dave bonner
@rascalking.com
software developer, currently at the mit media lab. masshole. he/him.
i hate having emotions about reality; i'd much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.
also @[email protected] on fedi, was @rascalking on twitter.
i hate having emotions about reality; i'd much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.
also @[email protected] on fedi, was @rascalking on twitter.
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WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.
AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it
There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.
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the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
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You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.
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Everywhere we turn we’re getting fucked
Yeah, the "dynamic pricing" in big box stores is the same. Depending on who is looking at the tag, time of day, etc. the price for items can literally change from the shelf to the register. 😤 Freaking DISNEY is even going to start using it! deadline.com/2025/11/disn...
Disney Will Bring Dynamic Pricing Similar To Airline Model To Domestic Theme Parks, Says CFO
Disney will bring dynamic pricing similar to the model used by airlines to its domestic theme parks as the company looks to boost incremental revenue.
deadline.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Everywhere we turn we’re getting fucked
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
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Reminder, me and my large necked homie @cerromerussell.blacksky.app will be in DC being funny Dec 26-28. Tickets is right thurrr
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Reminder, me and my large necked homie @cerromerussell.blacksky.app will be in DC being funny Dec 26-28. Tickets is right thurrr
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we gotta do something about the tech world
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
we gotta do something about the tech world
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This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.
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Hello, Capcom? Yeah it’s Stella again. No it’s no big deal I’m just—yeah I had another question. I guess I’m just wondering why Dhalsim, the pacifist yogi, is wearing a necklace of what appear to be children’s skulls? Maybe you could get Ono on the line for me? Sure I’ll hold
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Hello, Capcom? Yeah it’s Stella again. No it’s no big deal I’m just—yeah I had another question. I guess I’m just wondering why Dhalsim, the pacifist yogi, is wearing a necklace of what appear to be children’s skulls? Maybe you could get Ono on the line for me? Sure I’ll hold
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"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.
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Just pure evil. No other word to use.
November 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Just pure evil. No other word to use.
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Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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Thread [1/9]
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
Thread [1/9]
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Finally streaming Kenny Leon's 2023 Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Hamlet,' set in modern-day Atlanta. Great cast with Ato Blankson-Wood as an unreadable, unsettling prince, John Douglas Thompson uncommonly sympathetic as Claudius. Streaming free through 12/31. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/h...
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Finally streaming Kenny Leon's 2023 Shakespeare in the Park production of 'Hamlet,' set in modern-day Atlanta. Great cast with Ato Blankson-Wood as an unreadable, unsettling prince, John Douglas Thompson uncommonly sympathetic as Claudius. Streaming free through 12/31. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/h...
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I once had an argument with my dad about a capital gains tax, he was complaining about how it would affect him. I told him to go look at his microwave and I asked if it was dirty. He said yes and I told him to shut up it doesn’t effect you.
May 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I once had an argument with my dad about a capital gains tax, he was complaining about how it would affect him. I told him to go look at his microwave and I asked if it was dirty. He said yes and I told him to shut up it doesn’t effect you.
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It’s always fun to see the clips of the Sunday political shows because you get to go “yep the news lets people lie to them for an hour and airs it”
November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It’s always fun to see the clips of the Sunday political shows because you get to go “yep the news lets people lie to them for an hour and airs it”
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November 30: Awful situation across parts of South & Southeast Asia as two cyclones spawned extreme flooding and landslides that have left more than 1,000 people dead.
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
November 30: Awful situation across parts of South & Southeast Asia as two cyclones spawned extreme flooding and landslides that have left more than 1,000 people dead.
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
CY Ditwah
- Sri Lanka: >334 dead
CY Senyar
- Thailand: >162 dead; >$1bn economic loss
- Indonesia: >505 dead
- Malaysia: >3 dead
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Developers are relying on two things to happen:
1) They'll parachute out w profits before inundation becomes a concern.
2) Public bailouts will protect their properties.
I'm sorry, Boston isn't Manhattan, where there are $2+ trillion in assets to protect. AFAICT bailouts needed won't be available.
1) They'll parachute out w profits before inundation becomes a concern.
2) Public bailouts will protect their properties.
I'm sorry, Boston isn't Manhattan, where there are $2+ trillion in assets to protect. AFAICT bailouts needed won't be available.
Why wasn't the project elevated?
Are you going to tell me that the City of Boston didn't know about sea level rise, storm surge and stormwater flooding in 2012? Please.
Nearly 10 years later, as of 2021, Boston still didn't have mandatory resiliency guidelines.
Profits drive decision-making.
Are you going to tell me that the City of Boston didn't know about sea level rise, storm surge and stormwater flooding in 2012? Please.
Nearly 10 years later, as of 2021, Boston still didn't have mandatory resiliency guidelines.
Profits drive decision-making.
Example project by the developer that authored the Globe opinion.
One Channel Center received an $11.5m tax break from Boston. Built for $225m (2012). Sold for $316m (2015). JACKPOT!
The project sits in a FEMA-designated high-risk flood plain. It's already relying on AquaFences.
One Channel Center received an $11.5m tax break from Boston. Built for $225m (2012). Sold for $316m (2015). JACKPOT!
The project sits in a FEMA-designated high-risk flood plain. It's already relying on AquaFences.
November 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Developers are relying on two things to happen:
1) They'll parachute out w profits before inundation becomes a concern.
2) Public bailouts will protect their properties.
I'm sorry, Boston isn't Manhattan, where there are $2+ trillion in assets to protect. AFAICT bailouts needed won't be available.
1) They'll parachute out w profits before inundation becomes a concern.
2) Public bailouts will protect their properties.
I'm sorry, Boston isn't Manhattan, where there are $2+ trillion in assets to protect. AFAICT bailouts needed won't be available.
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paprika is why i don’t have hundreds of screenshotted recipes in my phone!
The single most useful cooking app I use, Paprika, is on its annual sale
You give it links and it pulls and formats the recipe for you so you can save it and look at it in the future without ads or long narratives
I use it on my phone, so here’s the link apps.apple.com/us/app/papri...
You give it links and it pulls and formats the recipe for you so you can save it and look at it in the future without ads or long narratives
I use it on my phone, so here’s the link apps.apple.com/us/app/papri...
Paprika Recipe Manager 3 App - App Store
Download Paprika Recipe Manager 3 by Hindsight Labs LLC on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Paprika Recipe…
apps.apple.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
paprika is why i don’t have hundreds of screenshotted recipes in my phone!
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Yet another reminder that the very best job in this world is failed college football coach.
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Yet another reminder that the very best job in this world is failed college football coach.
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James Cameron stayed at the hotel I worked at in OKC a few times a year because his wife is from the city and he was a gigantic prick every single time. Treated all the workers like shit, never tipped, etc.
I am of the opinion that how a person treats service workers tells you who they really are.
I am of the opinion that how a person treats service workers tells you who they really are.
icymi- james cameron lurves elon musk apparently www.theringer.com/podcasts/the...
Part 1: James Cameron on ‘Avatar’ Misconceptions, AI’s Skynet Moment, and His Elon Musk Friendship - The Ringer
James Cameron joins for a wide-ranging conversation on the filmmaking of the ‘Avatar’ franchise, how it landed at Fox/Disney, motion-capture technology, the cost of CGI, the threat of AI, ...
www.theringer.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
James Cameron stayed at the hotel I worked at in OKC a few times a year because his wife is from the city and he was a gigantic prick every single time. Treated all the workers like shit, never tipped, etc.
I am of the opinion that how a person treats service workers tells you who they really are.
I am of the opinion that how a person treats service workers tells you who they really are.
the @pbs.org production of twelfth night (www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...) is super fun, and still streaming for free.
also now i need to plan on a nyc trip to see shakespeare in the park, because holy shit, the drone shots of the theater before it started were _stunning_.
also now i need to plan on a nyc trip to see shakespeare in the park, because holy shit, the drone shots of the theater before it started were _stunning_.
Twelfth Night ~ About | Great Performances | PBS
The Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identity starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Junior Nyong'o and more.
www.pbs.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
the @pbs.org production of twelfth night (www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...) is super fun, and still streaming for free.
also now i need to plan on a nyc trip to see shakespeare in the park, because holy shit, the drone shots of the theater before it started were _stunning_.
also now i need to plan on a nyc trip to see shakespeare in the park, because holy shit, the drone shots of the theater before it started were _stunning_.
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I still can't get over that what's being pumped out by official admin accounts isn't the stuff of daily, scandalized headlines
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I still can't get over that what's being pumped out by official admin accounts isn't the stuff of daily, scandalized headlines