It feels like almost every problem with the internet is just a specific instance of the problem of people wanting to see the good content without seeing the bad content

Someone please tell me that post was good or at least not terrible

Imagine being an early European explorer in the Americas going back to Europe to try to explain to people you found a lake as big as England, not no the biggest lake in England, the whole country. And then that there are actually 4 more

As someone who started driving when you had to pay over $4 a gallon for gas and HS summer jobs paid like $7 an hour, you can’t convince me that gas costing less than $3 a gallon in 2025 isn’t basically free

Was halfway through an essay about why LLMs can be useful for some work and why software engineering is somewhat unique in being maximally suited for them in ways that doesn’t translate to other fields. Sort of thought I had missed the moment and people were understanding, but maybe not

Typed out and then deleted before posting two replies to stupid posts. Please clap

It’s so disappointing that we have a political movement against expertise in a area typical educated people are not really capable of weighing in (vaccines) rather than in the subset of legal issues like birthright citizenship that aren’t that difficult

This is true, but this also falls under someone has to perform the outrage. Media coverage won't happen until prominent people (ie elected Dems) go on video and accuse Trump of lying

Now that it looks like Trump is actually going to invade Venezuela to try to overthrow Maduro, I would really like to read about how people who consume Venezuelan/Colombian media were talking about this as a campaign issue in the 2024 election and it never made it into any English language media

Comparing people thinking chatbots actually like them to people who think strippers actually like them isn’t fair to strippers, who are capable of liking people

I swear I am going to become the @whstancil.bsky.social of people on the anti-Trump side skipping over the outrage reaction and going right to the hypocrisy or “things are so different from 10 years ago” commentary. Nothing will ever become a scandal if no one even feigns outrage!

If you aren't familiar with Massie, this quote is the quickest way to catch up. So many levels to it reason.com/2017/03/15/t...

Starting to realize that the politician who said he could only lose if he was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy was maybe not actually joking at all

Also unless I don't understand how the federal government works, the 2019 law about federal employee back pay was worthless political signaling back then and it's coming back to bite Senate Dems right now. The budget is a law, so it can change any previous laws

Maybe I have just been getting too much political news from Bluesky, but this seems like just about the worst possible way for this to end for Senate Democrats

Everyone's true "welcome to the Big Ten" moment is not when they win a conference title, or beat Ohio State or Michigan. It's the first time they drown in a bathtub at Iowa when its like, 38 degrees outside.

Now that it’s even more obvious in retrospect and happening again, I would really like to read something that attempts to explain why so many business leaders and other elites just completely failed to understand that backlash to Trump is what caused the cultural lurch left of 2019-2021

I hadn't covered a college game since Georgetown-Villanova on April 14, 2019 but the Hoyas & Cavaliers threw down yesterday & I had to be there. Couldn't have picked a better time to come out of retirement - here's my story for @insidelacrosse.bsky.social: www.insidelacrosse.com/article/geor...

Started to notice that the issues that seem to end up mattering are the ones with the most actual outrage posts. Probably partially an indicator of the issues people actually care about and partially the posts causing more people to care

the chauncey billips poker stuff was kinda sitting out there in the open for years www.reddit.com/r/ripcity/s/...

They saw the blazers almost beat the twolves and launched an investigation

I hope everyone on here who found that gathering with a crowd of people who wanted the same thing had a positive effect on their mood and enjoyment of life considers that maybe sports fans are actually on to something

Still going strong at 6:30 pm in the Maryland suburbs at #NoKings

AI seems to be like alchemy, get rich quick investment seminars, etc in that if they really had the good stuff, they wouldn’t be offering to sell it to you at any price because they would be too busy getting rich using it themselves

First @leaflet.pub post! I wrote about @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social having her content reposted and if there anything we can do with #ATProto to try to improve the situation

I remain convinced that a major reason for the asymmetry in politics is that everyone one the broad left of center has started just skipping over the getting upset part and right to complaining about the hypocrisy, lack of action, asymmetry, etc, but skips right over the initial reaction

Felt like an easy prediction we were headed for some version of a Woke 2.0, but I have to say, I did not have one of the big early moments of it being lead by the Disney adults

Don't think I can handle yet another day of "if only Dems would all do this one thing they would win elections" discourse

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

There is no demand for it and if it existed, all of my behavior suggests I would not actually use it, but times like this I really wish I got my news from a source that was several days late on everything, but carefully curated to only include information that was extremely likely to hold up

Soccer should move from halves to 22.5 minute quarters and allow unlimited subs during breaks between quarters so starters can rest for either the 2nd or 3rd quarter and the intensity level can be a notch or two higher the whole game

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

Nate was/is an expert in that field and he was right that communication surrounding Covid was pretty fucked. I understand him kinda losing his mind over it tbh.

It’s something more than this. Covid was a time when, among other things, the ability to communicate with a mass audience about complicated math became extremely high stakes, extremely quickly. Health experts were absolutely dismissive of the idea that there could be experts in that specific field.

Reading all the skeets about JJ McCarthy after drafting Justin Jefferson in a fantasy league

By far my strongest held belief on trans athlete sports participation is that is become super weird how many people are being asked to weigh in on the issue and then have their opinions reported on like it matters and is news

Have now seen this about 2 separate people/situations today: If someone produces long form writing or podcast appearances and you want to meaningfully criticize their recent professional output, you at minimum have to engage with that writing or podcasting not just their social media posts

One day LLM coding assistants will not tell me that the fix to my problem is to use my exact code that has the problem, but today is not that day

The reason this happens is because no one on the Dem side bothers to publicly perform being offended and just skips ahead to complaining about no one cares. In order for it to matter, people need to go on video (TV or social) and say they are hurt and offended and demand an apology

Not sure if it’s bad algorithm design or amazing algorithm design that 4 of the first 5 posts in this feed for me are @chrisrosie22.bsky.social posts

I am far from a connoisseur of model selection, but my initial GPT-5 impression for coding is that it works well enough and it’s definitely possible it’s an improvement over 4.1, but oh boy is it slow right now

On one hand, JD Vance having the Army COE change the water levels of a river to create ideal river conditions for a canoe trip is an abuse of power. However, on the other hand, it is easily the most appealing to me personally abuse of power ever committed by a politician that I can remember

This is where I'm at as well

Feels like the current Epstein moment is an incredible test of whether the right wing ecosystem is top down influencer / supply driven or bottom up / social media choose your own adventure / demand driven. Could you design a better natural experiment to test @whstancil.bsky.social theory?

I have to say I did not anticipate the federal government having to resort to basically the equivalent of the Shaggy defense

I have to say, I never thought that my extensive experience marching in parades under the orders of a 70 something man would ever be this relevant to political analysis

Give @dieworkwear.bsky.social an EB-1 visa for extraordinary ability in the art of posting. He has to be close to fulfilling 3 of these criteria if he hasn't already www.uscis.gov/working-in-t...

Where do I sign up for the version of the Bluesky bubble that filters out all the discussion of the bad Bluesky takes?

Jared Bernhardt signs with the Denver Outlaws, story on @insidelacrosse.bsky.social www.insidelacrosse.com/article/jare...

My favorite part of Humpty Dumpty is the implication that a large number of horses would be in any way helpful at putting back together a broken egg man. Like maybe they could have put him back together if only the King owned more horses