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If you want to run a charity, run a charity. Build the relationships you need in the community, work with existing service providers.
You know what would fairly get you accused of not sincerely caring about helping the community? Building a charity that operates for six months before an election.
You know what would fairly get you accused of not sincerely caring about helping the community? Building a charity that operates for six months before an election.
I think Will would probably say instead of running both, just run the mutual aid org on a permanent basis.
December 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
If you want to run a charity, run a charity. Build the relationships you need in the community, work with existing service providers.
You know what would fairly get you accused of not sincerely caring about helping the community? Building a charity that operates for six months before an election.
You know what would fairly get you accused of not sincerely caring about helping the community? Building a charity that operates for six months before an election.
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"Archaeological evidence suggests the ancient world was populated by skeletons" ass set design.
December 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Archaeological evidence suggests the ancient world was populated by skeletons" ass set design.
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I have a lot of very conflicted feelings about my military service in Afghanistan, but I'll tell you one thing I got out of it - it was impossible to walk through any of those villages and then return to America and think that most Americans are "extremely poor".
December 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I have a lot of very conflicted feelings about my military service in Afghanistan, but I'll tell you one thing I got out of it - it was impossible to walk through any of those villages and then return to America and think that most Americans are "extremely poor".
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Basically every middle to high-income country has its own Trump. And you can't say they were just imitating us, because many of theirs had careers going back to before 2016
guy looking at America in a world where right-wing populists are sweeping elections everywhere: actually this is entirely because Americans are dumb and uneducated
December 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Basically every middle to high-income country has its own Trump. And you can't say they were just imitating us, because many of theirs had careers going back to before 2016
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"Your force design fails to take into account childlike wonder" is so fucking stupid I'm astounded this is the first time it's come up.
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"Your force design fails to take into account childlike wonder" is so fucking stupid I'm astounded this is the first time it's come up.
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Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!
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Infamously, this leads to “sanewashing,” the trend of saying that “the children must be sacrificed to Yug-Shuggoth doesn’t actually mean the children should be sacrificed to Yug-Shuggoth. It’s a metaphor for the need for walkable communities”
December 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Infamously, this leads to “sanewashing,” the trend of saying that “the children must be sacrificed to Yug-Shuggoth doesn’t actually mean the children should be sacrificed to Yug-Shuggoth. It’s a metaphor for the need for walkable communities”
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it's a didactic YA book dressed up in grown-up clothing
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
it's a didactic YA book dressed up in grown-up clothing
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the idea that African slavery was a humane, hand-crafted version is extremely historically dodgy, not least because the casual murder and consumption of slaves is well-documented among some groups (see www.amazon.com/-/he/Edible-...).
December 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
the idea that African slavery was a humane, hand-crafted version is extremely historically dodgy, not least because the casual murder and consumption of slaves is well-documented among some groups (see www.amazon.com/-/he/Edible-...).
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I was assured aircraft carriers were obsolete?
“🇨🇳 China plans to field a force of nine aircraft carriers by 2035, according to a Defense Department report on Beijing’s military power released on Tuesday.
The U.S. report says that the PLAN will embark on the largest carrier build-up effort in the Indo-Pacific since World War II.”
The U.S. report says that the PLAN will embark on the largest carrier build-up effort in the Indo-Pacific since World War II.”
China Wants Nine Aircraft Carriers by 2035, Says New Pentagon Report - USNI News
China plans to field a force of nine aircraft carriers by 2035, according to a Defense Department report on Beijing’s military power released on Tuesday. The U.S. report says that the People’s Liberat...
news.usni.org
December 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I was assured aircraft carriers were obsolete?
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guy looking at America in a world where right-wing populists are sweeping elections everywhere: actually this is entirely because Americans are dumb and uneducated
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
guy looking at America in a world where right-wing populists are sweeping elections everywhere: actually this is entirely because Americans are dumb and uneducated
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one thing incredibly goofy to me is that people will often respond to my pro-tech takes with "this is why liberal arts education is important!!"
I was a philosophy major, creative writing minor, lmao
I was a philosophy major, creative writing minor, lmao
here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
one thing incredibly goofy to me is that people will often respond to my pro-tech takes with "this is why liberal arts education is important!!"
I was a philosophy major, creative writing minor, lmao
I was a philosophy major, creative writing minor, lmao
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Seriously, Musk’s decision to gut moderation was understood to be a disaster, and now a lot of the people who migrated here to escape it are.. arguing we don’t need moderation, because they rule the roost.
December 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Seriously, Musk’s decision to gut moderation was understood to be a disaster, and now a lot of the people who migrated here to escape it are.. arguing we don’t need moderation, because they rule the roost.
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I’m sorry, are you genuinely stupid enough to believe “the guy who shot at a crowd of Jews said he didn’t do it because of hatred for Jews”. Like are you really that fucking dumb?
So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I’m sorry, are you genuinely stupid enough to believe “the guy who shot at a crowd of Jews said he didn’t do it because of hatred for Jews”. Like are you really that fucking dumb?
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Ok, but here is the thing, right, if I got angry about Saudi Arabian aggression against Yemen and decided to blow up a mosque in Brooklyn, that motivation would not actually be exculpatory, you know?
So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Ok, but here is the thing, right, if I got angry about Saudi Arabian aggression against Yemen and decided to blow up a mosque in Brooklyn, that motivation would not actually be exculpatory, you know?
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there is literally no engineering or science profession other than mechanical engineers which is even close to parity. tech workers literally donate to Democrats over Republicans by a factor of 17:1. and that 1 is almost entirely executives.
December 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
there is literally no engineering or science profession other than mechanical engineers which is even close to parity. tech workers literally donate to Democrats over Republicans by a factor of 17:1. and that 1 is almost entirely executives.
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It’s literally killing Bluesky. It’s why growth has flatlined and people have gone back to Twitter. You cannot have an enjoyable experience here unless you constantly purge trolls - this specific group of trolls, work this specific set of ringleaders - and you’re not even allowed to note the issue
December 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It’s literally killing Bluesky. It’s why growth has flatlined and people have gone back to Twitter. You cannot have an enjoyable experience here unless you constantly purge trolls - this specific group of trolls, work this specific set of ringleaders - and you’re not even allowed to note the issue
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here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
December 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware
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Once again, that’s literally true. More people + not being provided houses = more people without houses.
December 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Once again, that’s literally true. More people + not being provided houses = more people without houses.
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funny how much "lived experience" has become "I want to ignore your facts in favor of my vibes"
December 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
funny how much "lived experience" has become "I want to ignore your facts in favor of my vibes"
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yeah basically you can't really use the site for anything remotely to do with ai unless you're an extremophile. there's a reason why most of the people who talk about ai the most are Combat Posters, anyone who does not thrive on conflict simply stops bothering to post at some point
Deleted a post that was going viral and bringing an undesirable amount of attention from anonymous accounts. But, I'm going to be honest, the toxic folks here have won. So much of the usage of the site is about avoiding their attention. I'll just use this site to get book recs going forward
December 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
yeah basically you can't really use the site for anything remotely to do with ai unless you're an extremophile. there's a reason why most of the people who talk about ai the most are Combat Posters, anyone who does not thrive on conflict simply stops bothering to post at some point
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I think this is an example of tedious politics, btw. the union knows there is no public benefit to the requirement---it doesn't save money or lives---so their only way of 'defending' it is to call people gentrifiers or neoliberals, which are tedious tropes bsky.app/profile/iris...
My last long-form essay of the year (there will be a few more book chapters and probably a retrospective article, but this is the last of the heavy analysis). It's about why bad politics is tedious politics, tedious politics is bad politics and how we can insulate ourselves against both:
The politics of tedium | deadSimpleTech
All of these species of people, despite their wildly diverging politics, have one thing in common: they trigger the "my God, you're saying this again? You're full of shit" response. It's not that they...
deadsimpletech.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I think this is an example of tedious politics, btw. the union knows there is no public benefit to the requirement---it doesn't save money or lives---so their only way of 'defending' it is to call people gentrifiers or neoliberals, which are tedious tropes bsky.app/profile/iris...
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How can so many people read this as "i hate immigrants" and not "we dont have enough housing, the large amount of immigrants coming into the US were most vulnerable to this fact"
Homelessness increased primarily because of immigration (lots of people came to the US without setting up housing).
December 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
How can so many people read this as "i hate immigrants" and not "we dont have enough housing, the large amount of immigrants coming into the US were most vulnerable to this fact"
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The faction of the the left that lives for harassment is just slamming Matt for this, but he’s correct and this has been considered for years a major cause of the recent homelessness spike. Watching people maliciously misread his very short tweet and call him a “Nazi” is something else.
Homelessness increased primarily because of immigration (lots of people came to the US without setting up housing).
December 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The faction of the the left that lives for harassment is just slamming Matt for this, but he’s correct and this has been considered for years a major cause of the recent homelessness spike. Watching people maliciously misread his very short tweet and call him a “Nazi” is something else.
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If people are bused to a city where they do not have a support system they are homeless. That is why the homelessness count increased.
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
If people are bused to a city where they do not have a support system they are homeless. That is why the homelessness count increased.