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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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Wrong.
The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
DHS says recording or following law enforcement 'sure sounds like obstruction of justice'
Seven federal circuit courts have upheld the First Amendment right to record and monitor the police.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Wrong.
The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
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This is the contemporary version of Aesop's Grasshopper and the Ant story.
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
December 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is the contemporary version of Aesop's Grasshopper and the Ant story.
"The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go."
Get in, losers, we're defeating an evil empire.
Get in, losers, we're defeating an evil empire.
December 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go."
Get in, losers, we're defeating an evil empire.
Get in, losers, we're defeating an evil empire.
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please don't resign yourself to horror. please don't believe that a bad future is inevitable. please believe in and fight for a better future for everyone.
December 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
please don't resign yourself to horror. please don't believe that a bad future is inevitable. please believe in and fight for a better future for everyone.
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I have to say it's very funny to me that Serious Bluesky Economists keep going on about how individual economic sentiment is untethered from reality but not how visibly, obviously unmoored the markets are in the other direction
December 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I have to say it's very funny to me that Serious Bluesky Economists keep going on about how individual economic sentiment is untethered from reality but not how visibly, obviously unmoored the markets are in the other direction
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100%. For example, what if voters aren’t asking for a line graph showing retail theft going down, but to not see any context-free, undated mass shoplifting videos in their feeds? Good luck with that if our palantíri algo overlords don’t wish it.
December 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
100%. For example, what if voters aren’t asking for a line graph showing retail theft going down, but to not see any context-free, undated mass shoplifting videos in their feeds? Good luck with that if our palantíri algo overlords don’t wish it.
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Dumb policy but like, the big AI companies all have:
1. Aligned themselves with Trump and Gulf royal families
2. Blew off electricity cost concerns for data centers
3. Advertised their products as mass unemployment machines
Time to lie in the bed they made!
1. Aligned themselves with Trump and Gulf royal families
2. Blew off electricity cost concerns for data centers
3. Advertised their products as mass unemployment machines
Time to lie in the bed they made!
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Dumb policy but like, the big AI companies all have:
1. Aligned themselves with Trump and Gulf royal families
2. Blew off electricity cost concerns for data centers
3. Advertised their products as mass unemployment machines
Time to lie in the bed they made!
1. Aligned themselves with Trump and Gulf royal families
2. Blew off electricity cost concerns for data centers
3. Advertised their products as mass unemployment machines
Time to lie in the bed they made!
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My own 2020 piece on Dad Rockness, in which I offer the exact moment I think U2 dropped into that territory:
whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/09/i...
whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/09/i...
In Which I Both Decry, and Defend, the Concept of Dad Rock
I was thinking about the concept of “Dad Rock” and what it means, and when it is that a previously popular and/or relevant band goes full Dad Rock, and I realized that there was a parti…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My own 2020 piece on Dad Rockness, in which I offer the exact moment I think U2 dropped into that territory:
whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/09/i...
whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/09/i...
There were multiple dimensions of unAmerican in how that guy was treated, even if every accusation the government threw at him was true!
to defend abrego garcia, you didn't have to defend the guy, you didn't have to defend unauthorized migration, you didn't have to defend biden's handling of the southern border. you only had to stand up for the constitution! that's it!
December 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There were multiple dimensions of unAmerican in how that guy was treated, even if every accusation the government threw at him was true!
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Need a basic many episode per year show about a rag-tag group of IRS agents who solve evil tax crimes.
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Need a basic many episode per year show about a rag-tag group of IRS agents who solve evil tax crimes.
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The correct political strategy imo would be to file new articles of impeachment first thing every weekday morning based on the impeachable shit he did the previous day.
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The correct political strategy imo would be to file new articles of impeachment first thing every weekday morning based on the impeachable shit he did the previous day.
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I would encourage anyone who is questioning the security of our elections to volunteer at their local polls! It’s a bunch of regular people like you and me, working hard to ensure that the vote is conducted according to the rules
December 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I would encourage anyone who is questioning the security of our elections to volunteer at their local polls! It’s a bunch of regular people like you and me, working hard to ensure that the vote is conducted according to the rules
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Krugman's newsletter today is very interesting, an interview with an expert in AI & finance. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Things that surprised me: 🧵
Things that surprised me: 🧵
Talking With Paul Kedrosky
So, about this AI thing ...
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Krugman's newsletter today is very interesting, an interview with an expert in AI & finance. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Things that surprised me: 🧵
Things that surprised me: 🧵
So many rock songs are about sex, drugs or rock-'n'-roll, and I'm a sucker for the latter.
“We Built This City” is a good song, actually www.pastemagazine.com/music/starsh... I never understood the hate for that song. There are truly terrible songs. This isn't one of them.
“We Built This City” is a good song, actually
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December 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
So many rock songs are about sex, drugs or rock-'n'-roll, and I'm a sucker for the latter.
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best package warning graphic i've ever seen 🪶
November 8, 2023 at 3:48 PM
best package warning graphic i've ever seen 🪶
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Yet the transphobes became obsessive about this issue upon trans people in general becoming more salient to them, and act as if _this thing that is already happening and manifestly not causing any great harm despite persisting for decades_ is on the verge of collapsing civilisation!
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Yet the transphobes became obsessive about this issue upon trans people in general becoming more salient to them, and act as if _this thing that is already happening and manifestly not causing any great harm despite persisting for decades_ is on the verge of collapsing civilisation!
Yeah, in software the choice on offer is never "build" vs "buy", it's "build" vs "buy AND build" via integration and customization. Sometimes this adds up to less time/effort/maintenance than "build", annoyingly rarely though.
So people reuse gigantic bloated frameworks rather than spend a bit more time making just the thing that's necessary, and also accept a lot of bad defaults not actually designed for their use case.
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yeah, in software the choice on offer is never "build" vs "buy", it's "build" vs "buy AND build" via integration and customization. Sometimes this adds up to less time/effort/maintenance than "build", annoyingly rarely though.
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The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
My common case: calling the pharmacy to refill a C2. Trust me bro, your automated systems do not let me do this. It's The Man's fault, also his fault that I have to do it monthly per person.
Walgreens's bot makes me ask twice and listen to some recorded info (like pharmacy hours) every single time.
Walgreens's bot makes me ask twice and listen to some recorded info (like pharmacy hours) every single time.
Trust me, I'm not calling because I *want* to talk to a human. I'm calling because I have to.
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My common case: calling the pharmacy to refill a C2. Trust me bro, your automated systems do not let me do this. It's The Man's fault, also his fault that I have to do it monthly per person.
Walgreens's bot makes me ask twice and listen to some recorded info (like pharmacy hours) every single time.
Walgreens's bot makes me ask twice and listen to some recorded info (like pharmacy hours) every single time.
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Trust me, I'm not calling because I *want* to talk to a human. I'm calling because I have to.
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trust me, I'm not calling because I *want* to talk to a human. I'm calling because I have to.
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Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
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