on, but it should be getting more attention that the governor of Illinois just credibly accused Texas of planning to literally invade his state. I unpack how profoundly alarming this is @theunpopulist.net:

This is your regular reminder that if you are developing an app that is supposed to help a vulnerable population, you need to do it WITH CONSIDERABLE INPUT FROM THE PEOPLE YOU ARE TRYING TO PROTECT. micahflee.com/unfortunatel...

The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.

Crazy for the world to be mourning that you’re still alive.

“They passed up ‘a lot of $$$’ from Tesla, which tried to avoid trial…[but] they wanted the public to know how Tesla deceived them in the years following the crash including the prolonged battle over the data eventually recovered by the hacker.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Yo veo esto y me acuerdo de aquel comentario que vi en un post, sobre cómo la IA es la forma de arte del fascismo.

Russia didn’t help get me elected in 2016. And I will prove it by doing everything that Russia asks me to do. by Donald Trump

Does JD know!?