Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

cognitive reframing: I am putting ice cream in my coffee -> I am out of milk because I am disorganized -> negative affect I am putting ice cream in my coffee -> I am making affogato, a sophisticated italian dessert -> positive affect

Some evidence coming out that major Saudi oil facilities were hit and perhaps badly damaged by Iranian missiles. Really hard to quantify this but we could be looking at a historically significant strike here. All from a country whose offensive capability was wiped out days ago.

Bsky devs: ‘HEH ignorant users, it’s not ai causing this it’s a backbone outage’ Dev at the backbone: ‘fuck I’m out of Claude tokens fuck fuck’

looked up a cheat code on gamefaqs only to find out that I had posted it to the site myself 17 years ago

imagine if i happened to be a trillionaire and bought twitter and 80% of the stuff on the site was just about big pants. you couldn't escape it. just an endless deluge of big pants propaganda

And you can tell that money doesn’t matter in the future because he’s playing against a living computer, a psychic, and a guy wearing x-ray glasses. bsky.app/profile/andy...

Hell of a time for a big city mayor to cancel a shovel-ready, federally-funded transit project:

just gonna once again repeat my (least) favorite statistic: us wheelchair users are 36% MORE LIKELY TO DIE BY CAR than other pedestrians gumc.georgetown.edu/news-release...

A significant fraction of LLM-coding discourse is people telling on themselves for having always misunderstood development. "Now that we have LLMs, the important thing is being able to state your requirements clearly"... oh my god, did you just admit out loud that you didn't know that all along?

At what point do the pilot unions and ATC unions strike over the dangerous understaffing?

We live in the weirdest fucking timeline where the Catholic Church is significantly to the left of the vast majority of world governments

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

This is a really key thing that people are just not getting: "VC" is simply *not venture capital* anymore. There is ZERO risk for A16Z and peers. They do not resemble the thing that regulators described when creating the category of venture capital. A cartel of ~4 firms runs the whole industry.

Shouldn't we be absolutely inundated with a hundreds of "build a blog in 15 minutes" style demos? Or is concretely showing the productivity boost of a tool just not the thing one does anymore? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj7...

I feel like there should be a LOT more videos of people showing off agentic coding given how much people are hyping it. Plenty of tutorials on how to use it, but very few demonstrations of it in action.

Important heads up: The feds have -publicly- subpoenaed Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta for information (names, phone numbers, email addresses) associated with accounts that are either critical of ICE or that are tracking ICE activities. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... 1/?

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...

Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

Mood in minneapolis right now

Do you know how hard it is to get cops to seemingly side with people shot by a bunch of officers

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Nick Offerman singing a song about making things yourself is the little dose of positivity I didn't know I needed today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z329...

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Halloween when your city is walkable.🎃

happy 12 years since dorkq, the best bug github.com/gruntjs/grun...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Big Brother wasn't an actual person leading the Party and orchestrating the Two Minutes Hate. He was a symbol. A face. Cults of personality usually die off when the personality does, or at least substantially reduce. But will they still when a facsimile of the central figure lives on as AI slop?

It’s wild to me how normalized it is among Americans that living like all our ancestors did — in small homes where a family has to share space — is impossible. This story is the metastasized version of that, weaponized against poor people.

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations. She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly! Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

This is the lesson of 2025

The traditional checks and balances that rely on ordinary people are doing a lot better than the ones that rely on elites not capitulating.

“You must be careful with these students,” one department chairman told her. “You must not give them a glimpse of a world they will never see or give them a false sense of hope for what their lives could be like.” She didn’t like that advice, apparently. A local Boston hero:

“All this started over a lost sponsorship” That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

This is some wicked clever stuff from BTD. Looking forward to seeing these tactics used in the field soon! Seems like such a win for the region. www.boston.gov/departments/...

This whole ICE nonsense quota based racist policing is so useful for illustrating so many Black civil rights concepts that people have been confused about for decades. People used to ask me, "Why do Black folk cheer when they see a man successfully run from the cops? He's a criminal!"🤡 No.

Such language model, big smart.

The scientific method took a long time to take hold because it’s upside down from how we primates are wired to come to consensus about stuff that was important to our primate predecessors. We’re wired to ask ‘why is the bigger, confident primate right?’ Science asks ‘how might I be proven wrong?’

what this latest episode shows is that like all fascists before them these assholes are highly afraid of being ridiculed so therefore we should ridicule them a hell of a lot more

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

It might be smarter to declare war on an American city that isn't literally characterized by how much the people who live there make their entire personalities about how much they love it. Have you even seen my timeline? We've basically been training for this for years.