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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · 10d

@rollovereasy.org Marcia is awesome! You three on the show together reminds me of a great delight—and an enduring mystery—of the aughts in SF: What happened to the Burrito Eater (burritoeater.com)?

Burritoeater.com

San Francisco's top resource for taquerias and mustaches: ratings, restaurant descriptions, burrito reviews, links to maps and health code scores, the Intestinal Apocalypse Monthly newsletter archive,...

burritoeater.com

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 12d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · 24d

Why are these demos always so fucking lame, even if they did work? “Read a recipe”, “shop for groceries”, “what’s on TV”.

Boring, solved problems.

Shacknews @shacknews.com · 24d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Sep 12

there's invention by accidentally knocking the chocolate bar into the vat of peanut butter, and then there's...this

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Sep 12

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery

Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.

www.nbcboston.com

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Sep 4

Eric, Sounds in the Dark is an absolute treasure - and always a “must listen”. Congrats and thanks for all the awesome shows, I’ve discovered so much great stuff thanks to BFF - and you!

mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Aug 3

underrated skeet

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Jul 14

subscribed! happy birthday, Dave!

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Jul 13

The cone really does hit different www.reddit.com/r/HydroHomie...

From the HydroHomies community on Reddit: What do y’all say?

Explore this post and more from the HydroHomies community

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Keith (vibe spreadsheeter) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · Jul 13

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · Jul 10

The two best restaurant posts of all time

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Jul 10

*nodding politely and pretending to listen while I discreetly signal the waiter to hurry up with the check* yeah no totally

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Jul 8

Finally wrote up something that, while a little dry, I found myself sharing ad hoc more than once: a little #react pattern. Welcome any feedback! hoho.com/posts/react-...

The bootloader pattern for app initialization in React

Leverage the awesome power of ContextProviders for early initialization tasks.

hoho.com

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Jul 6

Currently my most important cursor rule.

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Jul 3

Astonishing! I wonder, were the hiring managers just not looking?

At a startup especially at the stage where every hire is huge, I’m sure I’d be watching a new hire’s LinkedIn zealously, waiting for the “coming out” that they’ve chosen our team.

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Jul 3

Another commenter said an overemployed just listed them all concurrently, which.. wow!

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Jul 3

Yeah, for full remote places, what they did was “hey you’ll spend a week in <staff engineer’s big city>” & rented a WeWork.

With LinkedIn: which job do you list as your current employer when overemployed? Had one guy come on board and never updated his, which always triggered suspicion..

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Jul 3

Full week onsite with a buddy/mentor in first 30 days as part of onboarding. Worked with a shop that did this & had plenty of other benefits. Could make it a quarterly thing too.

(Also, have never understood: wtf do these people do about LinkedIn?)

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Jun 15

Holy shit, Nathan Fielder for FAA chief, let’s gooo!

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · May 12

Fascinating snapshot of the state of legal challenges to the wholesale dismantling of the federal government.

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · May 12

Will courts ever declare that Trump is unlawfully dismantling Congressionally created agencies? Or will they just treat his actions as if they were ordinary cuts & trims—albeit on an unusually large scale? Will courts ever see the forest for the trees? Thread ...
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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Apr 19

woa woa woa, I was just trying to build the longest road over here. then someone decided to COMPLETELY SCREW my only plan

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mik3y @mik3y.bsky.social · Apr 19

aka, me in any 4-player board game once it becomes clear I’m not going to win

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · Apr 8

Term 2 Trump foreign policy - from tariffs to NATO to soft power to China and Russia - is an epic mess. One reason seems to be that the administration is operating with two conflicting, equally flawed, views of the world and the US's place in it. 🧵

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Mar 26

Am I the only person who like triple checks whose in a particular group chat... and it's for discussing like... "who wants to go for a hike this weekend" and I want to make sure I don't add the wrong people.

Meanwhile the folks running NatSec for the country are all "yolo, this person looks right"

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Mar 26

in all fairness, my brain has been working on this for like 24 hours and i still can't think of a plausible way in which this went down. I need this forensic examination

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Mar 26

Absolutely love the idea of a forensic examination being necessary to answer the question "how did someone get accidentally added to a group chat."

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nick pants @nickpants.bsky.social · Mar 16

yeah bitch

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