what noita teaches you about life is that the most important things to be able to do, and do well, are digging, healing, and dealing damage. if you can dig, heal, and deal damage, the world is your oyster

"Because you are in a sea of slop, if you make something honest and compelling and fun and entertaining or moving on its own terms, that’ll reach people" - Mamdani video team member Donald Borenstein to @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-zoh...

it does make me lose my mind a little bit that there are voters for who this, and not the attempts to occupy cities or murder fishermen, is the thing that turns them against Trump

Honestly, I think that we have all undervalued the important civic virtue of being normal and not sticking your nose into things that aren't your business for quite some time now

I think the point this misses is that the experience of web browsing has gotten much worse, and people only are relieved by AI *because of those things.* Chatbot AI is only an improvement over bloated, meandering websites that optimize ad impressions over content.

Thing that rattles around in my head: Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour." I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.

trade sanctions on countries with bad civil rights and human rights records. Yes, even the ones we "like." Yes, this includes, like, the UK right now.

I'm not looking forward to the day where I look at a bad API shape that forces bad architectural decisions in my code and look at the blame history and find a CL that's clearly someone just crapping something out with Claude with minimal consideration.

We really need to ban banks and airlines from having their own apps. These are things that should just have standardized APIs, or at least should just be PWAs.

In retrospect, the Lorax is the most disastrous children's book to have ever been written. The beloved book depicts economies of scale as destructive and environmental advocacy as failing to achieve any of your goals except being smug and correct in the end when industry burns itself out.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Brendan Carr and I are the same age.

Progressivism is about prioritizing the needs of the poor over the rich, and of the future over the present. We can't just drop the second half of that

There's this working class whisperer energy to a lot of the Democratic moderates recently that seems to take the position that trying to do things that pay off in the long run is a luxury belief and our only economic policy should be welfare This must be opposed for obvious reasons

This is not true. Republicans win in the South because a majority of voters choose them, not because of "voter suppression." They win ~90% of white voters in much of the South and there are more white voters than Black voters because there are more white people than Black people

oh no new tiny computer just dropped

In a court filing in our lawsuit, DHS revealed it stopped automatically archiving texts in April. Instead, it’s relying on officials, like Sec. Noem, to take screenshots to preserve texts. This leaves a lot of room for error. americanoversight.org/dhs-admits-i...

"We are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code...with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one." security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...

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I'm starting to think that what news consumers think is newsworthy and what reporters think is newsworthy is very different and not in a way that reflects well on reporters.

Partly this but also partly, like, when somebody talks about the depravity and/or degeneracy of "elites", IME there's a good chance they're using "elites" to mean either "queer people" or "Jews"

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if purported law enforcement were to attempt to kidnap a federal judge, i would hope that the matter would be settled kinetically rather than in court

There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are

a concept i talk about a lot with the guy i'm seeing is "fast thinking", which is like low-grade, shallow, and easily disposable pop intellectualism. key hallmarks include focusing on discourse over substance, not being able to separate similar form from different content, and "annoying = evil"

✨ YIMBY includes datacenters ✨

the old “in terms of cognitive impairment being rich must be like getting kicked in the head by a mule every day” saw keeps accruing additional evidence

Exhibit #546892 in "Copyright begs for authoritarian measures to enforce": www.theverge.com/news/819043/...

school choice vouchers are just rebranded segregation public school funds shouldn’t go to private schools

In light of today’s email dump, I will say I have at various times found my way into online discussion spaces containing a fair number of important and powerful men, and it is the greatest cure to imposter syndrome that humanity has yet devised

Roku just tried to get me to agree to some “automatic content recognition” bullshit on my TV while I was trying to watch Star Trek, but, for every problem, there is a solution:

What the actual fuck

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

I don’t know at this point if there is enough evident to say “the New York Times, institutionally, was a co-conspirator with Epstein” but it’s basically beyond doubt at this point that at least one employee of the paper were co-conspirators and used their position at the paper to help affect that

👀 The stunning thing all this year was how Republicans were sticking with Trump through everything. This is the first poll I've seen where he's started to lose some of their support.

I generally avoid threatening people with death or physical harm on here because it strikes me as a pretty unproductive and fucked up thing to do, with the notable exception of the sentient car Lightning McQueen from the Cars movies. who I will kill

5. The market mostly asks them for advertising. 6. Their enthusiasm causes the market to reduce their wages below subsistence.

Why artists so often end up communists: 1. They make pure public goods. 2. They can only make money due to a legal kluge to fit art into a market economy. (Copyright) 3. They would do it on their own no matter what. 4. The work they do on their own is better than what the market asks them for.

despite all my rage im still just alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine

Yeeeessssss www.theverge.com/games/815061...

the fact that being really into eugenics appears to sort people for being shitty human is kind of amazing. like there is, in theory, room to be super interested in the area in principle and not be a shitty human being, but the correlation is robust

Here at Boston City Hall with a bunch of people ready to testify in support of a City Council resolution condemning anti-LGBTQ censorship legislation like KOSA. I hope @edmarkey.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov are paying attention to the local movement on this issue.

We should view standardized tests like we view hospital and airplane checklists, a repeatable procedure that makes sure nothing important is skipped or neglected.

Having seen the absolute bullshit that people On Here get themselves worked up about that “makes [them] feel unsafe on this site”, no one gets to complain about the mods finally delivering the type of massive overreactions they have been crying out for.

The Online Safety Act has made going online even more dangerous. Google is now warning that as Britons turn to VPNs to avoid the act, there's been an explosion in scam VPNs that sell data or provide it to state actors. Naturally, that would includes data on (and access to) minors.

Very funny to have seen yesterday's "KIDS CAN'T READ OR SPELL" discourse then roll straight into a tranche of documents basically modeling out that a lot of elites can't read or spell. Turns out for the past century America may have a literacy problem.

Spoilers: You haven't owned anything for years. Even the car that you have the title to is riddled with proprietary software and components and deliberately obfuscated systems.

nuclear take incoming but i kinda fuck w billionaire immortality guy. if we're gonna have overlords they should at least be insane in an entertaining way. and he seems like he'd be a good hang

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act. The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.