Family annihilators kill their own families when control, identity, or status collapse beyond repair. Facing loss or exposure, they choose total destruction over accountability, reframing the act as a final assertion of control. He’d rather everyone die, than lose his perceived control.

There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Aha, finally a chance to reuse one of my favorite posts

the thing I'd ask them - next time you're talking to your AI, deliberately sneak in something insight-shaped that you know to be incoherent or wrong, in a subtle way - something that you know is bullshit. See if it validates you or pushes back.

As someone who is chronically ill, I find that a lot of mostly-healthy adults have incredibly simplistic ideas about how medicine works. They expect to feel all better, right away, without long term maintenance or lifestyle adjustments or having to live with ongoing symptoms / side effects.

What are we supposed to do, have a reasoned discussion about real heat island effects of large scale development patterns in general? That sounds dangerously close to useful self-reflection on the state of our industrial civilization.

It's crazy that this works with how complex it all is. How did we ever figure this stuff out? Server gets request for next audio segment -> proxmox hypervisor passes the request through its virtual bridge to the NixOS VM -> VM's virtual NIC receives it -> Linux kernel network stack processes it ->

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

Leftover saag paneer. No naan. No rice. But tortillas on the counter. And thus was born the saag paneer burrito.

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

Well that was a nice evening.

guys the fucking fuck the fucking FUCKING fuck please stop this ride I'd like to get off

I've never seen a shot like this. It shows the night side of the Earth illuminated by light of the full Moon, brought into view by a long exposure. That's why you can see stars. Here's the image rotated with north (roughly) at top, making it easier to identify Africa & the Iberian Peninsula. 🔭🧪

americans have absolutely no idea how badly the war is going for the united states, all thanks to the gutless, witless journalists who refuse to cover the facts of the situation

We need to find a way to put all national forests in joint state and federal custody and require agreement between both to do stuff like this. Otherwise Republicans will raze the country to the ground in pursuit of money.

Anyway, we live in a world where people are faking the death of a celebrity tortoise to steal money.

Honored to be with @wyden.senate.gov today to stand against the SAVE Act, in defense of democracy, and in full throated support of our safe, secure voting by mail system here in Oregon. Thank you to Rep Levy, Councilor Osborne, and Commissioner Chang for joining us.

WEREWOLF (Palindrome) Flow, a name’s lupine, moonlit side. We distil no omen: I pulse — Man, a wolf.

If I were on a mission whose computer system required me to deal with Microsoft Outlook in space, I’d give up and go back to the slide rule

I guess the oil futures market wasn't impressed with trump's speech.

I'm not a fan of the SLS, but I'm really happy to see that it did its job more or less flawlessly in the Artemis launch. It's still insane to me that they had 3 previously-used Shuttle main engines as part of the launch vehicle. Why are we relying on 40+ year old tech again?

My thinking on this case is that Clarence Thomas should have been removed from office immediately when we found out his wife had plotted to overthrow our constitutional republic

tbh no term has ever been popularized by a philosophy department

i used Attie to vibe code an edit button and it's amazing edit-button-production.up.railway.app/jcsalterego....

wish SCOTUS would examine "a well regulated militia" with the granularity they are debating "domicile"

Excellent.

This is my trans agenda

A modest proposal: Absent congressional authorization, presidential uses of force amounting to war should automatically raise the top 3 tax brackets by 50%. You know, to pay for the war.

I see a lot of people saying this, so: take a free evening, write a tool that uses a totally novel expression language as an interface, hand it over to a Claude Code (or similar LLM) session, see if it can learn how to use it. Either way, you'll learn something.

Shot chaser

Disappointing how much of the BlueSky userbase lacks both reading comprehension and critical thinking skills, especially given that the userbase on so many other sites appears to be even worse at both.

We hear the concerns about AI. Our goal is to use this technology to give people greater control, not to generate content. Attie uses AI to help you create custom feeds without having to know how to code.

As I said elsewhere I am basically radicalized about this. We fight now for personal computing and personal agency or we lose another decade to closed clouds We push now for an open internet and open models. Nobody is going to hand it to us because they’re nice

New piece makes the case: our rigid two-party system isn’t inevitable—it’s the product of rules. Reforms like fusion voting can open the door to new parties, stronger coalitions, and voter choice. @leedrutman.bsky.social @newamerica.org @politicalreform.newamerica.org substack.com/home/post/p-...

Any senator could have objected to passing the DHS funding bill and forced a Senate vote on it. Nobody objected, hence it passed. Any senator could have objected to going on a two-week recess and forced a Senate vote on it. Nobody objected, hence the Senate is in recess.

Last week @freedomhouse.bsky.social released Freedom in the World 2026. The bottom line: "Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. A total of 54 countries experienced deterioration in their political rights and civil liberties, while only 35 countries registered improvements."

Something worth considering: it is incredibly radicalizing to hear the media lie about something you personally saw 9 million people are at home right now going "what the fuck, tens of thousands of people marched in my city alone" Some percentage are gonna wonder what else the media is lying about

i suspect that not only are the climate impacts of chip + datacenter buildout quite small currently (comparable to other industries), the _net_ impact can be extremely positive through better modeling of climate data, weather prediction, and so on

"destroy datacenters" while putting a post on a webiste that is ran out of a datacenter

Being able to build custom feeds has always been a great feature on Bluesky. But it's always been a bit technical and out of reach for most users. This looks like it'll make that a lot easier, which is cool.

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support. motorolanews.com/motorola-thr...

On the record, this is the exact kind of use for LLMs I’m on board with - providing a natural language interface to help people do 1. things that are useful and 2. also aren’t so important that they’re going to kill or endanger anybody…like “help me build my custom Bluesky algo.”

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

but that's dumb actually. in conclusion repeal the 2002 AUMF and pass a new war powers act.

in practice, it is precisely by chaining the executive to the political process--to actually needing to justify its actions to congress and to the american people--that we reign in "executive dumbassery" and advance the national interest

one argument that gets trotted out occasionally is that "the demands of national security" entail that the executive *must* have discretion in deploying military force my reading of history is that this is ass fucking backwards. "executive discretion" winds up "dumb fucks in high places"

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