Christopher
@selectstarman.bsky.social
Data sadist. High quality, high variance, galaxy-brained takes. Urbanism, rage against cruelty and inefficiency, scifi/fantasy, shoegaze, stats and programming. I live in Denver, say hi if you're on Ikon.
UBI, paid out on an hourly basis for socializing in meetspace with another randomly selected human
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
UBI, paid out on an hourly basis for socializing in meetspace with another randomly selected human
The year is 2053
Film is when a video content flops and you only get one episode.
TV means the pilot was a hit and you get more installments.
Film is when a video content flops and you only get one episode.
TV means the pilot was a hit and you get more installments.
December 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The year is 2053
Film is when a video content flops and you only get one episode.
TV means the pilot was a hit and you get more installments.
Film is when a video content flops and you only get one episode.
TV means the pilot was a hit and you get more installments.
When is doordash going to cut out the middleman and just directly offer the full 1000 item SYSCO menu? Burgers, daal, greens bowl, any cuisine from one stop.
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
When is doordash going to cut out the middleman and just directly offer the full 1000 item SYSCO menu? Burgers, daal, greens bowl, any cuisine from one stop.
Christmas starts on the Friday after Thanksgiving and runs through Jan 5, and every year I get love letters from the evil HOA who is fighting a war on Christmastide.
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Christmas starts on the Friday after Thanksgiving and runs through Jan 5, and every year I get love letters from the evil HOA who is fighting a war on Christmastide.
Broke: Sandwalking is only useful on Arrakis when Shai'Hulud is near
Woke: Sandwalking prevents walking from inducing waves at the resonant frequency of the mug. It is useful when walking back to your cube with a full mug.
Woke: Sandwalking prevents walking from inducing waves at the resonant frequency of the mug. It is useful when walking back to your cube with a full mug.
December 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Broke: Sandwalking is only useful on Arrakis when Shai'Hulud is near
Woke: Sandwalking prevents walking from inducing waves at the resonant frequency of the mug. It is useful when walking back to your cube with a full mug.
Woke: Sandwalking prevents walking from inducing waves at the resonant frequency of the mug. It is useful when walking back to your cube with a full mug.
One of the big missed opportunities in Rings of Power was doing time jumps. S1 showing good Númenorians sailing the world. S2, all s1 humans are dead, and the elves are no longer welcome. So many characters are immortal and it would have been great to feel the eeriness of deathless vs mortal.
HBO should reboot Rome.
Do 1-2 seasons per century. Copy Foundation & Kim Stanley Robinson's "Years of Rice and Salt" and reuse actors as reïncarnated souls continuing over the centuries to portray recurring archetypes.
Do 1-2 seasons per century. Copy Foundation & Kim Stanley Robinson's "Years of Rice and Salt" and reuse actors as reïncarnated souls continuing over the centuries to portray recurring archetypes.
December 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
One of the big missed opportunities in Rings of Power was doing time jumps. S1 showing good Númenorians sailing the world. S2, all s1 humans are dead, and the elves are no longer welcome. So many characters are immortal and it would have been great to feel the eeriness of deathless vs mortal.
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maybe the simplest encapsulation of the difference between childhood and adulthood is that magic as a child is something that just happens and magic as an adult is something you need to be open to experiencing
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
maybe the simplest encapsulation of the difference between childhood and adulthood is that magic as a child is something that just happens and magic as an adult is something you need to be open to experiencing
I think it's expenditure flexibility. The categories getting expensive (housing, medical, education, child care) are hard to reduce spending on when times are hard. You can keep your old clothes easily, and beans instead of beef is a weekly choice.
IMO the way to square the circle of “the economy is actually really good by so many metrics and America really is a rich country” and “the American economy has deep structural issues which people are lashing out against” is to focus less on affordability and more on opportunity and mobility
I know “the world’s richest country is very rich and material life there is good” is a really boring take and doesn’t leave a lot of toeholds for mass populist revolt, but it is, broadly, pretty true
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I think it's expenditure flexibility. The categories getting expensive (housing, medical, education, child care) are hard to reduce spending on when times are hard. You can keep your old clothes easily, and beans instead of beef is a weekly choice.
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the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy
Rome:
Develops new social tech (Res Publica, to direct ambition into bureaucratic competence in service to the state and citizens)
Conquers empire
Promptly forgets the good social tek
Spends centuries reörienting empire around eastern cities, almost invents political parties (Blues/Greens)
Develops new social tech (Res Publica, to direct ambition into bureaucratic competence in service to the state and citizens)
Conquers empire
Promptly forgets the good social tek
Spends centuries reörienting empire around eastern cities, almost invents political parties (Blues/Greens)
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Rome:
Develops new social tech (Res Publica, to direct ambition into bureaucratic competence in service to the state and citizens)
Conquers empire
Promptly forgets the good social tek
Spends centuries reörienting empire around eastern cities, almost invents political parties (Blues/Greens)
Develops new social tech (Res Publica, to direct ambition into bureaucratic competence in service to the state and citizens)
Conquers empire
Promptly forgets the good social tek
Spends centuries reörienting empire around eastern cities, almost invents political parties (Blues/Greens)
Senate seats should be apportioned by Metro lines, not buildings with domes and copypasta of the Model Penal Code
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Senate seats should be apportioned by Metro lines, not buildings with domes and copypasta of the Model Penal Code
Dudes rock, ancient rocks edition: Guys would rather play tetris than do extra rounds as Sysiphus.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Dudes rock, ancient rocks edition: Guys would rather play tetris than do extra rounds as Sysiphus.
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Landmark designation is a Taking and the government should have to manage the property with a right of first refusal on the lease to the original owner.
15 years of Gale Brewer promising and failing to get money for a church to do some repairs, while insisting the crumbling building just keep existing gothamist.com/news/upper-w...
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Landmark designation is a Taking and the government should have to manage the property with a right of first refusal on the lease to the original owner.
Name a better "off by one" error than "XXIst Century"
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Name a better "off by one" error than "XXIst Century"
So the magic mushrooms are strategically spreading through human nature-cultivating 👽
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November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
So the magic mushrooms are strategically spreading through human nature-cultivating 👽
While we are shutting down the scam&fraud sectors of the economy, let's not forget about shitstains who run Aspen Dental.
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
While we are shutting down the scam&fraud sectors of the economy, let's not forget about shitstains who run Aspen Dental.
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A lot of you will head for the obvious ones. If you want to hear Mani at his best, I recommend "Daybreak", "Begging You", "Xtmnr", "Shoot Speed/Kill Light". One of the greats, who, like many great bassists, played bass like it was the lead melody line, dancing around the vocal, underpinning the song
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A lot of you will head for the obvious ones. If you want to hear Mani at his best, I recommend "Daybreak", "Begging You", "Xtmnr", "Shoot Speed/Kill Light". One of the greats, who, like many great bassists, played bass like it was the lead melody line, dancing around the vocal, underpinning the song
Waymo is like nicotine Vapes: an order of magnitude safer than what they replace, but way less cool, so it's Bad. (Everyone is 16 theory of politics)
![Pop Crave & @PopCrave • 12h
Waymo co-CEO warns fatal crashes in self-driving cars are coming, and the company is already planning for them:
"We don't say "whether.' We say 'when.' And we plan for [fatal crashes]."
WAYMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ymipjgi2ebiptelhrw6zezas/bafkreicjmclzthikst76hsm4ntxz5qc44ixfgkbjlkteua4ld4clmethly@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Waymo is like nicotine Vapes: an order of magnitude safer than what they replace, but way less cool, so it's Bad. (Everyone is 16 theory of politics)
I'm really excited the zoomers are learning the classics
youtu.be/XycBLF6kWuY?...
youtu.be/XycBLF6kWuY?...
The Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
YouTube video by Maik S.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I'm really excited the zoomers are learning the classics
youtu.be/XycBLF6kWuY?...
youtu.be/XycBLF6kWuY?...
How am I supposed to get any work done when a guy a few cubes over is poorly explaining the plot of LOTR to a hot woman.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
How am I supposed to get any work done when a guy a few cubes over is poorly explaining the plot of LOTR to a hot woman.
Constitutional ProTip: a state is not "deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate" if the powers of the Senate are moved to the House
Some powers you may want to require 2 consecutive Houses, e.g. constitutional amendments
Some powers you may want to require 2 consecutive Houses, e.g. constitutional amendments
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Constitutional ProTip: a state is not "deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate" if the powers of the Senate are moved to the House
Some powers you may want to require 2 consecutive Houses, e.g. constitutional amendments
Some powers you may want to require 2 consecutive Houses, e.g. constitutional amendments
Good deed of the day: not telling strangers at the gym they are fucking up their joints with their shitty form
November 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Good deed of the day: not telling strangers at the gym they are fucking up their joints with their shitty form
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.
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an idea that crossed me, that i have no concrete reason to believe would work in practice, is that groups like DSA (or just not-dead-on-arrival regional democratic party orgs) should pickup robust schedules of happy hour at X where X is a rotating list of bars/parks/libraries
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
an idea that crossed me, that i have no concrete reason to believe would work in practice, is that groups like DSA (or just not-dead-on-arrival regional democratic party orgs) should pickup robust schedules of happy hour at X where X is a rotating list of bars/parks/libraries
Everyone either has poaster's madness or loneliness:
Redistribution for the attention economy.
Universal basic moots.
Redistribution for the attention economy.
Universal basic moots.
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Everyone either has poaster's madness or loneliness:
Redistribution for the attention economy.
Universal basic moots.
Redistribution for the attention economy.
Universal basic moots.