I think it could be a lot clearer.

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

No. What people on the left need to see is journalists informing the public rather than performing press release as a service.

back when i was interviewing, i recorded myself to practice. now, i'm uploading that take as a resource for others on what a "principal product designer"-level presentation looks like: jedmund.com/universe/por... this is exactly what i'd show in an interview, so at 25 mins it is a little long.

Don’t buy into security systems that feed into a cloud you don’t own. Join me store.ui.com 😎

This is why primarying people matters. Suddenly everybody involved in this race is in a firm spine contest.

for some reason i chose to fly united and despite buying an economy plus seats we are packed in here like sardines do they expect me to detach my arms and gate check them?

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

... 16gb of ram is terrible. i cant believe people live like this lol

anyway if there’s anything i’ve learned from the past two months it’s that buying hardware you don’t need and squirreling it away for a rainy day is good and will always be rewarded by our fucked up world

If I were a Discord employee I'd be screaming at my CEO asking why they just torched the value of my stock options right before an IPO.

just in case the pace of modern news has left your memory in shambles like mine

A tiny, centimeter-or-smaller sized piece of debris somehow got into my MacBook Pro screen—which I keep closed on my desk at all times—and punctured my screen the day before a 2 week trip. Where did it come from? Who knows! I haven't opened my laptop lid in weeks! I am very not happy.

it’s me i’m the gamer

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

set up a matrix server with element on the ol' homelab. i refuse to be reliant on big tech for anything at all

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

"It's not doable" means that you are not serving your constituents properly. The question is not what is or isn't doable; your job, @delauro.house.gov, is to work with your colleagues in Congress and make the undoable done to reflect the will of the people.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

anyway its been a devastatingly bad mental health 5 weeks

as someone who thinks of themselves as a technologist who loves building things, works at an ai company, and hasn't lost their mind, its alarming how often i think "i'd rather be doing anything else but this" lately if you feel this way too, i'm sorry and i can only hope things get better.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

ICE's budget tripled. Agents at polling places. Exceptions for masks. No enforcement mechanisms. This is not a "list of demands." This is a surrender.

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

I honestly did not think Relink was going to get an expansion—I thought they'd go straight to a sequel—so waking up to this this morning was a big surprise. This makes me much more bullish on a sequel coming sometime soon too, although it could be farther away. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxrK...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

this might be what pushes me over the edge

required reading from Ash in a time when it’s all too easy to feel hopeless. thanks for writing this!

a lot of shit is going to happen in the dark that we simply won't find out about until it's too late.

as a journalist, the gutting of wapo makes me anxious; as an american, it makes me terrified

This industry is fucked. People tell you to go independent (there ain’t many other options atm) and speaking from experience, the independent route is difficult and labyrinthian to monetize. Detailed work that speaks truth to power often doesn’t get the views/interest of just rambling into a camera.

And let’s not forget about all the journalism students who there’s literally no space for because the market is flooded (worse now). Jeff Bezos could single-handedly prop up WaPo for generations. If we’re gonna go all in on independent media, there still needs to be money for it.

BREAKING: Popular Japanese art commission platform Skeb announced plans to support integration with Bluesky! which they have only posted about on twitter for some goddamn reason!! but still, cool, since this is one of the main things still binding JP artists to the platform

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

i just slept for 14 hours

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Loaded up this week's Critical Distance and was immediately hit with this oof

Spent some time installing CachyOS (Arch Linux) yesterday with a friend and while it does work, I definitely get the death by a thousand cuts of Linux. I could do it, but I don't think finding ways to tweak and improve my desktop is sparking the same joy in me as messing with a server does

we're a society that loves over-consumption, so i don't expect a lot of folks to weigh the benefits of what they're making with the harms that come from the tools they use - this goes for ai as well as resin crafts lmao (i went to an art supply pantry and have never seen so many unused resin trays)

i learned the lesson very early that most people are not creative. but again, ai tools (and non-ai pixel art canvas tools) don't make you creative, they make you create. and a lot of what we all are creating is garbagino

I don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives. This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *breathes* AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

there are things that i need to do today and i simply do not wish to do them

I feel like someone, somewhere, is realizing that the culture war mask is dangerously close to falling off

hi Bluesky mods I think it's sorta wild that Link isn't on this site but this guy is

Lately I feel like I sleep and sleep and no matter how much I get, I'm still always exhausted

@shauninman.com is one of the few designers I can say I looked up to and had a huge impact on me when I was younger. I picked up a TrimUI Brick for $70 after years of wanting to play with his MinUI project and it’s just as wonderful as I expected.

Borders also keep you in