niche but unpopular opinion: a lot of people who are anti-plastic are pro-wood, pointing to how good modern wood construction is (it is!), without noting that it depends on the modern petrochemical miracle of engineered wood

While there is a lowbie class, I am in it, while there is a cringe element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in posting timeout, I am not free.

found myself in a bad place (the MIT Media Lab)

this time it's Atlassian rolling out dogshit stupid AI slop, in a way where you can't opt out of the install, or uninstall it which would be bad enough already, as it's against many corporate policies but the way they set it up also *blocks org deletion* jira.atlassian.com/browse/ROVO-...

found myself in a bad place (the MIT Media Lab)

license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby. 🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...

interpreting Lynch movies as "the protagonist is seeing things because she's mentally ill"... straight to film jail for you

randomly watched an episode of the edge of sleep... what an offputting show, just all around

The best feedback you can get after a movie screening isn't "that was great" or "I loved it", but instead "I don't know how I feel about that" or "I've never seen anything like that before"

it's hard to even envision what a sensible global communications system would look like when so much space in content moderation is taken up by hostile governments & unaccountable private actors

good for her.....

mulholland drive? no thanks, I only mulholland walk and mulholland transit

dragon's hoard

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

While there is a lowbie class, I am in it, while there is a cringe element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in posting timeout, I am not free.

have blocked off a bunch of hours today for resume work, even if it makes me fall behind on home improvement work 😭

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watched the first episode of Pluribus, and while pretty good, it mainly made me crave an adaptation of Blood Music

writing new C++ code in 2025? you may also enjoy: vaccine denialism

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

*unreliables your narrator*

think i got someone else's book order in the mail lol

damn I didn't see that the Elric comics by Blondel are still going hope I get a complete set of those some day

"beyond state, power, and violence" nestled underneath "neoreaction a basilisk"

I've bought pretty much every hardware that Valve has put out so I'm resigned to getting a Steam Machine too

i hate it here man

I hate it here man

haven't been foodposting much because my kitchen was Literally Destroyed In A Flood but I made a house dinner the other night: baked + torched salmon, sesame mushrooms, sweet potato tempura, steamed broccoli, jasmine rice

I am not into trading to make money. I am into trading for the deep satisfiaction that someone I loathe is currently holding the sharp end of an exotic financial instrument

It cannot get any more direct other than doing the thing itself. Which they are doing, by the way. Who is keeping records of the cars, trucks, furniture, jewelry, electronics, etc of all the people they’ve black bagged and disappeared to their wildcat internment camps? No one. It starts small.

Excited to finally release more features on @anisota.net that Bluesky doesn't even have yet! 1. There's an ATProto "explorer" built into anisota.net now. 2. The @leaflet.pub integration got so much better. 3. Set custom appviews. Also... something special is dropping around Thanksgiving. 👀

anyone at Anthropic wanna hire me or what

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

my brokerage added sports betting.

bazel LTS releases are in December because hermetic build systems know whether you've been naughty or nice

Shoutout to @universalhub.com for the scoop that Zac Segal is British

happy CRWV ITM day to me

git push api outage right while I'm doing a complex multi-repo migration cutover lol

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?

the subjective experience of using Windows over the last decade is like they realized how to make it good, started doing that, and then used what they learned to make it worse than ever before

At the end of the day, I don't believe a GOP led by the Fuentes faction can win elections. And if I'm wrong about that, then America deserves to be destroyed.

ICE is just going to outsource the stalking of undocumented immigrants to random private investigators, is willing to spend $180 million on it: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

every couple of weeks I'll try a new copilot workflow and it's invariably worse than before This time it didn't know what zizmor was so it hallucinated an entire internal project named that.

Finished teaching my first seminar course today! Had tons of fun introducing my students to the rational foundations of human-like cooperation. Now that the course is over, I'm sharing the syllabus more widely!

7) Michael Moorcock deserves a statue. Dude is still alive and writing. Whichever town he's adopted should build a black sword about thirty feet high engraved with runes that casts a shadow like an enormous sundial counting down to the end of days.

Exclusive: Democratic-led states are inadvertently sharing drivers' data with ICE, officials say reut.rs/3WOChG3

Github recently rolled out copilot usage stats so I took a look maybe 25% use it on a good day, and the code completion acceptance rate rarely exceeds 30% that puts it solidly on the tier of "SaaS tool that isn't worth building around but is easier to pay for than to start a fight over canceling"

everyone cheered when he swiped right on that guy