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Watch Dogs Keep Score
History major, ex-advertising creative, keenly aware of how democracy has been hacked; Workshopping ways to fight back.
History major, ex-advertising creative, keenly aware of how democracy has been hacked; Workshopping ways to fight back.
"You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money? And you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you" —Det. Lester Freamon, The Wire
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money? And you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you" —Det. Lester Freamon, The Wire
Shutting down isn't feasible. But investing in new infrastructure is going to leave us holding the bag when the music stops.
I also hope he's being politically savvy, but I don't know. The system (here) is rigged against any transition. And petrol products? Plastic. Also an existential threat.
I also hope he's being politically savvy, but I don't know. The system (here) is rigged against any transition. And petrol products? Plastic. Also an existential threat.
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Shutting down isn't feasible. But investing in new infrastructure is going to leave us holding the bag when the music stops.
I also hope he's being politically savvy, but I don't know. The system (here) is rigged against any transition. And petrol products? Plastic. Also an existential threat.
I also hope he's being politically savvy, but I don't know. The system (here) is rigged against any transition. And petrol products? Plastic. Also an existential threat.
Historians know this.
As do sociologists—Critical Race Theory was/is a very reasonable attempt at tackling issues that have never been properly addressed. The backlash didn't happen because the woke went too far, but because the just never went far enough.
It happened because we let it.
#ElbowsUp
As do sociologists—Critical Race Theory was/is a very reasonable attempt at tackling issues that have never been properly addressed. The backlash didn't happen because the woke went too far, but because the just never went far enough.
It happened because we let it.
#ElbowsUp
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Historians know this.
As do sociologists—Critical Race Theory was/is a very reasonable attempt at tackling issues that have never been properly addressed. The backlash didn't happen because the woke went too far, but because the just never went far enough.
It happened because we let it.
#ElbowsUp
As do sociologists—Critical Race Theory was/is a very reasonable attempt at tackling issues that have never been properly addressed. The backlash didn't happen because the woke went too far, but because the just never went far enough.
It happened because we let it.
#ElbowsUp
You hit the nail on the head, particularly in regards to stranded assets. McKinsey—who have Carney's ear—were projecting a need for more oil past 2040
The IEA reports that the energy transition is accelerating. More carbon isn't only immoral, it's fiscally irresponsible. #CdnPoli #Carney #Budget
The IEA reports that the energy transition is accelerating. More carbon isn't only immoral, it's fiscally irresponsible. #CdnPoli #Carney #Budget
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
What was actually said is that progressives throughout the world DO see the US as a cautionary tale. It's why Poilievre didn't win the Canadian elections.
But that was too hard a pill to swallow, evidently. When your first reflex is to block allies who politely disagree, you're part of the problem.
But that was too hard a pill to swallow, evidently. When your first reflex is to block allies who politely disagree, you're part of the problem.
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
What was actually said is that progressives throughout the world DO see the US as a cautionary tale. It's why Poilievre didn't win the Canadian elections.
But that was too hard a pill to swallow, evidently. When your first reflex is to block allies who politely disagree, you're part of the problem.
But that was too hard a pill to swallow, evidently. When your first reflex is to block allies who politely disagree, you're part of the problem.
This got me blocked… Wow.
American patriotism really is deeply ingrained. To the point of being a cult-like psychosis—even amongst some of its so-called progressives.
And then they wonder why things are the way they are.
#ElbowsUp, Canada. With allies like these, who needs enemies.
American patriotism really is deeply ingrained. To the point of being a cult-like psychosis—even amongst some of its so-called progressives.
And then they wonder why things are the way they are.
#ElbowsUp, Canada. With allies like these, who needs enemies.
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This got me blocked… Wow.
American patriotism really is deeply ingrained. To the point of being a cult-like psychosis—even amongst some of its so-called progressives.
And then they wonder why things are the way they are.
#ElbowsUp, Canada. With allies like these, who needs enemies.
American patriotism really is deeply ingrained. To the point of being a cult-like psychosis—even amongst some of its so-called progressives.
And then they wonder why things are the way they are.
#ElbowsUp, Canada. With allies like these, who needs enemies.
I know of an immunologist who would (and will) tell you to stay in your lane; who dismisses all the multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed studies on the harms of SARS CoV-2 and insists it’s nothing new.
I also know of at least a dozen others who agree with you. And then there’s the data. So much data.
I also know of at least a dozen others who agree with you. And then there’s the data. So much data.
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I know of an immunologist who would (and will) tell you to stay in your lane; who dismisses all the multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed studies on the harms of SARS CoV-2 and insists it’s nothing new.
I also know of at least a dozen others who agree with you. And then there’s the data. So much data.
I also know of at least a dozen others who agree with you. And then there’s the data. So much data.
Democracy has been hacked. We're just too arrogant to realize it/respond to it. We think our opinions are our own. The evidence—voting against our own self interests, increasingly, consistently, everywhere—suggests otherwise. This was in 2011. Before AI. #PersonaManagement
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Democracy has been hacked. We're just too arrogant to realize it/respond to it. We think our opinions are our own. The evidence—voting against our own self interests, increasingly, consistently, everywhere—suggests otherwise. This was in 2011. Before AI. #PersonaManagement
Meanwhile Kramnik is practically gloating over it.
The wrong people are dying.
The wrong people are dying.
October 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Meanwhile Kramnik is practically gloating over it.
The wrong people are dying.
The wrong people are dying.
Meanwhile, Kramnik is practically gloating over it.
October 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Meanwhile, Kramnik is practically gloating over it.
My grief is less due to his skill than to how decent, funny and insightful a human being he was. For all the darkness in the world, he was a flicker of light. He will remain so, in my heart and mind, as long as I live.
Daniel Naroditsky (1995-2025) #Danya #Chess
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Daniel Naroditsky (1995-2025) #Danya #Chess
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![Daniel Naroditsky (November 9, 1995 – October 19, 2025), often referred to as Danya, was an American chess grandmaster, author, and commentator. He won the Under-12 section of the World Youth Chess Championship in 2007 and the US Junior Championship in 2013, the same year he was officially awarded the grandmaster title at age 18.
While Naroditsky was consistently in the top 200 of FIDE's world rankings for classical chess, he was an absolute beast in faster time formats such as blitz chess, where he was consistently ranked top 25 in the world.
Naroditsky also made engaging educational and often hilarious chess content on YouTube and Twitch, published two chess books, and wrote columns for Chess Life and The New York Times.
He played on Chess.com under the handle DanielNaroditsky, and on Lichess.org under the handle RebeccaHarris. As to why he chose the latter, "I have to point out that I spent all of five seconds creating that account name because I didn't know that it would become big and Rebecca Harris is just a character in a TV show called Limitless that's a spin-off off of a movie that I liked and Rebecca Harris may or may not have been played by an actress [Jennifer Carpenter] who, in my early high school days, well… I'll trail off there… let's just say she made an impression on me".
Source: https://youtu.be/8eiLh4nKuvE?si=h59jEdZppy373g1s&t=1815
Danya was as quick witted as he was bullet-fast at playing high-speed chess. And his generosity, humility and kindness were unmatched in the chess world. He will be dearly missed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z7fq5sb3thfww72ndrnpuivv/bafkreidbnstkwljgio6vs7eae7mbhp2n6edan5wrfyoskzpox2rrgg3llu@jpeg)
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 AM
#NoKings
One and done protests haven't, do not, and will not work. The regime simply waits you out. The pressure has to be daily. You need to put your money where your mouth is. And so far, no one has. This time will be no different. I'm not celebrating that fact. I'm begging you to act. #Casseroles
One and done protests haven't, do not, and will not work. The regime simply waits you out. The pressure has to be daily. You need to put your money where your mouth is. And so far, no one has. This time will be no different. I'm not celebrating that fact. I'm begging you to act. #Casseroles
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#NoKings
One and done protests haven't, do not, and will not work. The regime simply waits you out. The pressure has to be daily. You need to put your money where your mouth is. And so far, no one has. This time will be no different. I'm not celebrating that fact. I'm begging you to act. #Casseroles
One and done protests haven't, do not, and will not work. The regime simply waits you out. The pressure has to be daily. You need to put your money where your mouth is. And so far, no one has. This time will be no different. I'm not celebrating that fact. I'm begging you to act. #Casseroles
The worst of it? Forget morality—It makes NO sense, financially! It isn't just climatologists, entomologists & marine biologists ringing the alarm:
Economists, actuaries, INSURANCE ADJUSTERS are saying that this is spiraling out of control.
But dark money of the Oil lobby holds all the reigns.
Economists, actuaries, INSURANCE ADJUSTERS are saying that this is spiraling out of control.
But dark money of the Oil lobby holds all the reigns.
October 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The worst of it? Forget morality—It makes NO sense, financially! It isn't just climatologists, entomologists & marine biologists ringing the alarm:
Economists, actuaries, INSURANCE ADJUSTERS are saying that this is spiraling out of control.
But dark money of the Oil lobby holds all the reigns.
Economists, actuaries, INSURANCE ADJUSTERS are saying that this is spiraling out of control.
But dark money of the Oil lobby holds all the reigns.
For 5 months, I've been saying it
#NoKings will mean nothing unless it outlasts the weekend. One-and-done DOES. NOT. WORK.
You don't build pressure by turning on the heat for one afternoon, once every few months. You leave the heat on high as long as it takes for it to BOIL OVER
#ElbowsUP America
#NoKings will mean nothing unless it outlasts the weekend. One-and-done DOES. NOT. WORK.
You don't build pressure by turning on the heat for one afternoon, once every few months. You leave the heat on high as long as it takes for it to BOIL OVER
#ElbowsUP America
October 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
One of these headlines does not belong.
Either governing—with its lobbyists, provincial tantrums & short-term imperatives has made Mark Carney dangerously myopic, or he never meant what he wrote in "Values: Building a Better World for All". What are we doing here, Canada?
#CdnPoli #Climate
Either governing—with its lobbyists, provincial tantrums & short-term imperatives has made Mark Carney dangerously myopic, or he never meant what he wrote in "Values: Building a Better World for All". What are we doing here, Canada?
#CdnPoli #Climate
October 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
THIS WEEK:
1-The world has reached its first climate tipping point
2-Carney's climate vision is to deprioritize emissions targets, focus on economic advantages
3-CO2 levels jumped by a record amount in 2024
4-Australia's rainforests switch from carbon sink to carbon source
#CdnPoli #Collapse
1-The world has reached its first climate tipping point
2-Carney's climate vision is to deprioritize emissions targets, focus on economic advantages
3-CO2 levels jumped by a record amount in 2024
4-Australia's rainforests switch from carbon sink to carbon source
#CdnPoli #Collapse
October 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
How does that meme go again?
"Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture… - They're the same picture"?
We do not win by debasing ourselves to the dehumanization of the other. We win by preserving what little is left of the commons.
Fight hard—for decency.
"Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture… - They're the same picture"?
We do not win by debasing ourselves to the dehumanization of the other. We win by preserving what little is left of the commons.
Fight hard—for decency.
October 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
How does that meme go again?
"Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture… - They're the same picture"?
We do not win by debasing ourselves to the dehumanization of the other. We win by preserving what little is left of the commons.
Fight hard—for decency.
"Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture… - They're the same picture"?
We do not win by debasing ourselves to the dehumanization of the other. We win by preserving what little is left of the commons.
Fight hard—for decency.
No matter how hard you try, you will never convince me this is somehow evil.
#LetPeopleBe #Trans #Cisgendered #Gay #Straight #Free
#LetPeopleBe #Trans #Cisgendered #Gay #Straight #Free
October 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
No matter how hard you try, you will never convince me this is somehow evil.
#LetPeopleBe #Trans #Cisgendered #Gay #Straight #Free
#LetPeopleBe #Trans #Cisgendered #Gay #Straight #Free
The Jane Goodall Institute once complained about one of Gary Larson's cartoons of her. She told them to be quiet, used the image to sell t-shirts, and wrote the introduction to one of his collections. #Legend
#PowerDoesn'tPanic
#PowerDoesn'tPanic
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Jane Goodall Institute once complained about one of Gary Larson's cartoons of her. She told them to be quiet, used the image to sell t-shirts, and wrote the introduction to one of his collections. #Legend
#PowerDoesn'tPanic
#PowerDoesn'tPanic