davidlabaree.com/2025/09/29/e... I'm going to go with undivided (or at least much more loosely divided) time. Living mostly according to the natural rhythms and inclinations of our bodies & minds. Outside of monasteries & elites, the modern time system really only dates to the advent of railroads.

Cuz what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds…

I have been thinking about writing about the end of Vannevar Bush’s postwar vision in “As We May Think” where science and technology serve the common good of humanity. The NSF & the Open Web are under deep risk, it’s not coincidental that it’s happening at the same time, & it’s not too late

Losing Google Search is not the loss of a public good - it’s the loss of a rent seeking extractor that enclosed our information & sold the story that it was providing a public good. But rebooting real public goods Google ate will not be easy.

Part of what makes me feel insane marinating in the AI discourse is that there really is a technological singularity in progress, and it's called unlimited cheap energy with greatly reduced externalities. It's just happening slower in the US because we're flirting with becoming a fascist petrostate.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. We didn’t deserve to leave this WC with good national vibes, and we will not.

Some real old-school USMNT vibes tonight, you got to hand it to them

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

Andrés Cantor: “Stand up, ladies and gentlemen, and applaud them both, victors and vanquished…”

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

I say it often but once again: By granting them borrowing privileges and protecting their privacy, public libraries afford children a form of civic standing and respect that has few parallels in our “free” society, which mostly treats children as chattel. Vociferously defend public libraries. 📚

If you were born in the US, and your parents were citizens too, you've likely never even thought about not being a citizen. Your citizenship just ~is~. Now take that away. Would your citizenship be contingent on your race? Religion? Gender identity? "Good behavior?" Education? Income? Politics?

liberal society is tearing itself apart because people want to own their children

fixing the court is table stakes for any Dem running for national office, you are not a serious candidate if you can’t get on board with this and refusing to do so is disqualifying in a primary because it doesn’t matter what your policy positions are if SCOTUS will just overrule them

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as

if you’re telling us you’re fixing 230 but you don’t have sex workers and Ron Wyden on board I refuse to waste my time

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

Wow, can you imagine?

I realize this is unfortunately not the norm for too many cishet white dudes but social media absolutely let me learn about so many progressive things I’d never have gotten exposed to otherwise, especially the lived experiences of people different from myself

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

Starmer / Blue Labour vibes intensify

Walleye Vision

"i'm liminal!"

Is it carbon monoxide

"Whale is important."

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

I will fucking die mad that we let the stupidest people in society with medieval peasant brain ruin recognizing what should have been a moon landing level triumph

We do not have voting rights in this country anymore. We just don’t. We did for a while because Congress codified them pursuant to a constitutional amendment enacted by the people in a great repudiation of the original sin of slavery. But the Supreme Court has nullified that law and that amendment.

So, the only way that this could be possible is if the insurers were engaged in massive fraud to collect the federal subsidy on fake policies. Are we gonna investigate the insurers for massive fraud? No? Ok then.

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

Exactly this. Every statement from almost every institution is kneecapped waaay before it begins by the unspoken but unilaterally understood requirement to first accept/protect the interests of the investor class. Without capitulation, you cannot be taken seriously. But the Pope can just go for it.

The Virgin AI vs. the Chad human person. Or wait, maybe it's the other way around, since this is Catholicism?

"The monster learns about economics." And quickly discovers that Economics was the real Monster all along!

And the existential threat from AI is not Skynet or runaway paperclips, it's what the terrible human beings plan to do to the rest of us with the power it confers on upon them.

This really needs an even tinier and cuter solar-powered panel cleaner to clean the panels that power the main solar-powered panel cleaner. And then you keep going down the scale recursively from there!

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

Up the Villa!

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

Walks into the sea

I could sit here smugly having made the switch from Google to Kagi last year, but the open web information supply-side that alternatives like Kagi rely upon to have anything to index is pretty well doomed if these trends continue.

How do the Brewers just constantly humiliate us with a lineup full of guys like Jake Bauers and Andrew Vaughn and a constant pipeline of anonymous kids just up from the minors who all somehow throw 102 MPH? You've almost gotta hand it to 'em 😩

What is the whole odyssey if not a penelope cruise

Seven Samurai and Grogu. Yojimbo and Grogu. Except oops, those were both already episodes of the actual show

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Grogu

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

this is absolutely worth remembering: when the abolitionists began the struggle against the slave power, the slave power looked unbeatable. they fought anyways--a long, difficult, often thankless struggle. they fought anyways.

I honestly hope at least 90% of currently elected Democrats lose their jobs the next available chance in favor of people who actually believe power can be used to shape needed change for the people they're allegedly meant to represent. It's our only hope.