kormantic
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Frivolous vitriol and a lot of frothing at the mouth about things I love! And about people I wish would fall down a lot of stairs.
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Back on twitter during the first Trump admin I speculated that Sarah Kendzior was being Cassandra-ized. Her predictions weren’t just being ignored - they were being suppressed out of fear she was right and by people in power who wanted to shut her up. And here we are. She knew!
From my 2022 book THEY KNEW:
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Back on twitter during the first Trump admin I speculated that Sarah Kendzior was being Cassandra-ized. Her predictions weren’t just being ignored - they were being suppressed out of fear she was right and by people in power who wanted to shut her up. And here we are. She knew!
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As I wrote today: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
December 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
As I wrote today: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
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The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
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Ok Popular Science just made me cry a bit.
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Ok Popular Science just made me cry a bit.
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Fuck all of you saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". Be antihuman on your own time. This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, isn't needed and isn't wanted.
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
www.wired.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Fuck all of you saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". Be antihuman on your own time. This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, isn't needed and isn't wanted.
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My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that.
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
How the Meaning of 'Publicly Accessible' Shapes Researcher Data Rights Under the DSA | TechPolicy.Press
Researchers eager to begin work under DSA Article 40(12) may be deterred by uncertainty about what data counts as 'publicly accessible,' writes Daphne Keller.
www.techpolicy.press
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that.
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean...
verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...
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It's an awkward time to post something positive, but my debut in @mcsweeneys.net has arrived: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rul...
Rules for Our Ethically Non-Monogamous Game of Dreidel
Nun
Player and their primary partner date solo, but tell each other everything.
Gimmel
Player and their primary partner date together, but only one...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's an awkward time to post something positive, but my debut in @mcsweeneys.net has arrived: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rul...
Licenses should not be in perpetuity! Yes!!
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Licenses should not be in perpetuity! Yes!!
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Neighbors - you do not need anyone's permission to sound your whistle when you spot ICE. Nor do you need to attend a whistle training first. Here's everything you need to know.
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Neighbors - you do not need anyone's permission to sound your whistle when you spot ICE. Nor do you need to attend a whistle training first. Here's everything you need to know.
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There's still time to order fantasy subway map for Christmas presents! Surely you know someone who needs:
- a Hobbit subway map
- a LoTR subway map
- a Narnia subway map
They're right there, at my Etsy store, waiting for you!
#LOTR #Narnia #Maps #Subway
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
- a Hobbit subway map
- a LoTR subway map
- a Narnia subway map
They're right there, at my Etsy store, waiting for you!
#LOTR #Narnia #Maps #Subway
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
There's still time to order fantasy subway map for Christmas presents! Surely you know someone who needs:
- a Hobbit subway map
- a LoTR subway map
- a Narnia subway map
They're right there, at my Etsy store, waiting for you!
#LOTR #Narnia #Maps #Subway
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
- a Hobbit subway map
- a LoTR subway map
- a Narnia subway map
They're right there, at my Etsy store, waiting for you!
#LOTR #Narnia #Maps #Subway
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...
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Ran across this recently, "Over-The-Counter Nasal Spray Cuts COVID Cases by Two-Thirds in trial" w/link to JAMA article. Azelastine is a second-generation histamine H1-receptor antagonisthttps://www.sciencealert.com/over-the-counter-nasal-spray-cuts-covid-cases-by-two-thirds-in-trial
Over-The-Counter Nasal Spray Cuts COVID Cases by Two-Thirds in Trial
We may have a new way of protecting against COVID-19 that checks almost all the boxes: It's effective, it's affordable, it's easy to apply, it's already approved as safe for public use, it's available...
www.sciencealert.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Ran across this recently, "Over-The-Counter Nasal Spray Cuts COVID Cases by Two-Thirds in trial" w/link to JAMA article. Azelastine is a second-generation histamine H1-receptor antagonisthttps://www.sciencealert.com/over-the-counter-nasal-spray-cuts-covid-cases-by-two-thirds-in-trial
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“Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.”
— Matthew Butterick
— Matthew Butterick
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.”
— Matthew Butterick
— Matthew Butterick
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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if my yearbook photo were ai slop next to the word “cringe,” id burn down the school
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
if my yearbook photo were ai slop next to the word “cringe,” id burn down the school
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Kanopy is amazing!!! Their selection of The Great Courses is amazing and is the perfect "let me listen to this lecture as I drift off to sleep" show.
Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
December 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Kanopy is amazing!!! Their selection of The Great Courses is amazing and is the perfect "let me listen to this lecture as I drift off to sleep" show.
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BIG LOUD SAME
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
BIG LOUD SAME
December 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Thanks to y'all who are sharing this!!! Please keep sharing!
And honestly if you are unemployed and want to come but can't pay, pls just let me know
And honestly if you are unemployed and want to come but can't pay, pls just let me know
Hey Baltimoreans, I would LOVE to get more folks on this Wednesday evening's @fullstorybaltimore.tours ~Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point~ tour!
If you know anyone who'd be interested, can you please let them know? &/or share this Facebook post link, if you're on FB? www.facebook.com/share/p/17cX...
If you know anyone who'd be interested, can you please let them know? &/or share this Facebook post link, if you're on FB? www.facebook.com/share/p/17cX...
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Thanks to y'all who are sharing this!!! Please keep sharing!
And honestly if you are unemployed and want to come but can't pay, pls just let me know
And honestly if you are unemployed and want to come but can't pay, pls just let me know
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1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
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Age-verification mandates create barriers along lines of race, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, and socioeconomic class. Here’s 10 (not so) hidden ways how. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various
www.eff.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Age-verification mandates create barriers along lines of race, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, and socioeconomic class. Here’s 10 (not so) hidden ways how. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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I know everything feels dark and terrible, but More Joy Day is coming back for the 19th year and I'm looking forward to it. I hope you all will join me on January 8, 2026 and share the joy.
You can read more about it at my tumblr here: sdwolfpup.tumblr.com/post/8021452...
You can read more about it at my tumblr here: sdwolfpup.tumblr.com/post/8021452...
More Joy Day is BACK
What's More Joy Day? In short it’s this:
Every year since 2008, in the interest of spreading more joy, I’ve proposed that on a designated day in early January we each engage in one act, either online....
sdwolfpup.tumblr.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I know everything feels dark and terrible, but More Joy Day is coming back for the 19th year and I'm looking forward to it. I hope you all will join me on January 8, 2026 and share the joy.
You can read more about it at my tumblr here: sdwolfpup.tumblr.com/post/8021452...
You can read more about it at my tumblr here: sdwolfpup.tumblr.com/post/8021452...
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"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...