Dan
@pandred.bsky.social
He/him. ↙️↙️↙️. Bug lorax @ Microsoft. USSR ➡️ MA ➡️ BC
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Some of the replies to this are just "yeah because they're billionaires" and I think that's missing what makes it all so disturbing. A lot of these people are like, Jews from the generation immediately after the Holocaust. It's *incomprehensible* that they dismiss shit like Musk doing Hitler salutes
i went through like nine separate revisions of this tweet because the actual substance of it -- "conservative jewish billionaires somehow don't care about antisemitism against american jews" -- has the pattern of an antisemitic conspiracy theory but is substantively the inverse of one.
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Some of the replies to this are just "yeah because they're billionaires" and I think that's missing what makes it all so disturbing. A lot of these people are like, Jews from the generation immediately after the Holocaust. It's *incomprehensible* that they dismiss shit like Musk doing Hitler salutes
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one thing that's really interesting about this is that the stated motivation for a lot of this stuff is fighting antisemitism, and then they mention Dana Loesch, a vocal antisemite.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
one thing that's really interesting about this is that the stated motivation for a lot of this stuff is fighting antisemitism, and then they mention Dana Loesch, a vocal antisemite.
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i did not want a degree and i have one because basically all of the good avenues up without one seemed to have become mythological by the time i was in motion :)
one of the things i objected to most at at GOOG over the years, from the labor perspective, is the slow decay of the blue-collar routes up into corp. you used to encounter guys who started out swapping drives in 120 degree heat in the hot aisles and who were now SREs, and that's gone.
Yes. I probably could have put it better in the original post and tried to clarify in the next one
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
i did not want a degree and i have one because basically all of the good avenues up without one seemed to have become mythological by the time i was in motion :)
I feel like this happened at MSFT too. I started in tech support, and I know a bunch of other folks with similar tenures who started in low prestige roles/coming from nontraditional backgrounds. I don't think any of us would be here with how hiring currently works/with how temp-to-FTE works.
like, absolutely no one with my background could ever get hired for my position in GOOG as it is.
i think it's just that tech became a way to make a huge amount of money and only that and once you let those guys rule over you it's all over
i think it's just that tech became a way to make a huge amount of money and only that and once you let those guys rule over you it's all over
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I feel like this happened at MSFT too. I started in tech support, and I know a bunch of other folks with similar tenures who started in low prestige roles/coming from nontraditional backgrounds. I don't think any of us would be here with how hiring currently works/with how temp-to-FTE works.
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Ayanna needs to jump in because Markey's cooked
UNH poll | 11/13-11/17 LV
Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
Ed Markey 34% (incumbent)
Seth Moulton 25%
Alex Rikleen 2%
Write in someone else 3%
Don’t know/undecided 35%
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Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary
Ed Markey 34% (incumbent)
Seth Moulton 25%
Alex Rikleen 2%
Write in someone else 3%
Don’t know/undecided 35%
scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcont...
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Ayanna needs to jump in because Markey's cooked
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That video wasn't even all that remarkable, other politicians and public figures have already said similar things. It probably would have been quickly forgotten. But the obsessive deranged over-reaction shows how they really are spooked about the possibility of refusing unlawful orders.
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
That video wasn't even all that remarkable, other politicians and public figures have already said similar things. It probably would have been quickly forgotten. But the obsessive deranged over-reaction shows how they really are spooked about the possibility of refusing unlawful orders.
I re-watched it immediately after Andor, and it does slot in very well there, but the 2nd act absolutely sucks.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I re-watched it immediately after Andor, and it does slot in very well there, but the 2nd act absolutely sucks.
Kinda like with Bond movies though, it's about hitting the camp notes right
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Kinda like with Bond movies though, it's about hitting the camp notes right
the final season ends when Arya kills the Night King, and that's really the best I can do
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the final season ends when Arya kills the Night King, and that's really the best I can do
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This is all so ludicrously improper and meritless on so many levels, I'd bet the likelier result is nothing more comes of it beyond this purely performative bluster, because Hegseth has no idea what he's doing and they'd struggle to find literally anybody in uniform willing to move forward with it.
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is all so ludicrously improper and meritless on so many levels, I'd bet the likelier result is nothing more comes of it beyond this purely performative bluster, because Hegseth has no idea what he's doing and they'd struggle to find literally anybody in uniform willing to move forward with it.
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
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Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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perhaps not surprisingly, combat vets in Congress are generally on a whole other level in terms of their willingness to fight
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
perhaps not surprisingly, combat vets in Congress are generally on a whole other level in terms of their willingness to fight
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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This is explicitly asking the military to pick a political side which is bad, but not exactly an aberration (as I have argued previously)
Samuel Huntington’s Prussian Paradox
Clausewitz, Military Professionalism, and the Myth of a “Apolitical” Military
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November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is explicitly asking the military to pick a political side which is bad, but not exactly an aberration (as I have argued previously)
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Ngl the funniest outcome would the administration seeing this all the way through and the military acquitting him, really bad for civil-military relations, but funny
BREAKING: The Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for possible military law violations after he joined a video urging U.S. troops to refuse "illegal orders."
Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders'
The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona for possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. troops to refuse unlawful orders.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ngl the funniest outcome would the administration seeing this all the way through and the military acquitting him, really bad for civil-military relations, but funny
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That this puts a servicemember facing unlawful orders in a bit of a bind is a demonstration of how command is a weighty responsibility. This of course assumes the people doing the commanding aren't sad, dysfunctional children
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
That this puts a servicemember facing unlawful orders in a bit of a bind is a demonstration of how command is a weighty responsibility. This of course assumes the people doing the commanding aren't sad, dysfunctional children
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It’s neither the lawful answer nor is it the oath they took.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It’s neither the lawful answer nor is it the oath they took.
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If they want to prosecute Mark Kelly in a military court for proposing military personnel follow all lawful orders that should make for very good fun
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If they want to prosecute Mark Kelly in a military court for proposing military personnel follow all lawful orders that should make for very good fun
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Kelly is I think going for it. I have him in the large pile of Dems I’d be perfectly happy with as President
Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Kelly is I think going for it. I have him in the large pile of Dems I’d be perfectly happy with as President
I am a trash panda when it comes to shows and movies. Is it junky and featuring a vampire (Underworld series, Discovery of Witches)? I've probably watched it a half-dozen times.
Thank you! This is the first role I thought of.
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I am a trash panda when it comes to shows and movies. Is it junky and featuring a vampire (Underworld series, Discovery of Witches)? I've probably watched it a half-dozen times.
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Udo Kier RIP
Udo Kier RIP - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Udo Kier has passed. Udo Kier, a German actor and cult icon who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning, according to his partner, artist Delbert McBride. He was 81. Among the more than 200 films in his expansive body of work, Kier’s breakout collaborations with […]
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November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Udo Kier RIP
Thank you! This is the first role I thought of.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Thank you! This is the first role I thought of.
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Average centum-satem distinction lover:
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Average centum-satem distinction lover: