You’re laughing. The Mellon foundation is providing grants to gender and area studies programs and you’re laughing.

bro i'm dying

holy shit how have i never heard of this book

every time i have to find anything in the github ui that i do not use every day i lose an hour to general confusion

if AOC is too right-wing for you to support, you do not believe in electoral politics and should just be honest about that

What laws, huh? What region? Not that I’m aware of!!!

POV you’re riffing on bluesky

all the kinds of modern Indie Games: -"roguelike" (slot machine) -feelings -unlock/tech tree simulator -"god we hope northernlion plays this" -crunchy first person shooter -morrowind built by a single lunatic

They really put the two non-white *actually elected* politicians in the background to center the one non-elected white guy with the Nazi tattoo!

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

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I'm sure this will be a gift for stalkers and domestic abusers.

Huh, is that good?

it scares me to imagine a LLM-economy driven future in which we have even fewer people working on preserving stuff like nearly-dead languages and cultures than we already do

#5D1748

kind of insane that Steam lists Victoria 3 as a similar game to Relooted

iOS-only and NA/Europe only is absolutely typical developer brain not to mention that an integration with an external app is a very unsatisfying way to try to approach supporting encrypted DMs

It’s not about whether you personally like or dislike remote work - it’s about executives trying to strip options, jobs & rights away from *everybody*. Working remotely is not just a better setup for many disciplines: it allows teams to include different people w/ different strengths & experiences.

the mewgenics voice actor thing just seems like very well-planned viral marketing

"Frederick Douglass wasn't literate enough to understand the Constitution" is one of the most unhinged takes I've ever seen someone post even on bluesky, the official home of posting unhinged takes

mood

this is pretty interesting to me because it’s behavior that is a strong, costly signal from a human but is essentially free for an agent and we are going to need to learn to look out for that shape of thing

seeing the BC shooter's mall shooting Roblox levels made me a little sick

this is the real moon economy

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It’s crazy that they make us take money so seriously and then turn around and there’s headlines like this

squint for rings ☆ pentax z10 (2007) #digicam #digicamlove #pentax #digitalphotography #digitalphoto

This is such an insane thing to post lmao

Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.

there wouldn't be unbanked or debanked people if the US post office still offered banking like it once did during the middle of last century

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

My 70 year old dad, whose favorite band is The Righteous Brothers, just informed me that he enjoyed the Bad Bunny show bc even though he didn’t understand the words, “it seemed like everyone on stage was having a good time!” So there ya go lol.

I know “performative male” is a tired schtick but is there maybe a social signaling component here, where people want to be *seen* reading and so pick a larger book with a bigger cover?

what is with these people and dogs?

I’m not worried about being replaced; if I and the other people on our team could get even 2x productivity from AI we’d be thrilled. If we could get 1000x, we still wouldn’t run out of things to do. We’re not getting 2x yet. Maybe 1.1x.

Coders freaking out that it's replacing them and extrapolating from their extremely weird domain (as in: unusual among knowledge work) to "all of work" is going to be a major theme of 2026 and kind of embarrassing by 2027.

my mom died of metastatic colorectal cancer at 59. she died of it because she lost insurance & couldn’t afford colonoscopies or other screening to detect it early. when she was diagnosed, the prognosis was 10 years. she made it 2. this should never happen to anyone in a supposedly great country.

James Van Der Beek, who starred in the teen drama series "Dawson’s Creek," has died at 48

humanoid girls are always doing this

I moved to Tumbler Ridge ten days ago for a job. All I can say is this is truly awful awful for this small town. My heart goes out to my new neighbours in their grief.

Ugh this school shooting in BC is hitting me hard

There is not a 1 in 10 chance of that. I would put the chance of that at 0.0000% or lower

Does this mean that Irish artists will make more from UBI than Canadian grad students on RAships? (seems to come out to roughly 27k CAD at that weekly rate)

I saw the Pogues in Toronto last year but Andrew was not on the latest tour because of his health issues. Very sad news. COPD sucks.

Aw man. Sad to hear this.

You should see what AI VCs are posting about lawyers and accountants on LinkedIn, it's nuts

Realizing how much of the wellness industry is marketing cattle derived products is a real They Live sunglasses moment