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Also academia.
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Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question:
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends.
Make. Friends.
Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.
December 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Also academia.
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The alt text is the christmas present you didn't know you wanted.
December 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The alt text is the christmas present you didn't know you wanted.
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Because "disruptors" have typically never done ANYTHING. They re-invent the wheel; they lie and cheat, and make shit up, and we need to stop pretending that "disruption" is a net positive, or that "disruptors" are anything but grifters
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Because "disruptors" have typically never done ANYTHING. They re-invent the wheel; they lie and cheat, and make shit up, and we need to stop pretending that "disruption" is a net positive, or that "disruptors" are anything but grifters
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This is what the ENTIRE GOP is trying to hide.
Again, Congress has been briefed on this. Congress knows this, has known this for some time. The entire GOP is covering this up. They know. They do not care about victims. They are accomplices after the fact and they all belong in prison next to Trump
Again, Congress has been briefed on this. Congress knows this, has known this for some time. The entire GOP is covering this up. They know. They do not care about victims. They are accomplices after the fact and they all belong in prison next to Trump
“He raped me.”
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.
December 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is what the ENTIRE GOP is trying to hide.
Again, Congress has been briefed on this. Congress knows this, has known this for some time. The entire GOP is covering this up. They know. They do not care about victims. They are accomplices after the fact and they all belong in prison next to Trump
Again, Congress has been briefed on this. Congress knows this, has known this for some time. The entire GOP is covering this up. They know. They do not care about victims. They are accomplices after the fact and they all belong in prison next to Trump
i was feeling pretty bummed about this whole thing until i remembered that this skybus of strangers isn’t a valid statistical sample. (math!) the world is still filled with people who will raise their hand for others. i hope you’ll try to be one of them.
“alright y’all. we’re going to leave ‘em behind.” one more person dashes onto the plane a minute later. “welcome aboard. just so you know, half these people voted you off the island.” light laughter.
“wow y’all. ok raise your hand if you think we should ditch them.” over half the plane goes up. “dang y’all. it’s christmas time.” woman next to me says out loud “I don’t care. I want to get home.”
damn. so do those 2 people.
didn’t think my faith in humanity would be tested on a one hour flight.
damn. so do those 2 people.
didn’t think my faith in humanity would be tested on a one hour flight.
December 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
i was feeling pretty bummed about this whole thing until i remembered that this skybus of strangers isn’t a valid statistical sample. (math!) the world is still filled with people who will raise their hand for others. i hope you’ll try to be one of them.
“alright y’all. we’re going to leave ‘em behind.” one more person dashes onto the plane a minute later. “welcome aboard. just so you know, half these people voted you off the island.” light laughter.
“wow y’all. ok raise your hand if you think we should ditch them.” over half the plane goes up. “dang y’all. it’s christmas time.” woman next to me says out loud “I don’t care. I want to get home.”
damn. so do those 2 people.
didn’t think my faith in humanity would be tested on a one hour flight.
damn. so do those 2 people.
didn’t think my faith in humanity would be tested on a one hour flight.
the SW flight attendant just said “in the spirit of democracy, we’re going to take a vote. we need to wait 15-20 minutes for 2 more people. raise your hand if you think we should wait for them.” having been left behind by AA in the past, mine shoots up. but way too few other hands go up.
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
“alright y’all. we’re going to leave ‘em behind.” one more person dashes onto the plane a minute later. “welcome aboard. just so you know, half these people voted you off the island.” light laughter.
“wow y’all. ok raise your hand if you think we should ditch them.” over half the plane goes up. “dang y’all. it’s christmas time.” woman next to me says out loud “I don’t care. I want to get home.”
damn. so do those 2 people.
didn’t think my faith in humanity would be tested on a one hour flight.
damn. so do those 2 people.
didn’t think my faith in humanity would be tested on a one hour flight.
the SW flight attendant just said “in the spirit of democracy, we’re going to take a vote. we need to wait 15-20 minutes for 2 more people. raise your hand if you think we should wait for them.” having been left behind by AA in the past, mine shoots up. but way too few other hands go up.
first flight was late. ran from one end of airport to the other to make connecting flight out. a few more ran on after me. flight’s scheduled to get to its destination at 11:20 pm. there are no connecting flights on this airline that late. so its everyone’s last stop.
December 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
“wow y’all. ok raise your hand if you think we should ditch them.” over half the plane goes up. “dang y’all. it’s christmas time.” woman next to me says out loud “I don’t care. I want to get home.”
damn. so do those 2 people.
didn’t think my faith in humanity would be tested on a one hour flight.
damn. so do those 2 people.
didn’t think my faith in humanity would be tested on a one hour flight.
the SW flight attendant just said “in the spirit of democracy, we’re going to take a vote. we need to wait 15-20 minutes for 2 more people. raise your hand if you think we should wait for them.” having been left behind by AA in the past, mine shoots up. but way too few other hands go up.
first flight was late. ran from one end of airport to the other to make connecting flight out. a few more ran on after me. flight’s scheduled to get to its destination at 11:20 pm. there are no connecting flights on this airline that late. so its everyone’s last stop.
December 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
the SW flight attendant just said “in the spirit of democracy, we’re going to take a vote. we need to wait 15-20 minutes for 2 more people. raise your hand if you think we should wait for them.” having been left behind by AA in the past, mine shoots up. but way too few other hands go up.
first flight was late. ran from one end of airport to the other to make connecting flight out. a few more ran on after me. flight’s scheduled to get to its destination at 11:20 pm. there are no connecting flights on this airline that late. so its everyone’s last stop.
December 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
first flight was late. ran from one end of airport to the other to make connecting flight out. a few more ran on after me. flight’s scheduled to get to its destination at 11:20 pm. there are no connecting flights on this airline that late. so its everyone’s last stop.
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
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It was never about foreign control or national security.
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It was never about foreign control or national security.
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This is gaslighting. OpenAI and Anthropic are selling business software by conning people into paying them service contracts to work out how to make their software work. Also apparently you can’t “solve billion dollar problems” with AI now? Good stuff
December 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is gaslighting. OpenAI and Anthropic are selling business software by conning people into paying them service contracts to work out how to make their software work. Also apparently you can’t “solve billion dollar problems” with AI now? Good stuff
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That’s it for CBS. We should no longer watch anything produced by this media platform.
60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
That’s it for CBS. We should no longer watch anything produced by this media platform.
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
This is my dream. Also why I support Debt Collective and orgs that buy debt. It changes people’s lives.
If billionaires find it so uncomfortable to be hated, they could just do things like this every day and still be filthy rich at the end of the year.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is my dream. Also why I support Debt Collective and orgs that buy debt. It changes people’s lives.
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"In many cases, borrowers have paid back much or all of the total cost of their loans but continue to see balances rise because of accrued interest."
Ending the SAVE student loan program and forcing 8 million people into repayment will juice the affordability crisis even further. Borrowers told me they will have to cut their budgets, find new side gigs, and don't get what the public policy point of this is.
New from me in @prospect.org:
New from me in @prospect.org:
GOP Forcing Eight Million Student Loan Borrowers Into Repayment - The American Prospect
The most affordable of all the federal repayment programs is ending sooner than planned after Trump conspired with red-state attorneys general to kill it.
prospect.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"In many cases, borrowers have paid back much or all of the total cost of their loans but continue to see balances rise because of accrued interest."
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Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.
The world’s richest person just hit another major milestone thanks to the soaring valuation of his rocket maker SpaceX.
Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu... (Photo: Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu... (Photo: Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.
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"Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already."
-Donald Trump, 4/2/25
-Donald Trump, 4/2/25
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already."
-Donald Trump, 4/2/25
-Donald Trump, 4/2/25
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"data suggests Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles"
that's just really really bad sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
that's just really really bad sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
Tesla’s 29 Austin Robotaxis have crashed 8 times since June, as data suggests they perform much worse than human drivers
That’s a lot of crashes for such a small fleet....
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December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"data suggests Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles"
that's just really really bad sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
that's just really really bad sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
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WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he will not allow a floor vote this week on a bipartisan amendment supported by moderate Republicans that would extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits.
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No US House vote to extend health care subsidies, Speaker Johnson says • Michigan Advance
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he will not allow a floor vote this week on a bipartisan amendment supported by moderate Republicans that would extend the Affordable Care Act...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he will not allow a floor vote this week on a bipartisan amendment supported by moderate Republicans that would extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits.
michiganadvance.com/2025/12/16/r...
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“Immigrant citizens carry their US passports, lest they be detained. One volunteer I spoke with compared the vibe to 1930s Germany.”
December 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“Immigrant citizens carry their US passports, lest they be detained. One volunteer I spoke with compared the vibe to 1930s Germany.”