Chris
@cjthered.bsky.social
Political kibitzer, sometimes some law stuff. Boston by way of LA but born and always a Wolverine.
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Chris
@cjthered.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
www.impactcounter.com
The New Yorker article is paywalled but you can get info here, including numbers that should chill the shit out of you (e.g., 5.6 MILLION excess child malaria cases, of which 42,000+ were fatal)
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
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I maintain that this is the best Christmas album in no small part because the movie itself is about being sad at the holidays (a thing pop culture was allergic to depicting for a long time) but which most people are, and the album just captures that vibe perfectly
And since you asked, it's this one.
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I maintain that this is the best Christmas album in no small part because the movie itself is about being sad at the holidays (a thing pop culture was allergic to depicting for a long time) but which most people are, and the album just captures that vibe perfectly
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It’s important to remember that Laura Ingraham went to Dartmouth. She’s not as stupid as she sounds. She’s just a shameless liar.
December 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It’s important to remember that Laura Ingraham went to Dartmouth. She’s not as stupid as she sounds. She’s just a shameless liar.
A.i.’s effect on the Internet is going to be the standard example of the tragedy of the commons in Econ 101. Within a generation, they won’t believe that we had a working, useful system and allowed it to be poisoned like this.
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A.i.’s effect on the Internet is going to be the standard example of the tragedy of the commons in Econ 101. Within a generation, they won’t believe that we had a working, useful system and allowed it to be poisoned like this.
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This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
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If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
Before we *were* people, people were doing this
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR MILLENNIA WITHOUT CHAT GPT YOU COMPLETE HOLLOWED-OUT GOURD OF A HUMAN
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Before we *were* people, people were doing this
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I'll add that as someone who not that long ago spent many frantic nights looking for information on sleep training, feeding, etc etc--by far the most valuable internet resource was reddit, the only place with human advice. Everything else is basically useless at this point.
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'll add that as someone who not that long ago spent many frantic nights looking for information on sleep training, feeding, etc etc--by far the most valuable internet resource was reddit, the only place with human advice. Everything else is basically useless at this point.
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Not shocking to learn, but incredible range of prices discovered. Great research by all.
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Not shocking to learn, but incredible range of prices discovered. Great research by all.
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the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
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Maybe AI can eat their shit-ass hamburgers, then. I mean, if you don't want people to make your stuff, then I don't think people really need to consume it, do they?
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Maybe AI can eat their shit-ass hamburgers, then. I mean, if you don't want people to make your stuff, then I don't think people really need to consume it, do they?
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December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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Pointing out (because when else would I get to show off this research) that about 533 U.S.–produced features, from both major studios and independents, were released into theaters in 1957. In 2017, there were 131 given wide release, including independents. It's astounding how output has shrunk.
30+ movies a year. Wow. That's very impressive. This year Paramount released a grand total of 7, exactly one of which made the year's top 25 (while losing $), so there is zero reason to believe that the company has the means to more than quadruple its output. deadline.com/2025/12/para...
Paramount Promises To Release 30+ Films Annually If It Acquires Warner Bros: “We’re Going To Satisfy The Needs Of The Moviegoing Public”
Should Paramount succeed in acquiring Warner Bros, the combined studio will release more than 30 theatrical titles a year. This was Paramount CEO David Ellison’s promise during a phone presser followi...
deadline.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Pointing out (because when else would I get to show off this research) that about 533 U.S.–produced features, from both major studios and independents, were released into theaters in 1957. In 2017, there were 131 given wide release, including independents. It's astounding how output has shrunk.
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If you wanted to give a bit of Hookland for Yule or Christmas, I offer The Latchless Door. Is a wee book, signed and numbered, and we always include a surprise of some sort.https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/the-latchless-door-rhymes-and-songs-of-hookland-signed-numbered-edition
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If you wanted to give a bit of Hookland for Yule or Christmas, I offer The Latchless Door. Is a wee book, signed and numbered, and we always include a surprise of some sort.https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/the-latchless-door-rhymes-and-songs-of-hookland-signed-numbered-edition
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
One of the great pleasures of Bluesky is typing out a post or reply, looking it over, and deleting it unposted. Absolutely makes my day.
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
One of the great pleasures of Bluesky is typing out a post or reply, looking it over, and deleting it unposted. Absolutely makes my day.
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More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
December 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ.
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
For all this he received death-threats throughout his life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....
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listen I would usually prefer to get punched in the head than try to understand the law, but at this point I've read enough by @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social to suspect I will enjoy the way she explains stuff, and also the audio was on sale so maybe I will finally understand what is going on 💃
December 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
listen I would usually prefer to get punched in the head than try to understand the law, but at this point I've read enough by @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social to suspect I will enjoy the way she explains stuff, and also the audio was on sale so maybe I will finally understand what is going on 💃
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The entire Siberian orchestra is now trans
you’re never going to believe this. the woke left’s depraved war on christmas is escalating. sources tell me they’re planning to make the yuletide gay
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The entire Siberian orchestra is now trans
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the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
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WOLF: little pig, little pig, let me come in
PIG: not by the hair on my chinny chin chin!
WOLF: what
PIG: i said go away!!
WOLF: no say what you said before
PIG: seriously fuck off
PIG: not by the hair on my chinny chin chin!
WOLF: what
PIG: i said go away!!
WOLF: no say what you said before
PIG: seriously fuck off
December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
WOLF: little pig, little pig, let me come in
PIG: not by the hair on my chinny chin chin!
WOLF: what
PIG: i said go away!!
WOLF: no say what you said before
PIG: seriously fuck off
PIG: not by the hair on my chinny chin chin!
WOLF: what
PIG: i said go away!!
WOLF: no say what you said before
PIG: seriously fuck off