I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

No, Charlie Kirk wasn't practicing politics the right way. His assassination deserves full condemnation writes @davidcorn.bsky.social, but his full impact should not be sidestepped. 👇

"nobody over 30 knows anything about the culture that informed this guy" jokes on you some of us spend way too much time looking at terrible shit online

I spend $$$ on independent journalism, so I get that it costs money. This reads a bit like those stories being withheld, despite those outlets knowing, because of a financial calculus which is…oof.

Constantly accusing Bluesky of being full of badly behaved leftists, regardless of the facts, serves their purposes because it implicitly pressures @bsky.app to crack down on otherwise acceptable content that could plausibly be misconstrued as confirming those accusation(s).

If all you're looking for is "wow okay they changed their mind" you never notice that the person's underlying sensemaking processes are still broken

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.

Elected officials can't credibly condemn *all* violence because to do so would also condemn violence by the state against citizens, which has long been commonplace, and in which they are often complicit.

"…contemporaneously recorded facts…will always exist…" Without concerted efforts to store copies of such data in multiple forms outside of the U.S. and collaborating jurisdictions, it is not a certainty that they will continue to exist beyond the memories of those who directly observed them.

This, but Olive Garden's never ending pasta bowl.

AI agents promise to “put our brain in a jar while a bundle of AI systems does our living for us”, writes Meredith Whittaker. “But as in fairy tales, so in life: relying on magical fixes leads to trouble,” she warns

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social Wrote this essay in November 2016. The best time to read it was then. The second best time is now: thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...

What privacy assurances exist to prevent calls to 988 from becoming the basis for a national registry of people considered sub-human by the eugenicists now in charge of our public health institutions?

Framing differences in "politics" as orthogonal to differences in "social beliefs" is…specious.

I’m going to get replaced in the workforce by a two-button soundboard that says “can you describe the mechanism” in two different tones of voice, one engaged and one extremely sarcastic

I remember people getting so much shit on Twitter for questioning the legality of the Bin Laden execution and the use of drone strikes during the Obama administration, and I'm not sure that dismissing that criticism without addressing the substance of it was a good idea.

Maybe stop naming people Joseph.

This is 100% true and it is, in fact, so much worse. The typical engineer with 10 years of experience is now managing so much complexity just to wield the typical tool chain that entire sub-categories of engineering skills are, in practice, have basically disappeared.

Yall remember “spice drops”? Those extremely geriatric-coded gumdrops that are flavored like assorted mints and spices rather than fruits? I bought a tub of them at the grocery store the other day and they fucking rule

I know no democrat is perfect but I would like any of them, ever, to explain why they voted for ANY Trump nominee.

It's difficult to find that perfect mix of deeply unlikable but just "not fascist" enough to seem better than their Republican opponent.

Amusement parks are gonna love this!

There are more factors that contribute to enshittification than profit-seeking. Apple keeps enshittifying things as a bizarre Product Manager / Designer circle jerk.

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

This is pretty much what Google did with search advertising, even though it was super obvious along the way, and the visibility had little or no impact.

Despite WSJ's best efforts to keep the wool over their eyes, people are finally figuring out that the economic policies of the past 45 years haven't actually worked very well for many (if not most) Americans. apple.news/Aklq4V3sZSRu...

While we're at it, the "th" in the middle is pronounced the way "th" is pronounced in "with" or "myth", the "u" pronounced like "oo" (rhymes with "noob"), with accent on the second syllable. jith•'üb

A thousand times this, for every kind of product.

This is a good perspective. To expand it a bit, 2A stans who don't fancy themselves police re: enforcing laws, they may view themselves as protectors of a (white supremacist) culture. The historical referent for "overreach" they amass guns to defend against would be something like Reconstruction.

A lot of medical debt.

Despite all of my work accounts being putatively "SSO", they all still require interactive confirmation or temp/ephemeral AuthZ, so my daily work in 2025 involves 50-200 auth-related interactions (clicks, taps, etc) per day vs <10 before 2015.

Was the reporter here in the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark?

not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.

It's almost as if it was never a general, principled objection to government overreach or oppression, but instead a reference to a handful of specific historical events where the government did intervene militarily or militaristically, which they are/were preparing for.

My main problem with this take is that, in talking to Republicans for decades about their political ideology, the ability to freely amass assault weapons *is* a foundational part of their ideology.

To consider proof of life valid, I'm going to need to see 27 holes per day, every day, with him carrying his own bag, live streamed. Otherwise, I'll presume he's at death's door from congestive heart failure.

Part of me wonders if the National Guard deployment in D.C. is at least partly related to this.

This is particularly wild when you go back and look at how terrible so much of the software Microsoft shipped in the 1990s was.

Exactly.

Manifesting

The question here is broken because the phrase "political views" is overly broad and the term "political" is frequently coded to mean that a subject is inconsequential or refers only to subjects about which reasonable people can disagree.

The idea of getting textual advice that's complete bullshit premised on a misunderstanding written by something that sounds like a human and you can chat with forever and doesn't get smarter is not new to me. That's called a tech support forum. I grew up on those. Maybe that is my vaccine.

the harsh realization that every single administration hire is one of the shittiest unqualified mediocre people in the world

I ended up choosing a link that went to a domain that I know and trust, which is approximately a 26-year setback in internet search technology.

This right here.

There are *a lot* of problems with that Ace Ventura movie, but one thing I learned was that, sometimes, the kicker (or, in this case, the punter) is a cold-blooded (metaphorical) killer.

Yet another example of how the fascist practices that are now widely feared have long been a part of the U.S. system. The escalations we are seeing are alarming, but they are often expansions of long-standing practices.

I’m not exactly defending capitalism but whichever side you’re on ideologically, a chaotic authoritarian driven crisis isn’t the best way forward. It is serious.