Aaron M Brown
@ambrown.bsky.social
I'm trying to get as good at writing as I am at hacking so that I can write about hacking.
Blog: https://katabas.is
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@aaronmbrown
Blog: https://katabas.is
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@aaronmbrown
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Liberalism can only ever wear the masks of the radicals it slaughtered
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
December 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Liberalism can only ever wear the masks of the radicals it slaughtered
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
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in 2026 im gonna log out of my email and put on some chain mail
December 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
in 2026 im gonna log out of my email and put on some chain mail
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
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Honestly the funniest thing to me about that Who’s a Good Boy trophy is that *FIFA* made a trophy of *hands* reaching for a ball
December 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Honestly the funniest thing to me about that Who’s a Good Boy trophy is that *FIFA* made a trophy of *hands* reaching for a ball
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if you had only one day left on earth, what would you do? would you waste it or would you make sure to tell me the location of your safe and its combination?
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
if you had only one day left on earth, what would you do? would you waste it or would you make sure to tell me the location of your safe and its combination?
When The Germs played their first gig, they didn't even know how to play their instruments. They created something deeply human and great. AI is definitionally incapable of giving us something that is great in the way The Germs were great.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Mq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Mq...
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
When The Germs played their first gig, they didn't even know how to play their instruments. They created something deeply human and great. AI is definitionally incapable of giving us something that is great in the way The Germs were great.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Mq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Mq...
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*everybody who has paid off or is still paying off their bachelor's degree in classics* OK THANKS CHRIS I'VE GOT THIS IT'S GENITIVE OF SUUM GENUS, "HIS/HER/ITS OWN KIND," GENITIVE OF ATTRIBUTE, YOU GOT ANY MORE QUESTIONS LIKE THIS YOU CALL ME UP OK I'M RIGHT OVER HERE
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
*everybody who has paid off or is still paying off their bachelor's degree in classics* OK THANKS CHRIS I'VE GOT THIS IT'S GENITIVE OF SUUM GENUS, "HIS/HER/ITS OWN KIND," GENITIVE OF ATTRIBUTE, YOU GOT ANY MORE QUESTIONS LIKE THIS YOU CALL ME UP OK I'M RIGHT OVER HERE
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
Abolishing DHS entirely and putting all of its principal actors on trial is the moderate compromise position.
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Abolishing DHS entirely and putting all of its principal actors on trial is the moderate compromise position.
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
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Doctor: I’m sorry, you have Microsoft Teams Exposure…. the only cure is watching a movie from the 90s on mute at your local dive bar
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Doctor: I’m sorry, you have Microsoft Teams Exposure…. the only cure is watching a movie from the 90s on mute at your local dive bar
I'm honored to announce that my piece "All the Ways I Can't Be Buried" has been published in issue 15 of Marrow: marrowmagazine.com/all-the-ways...
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I'm honored to announce that my piece "All the Ways I Can't Be Buried" has been published in issue 15 of Marrow: marrowmagazine.com/all-the-ways...
St. John's University banned one of the oldest hacker conferences in the world because they are complicit with a fascist regime.
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
St. John's University banned one of the oldest hacker conferences in the world because they are complicit with a fascist regime.
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We gotta start close-reading Dead Kennedys album artwork like it’s the writings of Nostradamus
Real tweets from the White House are indistinguishable from anti-Trump AI slop.
Or, in this case, 1990s Adbusters parodies.
Or, in this case, 1990s Adbusters parodies.
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We gotta start close-reading Dead Kennedys album artwork like it’s the writings of Nostradamus
This would be so fucking rad. You Can't Win is not only a great book, it's also one of the best cases for prison abolition ever written and it's like a century old at this point.
A film adaptation of You Can’t Win by the burglar and hobo Jack Black had allegedly been in post production since 2020. with a screenplay by Barry Gifford?
November 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This would be so fucking rad. You Can't Win is not only a great book, it's also one of the best cases for prison abolition ever written and it's like a century old at this point.
I read Italo Calvino's _Invisible Cities_ on a work trip trapped in a dull hotel, over a cold, slushy evening in New York. I didn't want to be there and the way the book transported elsewhere struck me in a way that I don't know can ever be recreated.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I read Italo Calvino's _Invisible Cities_ on a work trip trapped in a dull hotel, over a cold, slushy evening in New York. I didn't want to be there and the way the book transported elsewhere struck me in a way that I don't know can ever be recreated.
At least four cops spending Saturday night shutting down a local business. Seattle cops make up to $300k/year. Their clearance rate in 2022 for all reported crimes was 12.5%.
SPD out here on Northgate shutting down the taco stand between 8th and Roosevelt due to "multiple licensing and health code violations" that they wouldn't provide anymore info about.
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
At least four cops spending Saturday night shutting down a local business. Seattle cops make up to $300k/year. Their clearance rate in 2022 for all reported crimes was 12.5%.
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The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!
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Don’t forget that the sandwich guy was released at the scene and then re-arrested in a raid by a full tactical team. They were willing to kill him and and any neighbors in the way to get propaganda footage of the “arrest”.
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Don’t forget that the sandwich guy was released at the scene and then re-arrested in a raid by a full tactical team. They were willing to kill him and and any neighbors in the way to get propaganda footage of the “arrest”.
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Sandwich guy is 3-0 against the feds, absolute king shit
BREAKING NEWS from @mollyroberts.bsky.social: SANDWICH GUY FOUND NOT GUILTY
We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Sandwich guy is 3-0 against the feds, absolute king shit
Going to be walking around all day muttering "I had to yabba dabba do it to 'im"
FRED FREAKSTONE IS LIVE!
youtu.be/uekTSWIEHmk?...
youtu.be/uekTSWIEHmk?...
Fred Freakstone
YouTube video by Homie Vulgaris
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Going to be walking around all day muttering "I had to yabba dabba do it to 'im"
Growing up in rural Eastern Washington every poor kid was either from a Taco John's family or a Taco Time family. I was Taco Time until this moment. I will betray the shitty fast food of my father and am now a committed soldier Taco John's army.
Emo about this. Taco John's is a treat when you live in Iowa and can't be going out to restaurants much. I know conservative assholes -- the same people who need to get Jesus out of their mouths -- are gonna be crashing this for their TikToks but whatever. Telling on themselves. Taco John's forever
It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.
November 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Growing up in rural Eastern Washington every poor kid was either from a Taco John's family or a Taco Time family. I was Taco Time until this moment. I will betray the shitty fast food of my father and am now a committed soldier Taco John's army.
This argument drives me insane, because Alan Turing literally told us his position. In plain English. In the same paper in which he proposed the Imitation Game:
"The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion." courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/t...
"The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion." courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/t...
October 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This argument drives me insane, because Alan Turing literally told us his position. In plain English. In the same paper in which he proposed the Imitation Game:
"The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion." courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/t...
"The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion." courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/t...
The two best pop bands I've discovered this year (Alvvays, Wet Leg) both hail from small, lightly populated Atlantic islands. I need some grant money to raise four kids in a remote cabin on Tristan da Cunha with nothing but snythesizers, guitars, and Queen records.
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The two best pop bands I've discovered this year (Alvvays, Wet Leg) both hail from small, lightly populated Atlantic islands. I need some grant money to raise four kids in a remote cabin on Tristan da Cunha with nothing but snythesizers, guitars, and Queen records.