Craig
@fpccraig.forcedperspective.org
Tech-adjacent. Yeller at clouds and lawn-kids.
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DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added reut.rs/3NfgBky
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled, with the host of the longtime annual performance attributing the decision to the addition of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's name to the institution in Washington.
reut.rs
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?
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I’m a MAN
A MAN’S man
I eat STEAKS
With TRUFFLE BUTTER
At FANCY restaurants
And I pay CLOSE ATTENTION
To what OTHER DUDES order
And my ability to enjoy food is VERY DELICATE
A MAN’S man
I eat STEAKS
With TRUFFLE BUTTER
At FANCY restaurants
And I pay CLOSE ATTENTION
To what OTHER DUDES order
And my ability to enjoy food is VERY DELICATE
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I’m a MAN
A MAN’S man
I eat STEAKS
With TRUFFLE BUTTER
At FANCY restaurants
And I pay CLOSE ATTENTION
To what OTHER DUDES order
And my ability to enjoy food is VERY DELICATE
A MAN’S man
I eat STEAKS
With TRUFFLE BUTTER
At FANCY restaurants
And I pay CLOSE ATTENTION
To what OTHER DUDES order
And my ability to enjoy food is VERY DELICATE
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He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
This can also be a hazard if your résumé is a fancy PDF with ligatures (such as you might get from LaTeX) and you upload it to an unprepared potential employer’s site.
December 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This can also be a hazard if your résumé is a fancy PDF with ligatures (such as you might get from LaTeX) and you upload it to an unprepared potential employer’s site.
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I built a very sophisticated planning AI that ran in a tiny fraction of a frame on an Xbox360.
The other AI uses more power than your house and needs a cutting edge data center to run in.
We are not the same.
The other AI uses more power than your house and needs a cutting edge data center to run in.
We are not the same.
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I built a very sophisticated planning AI that ran in a tiny fraction of a frame on an Xbox360.
The other AI uses more power than your house and needs a cutting edge data center to run in.
We are not the same.
The other AI uses more power than your house and needs a cutting edge data center to run in.
We are not the same.
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ICYMI bc I made this live pretty late yesterday. I’ve yet to find a single “save the children” social media ban that isn’t just a sneaky way for big corporations to make more money, usually while violating our privacy and making us all less safe.
I wish I were surprised to learn that Australia's ban on social media for kids under 16 was pushed by an ad firm to get the government to stop considering a law that would ban online gambling ads. skepchick.org/2025/12/aust...
Australia’s Social Media Ban is a Win for Gambling Companies
Transcript: Okay, so a huge content warning: this video is going to start out with depressing news, and it’s not going to get any happier by the end. Well, until the obligatory clip of my dog under…
skepchick.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
ICYMI bc I made this live pretty late yesterday. I’ve yet to find a single “save the children” social media ban that isn’t just a sneaky way for big corporations to make more money, usually while violating our privacy and making us all less safe.
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DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
December 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three
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Undoing repost to quote instead, please take Glenn's post as a real warning, this is incredibly heavy and you may not want to read unless you're in the right frame of mind
This essay by the author of a recent well-reviewed book about Tolkien starts modestly and then stabs you with a Morgul-blade halfway through, where you are pinioned by a twist in the telling. You may never recover. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Undoing repost to quote instead, please take Glenn's post as a real warning, this is incredibly heavy and you may not want to read unless you're in the right frame of mind
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Ok but you have to hire me to be SecDef so I can make a mandatory quiz to check if you’re enlisting to escape extreme poverty and if you are you get an option for Job Corps instead
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Ok but you have to hire me to be SecDef so I can make a mandatory quiz to check if you’re enlisting to escape extreme poverty and if you are you get an option for Job Corps instead
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As plenty of women have always known, it’s easy to sucker a man with a big ego into pretty much anything you want if you just let him bang on about his obsessions, flatter him, and don’t let your own personality intrude.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
As plenty of women have always known, it’s easy to sucker a man with a big ego into pretty much anything you want if you just let him bang on about his obsessions, flatter him, and don’t let your own personality intrude.
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Don't let an app sync your fucking contacts.
v1.112 is live!
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Don't let an app sync your fucking contacts.
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*walking in a winter wonderland*
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
December 16, 2023 at 4:33 PM
*walking in a winter wonderland*
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
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Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
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Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
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(BTW, if you like Peanuts please check out Adam Koford's Haircut Practice, which is both kind of a parody of and a loving homage to early Peanuts strips: www.gocomics.com/haircut-prac...)
Read Haircut Practice by Adam Koford on GoComics
Haircut Practice brings quirky, offbeat humor to daily life, turning ordinary moments into clever and unexpected laughs.
www.gocomics.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
(BTW, if you like Peanuts please check out Adam Koford's Haircut Practice, which is both kind of a parody of and a loving homage to early Peanuts strips: www.gocomics.com/haircut-prac...)
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Hey, y'all, I hate to burst your bubbles, but that "hooded crow snowboarding with green plate" video is generative AI
Here's the _REAL_ video of a snowboarding crow from 13+ years ago the fake is stealing from
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUBM...
Here's the _REAL_ video of a snowboarding crow from 13+ years ago the fake is stealing from
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUBM...
Crow playing with snow (snowboarding crow)
YouTube video by H.Oytun Başeğmez
www.youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Hey, y'all, I hate to burst your bubbles, but that "hooded crow snowboarding with green plate" video is generative AI
Here's the _REAL_ video of a snowboarding crow from 13+ years ago the fake is stealing from
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUBM...
Here's the _REAL_ video of a snowboarding crow from 13+ years ago the fake is stealing from
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUBM...
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Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
www.polygon.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.
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100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
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I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
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So! Here is David Byrne’s Christmas Music for People who hate Christmas music” for people who hate Spotify even more: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
David Byrne Radio Presents: Christmas Music for People Who Hate Christmas Music by Chris Verwymeren on Apple Music
Playlist · 32 Songs
music.apple.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
So! Here is David Byrne’s Christmas Music for People who hate Christmas music” for people who hate Spotify even more: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
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yooooooo I outsold Olivia Nuzzi in my first week and I'm a fucking nobody who's never sexted a source
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
yooooooo I outsold Olivia Nuzzi in my first week and I'm a fucking nobody who's never sexted a source
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1. Only the rich *currently* have access to the most expensive hospital chains
2. Dunno who runs it, but it's better than lunatic insurance companies whose literal job is to deny care to people
3. This is also the current system. I am rich and have great care and I can't ever fucking see anyone
2. Dunno who runs it, but it's better than lunatic insurance companies whose literal job is to deny care to people
3. This is also the current system. I am rich and have great care and I can't ever fucking see anyone
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. Only the rich *currently* have access to the most expensive hospital chains
2. Dunno who runs it, but it's better than lunatic insurance companies whose literal job is to deny care to people
3. This is also the current system. I am rich and have great care and I can't ever fucking see anyone
2. Dunno who runs it, but it's better than lunatic insurance companies whose literal job is to deny care to people
3. This is also the current system. I am rich and have great care and I can't ever fucking see anyone
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Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
May 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
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Okay here's my plan.
Start up a second internet with all the things that made the first internet great: Usenet, IRC, FTP, Archie, early web stuff.
This time, don't tell the companies about it.
Start up a second internet with all the things that made the first internet great: Usenet, IRC, FTP, Archie, early web stuff.
This time, don't tell the companies about it.
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Okay here's my plan.
Start up a second internet with all the things that made the first internet great: Usenet, IRC, FTP, Archie, early web stuff.
This time, don't tell the companies about it.
Start up a second internet with all the things that made the first internet great: Usenet, IRC, FTP, Archie, early web stuff.
This time, don't tell the companies about it.
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics