Jessica🏳️⚧️
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I am beginning to develop a suspicion of national decline based in elevating STEM nerds to dangerously high social positions, because their tendency to believe that "anything that cannot be properly measured should not be argued for" is being more revealed by the day as an inherently reactionary one
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I am beginning to develop a suspicion of national decline based in elevating STEM nerds to dangerously high social positions, because their tendency to believe that "anything that cannot be properly measured should not be argued for" is being more revealed by the day as an inherently reactionary one
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NIST's time services going down is less about "oh no things are going to break" (we are very resilient to muti-second drift even if people didn't have backups like GPS) and more about "oh no this is a crucial service we are being reminded has multiple underfunded and vulnerable chokepoints"
December 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
NIST's time services going down is less about "oh no things are going to break" (we are very resilient to muti-second drift even if people didn't have backups like GPS) and more about "oh no this is a crucial service we are being reminded has multiple underfunded and vulnerable chokepoints"
again can you really blame people for hating everything these guys invest in
Neither Shaun Maguire, nor Sequoia, responded to interview requests for this story. Natalie Miyake, Sequoia Capital’s communications partner, was not available when Fast Company called the firm’s offices.
Sequoia's Shaun Maguire accused an innocent Palestinian of being the Brown shooter. Then he doubled down.
Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.
www.fastcompany.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
again can you really blame people for hating everything these guys invest in
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I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - 3 beds/3.5 baths
(SW Michigan MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 5000 sq. ft. ∙ 414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ∙ $7,000,000 ∙ MLS# 25062388 ∙ This Downtown Ann Arbor penthouse stands among the finest residence...
www.redfin.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
Can you really blame people for hating everything these guys touch.
December 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Can you really blame people for hating everything these guys touch.
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Matty Y sent out a bat signal to the group chats
This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros.
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
December 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Matty Y sent out a bat signal to the group chats
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Joan Mitchell, Taillade, 1990
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135332
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135332
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Joan Mitchell, Taillade, 1990
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135332
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135332
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My big problem with the Avatar franchise is how unrealistic its depictions of human soldiers vs. scientists are. The grunts (ex-Jake) are all portrayed as gung-ho killing machines and the scientists are all a bunch of hippy peaceniks who instantly defect to the Na’vi.
December 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My big problem with the Avatar franchise is how unrealistic its depictions of human soldiers vs. scientists are. The grunts (ex-Jake) are all portrayed as gung-ho killing machines and the scientists are all a bunch of hippy peaceniks who instantly defect to the Na’vi.
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Abominations of Capital
Forcing a price on priceless things.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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a companion thesis to the “rokos basilisk is just sparkling Pascal’s wager” concept
a friend just described the way that some people in software describe LLMs as /uniquely/ positioned high leverage technologies that people
need to bandwagon now or be left
behind on as prosperity gospel shit and that is so completely on the money lol
need to bandwagon now or be left
behind on as prosperity gospel shit and that is so completely on the money lol
December 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
a companion thesis to the “rokos basilisk is just sparkling Pascal’s wager” concept
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You can tell Matty Y is in the same circles and posts in the same group chats as the AI bros because he uses the term “electrons” to describe power generation and distribution.
December 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
You can tell Matty Y is in the same circles and posts in the same group chats as the AI bros because he uses the term “electrons” to describe power generation and distribution.
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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For folks curious re the news re gender affirming care for trans youth I wrote a quick summary in the BDNH newsletter
It’s NOT a national ban.
it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care
mailchi.mp/interrupting...
It’s NOT a national ban.
it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care
mailchi.mp/interrupting...
Proposed Regulations on Gender Affirming Care, Reflecting on 2025, Resistance Lab Jan 12th & more!
mailchi.mp
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
For folks curious re the news re gender affirming care for trans youth I wrote a quick summary in the BDNH newsletter
It’s NOT a national ban.
it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care
mailchi.mp/interrupting...
It’s NOT a national ban.
it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care
mailchi.mp/interrupting...
This guys company just raised $20m. They want to pay spacex to put thousands of large mirrors in low earth orbit and then charge people for directed sunlight (it will have no negative environmental consequences because it only goes where directed, no gyroscope among thousands will ever fuck up).
![Ben Nowack ☀️🌎🪞
@bennbuilds
LA machinists - we need 12 of these ASAP. 12x quantity to start, 7075 AL, dimensions 4.5 *10.5 * 13.5. Dm me if interested in taking this on.
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December 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This guys company just raised $20m. They want to pay spacex to put thousands of large mirrors in low earth orbit and then charge people for directed sunlight (it will have no negative environmental consequences because it only goes where directed, no gyroscope among thousands will ever fuck up).
I think its understandable that people are wishcasting an AI bubble because it's truly over for democracy if some people in SV don't get gigarekt off what they've done. But the more realistic way to accomplish that is some prompt legislative/regulatory action.
December 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I think its understandable that people are wishcasting an AI bubble because it's truly over for democracy if some people in SV don't get gigarekt off what they've done. But the more realistic way to accomplish that is some prompt legislative/regulatory action.
I want scorched earth revenge on everyone trying to take my hormones away, all their allies, everyone who funds/abets them or even just glazes them. That's like 3/4 of SV. I hope they lose a lot of money even if it sets technological progress back a few years or something.
I think there’s some unproductive AI-Luddism (colloquial usage, you know what I mean, don’t be annoying), but also it’s extremely obvious where it came from and AI companies share a large portion of the blame with how they’ve framed things.
December 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I want scorched earth revenge on everyone trying to take my hormones away, all their allies, everyone who funds/abets them or even just glazes them. That's like 3/4 of SV. I hope they lose a lot of money even if it sets technological progress back a few years or something.
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a sequel:
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
a sequel:
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
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Billionaires rally around David Sacks after NYT exposé protos.com/billionaires...
Billionaires rally around David Sacks after NYT exposé
In the face of a damning New York Times article, billionaires, centimillionaires, and Trump cabinet members are rallying around David Sacks.
protos.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Billionaires rally around David Sacks after NYT exposé protos.com/billionaires...
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For years, Republicans have hidden behind an air of concern when it comes to trans rights. They said they were worried about trans women harming other women in the bathroom. But now, for @ryanlcooper.com, the lies have stopped and the transphobia is out in the open.
trib.al/vwKR3ty
trib.al/vwKR3ty
The Transphobic Mask Is Off - The American Prospect
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene drew up a bill making it a federal felony to provide pediatric transition care of any kind. The ultimate goal is a ban on all trans health care and the end of civil rights for trans people.
trib.al
December 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
For years, Republicans have hidden behind an air of concern when it comes to trans rights. They said they were worried about trans women harming other women in the bathroom. But now, for @ryanlcooper.com, the lies have stopped and the transphobia is out in the open.
trib.al/vwKR3ty
trib.al/vwKR3ty
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simultaneously a good news story on McBride's deftness and a real shattering account of how many Democrats still need to get punted into a hole in the ocean
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
Sarah McBride knew some Democrats would betray trans people, so she lobbied Republicans
Sarah McBride successfully lobbied a handful of Republicans to vote against a ban on gender-affirming care for youth.
www.advocate.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
simultaneously a good news story on McBride's deftness and a real shattering account of how many Democrats still need to get punted into a hole in the ocean
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
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This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.
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Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.
Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
December 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.
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All the anti-trans stuff this week (really, this whole year and the past several leading up to it — but especially this week) has taken a real toll on me.
I feel so sad, scared, and angry. I feel like I don't belong in this world, and that really sucks.
I feel so sad, scared, and angry. I feel like I don't belong in this world, and that really sucks.
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
All the anti-trans stuff this week (really, this whole year and the past several leading up to it — but especially this week) has taken a real toll on me.
I feel so sad, scared, and angry. I feel like I don't belong in this world, and that really sucks.
I feel so sad, scared, and angry. I feel like I don't belong in this world, and that really sucks.
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Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.
December 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.