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He/him. Somerville, MA. Previously: Google, reCAPTCHA, Carnegie Mellon (Ph.D., Computer Science).
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only the Irish who work in the transparent tape factory
"the english, the scots-irish, and continental europeans" is a long-winded way of writing No Irish Need Apply, V.2
Also having a big tent means you welcome into the tent people who might not have been great in the past on pluralism, rights and respect. It does not mean that you go out of the tent to a place where those things become negotiable. If Bill Kristol gets it, so can the rest of them.
In NYC, employers now must list the salary ranges for open jobs. But a proposed City Council bill would go even further, allowing *current employees* to request the salary range for their position, to see if they're underpaid relative to their coworkers. www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...
I subscribe to The Onion and that's not it. The writing and humor is great.
Ben Collins made a big bet. A year ago, just a few months after he’d been named CEO of The Onion, he relaunched its print edition. On this episode of Uncanny Valley, WIRED spoke with Collins about his hopes for The Onion, the future of journalism, and his Balatro addiction.
My most unpopular opinions are that George W. Bush was president in 2008 and Donald J. Trump was president in 2020.
Reading the news in Boston like....
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
what if cerberus, but 120V AC
i know just enough about geologists that i thought you were serious for a bit
i hope this tip, which i offer to you for free, is useful.
I sat in on Saturday morning’s songbird banding session at Oak Hammock Marsh. Among a steady flow of young yellowthroats was a smattering of other confusing fall warblers, sparrows, catbirds, wrens, a phoebe and this wee hummingbird! #birds
hired Rudy Giuliani to find himself a new doctor and ended up having heart surgery performed by Dr Scholl's
"a mailman accidentally invented the modern avocado in 1926" is a wild ass bit of history
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
The back of the Universal Hub Action News Laptop.
my sister googled "fun things to do in Boston this weekend" and it told her to go sit on Storrow Drive and watch a bunch of college kids peel their rented Penske moving trucks open like tin cans
A close call on Storrow Drive... 📸: @swinapatel
Truth Thirty-Eight.
Nate Silver should have his own social network. Like, just him. No one else around. Seems positive for everyone.
I'm old enough to remember that Trump's stated housing plan, on the 2024 campaign trail, was "deportations".
Swan Swan H and/or Country Feedback.
As songs about Dan Rather getting beaten up go, it's definitely #1.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
yeah “giving a shit about real problems that are actually occurring” being made into a political liability is just an extraordinarily grim development. you’re incentivized to avoid trying to actually address real things because there’s no upside at all politically.
i was in college then, and saw someone else wearing a Black Mage hoodie one day, and i was like... wait. this is a real item i can procure? by clicking buttons on the internet?? magical.
Would you believe this page was the launch pad for a 25 year long career of writing critically acclaimed comics? www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/02/e...
storrowing: www.boston.com/news/local-n...
"i take off my robe and wizard hat"
"No Way To Prevent This", Says Only Boston-Area Road Where This Regularly Happens
welcome to boston, sep. 1 edition:
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
Fantasy football? Yeah, I'm rooting for the Minnesota Norsca to beat the Chicago Beastmen & the Green Bay Chaos Dwarfs this year
every so often, highway signs remind me that one of the most important decisions in setting up a new law firm is: which ampersand typeface to use
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
The newly formed political group “Shalom Somerville” writes that their mission is “building an inclusive, respectful, and civil community,” but it really gives the game away when one of their top candidates refers to people like me as terrorists (for calling for a ceasefire.)
When our working families are strong, Minnesota is strong. That’s why we’ve established paid leave, expanded the right to collectively bargain, and why we’re investing in the projects creating the union jobs of the future. Happy Labor Day, Minnesota.
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
i remember back when putty wasn't even on an SSL website. love to have important encryption software served over plaintext where the download could be MITM'd
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
extremely adorable LOTR thread
An average Web Framework landing page be like
happy LABOR DAY buckaroos. time to celebrate with these classic work trots
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
the bright eyes, the engagement, the pustules, the hacking cough,
Being lawless does not make Trump omnipotent – nor can he just snap his fingers and make all his authoritarian desires a reality. America is in an acutely dangerous situation. But obscuring those distinctions is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
Happy Labor Day 🙂
"More like Dame Judi Drenched" I say as I ready the water balloon launcher
Happy Labour Day. As a bit of union organizing history, both Boris Karloff (Frankenstein) and Bella Lugosi (Dracula) were founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. In fact one of the first SAG meetings was held in Karloff's garage! SAG started in 1933 to prevent the exploitation of actors.
carryout boy at the grocery store. $5.15/hour.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley — even by immigrant founders! — about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
I support remigration of South African billionaires who violated their student visas by founding startups instead of studying.
*excerpted, dammit
finally policy around operating hours that goes beyond demanding everyone go home and go to bed
Somewhere in Iceland.
excepted from the best (american) football video of all time, by @jonbois.bsky.social: youtu.be/ZymSrDfLhW8?...
Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent six years planning a perfectly aligned shot of the Moon with Turin’s Basilica of Superga and Monviso. Weather delays thwarted annual chances until December 2023, when a crescent Moon with visible da Vinci glow completed his long-envisioned composition
RFK has entered the chat.
...seriously, it's SO MUCH EASIER for Dems to simply adopt good talking points about why they won't abandon trans/LGBTQ+ ppl (à la Beshear, Walz, etc) than to risk alienating ALL OF THESE VOTERS. it's a no-brainer! (problem is centrist Dem consultants have no brain) www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...
yeeeeah a guy who dated a 19 year old while in his 30s has ZERO business saying trans people shouldn't transistion until they're 25. i mean NO ONE has any business saying that. but ESPECIALLY that guy.
Mastodon people are the Jehovah's Witnesses of the internet and I’d like to put up a “do not knock” sign
here they were doing it on like july 5th
one of the best parts of being an engineer based out of Boston rather than Silicon Valley is that no one asks me if I am going to Burning Man
so much suffering could have been saved if, on day one of the doge dorks taking over washington, they'd sent the entire congressional delegation in for oversight and said "dare you to arrest us all" instead of being turned away by a rent-a-cop and then giving some strongly worded speeches outside
they are so ill-suited for the moment. we don’t need genteel politicos. we need fucking bomb throwers. no “work across the aisle” types. i’m talking “burn it all down and salt the earth” types.
It's often said he sounds terrible because he has spasmodic dysphonia but that's not the whole story. He's had that for decades but his voice used to be much better; the dumbass didn't "trust the experts" so stopped his approved Botox treatment that was working and got an unapproved useless implant.
Me when my wife sees the browser history
yeah like it is probably "safer" if nobody leaves their homes but *nobody wants to live like this* and it's the same motherfuckers who wouldn't shut up about "muh government overreach" when asked to mask up for a couple months to save actual hundreds of thousands of lives
I wish you were the one writing headlines instead of... whoever.
so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
when they've only got one joint to sell
a friend of mine very sweetly said this piece read like something that would have been on a Gawker Media website in like 2013, which is especially high praise considering that that's sort of where i learned to write!! give it a read :)
I can
My position on the "doomsday" risk of superhuman AGI is that if IQ offered you a decisive advantage, the world would be run by nerds. I think it's essentially a geek power fantasy. The returns on puzzle-solving skills rapidly diminish past some modest threshold.
trump has trapped america's leading evangelical theologians in a room with top officials at the SEC until they come up with an interpretation of the gospels that exempts cryptocurrency from jesus' idea of what makes a man rich
repeatedly emailing tens of millions of people that he is thinking a lot about what will happen when he dies is definitely helping, he should send more of these. i've only gotten like four of these in the last few days, keep it up, sir.
thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago
no way to prevent [our product from driving users to suicide] says only [tech company] where this regularly happens
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
"how am i going to explain gay people to my kids" my man I was on a hike with my family and my wife mentioned "grizzly man," I had to explain grizzly man to my kids. you need to get onto my fucking level. we must have talked about grizzly man for forty five minutes and i felt every one
yes, good
the song "Hotel California" was released in 1976. if it were released today, the lyric would go: so i called up the captain, "please bring me my wine" he said "we haven't had that spirit here since 2018"
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
yes.
i just realized that my laundry basket, which i must've owned for 15+ years, is labeled "2 bushels" so, for the first time in my life, i have some idea what a bushel is
Foreign students seeking advanced degrees will show up, do the 2-3 years of required classes & dissertation proposal & research. Return their home country to finish writing dissertation & present it on Zoom. Then stay in the home country to advance *their* economy instead of (maybe) ours. Self-own.
"Find Malenia, Blade of Miquella, and wait for Let Me Solo Her to arrive"
generally i find quest logs very boring but seeing "beat the game" pop up after finishing the tutorial is genuine comedy
truly baffling that a culture obsessed with machismo and swimming in semi-automatics would struggle with gun violence