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We need to verb more nouns. Like “Sorry I can’t go to your party I’m baked beansing that night.” Or “I totally cunted my way through that job interview.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
We need to verb more nouns. Like “Sorry I can’t go to your party I’m baked beansing that night.” Or “I totally cunted my way through that job interview.”
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This balloon strategy is so stupid and so effective 😐
Lithuania declares state of emergency over Belarus balloons
The Baltic state says the balloons, which have forced the closure of Vilnius airport, constitute a "hybrid attack" by Belarus. It says they have been sent by smugglers to fly in cigarettes.
news.sky.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This balloon strategy is so stupid and so effective 😐
Accurate.
I’ve cut back on planning & find myself paying a lot more attention to present conditions as a result. Have to do both —& base your actions both on what you want to happen & how things actually are.
I’ve cut back on planning & find myself paying a lot more attention to present conditions as a result. Have to do both —& base your actions both on what you want to happen & how things actually are.
But, I worry, because I can see the cracks in the wall: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/but-i-worry/
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Accurate.
I’ve cut back on planning & find myself paying a lot more attention to present conditions as a result. Have to do both —& base your actions both on what you want to happen & how things actually are.
I’ve cut back on planning & find myself paying a lot more attention to present conditions as a result. Have to do both —& base your actions both on what you want to happen & how things actually are.
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Clocks match a lot of things throughout a day, not just how you wave your arms for certain times. The day your tie was born, when your socks got married, the end of your drapes when you caught them up in another window. It's not coincidence.
December 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Clocks match a lot of things throughout a day, not just how you wave your arms for certain times. The day your tie was born, when your socks got married, the end of your drapes when you caught them up in another window. It's not coincidence.
We should probably start having a common definition of what ‘technology’ means. It’s not just computers. That’s high tech of a very specific type.
Technology just means tools. Wheels are tech. Vaccines are tech. LLMs are tech. It’s all tech.
Technology just means tools. Wheels are tech. Vaccines are tech. LLMs are tech. It’s all tech.
December 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
We should probably start having a common definition of what ‘technology’ means. It’s not just computers. That’s high tech of a very specific type.
Technology just means tools. Wheels are tech. Vaccines are tech. LLMs are tech. It’s all tech.
Technology just means tools. Wheels are tech. Vaccines are tech. LLMs are tech. It’s all tech.
The Luddites didn’t actually have an issue with technology overall. They had an issue with specific technology & how it impacted both worker pay & output quality.
We forget that. Sometimes going backwards in targeted ways for specific purposes can mean going forward in the longer term.
We forget that. Sometimes going backwards in targeted ways for specific purposes can mean going forward in the longer term.
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Luddites didn’t actually have an issue with technology overall. They had an issue with specific technology & how it impacted both worker pay & output quality.
We forget that. Sometimes going backwards in targeted ways for specific purposes can mean going forward in the longer term.
We forget that. Sometimes going backwards in targeted ways for specific purposes can mean going forward in the longer term.
“I shouldn’t have to learn anything about anyone else because Galileo was wrong & I am the center of the universe.” —Republicans, probably
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“I shouldn’t have to learn anything about anyone else because Galileo was wrong & I am the center of the universe.” —Republicans, probably
Thinking back before all the recent unpleasantness to a bunch of white folks who felt they couldn’t attend multicultural festivals because they felt left out rather than thinking, “Ooh! Food!” & going & eating some mofongo* or whatever.
*mofongo is Puerto Rican & therefore holds a US passport
*mofongo is Puerto Rican & therefore holds a US passport
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Thinking back before all the recent unpleasantness to a bunch of white folks who felt they couldn’t attend multicultural festivals because they felt left out rather than thinking, “Ooh! Food!” & going & eating some mofongo* or whatever.
*mofongo is Puerto Rican & therefore holds a US passport
*mofongo is Puerto Rican & therefore holds a US passport
I ❤️ DEI.
It improves outcomes for everyone AND it’s inclusive of everyone. What’s not to love?
It improves outcomes for everyone AND it’s inclusive of everyone. What’s not to love?
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I ❤️ DEI.
It improves outcomes for everyone AND it’s inclusive of everyone. What’s not to love?
It improves outcomes for everyone AND it’s inclusive of everyone. What’s not to love?
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“The Matthew Effect applied to kebab shops”
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
“The Matthew Effect applied to kebab shops”
The side who allows death & r*pe threats is not the side of the good. Ever.
A “culture of fear” is what arises from terrorism.
A “culture of fear” is what arises from terrorism.
This is horrifying and cannot be allowed to become normal.
"A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues."
https://bit.ly/44irJTE
"A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues."
https://bit.ly/44irJTE
UK charities face ‘culture of fear’ as threats and violence surge
Exclusive: Charity Commission chief condemns public hostility towards staff helping women and refugees and at places of worship
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The side who allows death & r*pe threats is not the side of the good. Ever.
A “culture of fear” is what arises from terrorism.
A “culture of fear” is what arises from terrorism.
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It’s a word crime what they did. They made our word we use to describe awareness of oppression into an antiblack slur.
The bitterly ironic thing is that people using woke as a pejorative are NEVER asked to define what they mean by it. Never. The media establishment is culpable in enabling the reactionary backlash against progressive ideas.
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It’s a word crime what they did. They made our word we use to describe awareness of oppression into an antiblack slur.
At some point, the world needs to talk about the elephant in the room in Dubai.
Even as a Tory I must admit Reform MPs are devoted to serving their constituencies. For example Lee Anderson selling his ‘funny’ 30p football shirts in Ashdown & Nigel Farage’s outstanding work in Clacton.
Oh & here is Richard Tice working hard in his constituency of Skegness.
📃
Oh & here is Richard Tice working hard in his constituency of Skegness.
📃
December 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
At some point, the world needs to talk about the elephant in the room in Dubai.
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My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
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Can’t speak for anyone else, but I could go for a hostile takeover right about now.
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I could go for a hostile takeover right about now.
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Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
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Going on shark tank to pitch my idea of a sex robot that looks like Mr. Bean
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Going on shark tank to pitch my idea of a sex robot that looks like Mr. Bean
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I can’t go on like this.
*continues to go on like that*
*continues to go on like that*
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I can’t go on like this.
*continues to go on like that*
*continues to go on like that*
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Stricter corporate regulations? All well and good but what we really need is to have these soulless motherfuckers driven into the sea.
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Stricter corporate regulations? All well and good but what we really need is to have these soulless motherfuckers driven into the sea.
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oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
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“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.”
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.”
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. Build you a last-gen project that actually fucking works.
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. Build you a last-gen project that actually fucking works.
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Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.
‘Stop killing us’: Huge crowds rally in Brazil, decrying rise in femicide
Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.
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Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.