Erik
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Where there is life, there is happiness.
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With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
@whstancil.bsky.social is there any record of where in the Twin Cities ICE raids have most frequently occurred?
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 AM
@whstancil.bsky.social is there any record of where in the Twin Cities ICE raids have most frequently occurred?
This is what I'm referring to when I say that the economy is doing poorly.
Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
January 19, 2026 at 6:19 PM
This is what I'm referring to when I say that the economy is doing poorly.
It's difficult to imagine democracy persisting without dispossessing billionaires of our mass media.
We had endless articles and TV clips about Biden's mental capacity but silence about Trump's obvious unfitness when he says he's going to start a war with Denmark over Greenland because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.
Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 6:17 PM
It's difficult to imagine democracy persisting without dispossessing billionaires of our mass media.
A nomenclature for Gas Town that didn't come from a fever dream: www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/gas-tow...
Gas Town Decoded — Andrew Lilley Brinker
Explaining Gas Town's insular language to help demystify Steve Yegge's experimental AI agent orchestration system.
www.alilleybrinker.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
A nomenclature for Gas Town that didn't come from a fever dream: www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/gas-tow...
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I don't want the regime brownshirts to have better training; I want them in prison.
THREAD. Having just written a book about this and talked to a LOT of Democrats, I can assure you that neither Cory Booker nor the policing industry he’s advertising think that more money for ICE “training” and tech would address any problem that any person of good will has with what ICE is doing.
January 19, 2026 at 12:36 AM
I don't want the regime brownshirts to have better training; I want them in prison.
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Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Pascal's Rugging: only deathbed converts go to Hell.
in light of the news that Scott Adams apparently pulled a Pascal’s Wager on his deathbed, it’s worth noting that the approach does come with some risks even if the gods turn out to exist after all
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Pascal's Rugging: only deathbed converts go to Hell.
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in light of the news that Scott Adams apparently pulled a Pascal’s Wager on his deathbed, it’s worth noting that the approach does come with some risks even if the gods turn out to exist after all
January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
in light of the news that Scott Adams apparently pulled a Pascal’s Wager on his deathbed, it’s worth noting that the approach does come with some risks even if the gods turn out to exist after all
A joke that I set up but can't take credit for:
What is it that you call service that brings forth its own demand again?
A flywheel!
What is it that you call service that brings forth its own demand again?
A flywheel!
January 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
A joke that I set up but can't take credit for:
What is it that you call service that brings forth its own demand again?
A flywheel!
What is it that you call service that brings forth its own demand again?
A flywheel!
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Let’s talk about abolishing ICE.
Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Let’s talk about abolishing ICE.
Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
/1
Microsoft's initial deployment of Recall is a profound betrayal of its responsibilities as an OS vendor, and its mitigations are far from sufficient. Both users and apps must always be able to opt out from such features.
January 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Microsoft's initial deployment of Recall is a profound betrayal of its responsibilities as an OS vendor, and its mitigations are far from sufficient. Both users and apps must always be able to opt out from such features.
Baby outgrew the swaddle sack and won't sleep except on my physical person. You know what this means: we're listening to post-punk and having conversations with Claude Code that I'll be too dumb to have in the morning.
VIAGRA BOYS - Shrimp Shack - NOX ORAE 2019
YouTube video by nexuspolaris76
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January 14, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Baby outgrew the swaddle sack and won't sleep except on my physical person. You know what this means: we're listening to post-punk and having conversations with Claude Code that I'll be too dumb to have in the morning.
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Going through my old notes, this quick list of bullets I jotted down 5 years ago, to explain tech culture to someone outside the industry, really holds up.
January 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Going through my old notes, this quick list of bullets I jotted down 5 years ago, to explain tech culture to someone outside the industry, really holds up.
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The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Mixed media works by Iranian American artist Asad Faulwell, 2010s-20s, whose practice explores the histories and legacies of colonialism and resistance movements, including women fighters in Algeria.
January 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Mixed media works by Iranian American artist Asad Faulwell, 2010s-20s, whose practice explores the histories and legacies of colonialism and resistance movements, including women fighters in Algeria.
Linus has fallen
It's over folks. We're all vibe coder now.
Linus Torvalds is vibe coding => github.com/torvalds/Aud...
Linus Torvalds is vibe coding => github.com/torvalds/Aud...
January 11, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Linus has fallen
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I was listening to @thebulwark.com's Next Level podcast today and they were thinking through the chance that Trump actually tries to seize Greenland and there was a @jvl.bsky.social sort of 'I kinda hope he does it to drop the mask entirely' and I just cannot scream loudly enough: No, You Do Not. 1/
January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM
I was listening to @thebulwark.com's Next Level podcast today and they were thinking through the chance that Trump actually tries to seize Greenland and there was a @jvl.bsky.social sort of 'I kinda hope he does it to drop the mask entirely' and I just cannot scream loudly enough: No, You Do Not. 1/
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A (new!) graduated tutorial on message passing with Endo docs.endojs.org/documents/me...
message-passing | Endo
Documentation for Endo
docs.endojs.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:28 AM
A (new!) graduated tutorial on message passing with Endo docs.endojs.org/documents/me...
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Mixed media ink works by Taiwanese artist Tseng Chien-ying, 2020s, whose practice blends traditional techniques with contemporary sensibilities.
January 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Mixed media ink works by Taiwanese artist Tseng Chien-ying, 2020s, whose practice blends traditional techniques with contemporary sensibilities.
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lovely little logic loop here. the left have accurately described reality, but i still think they're wrong, so what if it was somehow in fact the left's describing of reality that perverted history to make them right. quantum politics. no fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!
I was wondering how this might all turn out to have been my fault
January 4, 2026 at 3:44 AM
lovely little logic loop here. the left have accurately described reality, but i still think they're wrong, so what if it was somehow in fact the left's describing of reality that perverted history to make them right. quantum politics. no fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!
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Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.
Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
January 3, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.