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One thing I talk about in my book is different social norms around argumentation. And the sheer fucking outrage that many feel towards the uncompromising norms in math and the hard sciences around whether something is true or not. They read this as unempathetic and tyrannical.
December 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
One thing I talk about in my book is different social norms around argumentation. And the sheer fucking outrage that many feel towards the uncompromising norms in math and the hard sciences around whether something is true or not. They read this as unempathetic and tyrannical.
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Larry Ellison is no Murdoch - an evil prick but an evil prick who knows how to run a news organization. Ellison's strength is making terrible enterprise databases you are forced to use because your idiot CTO was treated to a lapdance by an Oracle sales rep.
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Larry Ellison is no Murdoch - an evil prick but an evil prick who knows how to run a news organization. Ellison's strength is making terrible enterprise databases you are forced to use because your idiot CTO was treated to a lapdance by an Oracle sales rep.
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I am a tech early adopter with a very permissive view of IP rights, it's very easy for me to imagine finding this all super cool even if I never found it useful, but they've all been such tremendous fucking shitbags about the whole thing that I hate it all now lol
December 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I am a tech early adopter with a very permissive view of IP rights, it's very easy for me to imagine finding this all super cool even if I never found it useful, but they've all been such tremendous fucking shitbags about the whole thing that I hate it all now lol
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December 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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The barges used to reinforce the net/boom defenses in Novorossiysk aren't new and not sunken either.
This is a long time practice. An example from September 4th last year here.
The barges are highly likely moved by tugs and moored inside the base when not in position.
This is a long time practice. An example from September 4th last year here.
The barges are highly likely moved by tugs and moored inside the base when not in position.
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The barges used to reinforce the net/boom defenses in Novorossiysk aren't new and not sunken either.
This is a long time practice. An example from September 4th last year here.
The barges are highly likely moved by tugs and moored inside the base when not in position.
This is a long time practice. An example from September 4th last year here.
The barges are highly likely moved by tugs and moored inside the base when not in position.
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I was going to make a self-deprecating joke but honestly, this is why I hate how obsessed everyone is with the aesthetics of AI. Anything that looks 'off' to a reader or viewer gets flagged as AI. It's shaming people for not matching what someone else thinks is human.
December 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I was going to make a self-deprecating joke but honestly, this is why I hate how obsessed everyone is with the aesthetics of AI. Anything that looks 'off' to a reader or viewer gets flagged as AI. It's shaming people for not matching what someone else thinks is human.
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Enshittification is another factor. The excitement is gone from big tech. It’s now this thing we are forced to slog thru every day.
December 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Enshittification is another factor. The excitement is gone from big tech. It’s now this thing we are forced to slog thru every day.
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After much consideration, I have decided to apologize for my past statements, and I have embraced the need for the DoD to adopt the Silicon Valley Mindset.
I'm introducing what I would like to call App-Centric Warfare.
othermeans.io/p/app-centri...
I'm introducing what I would like to call App-Centric Warfare.
othermeans.io/p/app-centri...
App-Centric Warfare
How To Dominate the 21st Century Battlefield
othermeans.io
December 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
After much consideration, I have decided to apologize for my past statements, and I have embraced the need for the DoD to adopt the Silicon Valley Mindset.
I'm introducing what I would like to call App-Centric Warfare.
othermeans.io/p/app-centri...
I'm introducing what I would like to call App-Centric Warfare.
othermeans.io/p/app-centri...
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Is this bookstore implicitly advertising @scalzi.com DNA for sale?
But not @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s, gotta buy that elsewhere
But not @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s, gotta buy that elsewhere
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Is this bookstore implicitly advertising @scalzi.com DNA for sale?
But not @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s, gotta buy that elsewhere
But not @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s, gotta buy that elsewhere
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So, we’re banning Chinese drones, and selling AI chips to the Chinese? In order that they can develop smarter drones that we can’t use? OK…
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
So, we’re banning Chinese drones, and selling AI chips to the Chinese? In order that they can develop smarter drones that we can’t use? OK…
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Never occurred to me that people use AI to help them generate prompts to ask AI, but it should have. Some people will do 4x the amount of work as long as it feels like they’re taking a shortcut.
December 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Never occurred to me that people use AI to help them generate prompts to ask AI, but it should have. Some people will do 4x the amount of work as long as it feels like they’re taking a shortcut.
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Hi, I'm a bad actor looking to compromise people's phones for my own financial gain while minimizing legal risks by modifying USB-C ports in public places. I have chosen to sabotage an aircraft
December 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Hi, I'm a bad actor looking to compromise people's phones for my own financial gain while minimizing legal risks by modifying USB-C ports in public places. I have chosen to sabotage an aircraft
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
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I have a master's degree in academic philosophy and left convinced that that list of joke proofs that p accurately describes the quality of argument that prevails in academic philosophy: consc.net/misc/proofs....
consc.net
December 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I have a master's degree in academic philosophy and left convinced that that list of joke proofs that p accurately describes the quality of argument that prevails in academic philosophy: consc.net/misc/proofs....
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People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers.
Anyway, about China ...
Anyway, about China ...
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers.
Anyway, about China ...
Anyway, about China ...
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It's so darkly funny that AI genuinely has a massive user base but companies are investing in it like it's an infinite money glitch and destroying AI and themselves in the process.
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It's so darkly funny that AI genuinely has a massive user base but companies are investing in it like it's an infinite money glitch and destroying AI and themselves in the process.
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A DIY Circuit That Lets You Hear Protons Sing
DIY Circuit Lets You Hear Protons Sing
Ever wondered what protons sound like? Learn how to create a circuit that lets you hear them in action.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A DIY Circuit That Lets You Hear Protons Sing
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one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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Broke: Banning tiktok because it's from "Communist China"
Woke: Banning tiktok because you people refuse to wear headphones on the bus
Woke: Banning tiktok because you people refuse to wear headphones on the bus
January 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Broke: Banning tiktok because it's from "Communist China"
Woke: Banning tiktok because you people refuse to wear headphones on the bus
Woke: Banning tiktok because you people refuse to wear headphones on the bus
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Thinking back to how people were like “wow marvel villains are so underdeveloped, they just look at the screen, kick a puppy, and say yeah im a bad person” now that so many public figures have done more or less the same thing
Wait he wrote that?? About himself?
These are words that a marvel writer would put in the mouth of an antagonist so that you know they’re really bad despite making some good points
These are words that a marvel writer would put in the mouth of an antagonist so that you know they’re really bad despite making some good points
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Thinking back to how people were like “wow marvel villains are so underdeveloped, they just look at the screen, kick a puppy, and say yeah im a bad person” now that so many public figures have done more or less the same thing
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as someone says in the replies, there’s a difference between narratives you find PLEASANT and narratives you find VALIDATING. many people are quite attached to dark, terrifying, pessimistic views of the world and find it validating when those views are reinforced. it’s about catharsis not happiness
Actually, no: i've been reading narratives that scare the shit out of me.
And I would be happy to be wrong about everything.
Seriously, what the fuck have you been reading?
And I would be happy to be wrong about everything.
Seriously, what the fuck have you been reading?
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
as someone says in the replies, there’s a difference between narratives you find PLEASANT and narratives you find VALIDATING. many people are quite attached to dark, terrifying, pessimistic views of the world and find it validating when those views are reinforced. it’s about catharsis not happiness
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This is a dust devil... on Mars.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This is a dust devil... on Mars.