"Release the Epstein files" is the new "Pee Tape," except that the contents of JE's little black book was made public back in 2020 so I have no idea WTF people are asking for: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"Release the Epstein files" is the new "Pee Tape," except that the contents of JE's little black book was made public back in 2020 so I have no idea WTF people are asking for: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For my birthday they added me to their New York Times subscription.
My parents.
I had my partner quiz me on this on a road trip once when we were stuck in traffic! 😂 Until recently, Jacksonville was the largest US city with a GOP mayor—now it's Dallas. There are currently 8 GOP mayors in the top 50: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
EVs cut brake dust by 83% thanks to regenerative braking. That means cleaner air at pedestrian crossings, bus stops, and bike lanes. Exhaust pipes aren’t the only source, brakes matter too, even if they almost never wear out on an #EV Could this reshape how we measure urban pollution?
This to me is our modern "A House divided cannot stand."
There's a narcissism that comes with being part of the lower end of Dunning-Kruger. They think they know better than everyone else and are offended by any notion that they might be wrong or have opportunities to learn. They think everything is a debate or zero-sum. They don't see contradictions.
Yup—I always have to point out how much BS people are willing to tolerate if it means a good public education for their kids. Also, I am still trying to understand wtf is going on with superintendants?? Seems like a nationwide problem:
Yup. Nihilistic South Park-ass party.
Age of Anxiety → Age of Anger Hopefully next will be "Age of Accountability"
Although the timing may just be correlation and not causation, it really feels like Pixar lost their way after John Lasseter left in 2017.
Social media induced narcissism / “main character” syndrome + algorithmically-tailored content rewarding clickbait + semantic illiteracy = “Everything is a conspiracy!!” We are living in a golden age of fools and scammers.
By focusing on "uncivil debate" they mean:
But also:
Literally, "many people are saying."
Yes!! CBS Sunday Morning did an excellent profile on her (and Jeffrey's) story IIRC:
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
And that's absolutely valid!
That said, most of the TechBros pushing AI slop on the rest of us and trying to get us to offload our (and their) emotional labor onto LLMs are absolutely not doing so in good faith and should *not* be given benefit of doubt.
So without getting an argument on social media (😅)—for me, it's the thought that counts, and often that does include effort. There seems to be as assumption that buying a Hallmark card or using LLMs *must* be because the person is lazy—it very well could be! But I don't think this is a given.
...and without judgment! We are, after all, just a bunch of monkeys. Even native speakers struggle with language—I think this is one of many reasons people love pop music! I do think "help me write a respectful condolence letter that captures my feelings" is perfectly valid.
Posting bc I need to shout into the void, but the National Guard & military are the only thing preventing full-blown autocracy right now (though I wish they did more than malicious compliance). The fact that they are picking up trash rather than doing MAGA's bidding is GOOD.
I don't actually think is true for non-C-suite journalists & politicos. (Definitely true for the CEOs who run the networks!)
If people thought Elon's hostile takeover of Twitter was bad, wait until Trump decides he wants ownership and control of Google and Apple!
E.g., I have had anti-Trump people discuss the DC deployment with me by asking, "Why do you think he isn't sending the troops into the areas where crime is higher??" as if any of this is being driven by rationality.
For the rank-and-file DC political class, I feel like it's less "supporting" Trump than trying to manufacture a less stupid reality—I think there are people who are averse to "simple" answers because it makes themselves feel dumb and powerless, so they have to over-intellectualize everything.
People are more annoyed about hearing about bad things than the bad things themselves.
theonion.com/former-japan...
This rendering showing how the external screen of an "iPhone Fold" might look finally makes me understand why they added the "vertically stretched time" to the new Lock Screen—my guess is that the inside display will allow for iPadOS 26-style windowed multitasking.
btw, you're not gonna get much warning when this starts. it's going to be suddenly and all at once. and it's not gonna be like flipping a switch to get it back going, either. x.com/StatisticUrb...
![[screenshots of tweets] Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban If US institutions ever start to truly fail, en masse, collapse of the republic-style, we'll get many more headlines like this. There are countless hidden systems, ones few notice until they break, like “guys irradiate fly larvae and drop them on Panama to keep out screwworm.” Quote *Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone · 20h FIRST HUMAN CASE OF NEW WORLD SCREWWORM DETECTED IN US, SOURCES SAY 8:39 PM · Aug 24, 2025 · 349.8K Views Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban · 13h To be clear, the obvious ones, like the Fed, would also fail.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j2kmiyhld5btzozgzwy3lc2m/bafkreiaxl42u4wwr7t3fr54wfxutprug6qowfirskryhy4wopt6b62nfgq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The problem ironically isn't actual Democratic Party leaders or figures but "your annoying small-town neighbor/cousin who polices your language + gets into arguments on social media because they have no other outlet for their politics."
I would have thought that there would have been a drop in/after 2022 give the fire at Mission Taco / Ranoush / Salt+Smoke? I'm curious what's been contributing to the recent rise—I can't think of anything big that's opened?
It's a thing! (for those who are unfamiliar)
Yup.
Isn't this just... conservatism? (or at least conservatism-in-practice)
Yes, I think so! (I haven't watched this video yet, but sharing in case it is helpful.)
For example, we have someone who consistently interrupts and prolongs our meetings by asking rambling questions + gets angry when asked to limit their questions, and then inevitably also gets angry when the meeting runs long. They literally cannot connect the two together.
I think it's even dumber and more literal than that—as @chrislhayes.bsky.social infamously wrote in "Decision Makers" (2004), a shocking number of people are completely incapable of connecting two things together: chrishayes.org/articles/dec...
I hate that this keeps happening. Please safe in-progress replies so that they aren't erased when I switch to Safari to copy a URL!! 🤬 @bsky.app
Ugh I hate how much I love this!!! (Newsom is so smarmy but if he's willing to fight then he can be our scumbug-in-chief.)
"Holly humps"! 😂
Recruiters are also (as I understand it) not paid well + not respected, so it's rare to get someone in the role who knows what they're doing. I'm sympathetic, but that doesn't make them any less moronic or less a cancer on the tech industry itself.
Combine all of that with *overwhelming* demand for tech jobs, recruiters are now literally using AI to screen out candidates without actually understanding what does vs. doesn't make for a good hire. It's awful.
The issue here is that most tech recruiters in my experience have *never* actually worked on the product side of tech—this is in stark contrast to a field like law where (as I understand it) most legal recruiters are burnt-out lawyers.
The coding exercises are fine, but I have found that "talking it out" is way more informative. The problem is that most active employees don't have time to interview due to poor project management, or else they are only given candidates that recruiters have already selected.
There are a lot of "certifications" for technical software positions (e.g., Security+ or AWS certs) but a ton of them are irrelevant expensive busywork, so usually the people you want don't have them + the ones who have tons of them are compensating.
The "AI-is-taking-away-entry-level-jobs" argument though is a fig leaf & red herring—AI has been *incredible* in my job, but not for any of the reasons I've seen cited in the countless breathless articles I've come across. The bigger problem is that tech job hiring has been hijacked by morons.
Link: www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...
Left turns are especially dangerous—in Chicago, 39% of pedestrian fatalities/injuries from drivers occurred as a result of an aggressive left turn. This is because modern cars have even-wider A-pillars than older cars—i.e., the beam to the left of the windshield—creating a person-sized blind spot.
Public Service Announcement: No, it is not legal to turn left on red in #STL or Missouri, even if you are turning onto a one-way street. (There was an attempt to change this in 2018, but it didn't pass.)
This is why I wish @workingfamilies.org were more of a thing outside of NYC! They seem to have good leftist politics without the weird condescension of aggrieved nihilist Marxist nerds.
I think nothing is more emblematic of the mess that is Disney+ throwing in Hulu and other kid-unfriendly content into the same app than searching for "Freaky Friday" and getting back "Freddy Got Fingered" as the fourth result.
Doubly idiotic because Sig Sauer is the focus of malfunctioning guns that have already killed servicemembers + been banned by the US Air Force: bearingarms.com/tomknighton/...
Another exhibit—MAGA *loves* South Park:
Jokes aside, nothing would make me happier and restore my faith in humanity than for you to be right and for me to be wrong / an asshole.
Better wear a helmet then when that limb breaks.
Umm... Sandusky might have been the rapist, but I wouldn't memory-hole how much support and pushback Joe Paterno got despite enabling child rape: www.espn.com/college-foot...
I really really hope you are right and I am wrong, but have yet to see substantive empathy for / centering of Epstein's victims in this recent resurgence in interest in the case!!
We are all living in Matt and Trey's "caring is gay" hellscape and Trump is the apotheosis of it.
Same reason why South Park's recent "outrageous" episodes have so little punch—it's still just lowbrow potty humor, and frankly the Trump/Vance/MAGA camp love it because they want everything to become WWE and triggering the libs.
People (normies) are only interested in Trump-Epstein insofar as it's become a gossipy murder-mystery of "who's on the list" and "who knew what" and not because anyone is actually looking for accountability (beyond the "fun" of a confession or arrest) or gives two shits about child rape or victims.
Cuomo has lost his mind and lost his own message—this ranting incoherent screed is both internally contradictory and also doesn't have any electoral coherence. His brain is as cooked as his campaign.
E.g.:
I wish there was as much online discussion about public education as public transit—maybe it's because solutions for public transit seem much more tangible + achievable?
I think that's just the convenience store inside the Gulf gas station?
I'm curious if any of these will become employee-oriented housing... 👀 (and also an opportunity for them to fully commit to the Smart Home space)
I'm sorry to be a pedant but FOUNDERING is *not* a word, c'mon @npr.org 🤦♂️...
It's crazy that it takes two years for us to feel the effects. (Unless that is a typo??) It's like trying to punish a dog for peeing on the floor hours ago—when prices finally do rise, people won't connect it to this moment bc we won't remember this moment & other things will have happened since.
Nice conversation with @chaykak.bsky.social + @kattybkay.bsky.social on the anti-social future of social media—however, I still think the future is not to give up but instead build "small" social media. 🙂
Anyone else having issues with IKEA TRÅDFRI / smart home items today? Literally nothing is working for me today including blinds and light bulbs.
AP News sounding like @nytpitchbot.bsky.social 😑
(and yes, I am aware of the irony that Solnit is the author of "Men Explain Things To Me", but I am choosing to read the post as sincere + am sincerely responding—political spam texts are awful, and Marc Love's app really works! @marclove.bsky.social)
Here you go @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: apps.apple.com/us/app/stop-...
Omg yesss!!!! I definitely assumed this would get approved. Thank goodness for the SLUP/ZOUP!
How was Malta‽
The overwhelming majority of people globally don't understand how the Internet works, how expertise actually works, or how their own reasoning works. Bad actors exploit all three by mimicking expertise and disseminating ideas at high volume and low cost.
Like, there *is* a middle-ground between armchair quarterbacking vs. being put out to pasture. The fact that you can't get elected again is actually an asset—speak up!! Go on the offensive!
It really shouldn't be standard operating procedure anymore for termed-out Presidents—especially one as young as Obama!—to silence themselves "out of respect" for current officeholders. You're an f'ing politician, act like one!!!
MORE OF THIS PLEASE! (drop *all* the f-bombs on these mfers)
However, it's important to note the kinds of things it will confidently give you the wrong answer for (at least on the free versions): - Numbers/math/counting - Geography/maps - Text-in-images - Citations provided as text (vs as links) - Medicines/health - Data aggregation - Visual place recognition
I think a lot of the AI hype is BS but there are definitely use cases where it has been *fantastic* for me: - Debugging errors in my software code - Generating meeting minutes from audio - Creating stock images for social media posts - Certain kinds of data processing - Finding obscure files online
Trump Take Television 🥲 @mtsw.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social
"Recognizing someone having an affair in public" is not doxxing, please stop diluting and misusing terms. 🤦♂️
It's also a bizarre-looking house? 🤔
Search on @bsky.app continues to be abysmal (especially with lack of in-app bookmarking). ☹️
Ranked choice can help—e.g., I have met voters who don't want to vote for a "losing" candidate because they think that reflects poorly on themselves somehow. RCV lets them place their preferred candidate first & the "safe" candidate second without worrying that they are "throwing away" their vote.
(not aimed at you) This is why you do ranked-choice or approval voting!!! 🤦♂️
More briefly though, it basically boils down to this: (these are people who can barely hold a single thought, much less two)
My unfounded theory is that he thinks he can pocket the tariff money or, at the very least, hand it out as favors to friends/businesses and/or as funding for MAGA politicians' pet projects. He also believes (IIRC) that paying for things is dumb, which is why he is always stiffing contractors.
(To me, the Democrats' problem seems less like message cohesion and more that their message sucks or is generally absent, regardless of broadcast channels.)
I guess my question is, what is a recent example where Democrats' lack of message discipline and cohesion (versus just not hammering enough on a specific issue) would have benefited an end-goal if only there were a stronger party line?
Brooklyn Dems are trash (in contrast to Brooklyn Young Dems, a separate progressive entity) but glad to see Bichotte-Hermelyn change tune after supporting Cuomo until like two seconds ago. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of their political relevance & influence.
*sigh* 😞...
The (more concerning) side effect of this is not just file systems but not being able to organize *anything* into a hierarchy of abstractions—e.g., I asked some younger programmers to organize their work into an outline (like you would for an essay) and they couldn't even wrap their head around it.
Missouri finally now bans child marriages!
