we have drafts now. which is huge, not just for drafts, but for composing on a phone with multiple pastes. now we just need edit. please.

“LLMs are not just labor-replacing and productivity-expanding, but can, in some circumstances at least, enable the production of totally new things.” @mattbruenig.bsky.social mattbruenig.com/2026/02/10/t... ht @mitchsaid.bsky.social

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

how have we let this be our world? ht @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social

Clinton's victory in 1992 is the canonical example that supposedly proves Dems win by moving to the center. There's only one problem: The data disagrees. Voters saw Clinton as more liberal than Dukakis, & simulations show even a solid progressive would have won www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-d...

“not funding community groups to implement strategies designed by national NGOs, but funding community groups to design strategy, period. That requires funders to give up control. Most aren’t willing to do that. Which reveals what this is really about.” @lennecefer.bsky.social

come spring the ice will melt.

All my @semble.so collections are open for submissions, and will be transitioned to group-governance when that’s a thing. semble.so/profile/erle... I want your links on ethical licensing, burnout in oss, networks of shared purpose, post-growth, ode to blogs, web files, and design from the margins❣️

Capital is winning labor is losing. That's it -- the whole story. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

“Even a representative agent, forward-looking and fully aware of all the parameters surrounding them, can feel the vibecession.” @mtkonczal.bsky.social

i woke up today and found i was unable to verify my identity.

“Conservatives complain endlessly that ‘unelected bureaucrats’ have escaped the control of their democratically-elected masters and are implementing an agenda at odds with the wishes of the American people. Would this were so as far as NASA is concerned.” @frankfukuyama.bsky.social

Do not, under any circumstances, use an AI generated guide to mushrooms.

"The removal of the Federal Reserve swap network would be the ultimate 'chainsaw' event, on a level that Musk’s DOGE never even came close to reaching." @steffenmurau.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru... via @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

But, my mans, this is pure Bhaskar right here. This is the intransitive and transitive dimensions of science.

thoughtful & forceful oratory irl has always been a way for humans to move (moral) mountains

This related article states: "The researchers estimate that nearly 104 million U.S. residents can't reliably use a personal automobile to get around" usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/r...

A year ago people were talking about how universal free childcare was one of those wild-eyed impossibilities that made Mamdani a hopeless candidate and he got it done inside a month in office

when Bezos bought The Post, he wanted to be respected among the professional managerial class. his goals have changed. he no longer wants the respect of educational professionals. he want subservience. so he is destroying The Post to show his middle finger.

if you become a client, my advisory will help ensure you place bets only on the highest quality numbers of the roulette wheel.

It’s been a week since ICE murdered anybody. Can I go back to complaining about the woke kids?

thinking of housing shortage in terms if raw numbers of homes is just stupid, because homes aren’t fungible. scatter 40 million new homes across the tundra of Alaska and you’ll do nothing to address housing miseries. build a neighborhood 50,000 people are excited to live in and you’ll do a lot more.

I have updated my priors on this. Given the changes to methodology they've made and the recent huge impact of revisions on BLS payrolls, they're much more useful than they used to be and have actually been more accurate for measuring post-revision NFP than initial release NFP figures.

the humans are always squabbling, and it might be kind of cute, but then they go ahead and start murdering one another.

Every university that capitulated to Trump’s financial demands looks so fucking stupid right now

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

you go looking for the third biggest city in Norway, you are on a Stavanger Hunt.

we only get to learn about an elite network with incredibly disproportionate and democratically unaccountable power because its members also happened to sexually abuse children. maybe we should have visibility into similar networks even if their members don’t do that.

Anyone else starting to feel like they could never move to Minneapolis not because of the weather, but because they're just not good enough for the city? ...well and also the weather. Let's be real here. There's no way.

there’s a reason no one ever says “fuck the firefighters”

"The irony here is that their impunity to consequence has its own consequence: the dismantling of the system that protects and empowers them." ~Charles Hugh Smith charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2026/02/powe...

mirror, mirror on the wall… ht @jedgarnaut.bsky.social

are TikTok, X, YouTube, Facebook, even BlueSky "private platforms"? certainly there are senses in which they are! they are organized under private firms. 1/

Kind of a social democratic answer to "network states", @alphistia.bsky.social stinkhorn.us-west.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atp...

i now view nearly all digital ads and sponsored content as some mix of cheating and manipulation and treat it as an ethical gaffe to click or even offer my attention to them.

Oh cmon!!! The author of this season of Humanity is tripping.

exclusive is an epithet.

This is funny, but also brilliant. Once people go down the path (of any wrong decision), it is sooooo hard to turn back -- because it is tantamount to admitting you were foolish. As hard as it is, we need to offer soft landings and gentle off ramps (which is what we'd want too)

does AI mean young people should typically have more years or fewer years of education?

Can't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often.

would it have been a capital allocation mistake had the 2024 Presidential election gone the other way?

Sundance thread! Union County: a low-key drama about recovering addicts in rural Ohio. It unfolds like a procedural of people in the system, a mix of understated acting and quasi-nonfiction confessionals. Its pursuit of emotional accuracy, ironically, may stop it from reaching a larger audience.

don’t mistake disillusionment with the status quo center for embrace of the particularities of ugly radicalisms. people are choosing from whom to disaffiliate more decisively than they are choosing with whom to affiliate.

it is good to wish. it is good to wash. but it is bad to be wishy washy.

is apple getting stingier about refunds? my wife tried a free trial of an app subscription. she says she canceled immediately after starting the trial, but was billed anyway. usually when this kind of thing happens, we’ve appealed to apple and always been refunded. this time, apple has refused. 1/

"Recalling the decades-old Lorax Rebellion to save trees at New College as more large oaks are razed" by @kerrysheridan.bsky.social www.wusf.org/environment/... #NewCollege

Okay, I might be crying about this, but I'm also howling with laughter at how mad it would make one specific fascist ghoul. archive.is/2026.01.28-1...

Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.

it’s remarkable how many strangers want to give me a grand piano.

This is actually a good thing (for the 85th time from me).