Modern tech is inhospitable to the kind of stubborn bullshit-despising hackers that for generations used that laziness and spite to get shit done.

wow I remember the excel thing. that was like a hundred years ago

also who measures vegetables in tablespoons? a quarter cup is only four tablespoons c'mon

The problem, the challenge to us, is that the important role of collecting evidence of fascist violence and war crimes—a necessity for pursuing real justice—has been detourned into a metapolitical weapon for normalizing the depiction of casual mass deaths as a cultural precursor to a fascist order.

You don’t have to listen to me. You can go right ahead being paranoid if you want. But I’ve been doing this work for decades and I’ve seen a lot of shit, and I can tell you exactly why that safety measure you’re proposing will fail. Assuming what you say is public and acting accordingly will not

It’s actually really liberating from the grip of paranoia to assume you’re being read or listened to and act accordingly. If you assume what you say is public, if you don’t want someone to see it or hear it, don’t say it or do it. But if you do say it, say it with your whole chest

really mainly just referencing that one line but ironically, to describe Nova's attempts to communicate with us. it's clear she's trying to say something when she gets all excited, but it's not clear if she means "potty" or "food" or "two grown-ups with hands are here and they should be petting me"

idk if the urge is b/c I normally have such terrible interoception that noticing hunger feels novel, or if years of referencing John Mulaney's problematic comedy about his ex-wife's Jewish-ness ("She comes in the room and she's like, 'MY STOMACH HURTS!'") has linked "stomach" with "yelling" for me

I assume that's a thing toddlers do. I haven't spent more than a few hours total in the company of toddlers. at least not since I was one

I'm sure they're fine people and all

oh like the 80/20 rule but more

This is the 2026 equivalent of when Walter Cronkite went on tv and said the Vietnam War was unwinnable