Currently reading 'Survival of the Richest' by Douglas Rushkoff. These monsters genuinely think that they can ride out any catastrophe (including any of their own making). They are literally not like the rest of humanity. So much so, that I think that another descriptor needs to be coined for them.

SHAKESPEAREAN HAIKU Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art very hot.

Hey so this new KOSA/KIDS Act proposal has a little note in it that creates a whole new special Trump-appointed team to regulate the internet. So no more Congress votes. No more checks & balances. Just whoever the president picks to decide the future of YOUR internet. You aren’t mad enough.

There's no one better at making the country make sense.

Android auto has one job over everything else: maps. Latest (forced) update puts an app launcher up by default, and you can click maps, but oops nope came back to the launcher. Nope, launcher again. Just ignoring your finger now. OK you really want map, fine. Everyone involved should be ashamed.

The pool was the color of television, tuned to a dead democracy. h/t @greatdismal.bsky.social

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

The Trump Swamp - I decided to see this symbol of corruption and incompetence for myself.

New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Never bring a wife to a nun fight.

Something few people really think about is that if the claims about the effectiveness of LLMs are all true, that is a horrible future. Imagine having to pay as much as the providers can extract for the privilege of running fast enough to keep up with the other serfs.

The violent race riots in Belfast are exactly what Trump, JD Vance, and Fox News were trying to make happen to Haitians in Ohio during the campaign and what they wanted to happen to Somalis in Minneapolis as well

Once again observing that no one ever ran "President Biden's approval ratings have tumbled. But here in West Baltimore, these black lesbians say he delivered on key promises.

Right next to the JCPOA guys, DEI may be the most vindicated thing in America. These guys get rid of DEI and immediately *instantly* every position of authority is flooded by a wave of talentless hack mediocrities, each one more corrupt and venal than the last.

This is the perfect term for the modern web. daringfireball.net/2026/05/what...

This morning a coworker deployed one more "think for me claude" tool and I can see the future, an endless swarm of headless bees writhing and buzzing, busy and meaningless.

So sick of people who believe they are programming professionals thinking LLMs invalidate decades of lived evidence that English is not sufficiently precise to fully specify a system. Your robot buddy is not going to fix language, stop pretending it will.

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

the Trump stock trades escalated dramatically relatively recently in this second term. has the look of a bust out. that you’ve decided to put the pedal to the metal and just take every possible dollar off the table … and as in the mob system, before you burn the place down.

Funny (not funny but you know) that a substantial number of people in this country can't accurately assess what's going on because they can't bring themselves to believe that someone could be this stupid, let alone the president

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

shame

"We're not racist. We just acted like it was an emergency to get rid of the one majority Black congressional district three months before the primary election."

Listen to what a young John Kerry asked the Senate in 1971: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”

What the everloving fuck is going on here. Reality is completely off the rails when evil irony is delivered to us in ton lots by assclowns like this.

You have friends everywhere. #maythefourth

This article isn't a story about poor farmers being pushed out. It's a story about millionaires liquidating their least profitable asset (a dairy herd) to shore up their financial position. While still keeping most of their income-generating asset wealth intact.

I miss the era when Republican lies had some effort in them. Now they just stand out in a field at noon and say "the sun has gone out and we are in eternal darkness" and the media still nods along and does glamor profiles in the magazine.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

Im so fucking sick of seeing articles like this The post office is not a fucking business. It is a fucking service that our fucking government is supposed to fucking provide for us. It's not fucking supposed to fucking be fucking profitable it's supposed to be our fucking tax dollars benefiting us

"soy sauce butter cheese rice ball" fits perfectly onto the Dona Nobis Pacem round and I think my wife somewhat regrets buying them.

One of the biggest lies that media keeps repeating from right-wing commentators & politicians is “people don’t want to work anymore”. Actually, people *love* to work hard — if the work is meaningful and workers are respected. It’s a management skill issue. anildash.com/2026/04/06/p...

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

If there was anyone in the Republican Party--or conservative movement--who believed in the Constitution, they would be calling for Trump to be impeached over his violations of Congress' Article I spending authority. But, it's crickets. The constitution is just a stick to beat their enemies.

We're going to have to sell off all the red counties to pay war reparations.

LLMs are the purest form of "enough rope" I've ever seen. I read heavy users excited that if it gets just a little better it'll solve their problems but the next iteration is just going to put them good and high off the ground when the LLM kicks away the chair.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

ok youtube targeting when you hit you hit www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...

“We won’t let the government run if you don’t let us steal the elections to run the government (also we will not let the government run if you let us steal the elections)” is just such a wild take to say out loud and have the media/nation go “well I mean what can you do”

at last we have invented the computer that draws paranoid conspiratorial connections, from Unberto Eco’s classic Do Not Become Addicted To The Computer That Draws Paranoid Conspiratorial Connections

Radical extremist cleric issues angry new fatwa -->

As background to my comment about Andreesen fabricating an imaginary social contract in which he & his fellow broligarchs are owed praise for giving back to the societies that made them wealthy, here's my post from a few weeks ago citing the actual historical evidence. bsky.app/profile/ebha...