and civic tech, for what that's worth - ideas are seriously not the hard part

This is, incidentally, also true in physics

Not the point but I thought this was Weird Al, not weird AI, and this is why serifs matter 😭

I think this is an important point. The U.S. president announced the most important medical development in the history of humanity, and…silence.

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Des Moines protests ICE’s detaining of its school superintendent www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMYfMjCj/

Microsoft is, of course, overwhelmingly the productivity software used by local governments all over the country (lots of other sectors too, but thinking about that one)

Seems to me that it’s very important to keep hammering on this. We feel besieged and that can engender hopelessness. But he is deeply, deeply unpopular. www.economist.com/interactive/...

lots of awful today, but here are some timeline-scrubbing owls

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this hits so hard as the parent of a 21-yo. she can’t really remember saner times - she knows because she’s heard or studied, but all her conscious experience is this

smoke alarm decided to shriek about a low battery while I was in the shower; hearing aid charger failed completely & my new ones don’t have a battery option so I’m on backups…get thee behind me, Murphy!!

"You can’t sell your soul to Trump and keep your spine."

Expanded my close read of today's Trump Terror Memo, with help from @audiosand.bsky.social & and unnamed federal-adjacent employee. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/rubber-glu...

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

I know there are 50 million things going on, but this is pretty important (Democrats doing something, formal documentation of DOGE) www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

now THAT is a suit. (Josh Johnson is an incredible commentator/comedian who always performs in jeans and a grey hoodie, fwiw)

yeah, I cannot imagine any experienced federal employees (or anyone who knows one) is going to be fooled into thinking firings are the Democrats' fault here. they've been through plenty of these, they know how it's supposed to work & has worked before

Vought-Carr Test You reach down, you flip the economy over on its back. The economy lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that? www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

as a hearing aid wearer, this is a pretty cool history of the tech! (which is now quite high tech - modern HAs have all kinds of AI components etc) www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Ba...

the Panther Moderns are a warning, not a manual

I learned some things from this thread - cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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2 days left to apply to a big job where you can do a lot of good & work with me directly - get em in!

the only rapture I know is the Burning Man rapture when you can get into restaurants in San Francisco

I am prepared for the raptor I have my camera and binoculars at the ready

love how the rapture chatter is all about pets & clothes

Lots to love if this holds for CA crops: -utility-scale solar that doesn't require wrecking desert habitat -less water use, probably less dust -more options for siting close to existing transmission -on-site generation for switching diesel pumps to electric and cleaning up the air

I’ll miss all of you guys when Jesus takes you to heaven. Can I have your car keys?

this artist has some gorgeous work & is running a bunch of specials right now - I just picked up something I really like!

uhhh this is hilarious, whatever's going on out in the world!

the Starks are always right in the end lmao

Feeling old yet? The first buses that have the Muni website URL on them are now historic vehicles 😂

Any movie poster / promotional material designers available for some work this week that requires a quick turnaround?

equinox, seriously? this year has been both painfully fast & agonizingly slow

see this is not autocomplete on steroids, this is concept-mapping or various related tools on steroids & I don't hate it you are also very much in a position to verify the sources, see where the output is odd, etc, in this scenario

this is quite interesting (written from an investor perspective)

Sure the new moderation policy doesn't make any sense, but all of us on this website are already in violation of another, higher rule

cyberpunk. is. a. warning. not. a. manual. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

did a set of research interviews about these weddings one time & let me tell ya, you don't book one by accident & you don't cancel one lightly

Either we have autonomy over our own bodies or we are not full citizens. Full stop.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Backwards B-ing has a comically long history in the right. High percentage of their outrage circle jerks are manufacture or embellished. Not all certainly but many.

so anyway, about those awesome augmented reality glasses... if we're gonna be in the fking cyberpunk dystopia, who is making me Nell's veil?

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

these folks are reporting on the ground from ICE's actions in Chicago - I just gave!