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Fuck my life. I have a mountain of these now. Please buy one. www.mulebooks.com/store/2025-s...
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Fuck my life. I have a mountain of these now. Please buy one. www.mulebooks.com/store/2025-s...
IC: One last question. You bought a new grill this year?
JR: That’s right a flat top—
IC: It says here as a Mother’s Day gift. For your wife?
JR: Come on that was clearly a jo—
IC: And the “One (1) World’s Greatest Massage” gift certificate. Also a joke?
JR: …
IC: Nine years in a row. Nine.
JR: That’s right a flat top—
IC: It says here as a Mother’s Day gift. For your wife?
JR: Come on that was clearly a jo—
IC: And the “One (1) World’s Greatest Massage” gift certificate. Also a joke?
JR: …
IC: Nine years in a row. Nine.
Look I just try to live my life so that if Isaac Chotiner ever interviews me I will have nothing to be worried about. As a heuristic, I think it’s pretty good
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
IC: One last question. You bought a new grill this year?
JR: That’s right a flat top—
IC: It says here as a Mother’s Day gift. For your wife?
JR: Come on that was clearly a jo—
IC: And the “One (1) World’s Greatest Massage” gift certificate. Also a joke?
JR: …
IC: Nine years in a row. Nine.
JR: That’s right a flat top—
IC: It says here as a Mother’s Day gift. For your wife?
JR: Come on that was clearly a jo—
IC: And the “One (1) World’s Greatest Massage” gift certificate. Also a joke?
JR: …
IC: Nine years in a row. Nine.
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After six years of relentless development, Orion for MacOS 1.0 is here: blog.kagi.com/orion
Also: Orion for Linux is currently in Alpha, and Orion for Windows has officially started development with a target launch for late 2026.
Orion also has a dedicated website now: orionbrowser.com
Also: Orion for Linux is currently in Alpha, and Orion for Windows has officially started development with a target launch for late 2026.
Orion also has a dedicated website now: orionbrowser.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
After six years of relentless development, Orion for MacOS 1.0 is here: blog.kagi.com/orion
Also: Orion for Linux is currently in Alpha, and Orion for Windows has officially started development with a target launch for late 2026.
Orion also has a dedicated website now: orionbrowser.com
Also: Orion for Linux is currently in Alpha, and Orion for Windows has officially started development with a target launch for late 2026.
Orion also has a dedicated website now: orionbrowser.com
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We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector
Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector inte...
defector.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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For the next two weeks you can save £60 (about $80) on any Piccalilli course, and you'll get a coupon code that gives you 50% off future courses. If you've been waiting to grab a copy of JavaScript for Everyone, this is the time to do it:
piccalil.li/javascript-f...
piccalil.li/javascript-f...
JavaScript for Everyone
A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalil.li
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
For the next two weeks you can save £60 (about $80) on any Piccalilli course, and you'll get a coupon code that gives you 50% off future courses. If you've been waiting to grab a copy of JavaScript for Everyone, this is the time to do it:
piccalil.li/javascript-f...
piccalil.li/javascript-f...
It’s important to realize Google’s decline didn’t start with AI but by being acquired by Doubleclick (I said what I said). It took a decade but the incentives to create an internet filled with slop were baked into that deal.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It’s important to realize Google’s decline didn’t start with AI but by being acquired by Doubleclick (I said what I said). It took a decade but the incentives to create an internet filled with slop were baked into that deal.
Dry briners, the ratio you are looking for is 0.009% Diamond Crystal kosher salt. So a 6kg turkey would be 54g of salt (convert from freedom units to make the math easier)
For Morton's kosher, 0.005%
For Morton's kosher, 0.005%
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Dry briners, the ratio you are looking for is 0.009% Diamond Crystal kosher salt. So a 6kg turkey would be 54g of salt (convert from freedom units to make the math easier)
For Morton's kosher, 0.005%
For Morton's kosher, 0.005%
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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Big thank you to Peter Hartlaub for picking up the story on my font, Fran Sans ❤️
A San Francisco designer fell in love with the typeface on an old Muni streetcar. She tracked down the man who created it to build the city’s newest font.
San Francisco has a new font. It was inspired by an old Muni streetcar
A San Francisco designer fell in love with the typeface on an old Muni streetcar. She tracked down the man who created it to build the city’s newest font.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Big thank you to Peter Hartlaub for picking up the story on my font, Fran Sans ❤️
Proof that Thanksgiving is the best holiday and Chicago is the greatest American city
I love these skits by Shannon Fiedler - the density of jokes and the pace of the editing are both pretty astonishing www.tiktok.com/@shannonfied...
Happy Thanksgiving from the city girls #comedy #thanksgiving
TikTok video by Shannon Fiedler
www.tiktok.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Proof that Thanksgiving is the best holiday and Chicago is the greatest American city
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Last call for the winter sf work/shop! Applications are due by noon EST today.
bsky.app/profile/awor...
bsky.app/profile/awor...
Very much looking forward to this next speculative fiction work/shop—it is so invigorating to spend time in community with people who are unwilling to accept that work is merely what is given to us. We get to make and take our work, too, now as much as ever. everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf
speculative fiction work/shop | everything changes
A creative gathering to imagine the future of work.
everythingchanges.us
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Last call for the winter sf work/shop! Applications are due by noon EST today.
bsky.app/profile/awor...
bsky.app/profile/awor...
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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If you need a gift for a cool weirdo, I am a reliable source for Frasier prints, paintings of Sears, Jerry Orbach artifacts, Mr. T Christmas cards, etc. store.brandonbird.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
If you need a gift for a cool weirdo, I am a reliable source for Frasier prints, paintings of Sears, Jerry Orbach artifacts, Mr. T Christmas cards, etc. store.brandonbird.com
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Tech executives won’t let their children use the products they build and spend the equivalent of elite university tuition every year to send them to elementary schools where computers are outlawed.
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tech executives won’t let their children use the products they build and spend the equivalent of elite university tuition every year to send them to elementary schools where computers are outlawed.
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How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.
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something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
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hi friends, I’m so thrilled @publicgood.tech is on BlueSky! I've been a board member since 2021 & I care deeply about this org: the only one dedicated to supporting the people who do the very hard work of civic tech
Heads-up: I’m asking for donations give.socialgoodfund.org/t4pg-fund?re...
Heads-up: I’m asking for donations give.socialgoodfund.org/t4pg-fund?re...
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
hi friends, I’m so thrilled @publicgood.tech is on BlueSky! I've been a board member since 2021 & I care deeply about this org: the only one dedicated to supporting the people who do the very hard work of civic tech
Heads-up: I’m asking for donations give.socialgoodfund.org/t4pg-fund?re...
Heads-up: I’m asking for donations give.socialgoodfund.org/t4pg-fund?re...
Youngest brought this "fairy wand" home from school and I'm afraid to throw it away because the last thing I need is two dozen crazed elementary school kids tearing my house apart.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Youngest brought this "fairy wand" home from school and I'm afraid to throw it away because the last thing I need is two dozen crazed elementary school kids tearing my house apart.
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it’s nice to live in NYC now where almost all of our progressive politicians recognize the importance of building more housing
SF politics sucks because NIMBY conservatives are constantly trying to gaslight you into thinking that anti-transit politicians like Connie Chan are actually progressive
SF politics sucks because NIMBY conservatives are constantly trying to gaslight you into thinking that anti-transit politicians like Connie Chan are actually progressive
In a city full of NIMBYs, Connie Chan is one of the biggest. she’s also super anti-transit and opposed measure RR that saved Caltrain during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Scott has led the cause for almost every pro-housing and transit bill
Scott vs. Connie is the definition of good governance vs. bad
Meanwhile, Scott has led the cause for almost every pro-housing and transit bill
Scott vs. Connie is the definition of good governance vs. bad
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
it’s nice to live in NYC now where almost all of our progressive politicians recognize the importance of building more housing
SF politics sucks because NIMBY conservatives are constantly trying to gaslight you into thinking that anti-transit politicians like Connie Chan are actually progressive
SF politics sucks because NIMBY conservatives are constantly trying to gaslight you into thinking that anti-transit politicians like Connie Chan are actually progressive
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imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
imagine knowing literally anything about Haiti and deciding to try this
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I have the same feeling about autocorrect, where just dealing with the mistakes and the cognitive load of spotting the non-human errors (as opposed to human ones which are just spelling mistakes) is much higher than simply typing the messages yourself.
I did this, and that meant it stopped dividing my inbox into 'important/not important' and christ I don't know how to say this but... it turns out that that little bit of so-called 'smart help' was making my inbox much harder to manage?
Time to look into your settings, folks.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have the same feeling about autocorrect, where just dealing with the mistakes and the cognitive load of spotting the non-human errors (as opposed to human ones which are just spelling mistakes) is much higher than simply typing the messages yourself.