Yoinks! Hey, when you'r right, you're right. Ordered. Is there anything cooler than independent book stores? Perhaps this will push me over the edge into focusing full time on hymnology. Strangely enough, it's the only reason I have a career as a software developer. (Long story)

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

The Democratic establishment crash-out is a wonderous thing to see. A bunch of people, their organization named after democracy, unable to handle the results of just a few popular elections, appealing to the unspoken rules of a club they thought belonged exclusively to them. Let's do it everywhere.

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Paging @therickwilson.bsky.social

The Democratic Party freaking out that Democratic Party candidates are winning is the most Democratic Party thing ever.

I mean, look, in fairness to the AI industry, if you set aside the part where they eventually start charging for this stuff, and the disruption to the internal staffing of companies that use it that happens in the meantime, and the environmental consequences of needing massive new electricity /1

Today on Volts: Hot enough for you? Global demand for cooling is expected to triple by 2050, potentially doubling its ~7% of global carbon emissions. How can we keep people cool in a warming world without accelerating that warming? I talk with an expert about doing air conditioning right.

"There was no way as a grassroots person that I could compete with that kind of money."

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

FDR was a progressive Socialist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_...

I say this almost every day but The MOST democratic and Democratic thing any of us can do is hold our own “team” accountable. And when we don’t, we end up in administrations like this. I like my leaders to question authority and invite criticism. If you can’t, you should step down.

NEW: Thiel's Dialog society privately told members their data was stolen in a cyberattack. But WIRED found it was just readable to anyone on a misconfigured web page. Its lawyers sent us a legal demand to hand over the data. We passed.

Please, sir… may I have some representation?

Hot take: primary everyone.

#WATCH_ME The latest from @garyseconomics.bsky.social youtu.be/Gd0gmxd36FI?...

Can’t stop thinking about this clip—with the news of the police murder of 1-yr-old #KohenWiley. Too young to even understand “the talk” every Black parent has with their kids at some point in their first 10yrs or so. White ppl have NO CLUE what it’s like to live under a racist system of policing.

There is no Death Metal without Disco.

We need to stop framing this as an imbalance of resources and instead see it as a fundamental existential threat. They are beyond money. They are collectively planning for the deaths of the vast majority of humanity. This is the Epstein class. To them we are disposable.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were finally informed of their freedom. This monumental news came two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation and effectively marked the end of slavery in the United States. #juneteenth

Now that I’m not under federal indictment, I can finally say whatever I want!

I think it's cute when people post "Brexit divided the nation" like Brexit sprung up from brand new evildoers rather than being born out of almost four decades of neoliberalism making sure the rich got perpetually richer and the poor stayed where they were and knew it was their fault.

Ahhhh shit. I hate it when this happens.

it occurs to me that people not from Ohio just learning about Rep. Joyce Beatty for the first time might not be familiar with her entire game www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cvw...

Hey, the drummers are Fogo Azul, and it looks like they're here: @fogoazulny.bsky.social ! Give 'em a follow!

The single thing that drives me the craziest on web pages is how buttons almost always aren't clickable. The text is clickable, but if you click an area of a button that isn't the text, the UI does nothing. 😡🤬😡

In new reporting for @prospect.org, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social details internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2) prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...

evergreen

The smaller the numbers in the interaction, the more important the interaction. Dialog isn't one way. #FEnotes

"Once he has been deciphered and digitalized, once he has become transparent and operational, what better destiny can we invent for man?" - The Perfect Crime

My favorite stupid history fact is that the Cerne Abbas Giant, the 1,000-year-old monument in England famous for its enormous dong, likely was wearing pants when it was originally carved and locals may have just added the boner in the 17th century as a prank. I'm not kidding!

New Cambridge Element, Outsourcing Surveillance by Lynette Ong, Huihua Nie and Jesslene Lee, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at https://cup.org/4uXJ8fx

Today we are pleased to induct Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) into the #WomenInScience Archive. Receiving her education through Georgia's underground school system, she served with the 33rd US Colored Troops during the Civil War as a nurse, munitions handler, and crack shot. tinyurl.com/58puyzd4

"We’re publishing this blog post to explain our decision to refer to Delaney Hall as a “concentration camp” and clarify the term’s meaning." This is incredibly important. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

There is a sort of moral injury when your data is used to create or improve oppressive systems whose ethics you strongly disagree with. I wrote about it before in context of personal data being used for ML training. And I think there’s a lot more to say.

professor whacker: sharks, i've invented a machine that whacks weeds shark: and what do you call such a machine professor whacker: the rotary weed pulveriser

If I do have one weakness, it is books.

As a fanatical collector of public domain hymnals for over 30 years and indexer and classifier thereof, I want to thank all the Zotero haters for bringing the tool to my attention. 😻

One of my more surreal hot takes is that this is the true purpose of war. It's not to conquer the enemy... it's to kill off young men so that the old in power can stay in power when their greed turns the youth against them. Based upon this equation, America is about due in...

J’ai faim, j’ai froid, Chantal Akerman (1984) A short film made for the anthology Paris vu par… vingt ans après. Two young Belgian women arrive in Paris penniless and without shelter. Read Here: open.substack.com/pub/massimoc...

Post an album you've listened to 100 times

This is really important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…” and its members believe deeply in “principles such as the rule of law, checks and balances, and the peaceful transition of power.” Follow @astronauts4america.bsky.social

Lesson learned today: brie does not work in a burrito.

As requested, here are day old ducklings jumping off a ledge onto a lake set to "Ride of The Valkyries" 🐣 🪶

Do more, talk less. Make change. That's it.

Every time major police departments have gone on wildcat strikes, crime goes down.

Kipple is a key dynamic of the "AI" revolution. www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...