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as a person who makes stuff for a living some of my favorite stories are about the endless rejections creators of famous works had to endure, and the ways that great art almost didn't happen even after it got a green light
almost anything you feel an attachment to, it has a crazy backstory
almost anything you feel an attachment to, it has a crazy backstory
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
as a person who makes stuff for a living some of my favorite stories are about the endless rejections creators of famous works had to endure, and the ways that great art almost didn't happen even after it got a green light
almost anything you feel an attachment to, it has a crazy backstory
almost anything you feel an attachment to, it has a crazy backstory
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
The Coddling of the American Mind
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Coddling of the American Mind
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Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America.
The human brain is resilient. While you're watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you're accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.
The human brain is resilient. While you're watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you're accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America.
The human brain is resilient. While you're watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you're accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.
The human brain is resilient. While you're watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you're accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
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"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Updating my resume to begin with the sentence" "Big fan of Steve Jobs"
North Korean IT workers are pretty good at whipping up fake ID documents and resumes. AI is only making them better.
These examples from real cases might have obvious tells to us now — but recruiters are pouring through hundreds of applications. The tells aren't so clear after a certain point.
These examples from real cases might have obvious tells to us now — but recruiters are pouring through hundreds of applications. The tells aren't so clear after a certain point.
August 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Updating my resume to begin with the sentence" "Big fan of Steve Jobs"
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On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.
This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.
Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
It's become clear that when Trump was talking about shooting someone on 5th Ave he meant DC, not NYC
August 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's become clear that when Trump was talking about shooting someone on 5th Ave he meant DC, not NYC
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
FEMA Acting Administrator Richardson, re: Texas flooding, "I can't see anything we did wrong." ... "It was a model, particularly at FEMA, the region, and the state level, that continuity was a model of how disasters should be handled."
Presented without comment.
Presented without comment.
July 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
FEMA Acting Administrator Richardson, re: Texas flooding, "I can't see anything we did wrong." ... "It was a model, particularly at FEMA, the region, and the state level, that continuity was a model of how disasters should be handled."
Presented without comment.
Presented without comment.
babe wake up the new episode of Succession just dropped
July 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
babe wake up the new episode of Succession just dropped
won't be long before a new executive order that makes it illegal for Americans to have any social media platforms on their phones other than truth social and meta products
July 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
won't be long before a new executive order that makes it illegal for Americans to have any social media platforms on their phones other than truth social and meta products
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I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.
feel like one problem of Trump is that describing him objectively sounds like you're insulting him
February 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.
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Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
Reality Check
I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open...
www.wheresyoured.at
April 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
@jeffrizz.bsky.social Slight grammatical error on your Lions Wire page I noticed when looking up your draft articles today. Long time reader & love your work, thought you'd want to know
April 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
@jeffrizz.bsky.social Slight grammatical error on your Lions Wire page I noticed when looking up your draft articles today. Long time reader & love your work, thought you'd want to know
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My latest theory: while I don’t think it’s the explicit priority, support for DOGE is almost entirely about sexual strategy.
www.cartoonshateher.com/p/doge-is-ab...
www.cartoonshateher.com/p/doge-is-ab...
March 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My latest theory: while I don’t think it’s the explicit priority, support for DOGE is almost entirely about sexual strategy.
www.cartoonshateher.com/p/doge-is-ab...
www.cartoonshateher.com/p/doge-is-ab...
the only reasonable explanation of How We Got to Now is Elon showed Donald the "documentary" Loose Change and of course they believe everything in it
April 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
the only reasonable explanation of How We Got to Now is Elon showed Donald the "documentary" Loose Change and of course they believe everything in it