Laef Kucheran
@laef.ca
i run VoteMate.org. aspiring to be a journalist and no longer be a software dev. laef.ca
I have consumed more eggnog than any man should
December 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I have consumed more eggnog than any man should
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Is it just me or do toasted walnuts smell like popcorn?
December 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Is it just me or do toasted walnuts smell like popcorn?
I'm in a coffee shop right now, and they have these charming signs on the washroom doors.
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm in a coffee shop right now, and they have these charming signs on the washroom doors.
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This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.
Bah, humbug! Is that a little strong? I think it is, no, I think it is. People will say I don't like Christmas, can you believe that. They're wrong, they're wrong. I love Christmas, it's perhaps my most favourite holiday ever. In the history, folks, isn't that amazing.
December 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Bah, humbug! Is that a little strong? I think it is, no, I think it is. People will say I don't like Christmas, can you believe that. They're wrong, they're wrong. I love Christmas, it's perhaps my most favourite holiday ever. In the history, folks, isn't that amazing.
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the idea that weiss had journalistic concerns is belied by the fact that she's not a journalist
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
the idea that weiss had journalistic concerns is belied by the fact that she's not a journalist
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let's do the news fucking!
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
let's do the news fucking!
Oh, so my heart's an old tomato? With mouldy purple spots? So much for the tolerant left.
December 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Oh, so my heart's an old tomato? With mouldy purple spots? So much for the tolerant left.
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Popularism is flawed because “voters support X” does not mean “voters will support candidate who supports X.” It’s not what issues you support as a candidate; it’s what those issues say about you.
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Popularism is flawed because “voters support X” does not mean “voters will support candidate who supports X.” It’s not what issues you support as a candidate; it’s what those issues say about you.
Everytime I watch a car review video on YouTube, they talk about how great the touch screen is and how like a phone or a tablet it is and I'm like "and this is a good thing???"
knobs > touchscreens in cars
every damn day
every damn day
given how much cheaper touchscreens are than having to tool and manufacture physical switchgear, the safety data must be really bad for automakers to be voluntarily shifting back to real controls
December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Everytime I watch a car review video on YouTube, they talk about how great the touch screen is and how like a phone or a tablet it is and I'm like "and this is a good thing???"
The story of Firefox usage is opening up Firefox each day and being happy, but once every two or so years opening it up, seeing it's all purple and my search engine is now Yahoo, and saying:
what the frig
December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The story of Firefox usage is opening up Firefox each day and being happy, but once every two or so years opening it up, seeing it's all purple and my search engine is now Yahoo, and saying:
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One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.
I will cancel my paid @mozilla.org VPN subscription if I have to spend any more than three seconds a month disabling AI bullshit in my browser.
December 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I will cancel my paid @mozilla.org VPN subscription if I have to spend any more than three seconds a month disabling AI bullshit in my browser.
So far, @mozilla.org's AI push has just been a waste of their resources, since most of the AI features in @firefox.com have been opt-in. It's disturbing to see that they want to change minor waste into a major waste that will lose them their dedicated userbase (myself included).
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
So far, @mozilla.org's AI push has just been a waste of their resources, since most of the AI features in @firefox.com have been opt-in. It's disturbing to see that they want to change minor waste into a major waste that will lose them their dedicated userbase (myself included).
Mr Bond... I have placed cookies at strategic locations on your device. With a single pull of this lever, I, and I alone, can improve your browsing experience.
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Mr Bond... I have placed cookies at strategic locations on your device. With a single pull of this lever, I, and I alone, can improve your browsing experience.
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My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
I'd like a hydrating face mask that's warm to the first touch instead of cold, but unfortunately I think you need radium for that
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I'd like a hydrating face mask that's warm to the first touch instead of cold, but unfortunately I think you need radium for that
My crank theory is that Rian Johnson originally intended to name it "Whitewashed Tomb", and only named it "Wake Up Dead Man" for the clickbait value
December 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
My crank theory is that Rian Johnson originally intended to name it "Whitewashed Tomb", and only named it "Wake Up Dead Man" for the clickbait value
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The Grinch Goes Back In Time To Stop Christmas
November 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Grinch Goes Back In Time To Stop Christmas
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"and it was on his Island where you became best friends...."
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"and it was on his Island where you became best friends...."
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
An unusually accurate NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
The best way to cover Trump is to actually cover him, not a fake, sanewashed version of him.
The best way to cover Trump is to actually cover him, not a fake, sanewashed version of him.
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:03 AM
An unusually accurate NYTimes article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
The best way to cover Trump is to actually cover him, not a fake, sanewashed version of him.
The best way to cover Trump is to actually cover him, not a fake, sanewashed version of him.
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you don't have to love it but if someone with a new baby asks you wear a propeller beanie, you can just do it
A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
you don't have to love it but if someone with a new baby asks you wear a propeller beanie, you can just do it