Uh... Either I'm missing something or the math isn't mathing
Uh... Either I'm missing something or the math isn't mathing
Murderous medieval Oxford is a great example of what can happen when everyone is armed with deadly weapons, especially when that population happens to be young and male. And what happened was... www.sciencealert.com/oxford-was-t...
So we're doing 'Death of Stalin' now. Cool cool... This will end well.
Yikes
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through. www.thecut.com/article/broo... >>
Read this @nytimes.com story from 1939 comparing Mussolini and Hitler's managerial styles, and it becomes strikingly evident that the times has been normalizing authoritarians for a loooong time. I loved the obligatory passing reference to persecution 😔 www.nytimes.com/1939/03/05/a...
In 1995, renting a room in SF for $200 was the only way I could afford to live there. Seems like a no-brainer. https://cville.online/@Lyle/115124427097944382
Bad systems that go faster can be a worse outcome, inflicting maximum damage in a short period of time with fewer opportunities to prevent or mitigate the damage. Do not make the cure worse than the disease.
Agentic systems seem like a good way forward, BUT - *WARNING* *WARNING* *WARNING* - I beg everyone to please consider the ramifications of optimizing terrible processes and systems.
AI coding tools are how we are going to learn the hard way that the mere act of coding was never the biggest impediment to releasing faster and more often. The reason AI experiments are failing so often in enterprises is because we now have tons of code with nowhere to go.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
The Gilded Rage
The Union's arrogance and inability to cooperate gave Lee a chance in the early days, which turned out to be fool's gold after he was exposed.
Only an egomaniacal crackpot embittered by a lack of recognition from his superiors and obsessed with his own ambition would have tried something so asinine. And well, that was Lee in a nutshell. So no, Lee was a terrible general, in almost every way.
Then you look at his battlefield blunders, eg. Gettysburg and you wonder how his legend ever grew in the first place. But I'm sorry, the very idea of a northern campaign would have been funny if not for the 10's of thousands of dead and wounded. Such a senseless sacrifice, and that was 100% Lee.
Lee's war strategy was indefensible. He may have been a great battlefield tactition - I'm not qualified to say - but he deliberately pushed the confederacy into an unwinnable situation. That was all him.
*snortlol*
New interview! On Trump, all the terrible things happening, and the institutional complicity that made it possible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...
So @massgovernor.bsky.social - what do you plan to do about it?
Just read @nathantankus.bsky.social latest newsletter about Powell's fecklessness and this sentence caught my eye: "When your opponent is Donald Trump you escalate in response to threats; you don’t try to appease him." How is this very obvious observation so poorly understood by so many?
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Honey Don't!
Heard a lot of buzz about the death of James Dobson since last Thursday? Need a primer on the monstrous man and his malign influence? The latest Bugbear Dispatch (now on Ghost!) gives you that plus a case for speaking ill of the dead when they deserve it www.bugbeardispatch.com/lets-speak-i...
Our slide into authoritarian rule would not be possible without Trump's willing accomplices. William Pulte's corruption of the bureaucracy to single out the mortgages of Trump foes like Lisa Cook for "investigation" is the perfect example of this. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Excuse me - Mr Nazi? Would you mind if I punched you, pretty please?
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
It's literally not. I gained more context and clarity from their post than yours.
Still waiting for that apology @thehill.com
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Imagine paying more for electricity and dealing with blackouts because a 79-year-old man suffering from dementia doesn't like wind turbines www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c... It's very MAGA! The best part is all the Republicans have to pretend this makes sense.
Oh hey @thehill.com - looking forward to that retraction that must be coming any day now. Right?
Right - main problem is they suck this year and haven't had a good season in a while.
Taking the time to do a thorough essay about recently dead James Dobson, one of the handful of right-wing Christians most directly responsible for contemporary American moral panic and authoritarianism. Look for this Monday, as the first new substantive Bugbear Dispatch piece to be hosted on Ghost!
Yes. What he said.
Huh. Apparently we now care about the improper handling of classified files. Hey, about that...
And then there's the Beyonce Levi's ad. It's an ongoing collab, but it still feels like a rebuke to AE at this time youtu.be/LwojYvqomhU?...
@massgovernor.bsky.social
It's time for Governor Healey to step up.
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I love gate-keeping shenanigans by enshittified platforms... not! Help Chrissy get out of the bad place and complete her migration to @ghost.org !
My kickass @theflytrapmedia.com comrade @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social is moving camp from the Bad Newsletter Place and migrating to Ghost! Highly recommend subscribing: Chrissy is an especially sharp and insightful voice on Christianity and atheism, and is also VERY knowledgable about Russia.
America's most famous 5th-place finisher
gotta love Hannity gently cutting in to remind der Fuhrer of the topic at hand
My God what a dipshit. I want every dumbass voter who wanted this to writhe in pain for eternity as penance. Every trump voter owes us an apology. Every. Fucking. One.
that summit could've been an email
As others have noted, most of the "shocking" headlines are now true. Except newspapers aren't reporting on them in shocked tones. Curious...
The two American cities (LA, DC) that Trump has used federal forces to attack are led by Black people — Black women. This isn’t a coincidence.
Gun advocates enter the chat
Billions of $$$ wasted on this boondoggle. The same amount of money could have been used to actually address real transport issues. But nooooo we want magic taxis! The way to make streets safer and more efficient is to get cars off the road
No sorry I will not allow treating transgender people as anything less than full and equal members of American society be characterized as purity and something to be papered over to defeat the right. If people like Buttigieg and Newsom want to throw those rights under the bus we have more options.
I never wanted to live through a real life adaptation of Animal Farm, but here we are. slrpnk.net/post/25696399
"We are here to affirm, uplift, and advocate for transgender and gender diverse youth...and we remain committed to doing all we can to support their care and well-being.” Boston Children’s Hospital says it won’t be bullied into abandoning trans youth www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...
People talk about the impact of the soviet union on creating a sense of danger that "required" reforms but I think the intellectual role is just as important. The most important generation of post-war period ruling class leadership got exposed to high quality Marxist thinking in the 1930s.
One can only hope
Protect our borders - expel ICE
Shorter Oz: you don't
I'm stealing "grudge-huffing" Maybe add "revenge-huffing" and "grievance-huffing"
*snortlol* so funny... so much truth
TOUCHDOWN, SOUNDERS! 🐳 #Sounders 🙌🏼
Trump got 49% of the vote and won tiny legislative minorities and the response of virtually every single elite law firm, elite university, huge company, and major journalistic outlet has been to surrender to him and start caving to his deranged demands to give him money and personal favors
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
So apparently @signal.org is so secure that I can no longer log in. If you don't follow the migration instructions for a new phone to the letter, you too can get locked out of your account for some unknown period of time.
when i think of Colbert, i think of an interview he gave to GQ when he first took over The Late Show, and had this to say about losing his father and brothers in a plane crash. www.gq.com/story/stephe...
I usually love Harriot’s work, but his massive thread is completely ignorant of the historical events and real people of the Secind Temple and Jewish courts (two radically different systems with different societal functions and dynamics) and embraces Christian libel of Jews. Judenhass at work.
Marines did not enlist and were not trained to be used as Trump’s personal domestic gestapo. If your mission is to terrorize and intimidate civilians, your orders are unlawful, and your duty is to refuse them. Marines swore an oath to defend the Constitution, and now’s the time.
I love how all the senators conspired to make Ted stand on the very end, so that he looks like a balloon
Oh *Fuck* no
This is pretty freaking damning. This whole article is the degradation of public services to the point of death and destruction. | As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
I think about this all the time
Today, I'm signing a new Executive Order that streamlines Los Angeles permitting rules and knocks down even more of the barriers standing in the way of Californians quickly rebuilding homes and schools.
I don't disagree, but rules are there for a reason. Mex was mostly toothless but converted their chances. I'm still pissed about the dive though.
Except he's right. That was bs. And then the bs dive for the free kick. There's a legitimate gripe here.
Oh they're helping someone - they're just not helping you. But I applaud her bravery in putting him on the spot and forcing him to be accountable, inasmuch as she can.
I’m here now, so here’s some content about South American fans and the Club World Cup. Cheers www.goal.com/en-us/lists/...
It’s so frustrating that there is this illusion that we are all 49%/49% right now. Us versus them, good versus bad, and it’s all because of the BS that is the electoral system. It’s very likely 70% versus 30% and we’re just not seeing representative government.There’s just no common sense right now
Can only speak for myself, but in a piece yesterday I used this term because as far as I knew there was no official name for the facility. But I’ve been reflecting as I work on a potential follow-up story and have decided moving forward I will refer to it as a concentration camp.
Annul this illegitimate regime
America would be much better off if the discourse was leftist vs center left and conservatives had no seat at the table www.oliverexplains.com/p/we-dont-ac...
When will they send in the Marines to get this lawlessness in Idaho under control?
I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
Very disappointed in the Massachusetts congressional reps - @trahan.house.gov - would you like to get primaried?
Hahaahahahahah Watch this - he really leans into that f-bomb. He so wants to hit someone right now lol
Open Source, AI, and the Global War on Fascism The author reflects on the trajectory of open source amidst the rise of geopolitical tensions and authoritarian regimes. Initially thriving as a collaborative movement, open source now faces threats from nation-state actors exploiting its communities.…
Wrote a follow-up on AI Native. When I wrote that open source ecosystems were about to become more important than ever, I meant that as a warning. If we want positive outcomes, we’ll have to get very serious very quickly about community-based governance for AI Native: osenetwork.com/2025/06/24/a...
AI Native and the Open Source Supply Chain I recently wrote 2 essays on the subject of AI Native Automation over on the AINT blog. The gist of them is simple: AI Native platforms are about to disrupt - and maybe disembowel - what we know today as devops AI Native platforms are about to…
but actually... ha... I'm more interested in your use of Astro for your blog and how it compares to something like Ghost. Ya know, the important things ;)
I <3 this... I learned to keep my mouth shut and keep my head down growing up, and I have found that it makes me invisible at work. And I have a profound dislike - and distrust - of work hierarchies. It's a real career limiter... :)
Me, the guy who is endlessly citing 2002-4, looking at the shit going on now
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people. But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person. Denial makes things worse
Unironically the thing I love about this point, is that it's a great basis to start talking to y'all about the fact that most of the people in jail in the US are just as innocent as Khalil. Many are Black folk that have been arrested with *absolutely no basis*, but wait *over a year* to see a judge.
y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI
FT: #usmnt 1-0 Saudi Arabia. The U.S. was able to grind this one out, & now they are through to the quarterfinals with a game to spare. (Still need to secure top spot.) Richards the hero, for what he did at both ends of the field. It got a little testy towards the end, but the US emerged unscathed.
Was he off? Looked like there was a defender behind him - couldn't tell
OK i’ve seen almost no media outlet pick up on the fact the Supreme Court ruling endorsed conversion therapy and opens a portal to the normalization of conversion therapy nationally so here’s a thread explaining how they did so, and why you should care (1/x)