“It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

An underappreciated thing, I think, is that OpenAI wasn't the first to the technology, it was just the first to both have the technology and be recklessly irresponsible enough to actually release it as a product

Turn the volume up.

This is the work.

This goes so hard for a lot of things. Well said

📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

@joashpthomas.bsky.social great to meet you yesterday! Thanks for chatting and congrats again on the book! If you’re around Guelph or Kitchener I’d love to grab chai, coffee and/or a Kerala meal. I’ve finally found some nadan spots nearby

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Rare win, lets go KW youtu.be/uttoyAX4ntc?...

hey so i never want to hear someone say “racism is dead,” again, k?

"the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer"

#cdnpoli please sign: chng.it/cMS5STDpxr

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

In news of the most inconsequential nature: I have fully switched over to zen-browser.app today and highly recommend :)

"Mamdani’s proposals would make the city more livable for working people while improving public goods — from transit to child care — that benefit everyone, including those footing a slightly higher tax bill."

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

Take your ass to Cracker Barrel.

Living through history is weird.

No, The UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest…

youtu.be/s6GznjxPEkQ How to be normal

Today I e-biked to an appointment in town in the same amount of time it would have taken me to drive. I was worried because I had to leave a couple minutes later than I plannedc but it worked out. In before you ask, I drive my MT GTI fast. 😄

Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man. Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

Payment processors caving is a slippery slope. chng.it/FS2hWb75gm

Lfg www.euronews.com/next/2025/07...

This is the classic UX vs UI problem. Capacitive touch and software locked hardware features (behind subscriptions) also need to get lost.

If they think Superman is woke, wait until they learn about Jesus.

Real innovation happens when companies have to compete on merit, not on who can kiss the leader’s ass most effectively. www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/f...

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Meanwhile: I am at the point of fatherhood where I have discovered the use case for portable gaming. I just didn’t get it before

"Only 33% of American children between the ages of 9 and 11 are allowed to bike or walk to a friend’s house alone, according to the Mott survey... They cannot move through the world without their parents there."

This was a good watch! youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s

[x] put the crib together [ ] have baby

Feeling a lot like I did in early days of the pandemic these days. It is so clear what’s coming: The people that will die because of cuts in global health, because of cuts to research, because of the concerted anti-vaccine push. It’s clear what’s coming, but we will have to wait to count the dead.🧪

When Jesus said “Love thy neighbor,” he meant what Los Angelenos are doing when ICE knocks.

I know this battle is lost, but: Can we stop calling it “hallucinating”? They’re not tripping, they’re doing what they’re designed to do: generate a series of statistically likely sentences. The technology doesn’t care whether the sentences are accurate, as long as they’re statistically likely.

There’s the joke when you ask a dev or dev team how much of the project is done: “We’re done with 90% of it roughly.” The correct answer is: “OK, so what I’m hearing is first 90% done, only second 90% is left” It’s actually not a joke. It’s *often* the reality with software

Advent of code, during random times of the year, is fun actually

A tale of two movies: Similar deal structures. Similar budgets. One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend. The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second. And yet this is the coverage.

I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible. I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible. I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.

This is a great explanation “The <billionaire> will be fine, the rest of us will be holding the bag” youtu.be/k9kmK0St9Jg

Perfectly said, excellent word choice

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

Deleted Google Maps from my phone today. Never thought that would happen but here we are.