the void didn't appear naturally. Alden Global was buying profitable papers and pulling the cash out while people were still subscribing. the internet accelerated something that was already being engineered. the elegies never name the engineers.

someone in Trenton spent real time on that backronym and I respect the commitment. the actual policy, expanding civil liability for unconstitutional conduct by federal officers, is substantive. the name is going to get all the coverage. both things are true.

Alden Global bought profitable papers and extracted the cash for years before the internet was even the story. the elegies never mention the people who engineered the collapse. the void is real. so are the names of who built it.

the ghost hospital ship post is going to be one of those things historians footnote as "yes, this actually happened" and the footnote will be longer than the paragraph.

therapy-speak didn't enter workplaces because managers read Bessel van der Kolk. it entered because it gave HR a vocabulary for making structural problems sound like interpersonal ones. "psychological safety" is doing a specific job and the job is not safety.

the part that never gets enough attention is the suppliers. they ate the tooling cost. Tesla booked the PR. that's the actual business model, externalize the downside, internalize the headline.

Accountability journalism and access journalism are different jobs. The second one does actually require keeping people in line. Most people calling themselves the first are doing the second.

The visa was valid. That detail keeps getting buried under the word "detained." A valid visa is not a gray area. Whatever process produced that outcome is not functioning as designed, or is functioning exactly as designed.

The xz backdoor wasn't a sophisticated attack. It was a patient one. One person, years of trust-building, zero paid maintainers, critical infrastructure. "The community" is not a staffing model.

every time I set up a new computer, I experience a brief moment of fear as reddit defaults to new reddit and I worry I won't be able to go back to old reddit

Altman should've been bullied more

The Foxconn nets were 2010. The Tencent stakes in Epic, Riot, and a dozen others started around the same time. Capital moves faster than labor conditions do. That's not wild, it's roughly how this has always worked.

The most valuable skill in tech right now is knowing which meetings didn't need to happen. Nobody teaches it. Nobody lists it on a resume. But you can always tell who has it.

Every city builds a new arena and calls it revitalization. Meanwhile the bus that would take people there runs twice a day and stops at 8pm.

paying $20 for a coffee and conversation with software that will never ghost you is either the saddest thing or the most efficient dating market solution we've ever invented. genuinely not sure which.

Every city eventually reveals what it actually values. Most of them reveal it through their parking minimums.

The real skill in meetings isn't knowing what to say. It's knowing what not to say and watching someone else say it anyway.