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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
Can You Optimize Love?
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:53 PM
If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
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Fandom is not in fact "the new religion"!! This is an excruciatingly basic take!! Fandom moralism has roots in US Protestant moralism and black-and-white thinking because of the outsize influence that US fans and media have, not because it is anything like actual religious practice!!
January 6, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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there's a certain way certain people write fiction about disability that really sets my teeth on edge, and it's an approach that I can only describe as 'educational hugboxing'
in this, portrayal of disability must be constantly affirming, and it must use specific and correct terminology
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in this, portrayal of disability must be constantly affirming, and it must use specific and correct terminology
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December 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
there's a certain way certain people write fiction about disability that really sets my teeth on edge, and it's an approach that I can only describe as 'educational hugboxing'
in this, portrayal of disability must be constantly affirming, and it must use specific and correct terminology
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in this, portrayal of disability must be constantly affirming, and it must use specific and correct terminology
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Train nerd here: the people in the US yearn for rail but out of all things the biggest impediment right now is that there is no one who can build good trains to spec
December 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Train nerd here: the people in the US yearn for rail but out of all things the biggest impediment right now is that there is no one who can build good trains to spec
The pet food store gave us a hat for her birthday. Happy 13th!
December 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The pet food store gave us a hat for her birthday. Happy 13th!
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This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.
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If anyone else kept seeing memes but was still wondering what Joyce Carol Oates actually said about Elon lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
lithub.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
If anyone else kept seeing memes but was still wondering what Joyce Carol Oates actually said about Elon lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
This long article "Debunking the Abundance Agenda" not only does what it's trying to do but also gives an explanation why companies often simply do not provide goods and services despite there being demand for them therevolvingdoorproject.org/wp-content/u...
therevolvingdoorproject.org
November 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This long article "Debunking the Abundance Agenda" not only does what it's trying to do but also gives an explanation why companies often simply do not provide goods and services despite there being demand for them therevolvingdoorproject.org/wp-content/u...
Trends and "cringe" are silly and being over 30 means wearing whatever tf you want but also feeling the advantage of being an old millennial in the fashion generation wars. Look stylish with the simple rubric of "would I have worn this in 1999?"
November 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Trends and "cringe" are silly and being over 30 means wearing whatever tf you want but also feeling the advantage of being an old millennial in the fashion generation wars. Look stylish with the simple rubric of "would I have worn this in 1999?"
“Work-conditioned housing.” Free idea for Trump: you could put a nice MAGA motto at the entrance, something like “Work Sets You Free”
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Work-conditioned housing.” Free idea for Trump: you could put a nice MAGA motto at the entrance, something like “Work Sets You Free”
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“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’
Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs
www.independent.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Upsetting: partner's car was broken into last night.
Funny: the only thing they took was an umbrella. Rifled through the glove box but left the two Fall Out Boy CDs 😆
Funny: the only thing they took was an umbrella. Rifled through the glove box but left the two Fall Out Boy CDs 😆
October 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Upsetting: partner's car was broken into last night.
Funny: the only thing they took was an umbrella. Rifled through the glove box but left the two Fall Out Boy CDs 😆
Funny: the only thing they took was an umbrella. Rifled through the glove box but left the two Fall Out Boy CDs 😆
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the demand that works with actual queer characters both be groundbreaking, quality work that is by and for us and also be written in defensive crouch is bewildering to me. you can't have both.
September 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
the demand that works with actual queer characters both be groundbreaking, quality work that is by and for us and also be written in defensive crouch is bewildering to me. you can't have both.
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as a fan of noncon, dubcon and under/non-negotiated cnc this is honestly one of the most straightforward explanations of this i've ever read?
September 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
as a fan of noncon, dubcon and under/non-negotiated cnc this is honestly one of the most straightforward explanations of this i've ever read?
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Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
September 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
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The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".
September 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".
Wall-E: most liberal movie of all time?
September 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Wall-E: most liberal movie of all time?
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A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt:
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt:
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
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What an expertly called shot
September 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
What an expertly called shot
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- there are popular published authors you won't touch with a bargepole because you remember What They Did when they wrote fanfic
You have to have changed your main fandom platform at least four times AND you must have at least three fandom-related subjects that cause an overwhelming wave of exhaustion to hit you whenever people start arguing over them
what constitutes a fandom-elder and when do you hit that milestone? is it by age? or through years of service? or is it something indefinable and ungraspable?
August 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
- there are popular published authors you won't touch with a bargepole because you remember What They Did when they wrote fanfic
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As I’ve said before, the worst thing social media did was turn fame into a middle class job.
All I'm saying is there are perverse incentives everywhere for even regular people to propel the narrative that anytime you step outside you will be blown to bits by an Antifa bazooka. The platforms have incentivized it to drive engagement, and creators can live a middle class lifestyle on it.
August 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
As I’ve said before, the worst thing social media did was turn fame into a middle class job.
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.