Schrödinger's Mitch McConnell

Wanted to like this @themountaingoats.bsky.social post but that 666 count felt so right…

Tartan Army is in Miami this week. Looks like I'm rooting for Scotland today... mainly because I love Scottish artists -- Mogwai, Cocteau Twins, Annie Lennox, Chvrches, Garbage.

"Most impacted workers did not lack skills. They lacked a place where those skills made the most sense. Federal workers...did not simply need to update their LinkedIn profiles. They lost the institutional context that made their expertise meaningful." www.govexec.com/technology/2...

If you want there be to rules in government beyond Trump’s whimsy, now is a good time to say something. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of these grocery stores. They're not a business started by the state to "win" over private chains. They're a state institution existing solely to provide affordable options to the residents of the city. They're serving, not competing.

In 1967 Japan Air Lines issued a set of leaflets to educate their passengers about all aspects of Japanese life. We have scanned 24 of them www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/j...

Please remember that fascism is for losers. A people realize that they’ve already lost the future and, since their cause has already lost, they’ve got nothing else left to lose. Fascists are desperate, but attempt to portray invincibility & power. They’re residual culture, attempting to be emergent.

I have uncovered a mysterious obelisk containing OVER 100 messages from the future

The Pasteur Institute collaborated with Cuba to mass produce the Cuban COVID-19 vaccine Soberana-2. Millions got their shots just a few years ago thanks to this institute that the US or Israel just bombed.

For TDOV I’m sharing hopeful music from a trans friend. Sending love to the community. The high court’s brutal decision made it a tough day. May we find understanding, empathy, and hope in your stories. @rockstarelise.com rockstarelise.bandcamp.com/track/makeup

Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy. apnews.com/article/cali...

There is absolutely no coherence on Cuba policy. It's all on a whim and a wish. Here is the president on tape backing away from the Executive Order he himself issued on January 29th.

Feeling what Mike is laying out here. The internet was lot cooler before build complexity increased & social media centralization came into the picture. I was hands on keyboard building until mid 2000’s… Now I’m back building. Unlocked creativity & new hope we can break from corporate algo hell.

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

A wave of AI-generated images and video has emerged from the Iran war. But a new phenomenon is also observable, write shirin anlen and Mahsa Alimardani from WITNESS: the spread of technical-looking analyses used to discredit authentic evidence.

Enough of this "x might be the real plan" stuff. There is no plan mapping out the third and fourth tier possibilities. Don't let your imagination fabricate a cunning genius when there is no proof of genius. But any development that can be used to further the agenda will obviously be used.

What an embarrassment (understatement) from my alma mater. I wish I could write it off as a one-off but I remain in the immediate geography of FIU, and I’m plugged into the culture. This manifestation is unsurprising.

Adeptly assembled take here from @cwarzel.bsky.social. Been thinking about these themes lot as well. The reflexive, meme-ified cynicism in culture these days is startling. Fills me with sadness. Can probably have chicken egg argument about origins, but it’s a cycle worth breaking. A return to hope.

once my son woke me up to ask what a three dimensional hexagon was called. yes, please. ask me about the gay instead.

From his parents: "I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting."

Andor was cooking so unbelievably hard good grief

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Someone made a 2007 YouTube video and released it in 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmG...

"Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow." -- Becca Good, wife of Renee.

100pct correct. Empirically, we are as close to a consensus on this as we are likely to see on any topic. It's wild how pervasive the stigma and rhetoric remain.

This escalation of Risk-coded “hemispheric dominance” lines up with where elements of our culture - specifically business / venture capital culture - has been headed. It’s “blitzscaling” applied to geopolitics. (Which of course comes from the word “blitzkrieg”)

Eh… we’ll just place the poly market bet instead…

This is correct. Regardless of how you feel about the attack/ taking Maduro, there is already a legitimately elected government that is not Maduro. But because of today's actions, a future election could have a different outcome. So that's a no-go. Concretely, this is not about democracy.

Great line in this article: “My phone is my toy and my toil, the first object I touch upon waking, the spackle to my spare minutes, the inanimate partner in our shared lie, which is that it works for me and not the other way around.”

KD Lang tonight. youtu.be/IZ4ANwlDb58?...

“I work on government innovation” “Oh… so you’re like DOGE?” 🙄

As a society we must better explain why "eliminating information silos" is such a dangerous goal at the fed level. Some data sharing is good! But only in a privacy-preserving way, with individual consent. A significant engineering challenge that SV billionaires don't want to see completed.

The way I try to de-AI-ify my classes is that I emphasize at the beginning and throughout the semester that all we're doing is reading some interesting shit other humans have produced, talking about that shit, and writing about it. Humans have been benefitting from that process for centuries w/o AI.

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

Fantastic piece “digesting” a fantastic album. Weaves reflections on our collective consumption of slop and our consumption of god.

Who said people don't want to work in government anymore.... This will be exciting to follow/study!

Haute Hubris

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is. The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.

I forgot to mention this on here a couple of weeks ago, but I had an amazing time at iiiPoints Music festival - Paco y Ca7riel, Turnstile, Oklou, Bicep, MkGee… but best encore was laying my head down to sleep on Sat night… and I had super vivid dream @ekkoastral.bsky.social playing 🔥 closing set.

After all, look around: it's happening, it's happening, it's happening now

You can also catch @catherinebracy.com being interviewed by @mmasnick.bsky.social on latest episode of @techdirt.com podcast - www.techdirt.com/edition/podc...

So cool to see @catherinebracy.com on @thedailyshow.com. Very much enjoying her book “World Eaters” discussing how current state of venture capital shapes entrepreneurship / incentives very specific outcomes in society. Hard hitting, but nuanced takes. youtu.be/gD-4p1etrF0?...

Something peaceful in this @wired.com piece by @ftrain.bsky.social about what happens after AI bubble bursts. Nerds nerding out again in messiness of the aftermath. Reminder that the time after the dot com bust felt better in many ways than the fever dreams before it. www.wired.com/story/ai-nor...

Learned today that my friend @hectormujicafl.bsky.social launched his campaign for US Senate. A wonderful human - smart, kjnd, tech savvy and a long track record of service. Proud of him for stepping up. (And welcome to Bluesky)

If Garbage can't really afford to tour any more, and are warning that smaller bands REALLY can't... Where is the music industry gonna go?

Openly or closeted gay teens in the last three years have seen our governor make it clear that exposure to novels w/gay characters will infect straight readers w/the gay plague; now imagine a college-aged adult spots an Instagram reel in which state employees destroy crosswalks. wp.me/pzXeC-kvL

Political mailers are generally bottom-feeding business… but holy fuck, Faschy… Pay attention, peeps. We’re fully in the brazen era.

This album is doing weird shit to my brain. Impeccable production juxtaposed against some feral composition. Both retro and most definitely of the times.