Right now, the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board is interviewing candidates for an endorsement. I’ll be knocking doors in freezing weather instead. Here’s why:

Placing a layer of algorithmic recommendation on speech does not make speech less free, but it does pervert it. Algorithmic mediation turns speech into a resource extracted from human behavior. Platforms do not value speech because it is protected, they value the service it provides them.

it’s their reliance on “magical thinking” that will undo them completely

a skilled ER nurse with a deep sense of civic responsibility is exactly the kind of person you want carrying a firearm. every ICE employee should be barred from touching anything deadlier than a butter knife for the rest of their natural lives.

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

the reaction to the death of Scott Adams should contrast particularly with the (eventual) death of Bill Watterson, who will be mourned in the style of the ancient Pharaohs, with all of Ohio entombed alive along with him

I am so delighted to stumble upon a contingent of other taste-havers

when i think about AI, i think about the universal approximation theorem, erdõs problems and imo medals, rate of change, and the things i can do with frontier language models like opus 4.5 and the insane internal complexity in 2025 most ppl think of “annoying slop video” or “copilot win11 popup”

entirely predictable result of backlash, reflexive IP law support, and poor thinking. i made this meme in 2023

this is fucking hilarious

gospel

Send that text. Record that voice memo. Someone just sent me one that made me tear up. You never know what someone is going through. Though my thing is public, you never know. ❤️

bro I pay like $1200 a year for health insurance NOW, subsidized by tax credits and that’s just my premium not my additional out of pocket costs from actually *checks notes* going to the goddamn doctor

it will be good to keep this in mind for constitution 2.0

“They think they are all powerful” is usually called “foreshadowing”

I believe in the holy trinity. 🙏🏻

A lot of what people imagine politically for this country can't actually happen under the current Democratic party. That's something that I don't see lots of people actually reckoning with. There is no way to do most of the things that some people want to do through the Democratic party.

I’m a pancake artist. My job would require one of those fancy servo arms trained on human motor control, probably a while off still, but I have assumed it will be mechanically replaceable for decades. The value of your work will have to come from your relationship to the community you serve

The anti-AI perspective is ironic when you consider they’ve made a moral calculation and therefore forgo any benefits or utility the software could give them, making it doubly threatening to their livelihood. “Superpowers for all” replaces their job…& they reject the superpowers on moral grounds.

I want to say something flippant like “they’re so cucked by capital” but anti-AI people are attached to their jobs because, yes, they can’t see an alternative and they feel they’re barely hanging on as is. I hate their venom - it’s actually stupid - but stress makes ppl stupid, so, 🤷🏻‍♂️

I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer

Bro these people’s brains are way more cooked than the planet has ever been

oh man 1000% this

i semi-regularly think about this concept and way of describing it and crack up. absurd

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it

Workshopping “USers”

Wella and I will be in south Texas next weekend. If you’re in the valley, come get some pancake art from us!

Evergreen sentiment

“AI is useless and there’s no reason to use it” this is actually mind blowing stuff

it’s a real thing

It seems like, with really transformative technologies, it is wiser to just use them in ways that enhance your practice than it is to advocate for their adoption. Jungle law, or something. Easy to lose faith in humanity when you see how dogmatic people get.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Mamdani and Trump just ensured I have the weirdest Thanksgiving ever

Every now and then I see clips from that whatever podcast and it makes my soul hurt. That guy sucks

I could not be more grateful to NOT be them. These people live in hell. The level of stress maintaining such an extraordinary castle of lies puts on them is like spiritual background radiation and I’m so glad I don’t live like that

It is so wild living through an era of unrepentant, shameless cowards, liars, thieves and preposterous incompetence

This has to be the most pathetic thing that has ever happened in human history

So we know that Trump intervened to make Ghislaine Maxwell's life easier. And that he intervened to make Andrew Tate's life easier. I wonder how many sex traffickers Donald has gone out of his way to help that we don't know about.

History repeats itself. The nazis wielded leftist appeasers the same way that the GOP wields Jewish zionists. They’ll use you to achieve their goals and then they will literally string you up and kill you. Do not fall for it. Leftists in the 20s/30s had the excuse that it had never happened before

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.

“Two weeks after the election the incoming administration is making no attempt to downplay expectations, if anything they are doubling down on them.”

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

One of my hottest takes is that AI’s destruction of the education system is good, actually