Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

Taking this as an opportunity to announce that I’m reading a lot of Richard Howard’s translations of Roland Barthes these days, and the delicacy and daring of the punctuation just sends me

His appalling industry as a writer. —Elizabeth Hardwick on Balzac

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

*extreme Blazing Saddles townsperson voice* Sam Adams is RIGHT!

I wish more people who love using LLMs were somehow able to grasp this extremely obvious fact.

Ni and Anna are both wonderful people with a strong sense of justice. It's bullshit what has been done to them and honestly I look at JBF differently now. Anyway, their restaurant is amazing and you should go eat there.

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very important video please watch

Delightful thread and super fun essay!

Might be a good time to remember that each of us is profoundly annoying to someone.

Sorry was out logging off and touching grass as penance. What’d I miss?

I saw Jesse Jackson speak at Stanford in 1988. He spoke in, with perfect irony, White Plaza. He was an extraordinary speaker, a master of classic oratory. Conservative writer P.J. O’Rourke famously gave him a backhanded compliment on it: /1

He also had are near unique ability to laugh at himself while doing so. I think this may be one of the greatest SNL moments ever: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mq...

Fixed link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It’s like these people can’t imagine the utterly obvious and immediate consequences of their decisions

Holy shit: they folded immediately after this @pamherd.bsky.social skeet www.cnbc.com/2026/02/22/t...

With every passing week Sam Altman seems even more desperate to keep his company from cratering

I love Carrie Fisher's story about how it was impossible to do scenes with him in Star Wars because after he found out his feet weren't going to be in any of the shots he refused to wear anything other than a pair of ridiculous pink slippers.

This article was truly hilarious/disturbing & also, ratified one strong approach to tech journalism, which is, "go talk to the craziest, most quotable lunatics you can find" harpers.org/archive/2026...

New post: Living in the Inflection Point. On the cognitive overload of watching software change in real time, why the backlash against AI is valid, and why the most important skill right now might not be technical at all. brittanyellich.com/living-in-th...

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

im not falling for ‘you can’t just scold gen AI hobbyists’ like ive fallen for so many ‘be diplomatic and patient with idiots’es before. no. if they can’t live without this machine that’s trying to put me out of a job theyre dumb as a box of hair. like they’re clearly not worried about offending ME!

#commend #connect

This skill just gave me the most relentless quizzing on an intricacy of Rails routing that I'd never really thought much about. Recommended (if you want to be made to think again)

as a wordcel it is very appealing to think that a top 2 president was the best because he was a god tier writer

hey if you want to see posts from the creator of this bot, @nora.zone, you'll need to do this in your moderation settings, they got the "rude" label, presumably for the crime of mouthing off to plagiarists bsky.app/profile/aest...

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

This is what the kids think I sound like whenever I answer their questions about open source software.

OK Tracer Bullet was good but I assume we're all in agreement that this is the all-time BEST Calvin & Hobbes strip, correct

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Thank you for being part of our twelfth anniversary, Mr. Mayor! It was an honor to have you officiate our marriage.

You: *settles into seat, opens the program for OH MARY* Slip of paper falls out You: picks up, peers at it, reads slowly aloud: “The role of Mary Todd Lincoln will be played tonight by Zohran Mamdani”

now that Git 2.53 is out, the Git data model @omarieclaire.bsky.social and I wrote is on the official Git website! git-scm.com/docs/gitdata...

February 14 was my mother's birthday. When I was younger, I bought some heart-shaped pans at the dime store, and every year, I baked my mother a heart-shaped cake. I still keep that tradition alive today to remember her. Happy Valentine’s Day to you and everyone you love.

Another in my series of libraries Casa de la Literatura Peruana, Lima #SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

Anthropic AI Safety Researcher Quits—And Warns Of World ‘In Peril’ “After leaving Anthropic, Sharma said he MAY pursue a poetry degree and “devote myself to the practice of courageous speech,” adding he wants to “contribute in a way that feels fully in my integrity.” www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

Why is the Washington Post cratering so spectacularly? To understand the change in the Post’s fortunes, it is worth comparing its demise to the New York Times’s upward trajectory, by @sulliview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @us.theguardian.com #journalism

All of my ghosts greatly Caesared

i feel like this guy is my spiritual sibling

Two writers I greatly enjoy but who feel to me worlds apart (Renee Gladman and Kate Briggs) actually know each other? Spooky! yalereview.org/article/rene...

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Now I want to read the hallucinated proceedings of an entirely hallucinated AI conference

Speaking as an obscenely well educated person with a PhD in Philosophy and literally decades of experience arguing with people, I can confirm that Dr. Flowers is 100% correct about all of this.

cc: @hickenlooper.senate.gov @bennet.senate.gov @joeneguse.bsky.social Especially the last clause in the last sentence.

This whole thread deserves a careful reading. I will add only that it’s long past time for tech workers generally to learn about how capitalism actually works.

A sense of betrayal is a very tricky kind of grief to manage, because you're grieving someone who never really existed. I've always held a pretty dim view of the US establishment & its institutions. After Trump's reelection and the Epstein files, though... I realize that even so, I feel betrayed.