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I don't write much. Lots of people who are better informed and more articulate out there, so mostly I share their stuff
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Without an ethos of curiosity, without a constant undercurrent of self-doubt to innoculate us, anyone among us will gaze into a mirror and think we see the world.
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Without an ethos of curiosity, without a constant undercurrent of self-doubt to innoculate us, anyone among us will gaze into a mirror and think we see the world.
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Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
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i know how we talk about taking sanity damage but we also need to acknowledge that some things in real life can heal sanity damage
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
i know how we talk about taking sanity damage but we also need to acknowledge that some things in real life can heal sanity damage
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Coda: The right is also realizing that liberals were treating them with some modicum of respect because of a belief in the norms of the country. Norms are a detente, an agreement to use them. It turns out we can take off the gloves too, and you can see them realizing it in real time.
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Coda: The right is also realizing that liberals were treating them with some modicum of respect because of a belief in the norms of the country. Norms are a detente, an agreement to use them. It turns out we can take off the gloves too, and you can see them realizing it in real time.
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
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At risk of starting up an old flame war, I would argue that the week between Christmas and the New Year is spookier than Halloween. Halloween is good scary, like an enjoyable horror movie, while the last week of December is weird and liminal and feels much more like something could ~leak through~
I know October is over but listen, there’s no reason we can’t extend spooky season all the way to Christmas. Who’s going to stop us? Mariah Carey? The guardian of holiday cheer and all things jolly? Possibly… but we won’t know if we don’t try.
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
At risk of starting up an old flame war, I would argue that the week between Christmas and the New Year is spookier than Halloween. Halloween is good scary, like an enjoyable horror movie, while the last week of December is weird and liminal and feels much more like something could ~leak through~
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Imagine walking into work and your boss slams a new screwdriver down on your desk, but it has a weird oval-shaped and an odd handle.
"THIS IS IT KID. THIS. IS. IT. THIS WILL MAKE US 10X BETTER. 100x BETTER! BRUSH UP ON YOUR SKILLS KID BECAUSE WE SPENT A LOTTA MONEY TO GET THIS IN YOUR HANDS."
"THIS IS IT KID. THIS. IS. IT. THIS WILL MAKE US 10X BETTER. 100x BETTER! BRUSH UP ON YOUR SKILLS KID BECAUSE WE SPENT A LOTTA MONEY TO GET THIS IN YOUR HANDS."
lolsob.
I hate this. Huge companies spend billions on a product that doesn't work. You ask "what does it do" and they say "it will revolutionize 10x everything" and you go "but how" and they say "Look just get trained on it" and when you go "it doesn't work" they go "Just git gud."
I hate this. Huge companies spend billions on a product that doesn't work. You ask "what does it do" and they say "it will revolutionize 10x everything" and you go "but how" and they say "Look just get trained on it" and when you go "it doesn't work" they go "Just git gud."
November 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Imagine walking into work and your boss slams a new screwdriver down on your desk, but it has a weird oval-shaped and an odd handle.
"THIS IS IT KID. THIS. IS. IT. THIS WILL MAKE US 10X BETTER. 100x BETTER! BRUSH UP ON YOUR SKILLS KID BECAUSE WE SPENT A LOTTA MONEY TO GET THIS IN YOUR HANDS."
"THIS IS IT KID. THIS. IS. IT. THIS WILL MAKE US 10X BETTER. 100x BETTER! BRUSH UP ON YOUR SKILLS KID BECAUSE WE SPENT A LOTTA MONEY TO GET THIS IN YOUR HANDS."
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But they have no way of comprehending the invisible network of glittering threads of love and support that I help hold together and how powerful that is. The number of people who ARE manifestly contributing to the world who are able to do so because I am here and continue to be here.
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
But they have no way of comprehending the invisible network of glittering threads of love and support that I help hold together and how powerful that is. The number of people who ARE manifestly contributing to the world who are able to do so because I am here and continue to be here.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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We've fucked it up. Look, this was a perfectly good spellcheck, and we've given it anxiety.
October 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
We've fucked it up. Look, this was a perfectly good spellcheck, and we've given it anxiety.
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this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
Girls Running From Houses exceptionally on point today!
The house is a metaphor for the country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Girls Running From Houses exceptionally on point today!
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Literally texted a reporter because she got mad and then following it up with "don't put in the newspaper I got mad"
October 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Literally texted a reporter because she got mad and then following it up with "don't put in the newspaper I got mad"
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them:
MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING.
This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.
MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING.
This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them:
MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING.
This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.
MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING.
This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.
I love everything about this (except its catalyst but hopefully that goes without saying)
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I love everything about this (except its catalyst but hopefully that goes without saying)
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you know when i resumed photojournalism after a 30 year hiatus i did not anticipate that i would end up posting accidental thirst traps of brad lander but you what that's a pretty cool outcome
October 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
you know when i resumed photojournalism after a 30 year hiatus i did not anticipate that i would end up posting accidental thirst traps of brad lander but you what that's a pretty cool outcome
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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
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I have never identified with a TikTok more than this one lmao. This is what dating has been like for me for the last year
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I have never identified with a TikTok more than this one lmao. This is what dating has been like for me for the last year