It's like he cut it off to add a big gun to it but didn't have an actual plan to add the big gun a month later.
I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
December 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It's like he cut it off to add a big gun to it but didn't have an actual plan to add the big gun a month later.
Twenty minute subplot where he saves the village by hawking loogies
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Twenty minute subplot where he saves the village by hawking loogies
Nostalgia is a tricky beast. We look on the past through filters.
People don't REALLY miss Windows 95 - it was shit! - nor do they miss gen 1 Xbox or cassette Walkman or any of it. We miss being young and having fewer responsibilities.
People don't REALLY miss Windows 95 - it was shit! - nor do they miss gen 1 Xbox or cassette Walkman or any of it. We miss being young and having fewer responsibilities.
I think what people are really nostalgic for is 90's level BBS and Usenet community hosted on an open web, with widening residential broadband access. The actual tech in the W era was dismal.
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Nostalgia is a tricky beast. We look on the past through filters.
People don't REALLY miss Windows 95 - it was shit! - nor do they miss gen 1 Xbox or cassette Walkman or any of it. We miss being young and having fewer responsibilities.
People don't REALLY miss Windows 95 - it was shit! - nor do they miss gen 1 Xbox or cassette Walkman or any of it. We miss being young and having fewer responsibilities.
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If all it took for her to break bad was a information cascade on Twitter, what does this imply?
December 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
If all it took for her to break bad was a information cascade on Twitter, what does this imply?
2:40 for his speed, 2:41, whatever it takes
December 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
2:40 for his speed, 2:41, whatever it takes
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This is huge, right? They just Trump-proofed the Fed.
@federalreserve.gov announces reappointment of Federal Reserve Bank presidents and first vice presidents after a comprehensive review by the boards of directors of each Reserve Bank, along with unanimous support by Federal Reserve Board members: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
Federal Reserve Board announces reappointment of Reserve Bank presidents and first vice presidents
Following a comprehensive review by the boards of directors of the regional Reserve Banks, and the unanimous concurrence of Federal Reserve Board members, the
www.federalreserve.gov
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is huge, right? They just Trump-proofed the Fed.
This is the whole conservative project. They hate it here.
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is the whole conservative project. They hate it here.
If you swap the order of "Jingle Bells" second and third verses you get horse whipping and then a sleigh crash
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If you swap the order of "Jingle Bells" second and third verses you get horse whipping and then a sleigh crash
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During peacetime the President's only real job is to compile status reports and come round to the House once a year by invitation only to summarize them. It's not a serious position and yet the media treats the President like they are the Boss of America
December 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
During peacetime the President's only real job is to compile status reports and come round to the House once a year by invitation only to summarize them. It's not a serious position and yet the media treats the President like they are the Boss of America
New Right types haven't managed so much as an Applebees
To me, this partially represents their total lack of business interest. They still have this reputation as being pro business but they don't fucking care about businesses at all. All culture war shit.
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
New Right types haven't managed so much as an Applebees
brb have to fix australia's computer
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
brb have to fix australia's computer
Murders aside, aren't these JSOC guys embarrassed to be caught up in this dime store shit
You, a fool: that was cold blooded murder and a crime against humanity
CNN, wise: that was a double-tap strike controversy
CNN, wise: that was a double-tap strike controversy
Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
www.cnn.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Murders aside, aren't these JSOC guys embarrassed to be caught up in this dime store shit
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THIS.
THIS, THIS, THIS, THISSY THIS.
Ultimately, the story here isn't Olivia Nuzzi, but the incredibly insular and dysfunctional Beltway Media cult that shapes so much of our political coverage.
THIS, THIS, THIS, THISSY THIS.
Ultimately, the story here isn't Olivia Nuzzi, but the incredibly insular and dysfunctional Beltway Media cult that shapes so much of our political coverage.
If you go look at her twitter, nuzzi was (is??) supported by A LOT in the DC press corps
We need to have serious conversations about 1/ nuzzi was never, ever a “genius” or “unusually talented writer”, 2/ the DC press corps is highly problematic
We need to have serious conversations about 1/ nuzzi was never, ever a “genius” or “unusually talented writer”, 2/ the DC press corps is highly problematic
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
THIS.
THIS, THIS, THIS, THISSY THIS.
Ultimately, the story here isn't Olivia Nuzzi, but the incredibly insular and dysfunctional Beltway Media cult that shapes so much of our political coverage.
THIS, THIS, THIS, THISSY THIS.
Ultimately, the story here isn't Olivia Nuzzi, but the incredibly insular and dysfunctional Beltway Media cult that shapes so much of our political coverage.
The two things I'm doing with coding agents that work really well are:
* Offloading my mental model to agent instructions (AGENTS.md, specification docs), these get checked in to git
* Treat code as a last-mile, replaceable concern
* Offloading my mental model to agent instructions (AGENTS.md, specification docs), these get checked in to git
* Treat code as a last-mile, replaceable concern
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The two things I'm doing with coding agents that work really well are:
* Offloading my mental model to agent instructions (AGENTS.md, specification docs), these get checked in to git
* Treat code as a last-mile, replaceable concern
* Offloading my mental model to agent instructions (AGENTS.md, specification docs), these get checked in to git
* Treat code as a last-mile, replaceable concern
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but to be clear, it wasn't that i didn't "understand" the code or anything. i understand it perfectly fine. but i guess that during normal development, there's a background index of the codebase being built in my brain. and trying to fix something with that index being cold is distinctly unpleasant
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
but to be clear, it wasn't that i didn't "understand" the code or anything. i understand it perfectly fine. but i guess that during normal development, there's a background index of the codebase being built in my brain. and trying to fix something with that index being cold is distinctly unpleasant
Like, yes! It absolutely does matter to your "do bicycles slow people down" study to first ask people if they've ridden a bike before.
December 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Like, yes! It absolutely does matter to your "do bicycles slow people down" study to first ask people if they've ridden a bike before.
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excellent bit from Why We Fear AI www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
excellent bit from Why We Fear AI www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai
Imagine claiming that Photoshop slowed down artists (except for this one guy who had used it before).
I kind of hate the METR "AI slowed down developers!" paper. Not because it was necessarily a bad paper but people took the headline and made claims that the paper very explicitly does not.
1 of only 2 devs with cursor experience over 50hrs had a speedup! I think the learning curve matters & is big.
1 of only 2 devs with cursor experience over 50hrs had a speedup! I think the learning curve matters & is big.
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Imagine claiming that Photoshop slowed down artists (except for this one guy who had used it before).
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My new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social reviewing two good books on post-liberalism ala Vance, Deneen and the rest of the gang.
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America
Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.
jacobin.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My new piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social reviewing two good books on post-liberalism ala Vance, Deneen and the rest of the gang.
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
jacobin.com/2025/12/post...
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Hegseth: Actually, I said "Kill them all? No, survivors!"
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Hegseth: Actually, I said "Kill them all? No, survivors!"
The moral panic over LLM-generated code amounts to very little when you consider what code ownership actually entails.
They said the same thing about Stack Overflow. They said the same thing about "For Dummies" books. They said the same thing about non-credentialed developers. C programmers said the same about Java GC. Hell, punchcard devs probably said it about magnetic storage. Gatekeeping is as old as the hills.
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The moral panic over LLM-generated code amounts to very little when you consider what code ownership actually entails.
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I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/v...
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/v...
I know this to be true and I'm happy to see professional rigor applied to the new skill set required to use these tools effectively.
I think where I’m starting to land, with my experienced pre and post coding agents:
1. This is true, coding agents make you more productive if you know how to use them.
2. MBAs hoping coding agents will replace coders wholesale are going to be very disappointed with the results if they try.
1. This is true, coding agents make you more productive if you know how to use them.
2. MBAs hoping coding agents will replace coders wholesale are going to be very disappointed with the results if they try.
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I know this to be true and I'm happy to see professional rigor applied to the new skill set required to use these tools effectively.
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I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
In Sicario 2 they go to the mall I used to rat
That phenomenon where you’re seeing a movie in a theater and a character is revealed to be from the very place where you are, maybe they say something about the place. And people laugh - just a little - not from a joke but from unexpected recognition and you all look around at each other.
November 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In Sicario 2 they go to the mall I used to rat