3rd Coast Chick
@3rdcoastchick.bsky.social
Into music, movies, backyard gardening, books, TV, etc. Gulf Coast. I repost quite a bit of news and political stuff plus science and technology
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I read a book on making money in ancient Athens recently (by Michael Leese, it's great), and the Greeks absolutely believed that the endless pursuit of wealth was a serious moral defect and personality issue no different than being a drunk or sexual deviant.
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I read a book on making money in ancient Athens recently (by Michael Leese, it's great), and the Greeks absolutely believed that the endless pursuit of wealth was a serious moral defect and personality issue no different than being a drunk or sexual deviant.
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Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ... because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."
December 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ... because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."
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I dunno but it seems like it undermines Disney’s future brand integrity/infringement claims when they’re paying OpenAI a billion dollars to let people make fan art and stream it on Disney+. Like NYT suing everyone while also licensing those same APIs for their newsroom. Pick a fucking lane.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I dunno but it seems like it undermines Disney’s future brand integrity/infringement claims when they’re paying OpenAI a billion dollars to let people make fan art and stream it on Disney+. Like NYT suing everyone while also licensing those same APIs for their newsroom. Pick a fucking lane.
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generational discourse can be solved once and for all by distinguishing between "remembers no computers", "remembers no personal computers", and "remembers no cell phones". everything before that fought in wars. everything after that is, best case scenario, inventing the borg
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
generational discourse can be solved once and for all by distinguishing between "remembers no computers", "remembers no personal computers", and "remembers no cell phones". everything before that fought in wars. everything after that is, best case scenario, inventing the borg
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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The proper question is if a tech bro stole your dead grandmother’s voice and made her say shit she didn’t say because she’s like, still dead, would you pay for it?
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The proper question is if a tech bro stole your dead grandmother’s voice and made her say shit she didn’t say because she’s like, still dead, would you pay for it?
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I would be soooo interested in reading a long essay by Ta-nehisi Coates or Eve Ewing about what happened on the way to Kirk's attempted canonization. To me this was one of the most interesting things of the year on multiple levels. It's rich text starting with calling his killing an "assassination."
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I would be soooo interested in reading a long essay by Ta-nehisi Coates or Eve Ewing about what happened on the way to Kirk's attempted canonization. To me this was one of the most interesting things of the year on multiple levels. It's rich text starting with calling his killing an "assassination."
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It really is the purest encapsulation of this movement in terms of both its leaders and adherents: an old angry guy who can’t do pull ups making everyone watch him try to do pull ups
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It really is the purest encapsulation of this movement in terms of both its leaders and adherents: an old angry guy who can’t do pull ups making everyone watch him try to do pull ups
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after several days of perfectly fine but not especially libbed up seasonings like korintje cinnamon and sandwich sprinkle we've got another heater
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
after several days of perfectly fine but not especially libbed up seasonings like korintje cinnamon and sandwich sprinkle we've got another heater
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He got up and was like I have two goals today (1) to get drunk (2) to win the war of 1812
Man arrested, accused of robbing Tulsa liquor store with antique gun
Man arrested, accused of robbing liquor store with antique gun
The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man accused of robbing a south Tulsa liquor store with an antique gun on Friday night.
www.fox23.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
He got up and was like I have two goals today (1) to get drunk (2) to win the war of 1812
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This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
NEW
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
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are we supposed to be placing bets on this or something
December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
are we supposed to be placing bets on this or something
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Sidewalks are for pedestrians.
Delivery robots are taking over Chicago sidewalks, sparking debate and a petition to hit "pause." blockclubchi.co/3KmCRIu
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sidewalks are for pedestrians.
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Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 461, tomorrow, 12/9, 5300 Memorial Dr., 11:30-1.(Don't park in any private lot.) Trump announces authoritarian national security strategy & locally Whitmire sides with authoritarians over freedom. We must show up for all to see. Voting will not be enough. #Houston
December 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 461, tomorrow, 12/9, 5300 Memorial Dr., 11:30-1.(Don't park in any private lot.) Trump announces authoritarian national security strategy & locally Whitmire sides with authoritarians over freedom. We must show up for all to see. Voting will not be enough. #Houston
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This is not some secret, uncomfortable truth. Women account for 60% of college graduates in Texas. Idk if ending DEI will ↓ men's numbers but it won't increase them; they're graduating fewer bc they're less competitive academically as a class. It's structural. And maybe permanent. For now, anyway.
Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This is not some secret, uncomfortable truth. Women account for 60% of college graduates in Texas. Idk if ending DEI will ↓ men's numbers but it won't increase them; they're graduating fewer bc they're less competitive academically as a class. It's structural. And maybe permanent. For now, anyway.
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One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
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Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.
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 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Every nazi movement needs a youth wing.
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
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Right. I want them to invent a device that automatically cleans the toilet so I have more time to write a novel, not something to write the novel while I clean the toilets
December 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Right. I want them to invent a device that automatically cleans the toilet so I have more time to write a novel, not something to write the novel while I clean the toilets
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you know how guys that suck at sex don’t believe in the female orgasm? I think this is a lot like that
December 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
you know how guys that suck at sex don’t believe in the female orgasm? I think this is a lot like that
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They don’t understand that the process of making something is the joy, not selling the end product. Their entire lives are wrecked because they don’t understand this simple premise.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They don’t understand that the process of making something is the joy, not selling the end product. Their entire lives are wrecked because they don’t understand this simple premise.
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Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
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it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
December 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
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Normal person walking past a field of wildflowers: What a beautiful field of wildflowers
Me after 4 years of Poison Ivy-related research: You could kill a whole dinner party with some of the shit growing in there
Me after 4 years of Poison Ivy-related research: You could kill a whole dinner party with some of the shit growing in there
December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Normal person walking past a field of wildflowers: What a beautiful field of wildflowers
Me after 4 years of Poison Ivy-related research: You could kill a whole dinner party with some of the shit growing in there
Me after 4 years of Poison Ivy-related research: You could kill a whole dinner party with some of the shit growing in there