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I think that the longstanding trauma of this moment is going to be that many people in their 20-30s rn in not-quite-elite circles are going to be intensely small c conservative for a long time and have something of a hair-trigger for anything that smells of populism for the rest of their days
honestly i think you could probably describe the vast majority of American media, political, and corporate elites as decadent
nobody knows how bad things can get
nobody knows how bad things can get
you'd think that the fact that the president is currently trying to get the Feds to arrest Senators would be what the NYT editorial board would focus on but...
December 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I think that the longstanding trauma of this moment is going to be that many people in their 20-30s rn in not-quite-elite circles are going to be intensely small c conservative for a long time and have something of a hair-trigger for anything that smells of populism for the rest of their days
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Not as nakedly evil, but when I first heard years ago about people in poorer countries getting paid to grind videogames to level up characters for resale I was like "ah, the cyberpunk has arrived at last!"
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Not as nakedly evil, but when I first heard years ago about people in poorer countries getting paid to grind videogames to level up characters for resale I was like "ah, the cyberpunk has arrived at last!"
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as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'
People are dying over who gets to steal from a dude in Iowa who thinks the model who "accidentally" texted him has fallen in love with him.
the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/12/t...
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'
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It's almost as if burning bridges for no reason has consequences.
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It's almost as if burning bridges for no reason has consequences.
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From Amnesty International:
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
From Amnesty International:
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The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
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Zapiekanka comes from zapiekać, which means "to bake a dish so its ingredients combine, and a crispy, browned crust forms on top”. I'm delighted that Polish has a whole verb for this! but also astonished that American Midwestern English does NOT have a whole verb for this, given our love for hotdish
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Zapiekanka comes from zapiekać, which means "to bake a dish so its ingredients combine, and a crispy, browned crust forms on top”. I'm delighted that Polish has a whole verb for this! but also astonished that American Midwestern English does NOT have a whole verb for this, given our love for hotdish
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one problem is that even a lot of converts do not understand that a lot of very precise theological formulae come out of two factions of monks beating each other to death with hammers in the thirteenth century over a misplaced liturgical comma.
ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy
December 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
one problem is that even a lot of converts do not understand that a lot of very precise theological formulae come out of two factions of monks beating each other to death with hammers in the thirteenth century over a misplaced liturgical comma.
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There are lots of academic milestones in your child's life to celebrate, but my goodness I wasn't expecting the joy tonight of "I'm reading an article by someone named 'Hans von Spakovsky,' and he's completely wrong, isn't he?"
December 8, 2025 at 3:37 AM
There are lots of academic milestones in your child's life to celebrate, but my goodness I wasn't expecting the joy tonight of "I'm reading an article by someone named 'Hans von Spakovsky,' and he's completely wrong, isn't he?"
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GOD DIDN'T MAKE AN ICE AGENT OR AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
GOD DIDN'T MAKE AN ICE AGENT OR AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
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I regret ever putting my eyeballs on the phrase "society as a service"
December 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I regret ever putting my eyeballs on the phrase "society as a service"
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Of all the things to grow in a home garden, herbs are the best. You need them in small quantities so they're a pain to stock fresh, they're so much better fresh than dried, you can harvest them in tiny bits instead of all at once, and most of them are practically weeds which barely require any care.
December 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Of all the things to grow in a home garden, herbs are the best. You need them in small quantities so they're a pain to stock fresh, they're so much better fresh than dried, you can harvest them in tiny bits instead of all at once, and most of them are practically weeds which barely require any care.
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I think it’s critical to make the point that it’s a money movement. They’re steeped in the software brain toxicities, which are plenty problematic on their own; but the actual true believers are all financiers
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I think it’s critical to make the point that it’s a money movement. They’re steeped in the software brain toxicities, which are plenty problematic on their own; but the actual true believers are all financiers
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Ok wait I have a subversively optimistic frame on this though
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
It's frankly astonishing the billions of dollars wasted in on new software and tools in service of various initiatives, without first ensuring the organization can accept and handle change.
Especially because making change is literally what goes into working on software.
Especially because making change is literally what goes into working on software.
Learning culture moderates how software organizations adopt tools and the implicit rules we're giving developers want what they can do, experiment with, push back on, and share.
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks
December 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ok wait I have a subversively optimistic frame on this though
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
Think about how easy it is to smuggle human-centered measurement into this when no one's looking and you have this expansive tool budget 😎 technical people have cultural and organizational power to shape what's seen in technical work
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Anyways. So you get some well meaning “hey try it out for a bit” and that means a 3 year large initiative… but everyone wants to do well and succeed! So how do you help?
Constructs and measures! If you can’t change the narrative directly, build the sensors the organisation uses to understand itself
Constructs and measures! If you can’t change the narrative directly, build the sensors the organisation uses to understand itself
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Anyways. So you get some well meaning “hey try it out for a bit” and that means a 3 year large initiative… but everyone wants to do well and succeed! So how do you help?
Constructs and measures! If you can’t change the narrative directly, build the sensors the organisation uses to understand itself
Constructs and measures! If you can’t change the narrative directly, build the sensors the organisation uses to understand itself
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
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“Oh check out this buck converter I mocked up…”
I’m sorry but I know an arcane sigil when I see one
I’m sorry but I know an arcane sigil when I see one
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“Oh check out this buck converter I mocked up…”
I’m sorry but I know an arcane sigil when I see one
I’m sorry but I know an arcane sigil when I see one
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This is amazing. How could you possibly claim these folk can't integrate
legit if you still have a twitter/x it’s worth popping over to appreciate the troll game from our somali neighbors
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is amazing. How could you possibly claim these folk can't integrate
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Space photographer Andrew James McCarthy @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social has captured many epic images of celestial bodies, but this may be his greatest: a perfectly timed photo of a skydiving friend with the sun behind him (shot w/ equipment revealing great solar detail).
Behold "The Fall of Icarus."
Behold "The Fall of Icarus."
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Space photographer Andrew James McCarthy @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social has captured many epic images of celestial bodies, but this may be his greatest: a perfectly timed photo of a skydiving friend with the sun behind him (shot w/ equipment revealing great solar detail).
Behold "The Fall of Icarus."
Behold "The Fall of Icarus."
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what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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I really like this phrasing. Civic responsibility doesn't end at the ballot box. You have to actually participate in socity
it'll never catch on
it'll never catch on
Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
December 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I really like this phrasing. Civic responsibility doesn't end at the ballot box. You have to actually participate in socity
it'll never catch on
it'll never catch on
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“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”