Chris Lay
@chrislay.bsky.social
Villen, lefty, runner, engineer, in that order.
Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite.
Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook.
Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online.
Some ville, Mass
Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite.
Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook.
Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online.
Some ville, Mass
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Chris Lay
@chrislay.bsky.social
· Jul 24
An idea: UBI+JG. The SOEs staffed by the JG produce the basket of goods and services necessary to dignified material existence and participation in society, priced so that the whole basket costs the UBI. The UBI is fully taxed away by progressive income tax by the time you get to 1.5x median income.
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cmon this must already exist. Don't make me call it "Tweety's Law" or something loathsome like that
I feel like there should be a named curve of the decreasing effectiveness of automation if you’re trying to actually do good work
December 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
cmon this must already exist. Don't make me call it "Tweety's Law" or something loathsome like that
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feels like pam bondi is pushing trump onto the tracks to save herself from bipartisan impeachment. real sinking ship behavior
The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm
December 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
feels like pam bondi is pushing trump onto the tracks to save herself from bipartisan impeachment. real sinking ship behavior
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A bunch of commentators are busy qualifying this like “well what if it’s fake” and I submit to you that’s the whole problem, piles of piles of evidence exist on every vector and the reflex is to let him of the hook like “well what would constitute PROOF”
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
A bunch of commentators are busy qualifying this like “well what if it’s fake” and I submit to you that’s the whole problem, piles of piles of evidence exist on every vector and the reflex is to let him of the hook like “well what would constitute PROOF”
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Conservatives absolutely do not fret about whether evidence is fully buttoned up and they do not bear a political cost for it
December 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Conservatives absolutely do not fret about whether evidence is fully buttoned up and they do not bear a political cost for it
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Pure fanaticism, just objectively bad policy especially while building all these new data centers. But also an opportunity for Democrats to say loudly, over and over again, that Trump and Republicans are making everything more expensive. Higher electricity costs impact everything.
Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Pure fanaticism, just objectively bad policy especially while building all these new data centers. But also an opportunity for Democrats to say loudly, over and over again, that Trump and Republicans are making everything more expensive. Higher electricity costs impact everything.
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these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election.
we are in december of year one.
we are in december of year one.
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election.
we are in december of year one.
we are in december of year one.
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Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
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Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
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Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
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OK I've watched it.
One key piece that hasn't been discussed: DHS didn't just decline to comment, they explicitly referred all questions to El Salvador.
One key piece that hasn't been discussed: DHS didn't just decline to comment, they explicitly referred all questions to El Salvador.
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
OK I've watched it.
One key piece that hasn't been discussed: DHS didn't just decline to comment, they explicitly referred all questions to El Salvador.
One key piece that hasn't been discussed: DHS didn't just decline to comment, they explicitly referred all questions to El Salvador.
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watching the CECOT 60 Minutes segment that CBS suppressed, it’s striking that Weiss specifically called out as unnecessary some of the most rigorous investigative work in the segment, including an explanation of how it was done (by human rights researchers)
December 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
watching the CECOT 60 Minutes segment that CBS suppressed, it’s striking that Weiss specifically called out as unnecessary some of the most rigorous investigative work in the segment, including an explanation of how it was done (by human rights researchers)
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The only good experience of median-running transit is getting to whizz past traffic
December 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The only good experience of median-running transit is getting to whizz past traffic
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i’ll just say that this isn’t the behavior of people who think their allies are on the verge of establishing a thousand year reich, much less holding control of the national legislature next year
December 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
i’ll just say that this isn’t the behavior of people who think their allies are on the verge of establishing a thousand year reich, much less holding control of the national legislature next year
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"US net exports of O&G are good for decarb, particularly if we redistribute producer earnings and invest in clean energy + electrification"
Treating this unsubstantiated and, frankly, insane claim as straightforwardly factual is extremely bad intellectual practice.
Treating this unsubstantiated and, frankly, insane claim as straightforwardly factual is extremely bad intellectual practice.
The @seancasten.bsky.social thread on @mattyglesias.bsky.social's O&G article gets basic stuff wrong.
- "keep it in the ground" is an outcome, not a strategy
- US net exports of O&G are good for decarb, particularly if we redistribute producer earnings and invest in clean energy + electrification
- "keep it in the ground" is an outcome, not a strategy
- US net exports of O&G are good for decarb, particularly if we redistribute producer earnings and invest in clean energy + electrification
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"US net exports of O&G are good for decarb, particularly if we redistribute producer earnings and invest in clean energy + electrification"
Treating this unsubstantiated and, frankly, insane claim as straightforwardly factual is extremely bad intellectual practice.
Treating this unsubstantiated and, frankly, insane claim as straightforwardly factual is extremely bad intellectual practice.
I'm putting a marker on GWB in October 2008 figures. Let's go 28% by November '26!
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I'm putting a marker on GWB in October 2008 figures. Let's go 28% by November '26!
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Cully Stimson is one of the few people who *didn’t* resign from the Heritage Foundation today. He now heads up their legal division.
In 2007, Stimson had to resign from the Pentagon after threatening law firms with retaliation for representing Gitmo prisoners pro bono.
How quaint!
In 2007, Stimson had to resign from the Pentagon after threatening law firms with retaliation for representing Gitmo prisoners pro bono.
How quaint!
December 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Cully Stimson is one of the few people who *didn’t* resign from the Heritage Foundation today. He now heads up their legal division.
In 2007, Stimson had to resign from the Pentagon after threatening law firms with retaliation for representing Gitmo prisoners pro bono.
How quaint!
In 2007, Stimson had to resign from the Pentagon after threatening law firms with retaliation for representing Gitmo prisoners pro bono.
How quaint!
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Honestly sick of people telling me they "have to" stay on X "for the reach."
"It's where the people I need to reach are." No, it's not. You can bring them here.
"The people I want to follow are there." You can bring them here too.
Lots of other people have. You can too.
"It's where the people I need to reach are." No, it's not. You can bring them here.
"The people I want to follow are there." You can bring them here too.
Lots of other people have. You can too.
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Honestly sick of people telling me they "have to" stay on X "for the reach."
"It's where the people I need to reach are." No, it's not. You can bring them here.
"The people I want to follow are there." You can bring them here too.
Lots of other people have. You can too.
"It's where the people I need to reach are." No, it's not. You can bring them here.
"The people I want to follow are there." You can bring them here too.
Lots of other people have. You can too.
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This whole album is glorious despair
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This whole album is glorious despair
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Today’s gang gang was hideously cute 😇
December 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Today’s gang gang was hideously cute 😇
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Good morning from western North Dakota
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Good morning from western North Dakota
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it