The more I hear about the Block layoffs, the more gross it all is. Not just a gross action, but managed gortesquely. Having dealt with Jack at Twitter, he has been playing dress up trying to ape visionaries for 20 years, with a strong dash of Chance the Gardner.

Signing up for a half-Thermopylae (me and 150 dipshits plus retainers are going to carry a bunch of weapons on a narrow trail and try to die slowly)

I fully realize I'm in a privileged position wrt my employment, but I can't imagine continuing to work for a company whose leadership pulls this. sf.gazetteer.co/marc-benioff...

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

What a way to maximize repub outrage without doing anything outrageous but be yourself. Well done.

Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny

Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...

The Democrat "package" around ICE is generally bullshit, and is likely to stop zero of the worst behavior. CBP back to the border means "we'll have to find different ways to terrorize 1/3 of the US population", as the other 2/3 are in the "border zone", that extends 100 miles from the actual border.

weak

I love when you tell people how terrible Newsom is, they're always like, "Well, it's nice to have ideals, but if it comes down to him or the Nazi in the general, *I* am going to vote for him" WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.

Bad feeling: getting an xAI recruiting email Slightly better feeling: responding that you don’t want to work for a CSAM factory

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

Did not realize heated rivalry was part of the letterkenny family tree

(can't help but notice who gets to be "young" and full of talent and who doesn't.)

I'm not the only one that hears "strong floor no ceiling" and thinks kegels

my "skip the indoctrination" t shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

i will dm any of you my mailing address and $5. i do not care. i need this hitting my stoop FRIDAY

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

this, exactly

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

All of this. Especially the part where the H1B program has _always_ been a way to get workers you can fuck with more than people with the rights permanent residents have.

The good: new Tullycraft album! The weird: some of the intros are all vaguely reminiscent of Rilo Kiley, not in an offputting way, but it's a weird trigger

I did a talk at the UK GopherCon last month about what my team does, and I only let my laptop fall asleep twice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtq...

Growing up in central California rice country, this story is not surprising, but none the less infuriating. The H-2A program, which this ghoul uses to get seasonal labor brings people into potentially lethal work conditions. Bonus: he's fighting legislation to mandate worker protections.

Atlassian's acquisition of the Browser Company makes perfect sense, when I consider that Atlassian is a holding company of many products I have no idea why I'd use

In the chat explaining the difference between a Founder and a founder

In an attempt to (briefly) escape the onslaught of just fucking terrific news these days, I've been reading a more. Just finished a binge of joeabercrombie.com (Devils, First Law), shannonchakraborty.bsky.social (City of Brass) and a bunch of aptshadow.bsky.social stuff. Suggestions for next reads?

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

you can't pretend you're saving democracy while hollowing it out locally

check out my new piece, "Endoplanetary Ecologies" video of slime mold created via analog glitch video microscopy, presented in a custom designed + 3D printed housing wrapped in gold leaf

I feel like the starter pack for being a man should come with a pamphlet titled “You Can Just Be Attracted To Someone And Enjoy That Feeling Without Having To Do Anything About It”

So does anybody know what the outcome is for those who got left behind in the late stage capitalism rapture that was the scale.ai and windsurf "dear DOJ: this is not an acquisition" acquisitions?

First commute on Caltrain after a month on BART, and damn, those trains are buttery smooth. If they could meld the Caltrain rolling stock with BART schedule and ridership....

I possess the radical view that children should have certain rights to public knowledge despite what their parents’ particular beliefs are.

Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office

Ploopy just launched "The Knob", and the copy is... spectacular. ploopy.co/knob/

the argument that it's not life saving is literally that trans people, as an entire unit, cannot be trusted to report whether transitioning improved their quality of life

The republican line is Padilla wasn’t wearing his senate security pin so they didn’t know it was him, but anonymous ice goons are fine

I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

The democrats looking to cave on this is the most democrat thing the democrats have done in the three decades they've spent refining the art of getting steamrolled. The republicans have a trifecta. It seems like anybody with an ounce of PR acumen could, idk, spin this as a republican problem.

Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Shout out to everyone that's going to try to focus on "But what specifically did Mahmoud say?!" Instead of focusing on the fact that you can't lose your citizenship or green card for freedom of speech. Or that no one loses citizenship or green cards for nazi salutes or sharing racist memes.

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.