Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

Very cool—thanks for the update! Today I got gassed by the federal government two times within a few blocks of my house

CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES

2/2 www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

“Give me Greenland or I will make my greatest political weakness even worse for myself” is a hell of a strategy

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.

what a legend lmao

holy shit. you HAVE to read this.

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

Environmental storytelling

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

better way to think of this is “20,000 of the dumbest, most violent people in the country currently receive government subsidies for their stupidity and violence. should we continue doing that?”

If a guy with one of the most visible media jobs in American life can put his name on a statement like this, we all can do a little more. And we should.

Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Here’s a first stab at better messaging, keep in mind I’m an engineer not a multi millionaire consultant: “They want to send your sons and daughters to die in an evil war, betraying our closest allies, for some sea ice and rocks, just because it looks big on a map. Don’t let them”

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.

Not really the point at all but I hope the Nobel committee is aware of the role they played in creating a manufactured pretext for this insanely illegal and unjustified war

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

Change in Headline

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

I wonder if there would be a market for a short form video platform that explicitly banned ai videos

65 bucks a MWh, god damn www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...

One fruit seller with more courage than ten entire Uvalde police forces put together.

Genuine question: What justifiable reason is there to not ban biofuel ethanol production. It contributes to global warming, it increases our reliance on outdated technology, it consumes a STAGGERING amount of water, all for the sake of reducing our oil consumption by a fraction of a percent.

youtu.be/Jw7SpzaYSnY?... Out now

a lovely snippet from our latest episode which shows the importance of developers sharing their creative process. Without @obsidianent.bsky.social showing their work via devlogs, we may never have gotten the beautiful isometric world of Disco Elysium.

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.

They didn’t even try to name it something less obvious lmao

My "we're not Enron" memo is generating a lot of questions that are answered by the memo

i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

good job indie devs

that's so weird like there wasn't a big interest in an inconvenience store