Reality, quite like math, is neither created nor discovered, nor both nor neither. Reality is constructed.

“In Toderian’s view, the dividing line between cities that succeed and those that stagnate isn’t geography, wealth or even size—it’s mindset. Some places embrace experimentation, risk…Others default to caution, delay, and a reflexive belief that change is impossible.” momentummag.com/urban-truth-...

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

One big problem with the standoff between the White House and Anthropic appears to be that the Trump administration doesn't really understand how all this works. from @hugolowell.bsky.social

I still feel stupid telling my coworkers to ask the LLM. Like yea, I don’t remember the specifics of how this one-off code should go but how about we don’t spend an hour on this thing that will take 30s

I believe @samadlerbell.bsky.social wrote somewhere that disposing of the global poor will be at the center of the fascist ideologies of the future. What we argue here is that Musk's descimation of USAID, justified by decrying "civilizational suicidal empathy," is a kind of dry run for that future:

It is my task as the activist or advocate to work with those values, introduce new facts, and tether them into a conception of the person that gets to keep their idea of being a caretaker of nature in a new (and even better!) version of themself.

The zombie apocalypse themed browser game MMORPG Urban Dead, which ran from 2015-2025 You’d use one of your limited daily actions to say “Watch out, zombies are attacking barricades” and then log in 24 hours later to find out you had been eaten by zombies. A perfect online experience

I know it's unfathomable today, but the early years of Facebook were really fun! You could organize events with your friends, join goofy groups and share pictures from nights out. Then your mom joined and your boss joined and your local politician joined and it became something else.

"We think that building housing is part of the solution. We think net zero is part of the solution. We think a car-light development is part of the solution. We think building a sense of place and community is part of the solution." -- leader of the Squamish nation www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

BEFORE AND AFTER. Barcelona transformed this car sewer in a declining industrial zone into a lush shared street, ready to welcome a new century of industry.

defending North American national cuisines against unseasoned British imperialism is fine and all but I keep waiting for somebody to come in piloting New Orleans like a giant mech and flatten everybody

Would be like watching the CCP if the CCP was mostly a bunch of incompetent clowns who couldn't actually do anything.

this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what language is and why we use it so profound it makes you wonder if the author can tie his own shoes

they're saying he's the sweatiest and smallest craven to ever walk the earth. and they're saying it more and more. they're saying he's the very best at being a worm and they're right. hes doing a very good job of writhing around. maybe the most unsettling writhing that anyone's ever seen

"Why don’t we simply replace a vendor contract with a durable institution" may as well be "why don't we just go to the moon"

This explains why customer service roles are infamously subject to abuse — not merely because they interface with the public (we all do, if we go outside), but because they are the human face of an unaccountable system, forced to bear the violence that can't be done to the system itself.

*pointing to the engineering teams of most major companies* "you're simply too incompetent"

WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

My argument will, when my interlocutor returns, be to the effect that these “dangers” are in fact very small or non-existent in almost all cases. Ascribing unconsciousness to someone conscious is abominable. Ascribing consciousness to something unconscious appears to be just what humans do. :3

We've all grown numb to Trump accusing an entire political party of committing felonies with negative proof, but that doesn't mean the Speaker of the House gets a free pass. Every media question he gets from now to November should demand he put up or shut up. Humoring this bullshit is dangerous.

When your centrist friend tells you to just vote harder.

“...if tribes wanted to walk into the woods and start foraging again...” Natives in New England were specifically deprived of this possibility over time, and this is why the hunter-gatherer economy collapsed. You can’t have a hunter-gatherer civilization with private property rights.

Seattleites (and other people who enjoy pedestrian spaces), plz take a minute to tell SDOT how much you love about not having to dodge giant SUVs in Pike Place.

Building a mutual aid protocol for dev collectives. Rough outline: bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Good news everyone! I finally have a website viewing portal that will scale with my pace mino.mobi/mappa/ A proper generate world button with tectonic histories, biomes, politics. Look at the globe, look at the map, roll again, play with the sliders, enhance, enhance, ENHANCE and it’s an api

The pandemic generated a bunch of headlines like this: govts tried to do novel things with huge amounts of money in record time. And they often struggled. New research in PNAS shows how combining self-attestation with geographic data reduced burdens on those in need. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

And the braindead idea that software people think everything is a database. It's total lack of understanding of what software even is. But whatever, he is a lawyer who somehow tricked people into thinking he was a tech expert.

It's just intrinsically funny to be doing this from an OpEd in the Telegraph - like the question is answered by the mode of its being posed, and answered in a way that negates the need to ask the question in the first place!

its called a website :^)

thank you for this thread! i had an off-the-cuff comic turned into a meme and it's such a weird feeling that my art is just being spread out there without any credit here's a version with my name on it, im fine with people using that one :)

Deterritorialization is the 9th school of magic

cool, so don’t fund his agency

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Welp there’s no unseeing this

Working on a commons governance #atproto lexicon for build-guild, a coding gig site for cyborg teams. The common resource is reputation. github.com/jedelman/Bui...

Brilliant

Republican law students looking around and thinking 'mmmmthis is gonna all be over soon and being involved could be...bad for me' seems like a good thing

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

I think this has it backwards, it's not a strategic fumble the Democrats are fundamentally on the side of the cops and always have been. This is just the execution of their politics Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Today's Claude

Oh is that how it works? One candidate is such a corrupt criminal that his own party tried to purge him, a crook who pardoned a pedophile and is loathed wide and far. But he plays the man card and now it's "front and center" in the race? "Sorry, folks, the crook said we have to talk gender!"

"Such intense concentration was not inevitable. It’s a product of decades of failure to enforce anti-merger laws that have been on the books since 1890." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

There's an argument to be made that most mass shooters fall into this category, and if you look at it this way we've been under sustained violent attack by right wing terrorists for like 30 years, with the second Trump administration as its apex and ultimate victory.

Anyway sorry to Argentina, but also no take-backsies on Thiel, he’s your Christofascist now

Jesus, what went wrong in 1968 This year just keeps coming up

E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.

The last stegosaurs were separated from the first T. Rex by more than 130 times the *entire* amount of time modern humans have existed.

my confidence that these people are going to lose is rising and my estimate of the amount of damage they are going to do on the way out, especially as they realize they're losing, is also rising