It's my birthday today so you are forced to watch me yap about my game Dungeon Tourists for the next 30 seconds!!!
Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.
Michigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-Sayed
Timmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed
theguardian.com
#Hugops to my peeps at GCP. This is looking like a nasty one.
Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/
Okay guys. You heard the sentence "the revolution will not be televised" before, of course. But perhaps take a moment to work out just what will be televised *instead* and what that'll fucking look like. Yeah, this is a post about what you were told is happening in France.
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What to do if you suspect you're being paid less than a male colleague www.independent.ie/business/mon...
What to do if you suspect you're being paid less than a male colleague
Public-sector pay grades are transparent, but secrecy thwarts women in the private sector
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“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest
I have met so many Tommys in my life. They love to confront you with the most lukewarm take, the most basic question, and then stand there as if they strode directly from Mensa with an understanding that only they and their big brain could possibly have, expecting you to be bamboozled.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
French police reportedly going full Gestapo today and shooting grenades at the public to prevent *legal, scheduled* protests from starting at all. I don't know, a strategy of escalation has been known not to work amazing with the French. Eventually things come to a head.
i feel like they've had a guy at disney star wars globocorpo HQ stewing angrily at a desk for like 3 years. just muttering to himself, purple in the face like "you motherfuckers want glup shitto? you want fucking glup shitto??? i'll show you glup shitto." and then he shittoed the ultimate glup
sam !@sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 4d ago@archosaur.bsky.social oh my fucking god im crying
I legit have no idea. I think I'd first start a fund to help friends who are struggling keep their heads above water, and then just mainly go to more conventions to spend more time with friends.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d agoquestion for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?
A tough pill for us tech people to reckon with before long, I suspect: AIs still being shit at most things while becoming okay at tech suggests that maybe our comparatively comfortable wages owed more to skillset scarcity than actual difficulty.
this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved
AmeriKraut@inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 5d agoy'all... 🤭😭
A thought occurred to me. Companies like Microsoft, Apple and Valve hire from the same broad pool of engineers. Yet there is *huge* variance in the quality of their respective products. I'm thinking there's much more than individual coding skills that goes into making good software.
Joel Drapper 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦@joel.drapper.me · 5d agoThis is true. Fable 5 and now Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 reliably write code that’s as good as if not better than I would have written myself. And they do it 100 times faster. They’re not making “slop” or tech debt. They’re creating high quality tested, maintainable software that works.
When I was a very new pro, I did a signing with Theodore Sturgeon and a couple of other people. I was complaining to him about the trouble I was having with a scene. He looked at me and said, in his resonant tenor, "I give you permission to do it wrong." Most liberating thing I ever heard.
New Years Revolution ✊@tekweenie.bsky.social · 5d agoI once heard someone talking about up and coming stand-up comics, “everyone needs a place to be lame“ I’ve always thought that was very insightful.
that thing where people are speaking another language and will drop back into English for a proper noun, but it’s two therians barking but reverting to english to say a distinctly human concept (sad whines) (growls) rrrhhhrhh “taxi to the airport” refff wrrr (ears back) “flight is delayed” grrrrrr
images that spring to mind unbidden, part 1013: "if my cats are gay"
I have an email like that that's been waiting for a reply for two years. I love you, Marcy, I'm just BAD AT EMAILS. 😩
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last wk.Today I replied to an e-mail from a friend I really like, who is awesome and cool and whose e-mails I love to receive. I had been wanting to respond for a while but somehow just… did not. The e-mail I replied to was sent in January, 2024. Why am I like this.
Yeah, I fell for that one too. -_- If only it was that simple, I guess...
Joseph Menn@joemenn.bsky.social · last wk.No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.
Periodic reminder: 5calls.org is a v. helpful tool for contacting your electeds. What you say to your electeds is one of your most-protected zones of First Amendment rights. You can cuss all you want, or perhaps say things even more vigorous! It's your right as a citizen to advocate for any policy.
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Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Take note Californians #yeson40
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2w agoNew working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.