I cannot emphasize enough how important print media is for organically reaching people. having your stuff in meat space is a great way of giving people a way to stumble across it. especially nowadays between algorithmic rent seeking and LLM slop - discoverability online is LOW

I'm asking a serious question. When in the history of the world was a country or land extincted because of immigrants?

‘The Romans had passed down to early medieval Europe the belief that crowds were an important source of validation. Hordes of admirers attested to the holiness of relics. Adoring masses confirmed a ruler’s legitimacy.’ Pablo Scheffer on the power of medieval crowds. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

There are 31,000 SaaS companies globally, but there aren't 31,000 significant social media accounts belonging to founders. So, it’s fun if you want to be one of them, but don’t worry if you’re not.

Today's Internet winner.

Yeah, I'll pass on the 200 year old sauce.

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Crazy web app idea: allow people to publish their manifestos unfettered. I bet there are some doozies out there and it would assuredly give data to researchers. My first alert would be for anything Stephen Miller writes.

In Illinois, window shopping for 2026 ACA marketplace plans is now open. Because of expiring premium tax credit enhancements, a typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 will have to pay an additional $23,700 annually for benchmark coverage. (1/4)

It's interesting to see how many people think that CSS has become a new powerful language since it introduced an if() syntax (Not because of what it does, but because it's named "if"). We missed the opportunity to have a powerful language since the beginning if media query was defined using "if" 😅

Hey y'all, looks like things might get rough for folks. I'll be donating to Food Bank for NYC but if you want to donate as well, I'll match to $1000.

President Reagan's Remarks at Briefing on the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement on November 4, 1987 #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgl...

Here is the transcript of the speech President Reagan delivered on April 25th, 1987, on “free and fair trade”:

Why, mac and cheese box? Whyyyyy?

That will probably be fine.

I just unironicly texted "y'all're"

"Whoever participates, has nothing whatsoever to fear"

"In free countries the law ought to be King. [But] some Masaniello may arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and discontented, and assuming the powers of government may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge." --Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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AI usage pro tip: If you have to use AI for more than an hour or two a day continuously, you're not qualified to use AI.

Some of us have been banging this drum for a decade...and losing work because of it. I was once told I want to rewrite too much. But that's because...everything needs a rewrite. I have a very interesting project I'm working on about that. techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

I can't copy text from other posts on Bluesky?? Is that a thing or a bug on mobile?

I'm more than sure that, if given 10 different texts of at least 2 paragraphs I could correctly identify 4/5 as either commercial AI or human. I'm not bragging. All AI have a similar style because their training data is all so similar. Local LLMs, who knows?

Lot of people should read this exhaustive list of life improvements from the 90s: gwern.net/improvement

Who is he telling to DO SOMETHING?

Fanfuckingtastic

My kids (25, 22) and I are arguing about the definition of "craft" in the context of "craftsmanship". How do you define those words?

"Seeking control for itself ends with violence, either to the seeker or to the sought. Silence is a form of control." I read this in a book when I was first considering philosophical Buddhism; I don't remember the book. An absurd koan that has always provoked self-reflection for me.

I'm not sure healthcare is anywhere near the top 100 things that are built first in civilizations.

"And some not even made by them"??

I'm an atheist but I love Jesus in all his forms. Nothing in his message is incompatible with compassion, care and understanding regardless of your religious convictions. Rev. Black is proving that love indeed does overcome hate - it just takes longer than we want.

In a gerrymander, why cldn't we pass law that wld require the new map be voted on in affected districts? Like, w/ 2 districts, if one voted not to have their district changed and the other did, it wouldn't pass and they'd have to try again. Spec elections are $$$, might @ least help w/ timing.

Fox News said in court filings they are not a news organization, so no surprise here, really. Anger, sure. Surprise, no.

I'm about to start building in public some web dev tooling to address this very thing but also to try and bring back the engineers to first principles...and hopefully reduce or eliminate the fools relying on AI.

Meanwhile, dozens of competent *nix OSes are available and can run on very old hardware. Maybe we should start talking about Linux as a green OS?

Amazing!

I woke up thinking about Him. Literally first thing I thought of. Still unpacking it and figuring it out. The best part of great movies.

I think this Canadian politeness gone wrong.

I did not have "erection of statue of the leading fighter for civil rights" on my bingo card these days.

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Just got back from seeing Him with my daughter. I struggle to find the words to encapsulate my feelings. I have been an avid film enthusiast since I was wee. My first wife was a film theorist and had worked in film. We spent hours watching film and talking for days about them. 🧵

Bsffrn, bro. This is how they marketed dishwashers and clothes washers and vacuum cleaners to women. Did that work? Did women's daily chores reduce? We always get promised more leisure time, then the rich call us lazy and the cycle repeats.

@financialtimes.com "Why does Donald Trump think Antifa is a coordinated group?" Fixed your headline for you.

The real economy is already in a deep recession. The fake AI economy is a smokescreen. And now I'm afraid that the government will throw any amount of money at it to keep it from popping.

Has a single “journalist” in mainstream media asked Trump, Mike Johnson or John Thune why they haven’t used their Senate majority to override the 60 vote threshold and reopen the government?

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