[checks in on yonder website] Well then.

Man, the worst thing is I'm working on some very cool stuff with some very cool people and despite that I just feel like shit. Gonna have to unplug for a bit. Be kind to your neighbors and rude to bigots.

The increasingly disturbing news is less disturbing to me than those who are not disturbed.

This narrative that ICE has "backed off" Chicago persists despite a flood of bystander video and reports showing an unprecedented and growing wave of masked terrorists violently kidnapping Illinoisians off the streets in Chicago. I can only assume our media ecosystem is to blame for this.

This is a project I've long wanted to do... congrats to Matt for pulling it off!

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

I don't want to say "They're cooking their brains on Twitter." explains 100% of this but it explains a non trivial amount

This is, uh... interesting. And just got more interesting.

There's no shame in being wrong about something. There is shame in choosing to be wrong.

Feel like it's important to note that while Trump has backed down on deploying the national guard here, immigration raids are very much still happening.

Okay fine I took the glass off to rack up points so you could see the high score light show (Lots of flashing lights here!)

Sausage.

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You're not gonna catch me having a take, but out of curiosity I asked my mom if she even knew who he was and she did not.

In some better news...

Yes yes, I know that particular definition of insanity, but I can assure you this time it will be different. - Democrats

"A cow has four stomachs" — Graze Anatomy

Sorry, just catching up to the news, I see once again they made it even thinner this time.

I dunno, I just want right and wrong to matter again.

the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line. Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.

If we cannot all be on the same page that the sitting president threatening to invade a US city is fascist dictator shit then truly I do not know what to do.

hope you don't mind me getting a little ~political~ at this particular moment in time.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

He even uses alt text 🥲

As an FYI, I live and work far enough from the city that I don't necessarily expect to see much action with my own eyes, but I am definitely close enough that it's not out of the question. Not that I imagine people are expecting this of me, but I'll let you know if I see anything.

Even as someone who generally can't stand modern Starbucks culture and doesn't mind the occasional fun-poking, I concur with a hearty "what the fuck"

*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.

the great khan has spoken.

Thinking about gig workers in DC right now. The situation has put some clarity towards my long-held feelings: If I were aware of a business model which relies on putting its workers in precarious positions, I would not contribute to that business model's demand.

My videos are proudly made without the use of artificial sweeteners, flavors, dyes, or intelligence.

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

In my estimation, a lot of the people who have problems with Bluesky are so used to platforms just serving up the content buffet that they're unwilling to do the work to have a good experience here. That work is the social part of social media.

I've (or I guess you've) set a new record for least-noticed visual gag in my latest video. Only 10 comments about it so far! Something about visiting websites across the pond...

I like these "octane" stickers on the chargers at the Flying J

In other news, here's a new video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzCl... We'll see if releasing on labor day weekend Sunday is a good idea...

mayhaps all the incredibly stupid slippery slope arguments we've witnessed in the last couple of decades have made us blind to the actual slippery slopes we're careening towards at the moment.

Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.

this doesn't seem great

y'know that thing where your computer is completely unresponsive so you force a reboot and it then demands your bitlocker key so you find it and enter it and then it does some diag thing but fails to connect to a network then shuts down and you power on again and it's normal? that's my favorite

Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.

too many people don't know what smarm is.

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an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

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I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

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Increasingly of the mind that the "distraction" rhetoric comes from a deeply-rooted belief that what we're witnessing is merely a form of dictatorial cosplay. The problem which is apparently invisible for some reason is that even assuming this were true, laughing it off is unacceptable.