Graham Cummins
@grahamiancummins.bsky.social
Bikes, transit, tech, dense cities, wilderness, thriving within environmental limits.
Rare spectacled bears approve this recommendation.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Rare spectacled bears approve this recommendation.
It really would be simpler if we just phrased this stuff accurately, as "Trump continues to be consistently racist. Voters are split over whether this is good or bad."
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It really would be simpler if we just phrased this stuff accurately, as "Trump continues to be consistently racist. Voters are split over whether this is good or bad."
Maybe successful women in single-division esports would get too many death threats?
December 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Maybe successful women in single-division esports would get too many death threats?
+1.
Shitty technology does more than create problems. It weaves itself into the world, causing everything it touches to create more problems.
Shitty technology does more than create problems. It weaves itself into the world, causing everything it touches to create more problems.
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
+1.
Shitty technology does more than create problems. It weaves itself into the world, causing everything it touches to create more problems.
Shitty technology does more than create problems. It weaves itself into the world, causing everything it touches to create more problems.
You were going to say "czar," yes?
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
You were going to say "czar," yes?
And I thought Thiel named the company Palantir just because he's a very confused LOTR fan.
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
And I thought Thiel named the company Palantir just because he's a very confused LOTR fan.
Not cheaper. I think the question is why so many of us are willing to let the private owner class take our money.
I think that's because they've been waging a propaganda war on the topic "government (our only competitors and the only limit to our power) is bad at everything" for decades.
I think that's because they've been waging a propaganda war on the topic "government (our only competitors and the only limit to our power) is bad at everything" for decades.
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Not cheaper. I think the question is why so many of us are willing to let the private owner class take our money.
I think that's because they've been waging a propaganda war on the topic "government (our only competitors and the only limit to our power) is bad at everything" for decades.
I think that's because they've been waging a propaganda war on the topic "government (our only competitors and the only limit to our power) is bad at everything" for decades.
We can't though. We'd never get funding. Investors believe in Musk (apparently because they are clinically insane people who need to be restrained to reduce their threat to self and other), but not in non-rich people.
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We can't though. We'd never get funding. Investors believe in Musk (apparently because they are clinically insane people who need to be restrained to reduce their threat to self and other), but not in non-rich people.
AI really *is* going to revolutionize work! (but not how they claimed it would)
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
AI really *is* going to revolutionize work! (but not how they claimed it would)
"What if we put evil morons in charge of everything?
Huh. It isn't working out as well as I hoped."
Huh. It isn't working out as well as I hoped."
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"What if we put evil morons in charge of everything?
Huh. It isn't working out as well as I hoped."
Huh. It isn't working out as well as I hoped."
The implied part (you need to become worthy of being liked before asking anyone if they like you anyway) is bad advice.
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The implied part (you need to become worthy of being liked before asking anyone if they like you anyway) is bad advice.
We've got a world full of toxins *directly because of* billionaires and old-money families. Maybe listen to *literally anybody else* about how to deal with it?
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We've got a world full of toxins *directly because of* billionaires and old-money families. Maybe listen to *literally anybody else* about how to deal with it?
> a world that is indeed full of industrial poison
Spot on.
The weird part, to me, is how willing people are to let the modern-era coal barons direct their outrage against black lung and bad company store goods.
Spot on.
The weird part, to me, is how willing people are to let the modern-era coal barons direct their outrage against black lung and bad company store goods.
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
> a world that is indeed full of industrial poison
Spot on.
The weird part, to me, is how willing people are to let the modern-era coal barons direct their outrage against black lung and bad company store goods.
Spot on.
The weird part, to me, is how willing people are to let the modern-era coal barons direct their outrage against black lung and bad company store goods.
Correct take, but OTOH "he's got 6 months to live" might give enough people enough hope to keep whatever parts of society they work in patched together for 6 more months. 🤷
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Correct take, but OTOH "he's got 6 months to live" might give enough people enough hope to keep whatever parts of society they work in patched together for 6 more months. 🤷
Hard cosign, but it's too late. This is exactly what we (US) got in government this year :(
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Hard cosign, but it's too late. This is exactly what we (US) got in government this year :(
This sucks, and it's much more common than it should be.
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This sucks, and it's much more common than it should be.
> spent 41 minutes waiting for two men to drown
That was my bet after reading that shit about them trying to right the boat, as evidence that they were staying in the fight.
It was, in fact, taken as evidence that they might not die on their own.
That was my bet after reading that shit about them trying to right the boat, as evidence that they were staying in the fight.
It was, in fact, taken as evidence that they might not die on their own.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
> spent 41 minutes waiting for two men to drown
That was my bet after reading that shit about them trying to right the boat, as evidence that they were staying in the fight.
It was, in fact, taken as evidence that they might not die on their own.
That was my bet after reading that shit about them trying to right the boat, as evidence that they were staying in the fight.
It was, in fact, taken as evidence that they might not die on their own.
Not convinced this is true. Shareholders have not indicated that they are wise or fair on average. Granting them more governance power might replace a lot of founder CEOs, but IMO it would mostly replace them with robber barons of no great merit.
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Not convinced this is true. Shareholders have not indicated that they are wise or fair on average. Granting them more governance power might replace a lot of founder CEOs, but IMO it would mostly replace them with robber barons of no great merit.
Like many moral panics, it's a *preference* panic under the hood. To a small extent, a market without sufficient price signalling is offering people bad options, but to a greater extent, people are voluntarily buying home appliances with 'net connections, and OMG WTF WHY ARE THEY BARKING MAD?!?
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Like many moral panics, it's a *preference* panic under the hood. To a small extent, a market without sufficient price signalling is offering people bad options, but to a greater extent, people are voluntarily buying home appliances with 'net connections, and OMG WTF WHY ARE THEY BARKING MAD?!?
Also, "caffeinated kitten" is doubling down in a questionable direction.
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Also, "caffeinated kitten" is doubling down in a questionable direction.
Not temperature, evidently
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Not temperature, evidently
I expect most of them knew this out of the gate. It's just that none of them were brave enough to tell Trump.
December 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I expect most of them knew this out of the gate. It's just that none of them were brave enough to tell Trump.
That's likely true, but has bad long-term outcomes. Dem primaries have to resolve policy disagreement across the whole political spectrum. GOP primaries go ever-further down the rabbit hole, and general elections remain referendums on rule of law, with the pro-law side fragmented on policy.
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
That's likely true, but has bad long-term outcomes. Dem primaries have to resolve policy disagreement across the whole political spectrum. GOP primaries go ever-further down the rabbit hole, and general elections remain referendums on rule of law, with the pro-law side fragmented on policy.