Jesse Lawson
@jesselawson.dev
Writing fine computer instructions for Teamlanes, Fediverse Labs, and open-source tools. (Social media is a massive distraction to my writing so I generally avoid it. I usually check things once or twice at the end of each month.)
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All the lies they're telling about Renee Good are in service of an even bigger lie: that individual human lives have no intrinsic worth and are therefore theirs to dispose of. publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...
The Poison Always Drips Through
On Renee Good and George Floyd
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January 9, 2026 at 9:34 PM
All the lies they're telling about Renee Good are in service of an even bigger lie: that individual human lives have no intrinsic worth and are therefore theirs to dispose of. publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...
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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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I know we’re all devastated by the news out of Minnesota, where ICE executed a woman in broad daylight. It was this picture of Renee Nicole Good’s glove compartment—filled with stuffed animals—that put me over the edge.
January 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I know we’re all devastated by the news out of Minnesota, where ICE executed a woman in broad daylight. It was this picture of Renee Nicole Good’s glove compartment—filled with stuffed animals—that put me over the edge.
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After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.
January 8, 2026 at 1:36 AM
After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.
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??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.
January 7, 2026 at 9:06 PM
??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.
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Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”
i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all
January 8, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”
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Or even just the boring, announcement-y kinda stuff that currently goes on Twitter. Citizens should be able to get notifications from their government without having to deal with MECHAHITLER and AI-generated CSAM, ya know?
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Or even just the boring, announcement-y kinda stuff that currently goes on Twitter. Citizens should be able to get notifications from their government without having to deal with MECHAHITLER and AI-generated CSAM, ya know?
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When I said last year that the average American MAGA supporter closely resembles a Russian vatnik in both mindset and ideology, I meant it seriously.
January 5, 2026 at 5:01 AM
When I said last year that the average American MAGA supporter closely resembles a Russian vatnik in both mindset and ideology, I meant it seriously.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
Strange how it is just accepted that these private citizens who operate oil companies are definitely going ahead with profiting off all this for years to come—and not being publicly ridiculed and shamed. It’s almost like our gov is designed to shield rich people from accountability.
January 4, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Strange how it is just accepted that these private citizens who operate oil companies are definitely going ahead with profiting off all this for years to come—and not being publicly ridiculed and shamed. It’s almost like our gov is designed to shield rich people from accountability.
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The trouble, as @charity.wtf likes to remind me, is that those of us who program for work are not being paid to maximise our fun, we are being paid to produce a product as efficiently as possible.
So at some point the people who got into programming for fun, may wind up leaving our field.
So at some point the people who got into programming for fun, may wind up leaving our field.
December 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The trouble, as @charity.wtf likes to remind me, is that those of us who program for work are not being paid to maximise our fun, we are being paid to produce a product as efficiently as possible.
So at some point the people who got into programming for fun, may wind up leaving our field.
So at some point the people who got into programming for fun, may wind up leaving our field.
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one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!
It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!
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"Why forgo all these opportunities to get in front of huge audiences and defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate. Once you concede that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s rights are a good thing, you’ve already lost."
When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f...
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December 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"Why forgo all these opportunities to get in front of huge audiences and defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate. Once you concede that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s rights are a good thing, you’ve already lost."
I smell parsing logic!
December 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I smell parsing logic!
In 1954, what was then called the Food News Dept of The New York Times released a pamphlet called “Soups,” which had 20 recipes for soups “thick and thin, hot and cold."
I'm creating a free zine called "Soups" and am soliciting for recipes. It will be publicly available and printable as an 8up.
I'm creating a free zine called "Soups" and am soliciting for recipes. It will be publicly available and printable as an 8up.
December 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In 1954, what was then called the Food News Dept of The New York Times released a pamphlet called “Soups,” which had 20 recipes for soups “thick and thin, hot and cold."
I'm creating a free zine called "Soups" and am soliciting for recipes. It will be publicly available and printable as an 8up.
I'm creating a free zine called "Soups" and am soliciting for recipes. It will be publicly available and printable as an 8up.
Got one this morning at 6am and then another at 6:05am and then a THIRD at 6:10am...
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Got one this morning at 6am and then another at 6:05am and then a THIRD at 6:10am...
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somehow i don’t hate this?
December 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
somehow i don’t hate this?
A HUGE thank you to all the folks who have been taking a chance on @teamlanes.com — our first iteration, our second iteration, our third iteration... All your input and feedback goes into how and why we're settling on the right kind of place to work and share together online in the open.
The teams that enjoyed real-time sync had far less stickiness with the product than teams who expressed overwhelm with existing real-time systems. It might make sense to call a non real-time collab system "slower" but overall velocity didn't seem impacted. It's not "slower", it's "more intentional."
December 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A HUGE thank you to all the folks who have been taking a chance on @teamlanes.com — our first iteration, our second iteration, our third iteration... All your input and feedback goes into how and why we're settling on the right kind of place to work and share together online in the open.
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The article accepts the idea that New College was a liberal enclave, and what is happening now is a rebalancing. I think this view is fundamentally wrong, embracing the assumptions of those who see their job as to save campuses from liberalism by any means necessary.
December 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The article accepts the idea that New College was a liberal enclave, and what is happening now is a rebalancing. I think this view is fundamentally wrong, embracing the assumptions of those who see their job as to save campuses from liberalism by any means necessary.
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"Memory Safety for Skeptics," where I argue why memory safety is worthwhile to pursue amid competing priorities!
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November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"Memory Safety for Skeptics," where I argue why memory safety is worthwhile to pursue amid competing priorities!
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Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
The more I spend away from social media, the more I feel connected to my creative work. I do miss it, the connectedness of it all, a sense of belonging to something greater than myself, even if much of it not so much something anyone can belong to than it is a story we all tell ourselves.
December 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The more I spend away from social media, the more I feel connected to my creative work. I do miss it, the connectedness of it all, a sense of belonging to something greater than myself, even if much of it not so much something anyone can belong to than it is a story we all tell ourselves.
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
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Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
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December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.