rev. howard arson
@theophite.bsky.social
god created him and demanded that he die
i first encountered candice owens on a feministe comment thread where she was arguing for her new website, where you could post information on anyone who was cancelled so other people would know
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
i first encountered candice owens on a feministe comment thread where she was arguing for her new website, where you could post information on anyone who was cancelled so other people would know
right. like, what bari weiss was saying, in front of a jewish audience, was, "i think that the media should reflect mainstream ideas, such as the idea that the jewish billionaire who placed me in charge of the news is part of a conspiracy whereby jewish billionaires control the news."
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 7:20 AM
right. like, what bari weiss was saying, in front of a jewish audience, was, "i think that the media should reflect mainstream ideas, such as the idea that the jewish billionaire who placed me in charge of the news is part of a conspiracy whereby jewish billionaires control the news."
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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.
if i were in the US military and facing a primordial supernatural being of great evil, my first thought when offered ancient Indian wisdom would not be "nah, we're fine"
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
if i were in the US military and facing a primordial supernatural being of great evil, my first thought when offered ancient Indian wisdom would not be "nah, we're fine"
really excited for 60 Minutes to just be a show about what Alan Dershowitz thinks the age of consent should be
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
really excited for 60 Minutes to just be a show about what Alan Dershowitz thinks the age of consent should be
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“IT” outside of programming has smelled like an intentional ghetto for so long
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 2:34 AM
“IT” outside of programming has smelled like an intentional ghetto for so long
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
i don't want to discuss the ways in which this is wrong, BUT there are a subset of tech jobs -- like, if you are the only sysadmin at a small baked bean company -- which have the same cultural valence as "HVAC contractor," as in "highly-paid WWC job," and have the same politics.
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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.
i think you might be able to do this but it's, uh, not the infra team's job. the infra team's job is linear. sparse experts / cut cache misses tenfold (and that's more than just kv cache) / mixture-of-depths probably gets you two OOMs.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
i think you might be able to do this but it's, uh, not the infra team's job. the infra team's job is linear. sparse experts / cut cache misses tenfold (and that's more than just kv cache) / mixture-of-depths probably gets you two OOMs.
i don't want to discuss the ways in which this is wrong, BUT there are a subset of tech jobs -- like, if you are the only sysadmin at a small baked bean company -- which have the same cultural valence as "HVAC contractor," as in "highly-paid WWC job," and have the same politics.
A thing that I feel has not been discussed enough is that the highly paid IT and infosec guys at any company you care to name all seem to be absolutely insane right-wing freaks with the impulse control of a drunk toddler
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
i don't want to discuss the ways in which this is wrong, BUT there are a subset of tech jobs -- like, if you are the only sysadmin at a small baked bean company -- which have the same cultural valence as "HVAC contractor," as in "highly-paid WWC job," and have the same politics.
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release the epstein files files
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
release the epstein files files
was interested in the difference parameter count makes in extended writing, and to my eye the Opus version (below) is much, much better than the Sonnet version, which surprised me because the Sonnet 4.5 is much better than the Opus 4.1.
claude.ai/public/artif...
claude.ai/public/artif...
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
was interested in the difference parameter count makes in extended writing, and to my eye the Opus version (below) is much, much better than the Sonnet version, which surprised me because the Sonnet 4.5 is much better than the Opus 4.1.
claude.ai/public/artif...
claude.ai/public/artif...
"i thought i should own the means of production so i did" is not exactly a repudiation of capitalism but it certainly is a repudiation of the place most people have in it
Archetypal example is “capitalism ground me down so I quit my job and set up a small business so that I’m my own boss”. You didn’t dislike capitalism! You disliked authority!
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"i thought i should own the means of production so i did" is not exactly a repudiation of capitalism but it certainly is a repudiation of the place most people have in it
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lmao. this rocks, actually
the virgin why don't we systematically explore the space tangent to the hypersurface
vs the chad Why Don't We Just Tell The Model What Spaces Are Orthogonal By Just Saying It
vs the chad Why Don't We Just Tell The Model What Spaces Are Orthogonal By Just Saying It
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
lmao. this rocks, actually
sulzberger leaving money on the table. smdh
no the new york times does not make money off of my once-a-year post about rogue one
The whole business model is just rage bait at this point. Just don’t engage with these people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
sulzberger leaving money on the table. smdh
the best possible remake of Rogue One would be a third season of Andor which is just Rogue One
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
the best possible remake of Rogue One would be a third season of Andor which is just Rogue One
interesting. my understanding of what has happened is:
(a) that this is a dismissal without prejudice which unwinds both the case at bar and the indictment resulting in it, but;
(b) the statute of limitations has run, meaning that this dismissal is effectively prejudicial anyway.
(a) that this is a dismissal without prejudice which unwinds both the case at bar and the indictment resulting in it, but;
(b) the statute of limitations has run, meaning that this dismissal is effectively prejudicial anyway.
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
interesting. my understanding of what has happened is:
(a) that this is a dismissal without prejudice which unwinds both the case at bar and the indictment resulting in it, but;
(b) the statute of limitations has run, meaning that this dismissal is effectively prejudicial anyway.
(a) that this is a dismissal without prejudice which unwinds both the case at bar and the indictment resulting in it, but;
(b) the statute of limitations has run, meaning that this dismissal is effectively prejudicial anyway.
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no wonder g_d was pissed when they ate that fruit
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
no wonder g_d was pissed when they ate that fruit
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in theory, this is what the "human terrain" project was. In practice, it sent people *without experience or knowledge of Afghan kinship structures* into Afghanistan.
My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
in theory, this is what the "human terrain" project was. In practice, it sent people *without experience or knowledge of Afghan kinship structures* into Afghanistan.
i draw the line at there being potentially three generations of pacman lore
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
i draw the line at there being potentially three generations of pacman lore
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i have always kind of felt sorry for noah smith because he is extremely gullible and bad and at analysis despite being mostly good-natured, but now that he is insane and amoral it's kind of a relief not to feel like you're hurting a helpless animal when you say he's being a moron
October 17, 2023 at 11:40 PM
i have always kind of felt sorry for noah smith because he is extremely gullible and bad and at analysis despite being mostly good-natured, but now that he is insane and amoral it's kind of a relief not to feel like you're hurting a helpless animal when you say he's being a moron
anyway noah smith knows what he's doing
noah smith used to regularly DM me about the fact that his silicon valley venture capitalist buddies were going off the right-wing deep end because they were afraid they would get MeTooed for the fact that promotions for young employees at the startups they were funding were gated by sex
he once DM’d me and a couple of other people to tell us that we were wrong for calling him dumb about lab leak conspiracies and that some people he knew were working on a story that would make it crystal clear and it that was getting ready to drop soon, this was like, 2021, maybe earlier
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
anyway noah smith knows what he's doing
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you need a memento mori guy to follow you around telling you 'noah smith wasn't always this dumb'
February 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
you need a memento mori guy to follow you around telling you 'noah smith wasn't always this dumb'
loudly insisting that wife guys get a float in the gay pride parade
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
loudly insisting that wife guys get a float in the gay pride parade