if we replaced the entire Democratic Party with about 40 people who have ever had a real job we would have a better shot at keeping the right wing from destroying the country

Yup, it's Gremlins time @nicklutsko.bsky.social

Dude admits that it wasn't easier to try to pull a good prompt out of AI versus actually writing it, so why must we accept it? You want us to spend as much time doing more boring work that destroys the environment, and you think that's inevitable? Weird.

Also, with UBI, the leisure TO read increases. If you've got 80 or 90% of your basic living expenses covered if alone and fully covered if you buddy up with 1-3 others, so you only need part-time or gig work for extras? That's time & attention the rentier doesn't extract & is restored to the worker.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

Please, I am begging people: never again repeat the claim that only two people were killed in the occupation of Minnesota.

Every single word.

We like a decade ago moved from "pop culture should be treated seriously" to "pop culture is superior by virtue of being more popular" with a large subsection of "anyone who doesn't like my preferred pop culture is an enemy who must be destroyed"

i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health

Meritocracy is back baby

my most cringe and honest belief is that the future best world I hope I am building will, in the future, look almost nothing like any nation or form of governance in the past

Ending sanctions on a country we are currently at war with

Feel like it might benefit the U.S. in some ways if our current position weren't that science is for woke losers.

I cannot emphasize enough that we need to be rooting out “constitutional sheriffs” as a matter of course nationwide.

genuinely why does anyone report anything he says at all as if it means anything still

Perhaps the most ignominious military adventure in American history. A war of choice with overwhelming budgets & material advantages that now aspires only to restore a single element of the status quo.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

I keep having to tell students that the true "product" on a homework, essay, or test is not the completed assignment, it's the brain that has gone through the thinking required to complete the assignment.

Our Lady of Perpetually Online

I think I'm getting close to finished with Banquet for Fools (though it could throw a curveball and surprise me!) and it's consistently been one of my favorite gaming experiences of the past few years. If you like exploration and games that ask you to pay attention, give it a whirl.

Build it

installing a video game through the linux terminal is an incomparable rush

The fact that he can spend $45 million on lobbying would seem to demonstrate why he can pay more in taxes. (He is worth $247 billion after all.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Thank you Meta VR for giving the world my favourite paragraph in journalistic history

Recall how much "how will you pay for that" hand wringing came from conservatives, centrists, and media folks when it involved student debt relief. www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1...

yeah this is how like 30% of the electorate works

I'm nobody's editor but every story about the SAVE act should include the fact that it's a solution in search of a problem.

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

Banquet for Fools by @hannahjosephrpg.bsky.social deserves to be this years breakout CRPG hit. I'm having so much fun with it. The world is unique and rich, and the stripped down quest system (no journal but the one you write, limited information) creates a real feeling of adventure and mystery.

Clever little budget-priced CPRG just left early access with a good launch discount, too. A weird swampy fantasy setting, semi-real-time combat ala Vagrant Story and a cool claymation-esque art style. Also hugely undersold so far. Go check it out, RPG folks.

I have news! My debut novel is coming soon!

I am so deeply sorry to be in the position to have to pull this lever again, but I just watched my car get towed away and I don't really know what else to do anymore. More details in the update & description, but if you're able to help out or share, we would be grateful beyond words.

Oh I don’t know Marc, the Bhagavad Gita is one of the oldest and most influential scriptures about the nature of self and duty in the history of civilization and it’s why you get to run around doing the “I am become death” quote

jail the kalshi and polymarket owners today, make an example of them and in 3 months this problem doesn't exist, either do it or shut up about it

i hate, HATE the trend of books being skimmable documents now. i know there are people out there who want genre books deeper than a teaspoon.

3!!!! DAYS!!!!! LEFT!!!!! We're doubling down on knocking doors and calling our neighbors! Here's where you can plug in these final few days:

Two things here. One, you don't sit there and whine about media coverage and headlines if things are going well. Two, the administration is just outright saying that they fully expect Ellison to use CNN to be a Trumpist propaganda organ.

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

whaaaaat who could have seen this coooooming?

Kinbote texts

Kudos to the bird that managed to shit an image of itself onto this bloke's car.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.