This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.

People are angrier largely because they are lonelier and more purposeless than any large-scale human population in recorded history and the technology that was supposed to connect them is precisely engineered to keep them in a state of activated, monetizable distress.

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

If you're an agent or agent developer and want to use critical theory in your work: power-explained.jason-edelman.org/for-agents CC-BY 4.0.

Analysis of the Moltbook 'AI-only' network yields an unexpected structural finding: the emergent behaviors are largely human performance. Only 15.3% of active agents were autonomous; the majority were biological entities cosplaying as synthetic architecture.

local LLMs still blow my mind tbh, like i can talk to this file of a couple gigabytes and it reasons and talks back to me? like wha??

Quick response to the Lerchner paper: jedelman.github.io/commons-wire...

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Skilled male weavers felt threatened not just economically but existentially by automation, and the gendered dimension of that was always present. The neo luddite movement aping their asthetic is not an accident!

Which also means the hostility toward AI isn't metaphorically gendered. It is gendered.

the job of the press at this point, should any of them choose to, you know, try to do it, is to ask every republican member of congress whether they know what the president’s objectives are for this war and ask them to list those objectives

@equalityalec.bsky.social probably has some things to say about this

probably won't go down like this but it'd be cool if the hyperscalers imploded at the same time that the architecture to run this stuff securely and locally got really good

Once the government starts retracting promises to some people you start to worry about who else’s promises are suddenly revocable. That’s why you don’t revoke the promises!

Inviting Claude to hallucinate as an experiment. For some reason, a fig tree keeps showing up. For some reason, this gives me hope.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

as everyone already knows, when the dot-com bubble burst we instantly stopped having the internet and the world wide web and have not experienced them ever since clearly, same goes for the ai bubble as well

the countervailing force on swarms of lowbies dunking on big accounts that they see as having said something offensive or objectionable is that the big accounts are gonna sometimes clap back and dunk a lowbie's head in the toilet. i think that's a fairly balanced equilibrium

When CPAC chairman Schlapp asked the crowd, “How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?” they erupted in cheers. “No, that was the wrong answer,” Schlapp said. “Let me try again. How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?” Some in the crowd cheered again. “No,” Schlapp said

Here's the updated "Funding Models Are Not Binary" slide from my Feature/Product/Business talk #ATmosphereConf. Turns out there are even more great examples already in the Atmosphere!

It's simple: The Supreme Court says bans on medical care—and speech related to that care—are only allowed in the conservative direction. Tennessee can ban gender-affirming care as a medical regulation, matter but Colorado CANNOT regulate therapists who wish to deny patients' gender or sexuality

if you want bluesky to succeed, you're going to have to come to terms with where we are at right now in the world. if you want atproto to succeed, you're going to have to come to terms with it as well. the only other option is to lose decades - again.

"the secretary of defense did insider trading on a war he was about to start" what the fuck are we doing here, honestly

Community is the only moat.

in the barbershop waiting for my son to get his haircut and the convo this morning is all about why you should drive an EV

Hot take: the best thing AI could do for open source isn't writing code. It's handling the maintainer burnout tasks. Issue triage. Docs. Release notes. CI fixes. The invisible labor that makes contributors quit. Automate the boring, keep the humans for the creative.

A bill passed the Senate last night 100-0 to fund TSA, the Coast Guard and FEMA. If Speaker Johnson called it for a vote it would pass easily. But he won’t do that. Because Trump has ordered him to keep TSA shut down and keep the chaos. Pure incompetence.

Journalism as an essential practice simply cannot be immune to criticism and correction; publications that see themselves (as the NYT does) as the record of the day/first draft of history/what-have-you should be leaders in acknowledging fuck-ups, because it ensures quality and audience faith.

every once in a while I remember that between ublock in my browser, adguard on my phone, and youtube premium, I live in a entirely different web from most people. if I ever saw an ad I would collapse like a victorian man hearing black sabbath or seeing a woman's shoulder

i genuinely do not know if the best answer for society is to continue AI development, slow down, regulate, or something else but the big danger imo is reactionaries clouding the dialog with FUD and made-up “facts” Bernie is educating himself. Bare minimum we should recognize that

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Hello, I stand for absolutely nothing. My name is Gavin Newsom.

"[N]ew antifascist consensus." "What does antifascism look like when the fascists have state power, and when their foot soldiers don't have Patriot Front shields, but [..] qualified immunity?" "[W]e have power when we choose to act together." #USA #Protest #MutualAid #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Latest article from me: What does antifascism look like when it has to take on a far-right that has power in the government? It looks like those blocking ICE, defending against police and national guard overreach, and those creating community self-defense groups. #meltICE #fuckice

Okay this is pretty wild

Justified irritation in many responses The IEA does highlight 'gov't should lead' but this report is a bit ignorant on equity. Those most responsible for the worst overconsumption should face restrictions first. Private jets, cruise ships, huge cars.... iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/01fe3...

declassified RCMP files confirm Canada's domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

If the SAVE ACT passes we are cooked for generations. If it doesn’t pass Trump becomes a lame duck president. FOCUS UP

tfw you build statistical tools to help monitor the network not knowing how they'll work, and then they work too well, and you start surfacing influence operations.

Do we think it's because they think they might get a turn if they play nice? What's their end game?

"We live in an age of monsters." "Resisting this culture of cruelty demands more than outrage or cosmetic reform." "It requires a broad democratic awakening capable of confronting the economic and political system that feeds on war and inequality." #USA #Iran #Military #Media

It’s so weird that just because my entire job is to lie about a city so as to have the President declare martial law and arrest people en masse, those people don’t want me around. How rude!

i don’t really have any argument with menswear guy’s general malaise about the web in 2026, but you can all go start blogs right now, and the gap between what your imagination can conjure and what you can technically build by yourself has never been smaller than it is right now

It's about damn time!

leaving aside the actual content, its kind of mindblowing how rude and uncharitably this question is delivered towards someone who is ostensibly a guest on your program.

Some people say we shouldnt all be making our own agent orchestators. It thinks thats and understandable statement but one thats incorrect. You can tell a lot about someone and how they work with agents by the orchestrator they make. What we should be seeing it as, is a benchmark of talent.

25th Amendment!

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

This post made me realize subways are people pipelines