JK
@miniver.bsky.social
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JK
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· Apr 28
Arizona Public Service killed my mother
www.APSKilledMyMom.com
I put together a proper website
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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I'm in a...heated thread about TTRPGs, but lets give a positive example!
Unknown Armies 3rd edition is one of my favorite RPGs. Here's how the mechanics interweave to create fiction and why you cannot ignore or tweak them, because they *work.*
Our hero is Milo! Hi MIlo!
Unknown Armies 3rd edition is one of my favorite RPGs. Here's how the mechanics interweave to create fiction and why you cannot ignore or tweak them, because they *work.*
Our hero is Milo! Hi MIlo!
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 AM
I'm in a...heated thread about TTRPGs, but lets give a positive example!
Unknown Armies 3rd edition is one of my favorite RPGs. Here's how the mechanics interweave to create fiction and why you cannot ignore or tweak them, because they *work.*
Our hero is Milo! Hi MIlo!
Unknown Armies 3rd edition is one of my favorite RPGs. Here's how the mechanics interweave to create fiction and why you cannot ignore or tweak them, because they *work.*
Our hero is Milo! Hi MIlo!
Cars are bad for us in so many ways
Do YOU have an aging friend/relative who should stop driving? Tell them this story from San Francisco. Ask how they will feel if they kill an entire family.
But don't tell them that even then, they'll be forgiven and be able to drive again.
This verdict is obscene.
www.ktvu.com/news/woman-a...
But don't tell them that even then, they'll be forgiven and be able to drive again.
This verdict is obscene.
www.ktvu.com/news/woman-a...
Woman accused of wiping out entire family in San Francisco crash likely won't get prison time
An 80-year-old woman accused of driving at a high rate of speed and crashing into a family of four, killing them, at a San Francisco bus stop nearly two years ago, appeared in court on Friday. Mary Fo...
www.ktvu.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Cars are bad for us in so many ways
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in some ways we are fortunate. the necessary laws are already on the books bsky.app/profile/segy...
had occasion to observe earlier today that "i think we should prosecute everyone in the government who has committed a crime to the fullest extent of the law" is, in literal fact, very close to just proposing The Terror at this point
February 16, 2026 at 6:25 PM
in some ways we are fortunate. the necessary laws are already on the books bsky.app/profile/segy...
Against Graham “SS Totenkopf” Platner
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Yeah... no.
I was in the military. 1: If you think those croatian tattoo parlors are subtle... wanna buy a bridge?
2: Should it define you for life? No. But he wore it for 15 years. He joked about it. He only got rid of it after it became a liability.
3: He covered it with a RELATED image.
I was in the military. 1: If you think those croatian tattoo parlors are subtle... wanna buy a bridge?
2: Should it define you for life? No. But he wore it for 15 years. He joked about it. He only got rid of it after it became a liability.
3: He covered it with a RELATED image.
February 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Against Graham “SS Totenkopf” Platner
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Time to fire up ‘Tender Mercies’ and ‘The Apostle’
Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced
February 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Time to fire up ‘Tender Mercies’ and ‘The Apostle’
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This is actually a problem for industry. Auto companies plan their production runs years if not decades in advance. They actually rely on gov't standards and regulation to create certainty in the market. Rapid deregulation for manufacturing makes it very difficult to plan. 1/n
After a year of spectacular deregulation, “the United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
This is actually a problem for industry. Auto companies plan their production runs years if not decades in advance. They actually rely on gov't standards and regulation to create certainty in the market. Rapid deregulation for manufacturing makes it very difficult to plan. 1/n
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The belief that everyone in history was a secret atheist" is one of the main keys to understanding a lot of inane stuff peddled about historical religiosity, especially when it's paired with a refusal to understand how polytheism worked (and how it wasn't just some vague tales spun around a fire).
February 16, 2026 at 10:53 AM
The belief that everyone in history was a secret atheist" is one of the main keys to understanding a lot of inane stuff peddled about historical religiosity, especially when it's paired with a refusal to understand how polytheism worked (and how it wasn't just some vague tales spun around a fire).
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Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this.
If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?
If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?
On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 16, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this.
If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?
If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?
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therapist: so how are you
us: [long sigh, bitter laugh]
therapist: haha yeah but like, how are YOU
us: [long sigh, bitter laugh]
therapist: haha yeah but like, how are YOU
Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years
February 16, 2026 at 6:51 AM
therapist: so how are you
us: [long sigh, bitter laugh]
therapist: haha yeah but like, how are YOU
us: [long sigh, bitter laugh]
therapist: haha yeah but like, how are YOU
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me: tell me what you know about LLM psychosis and model sycophancy. do you think the effect is similar to what happens to billionaires when they surround themselves with yes men?
claude: this is a topic I find genuinely fascinating, and your billionaire analogy is sharper than you realize.
me: 😒
claude: this is a topic I find genuinely fascinating, and your billionaire analogy is sharper than you realize.
me: 😒
February 16, 2026 at 4:42 AM
me: tell me what you know about LLM psychosis and model sycophancy. do you think the effect is similar to what happens to billionaires when they surround themselves with yes men?
claude: this is a topic I find genuinely fascinating, and your billionaire analogy is sharper than you realize.
me: 😒
claude: this is a topic I find genuinely fascinating, and your billionaire analogy is sharper than you realize.
me: 😒
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*That's quite a good question, and I would point out that Hugo Gernsback was a radio-parts entrepreneur
"Ralph 124C41+", a pioneer scientifiction story from Gernsback's "Modern Electrics" techno-media magazine of 1911 AD
"Ralph 124C41+", a pioneer scientifiction story from Gernsback's "Modern Electrics" techno-media magazine of 1911 AD
February 16, 2026 at 11:22 AM
*That's quite a good question, and I would point out that Hugo Gernsback was a radio-parts entrepreneur
"Ralph 124C41+", a pioneer scientifiction story from Gernsback's "Modern Electrics" techno-media magazine of 1911 AD
"Ralph 124C41+", a pioneer scientifiction story from Gernsback's "Modern Electrics" techno-media magazine of 1911 AD
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small brain: "the elves frown upon human-elf relationships because they are hidebound reactionaries"
large brain: "any elf that has sex with a human under the age of 100 is a disgusting pervert"
large brain: "any elf that has sex with a human under the age of 100 is a disgusting pervert"
February 16, 2026 at 4:27 AM
small brain: "the elves frown upon human-elf relationships because they are hidebound reactionaries"
large brain: "any elf that has sex with a human under the age of 100 is a disgusting pervert"
large brain: "any elf that has sex with a human under the age of 100 is a disgusting pervert"
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I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.
One of the interesting things this time around is just how hollow the whole thing sounds. In the past, people have been able to use the empty concept of electability to anoint and position the person they demanded, but now that Republicans are getting obliterated everywhere, that doesn't work.
If I were a Democrat concerned about winning elections and was hearing that a significant number of voters wouldn’t support Gavin Newsom in 2028, I would simply stop pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026.
February 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.
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Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.
It's also part of a very direct negation of the latest stupid tweet by Musk: people have given so much, two of them their lives, to defend a multicultural city and the rights of people not exactly like them. And that multiculturalism is American culture.
February 16, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.
That ‘Hot Fuzz’ does all this in the frame of a loving spoof of authoritarian-spirited cop action movies is a miracle
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What I really fucking love about Hot Fuzz is that it is a rare piece of artwork that unapologetically defends liberal modernity.
A representative of the impartial, uniform rule of law & depersonalized state beings justice to a lawless, backward community run by a wretched clique of local grandees.
A representative of the impartial, uniform rule of law & depersonalized state beings justice to a lawless, backward community run by a wretched clique of local grandees.
February 16, 2026 at 11:04 AM
That ‘Hot Fuzz’ does all this in the frame of a loving spoof of authoritarian-spirited cop action movies is a miracle
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I think… I think I may have done something really bad
February 16, 2026 at 6:15 AM
I think… I think I may have done something really bad
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Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.
February 16, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.
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Among the reasons I’m burned out and inimical to tech now is in my last job I watched social media companies fund meaningful outside research into halting the use of their platforms by terrorists and violent extremists at a platform design level and then ignore it all or do the exact opposite.
for all this social media research we have we sure don't actually use it to inform the social media we build
February 16, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Among the reasons I’m burned out and inimical to tech now is in my last job I watched social media companies fund meaningful outside research into halting the use of their platforms by terrorists and violent extremists at a platform design level and then ignore it all or do the exact opposite.
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AND:
90% of the people I have talked personal gaming histories with absolutely have deep, fond memories of "playing the promise" of (D&D / Vampire / etc), and also either drifting the rules VAST distances or getting annoyed at the rules failure to fulfill that promise.
90% of the people I have talked personal gaming histories with absolutely have deep, fond memories of "playing the promise" of (D&D / Vampire / etc), and also either drifting the rules VAST distances or getting annoyed at the rules failure to fulfill that promise.
I am circling around a thing today, and I swear I'm gonna catch it. Lunging again:
Groups play some mix of the text of the game and their own view of the *promise* of the game, and the further you are into playing the promise, the less the details of the text matter.
AND
Groups play some mix of the text of the game and their own view of the *promise* of the game, and the further you are into playing the promise, the less the details of the text matter.
AND
February 15, 2026 at 9:05 PM
AND:
90% of the people I have talked personal gaming histories with absolutely have deep, fond memories of "playing the promise" of (D&D / Vampire / etc), and also either drifting the rules VAST distances or getting annoyed at the rules failure to fulfill that promise.
90% of the people I have talked personal gaming histories with absolutely have deep, fond memories of "playing the promise" of (D&D / Vampire / etc), and also either drifting the rules VAST distances or getting annoyed at the rules failure to fulfill that promise.
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I don't think I should have to care about someone named Clavicular, I just don't think that's something that should concern me as a political writer. It should not have to matter to me
February 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I don't think I should have to care about someone named Clavicular, I just don't think that's something that should concern me as a political writer. It should not have to matter to me
Goddammit, Donut.
A friend recommended the audiobook, and I’m now midway through the first ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’. It turns out to be the good version of ‘Ready Player One’ — massively contrived geekiness, but with a point, interrogating the tropes even more than it revels in them.
A friend recommended the audiobook, and I’m now midway through the first ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’. It turns out to be the good version of ‘Ready Player One’ — massively contrived geekiness, but with a point, interrogating the tropes even more than it revels in them.
February 15, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Goddammit, Donut.
A friend recommended the audiobook, and I’m now midway through the first ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’. It turns out to be the good version of ‘Ready Player One’ — massively contrived geekiness, but with a point, interrogating the tropes even more than it revels in them.
A friend recommended the audiobook, and I’m now midway through the first ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’. It turns out to be the good version of ‘Ready Player One’ — massively contrived geekiness, but with a point, interrogating the tropes even more than it revels in them.
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The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people
Thread about financial instability, administrative burden, and many other costs-of-being-poor that extend to almost everyone
Going from what I thought was middle class (every American thinks they're middle class lol, but middle class isn't a number, it's an ability to afford basic needs like housing, healthcare, food, transport, comfortably without going into debt) to what is ACTUALLY middle class has been wild wake up
February 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Thread about financial instability, administrative burden, and many other costs-of-being-poor that extend to almost everyone
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4e annoys because it doesn't pretend that it's fighting-adventure rules are anything else and expects you to use rules as written. By not lying about itself, it fucks up the normal D&D process of pretending that it's good for other things, which pretence is *self-fulfilling* via quiet rulings.
February 15, 2026 at 5:09 AM
4e annoys because it doesn't pretend that it's fighting-adventure rules are anything else and expects you to use rules as written. By not lying about itself, it fucks up the normal D&D process of pretending that it's good for other things, which pretence is *self-fulfilling* via quiet rulings.
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Star Wars is characterized by a millennia-long stagnant (only innovation is in weapons) galactic political economy fraught with oppression, lawlessness (think of the crime syndicates), and inequality. A major theme is hope in spite of this time-cyclical world.
Still waiting for @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com’s inevitable magnum opus “Star Wars Liberalism” piece at @liberalcurrents.com
July 3, 2023 at 9:26 PM
Star Wars is characterized by a millennia-long stagnant (only innovation is in weapons) galactic political economy fraught with oppression, lawlessness (think of the crime syndicates), and inequality. A major theme is hope in spite of this time-cyclical world.