Love to be cooking frozen vegetables at the height of summer because the one Kennedy who deserved the curse decided to inflict his own fucked up vision of natural selection on the American populace.
it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This
How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
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i am a simple man. if your movie has spandex guys punching bad guys in it, i’ll watch it. so i did enjoy this movie, but there was one little thing in it that bugged me on an ethical level and the more i thought about it the more it bugged me.
Sojourners@sojo.net · yesterday"What 'Brand New Day' accidentally demonstrates, is that the Powers are at their most dangerous not when they're being debated but when they’ve stopped being named at all," writes @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social sojo.net/articles/cul...
Love to live in a district so hopelessly gerrymandered that these hopeless loser chuds keep getting re-elected (Chuck's predecessor was Madison Cawthorne) over imminently qualified Democrats. Let's go @jamie.agerforcongress.com
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h agoNorth Carolina Republican Drops Re-election Bid After Ethics Rebuke www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Welcome to Flushes 2.0 The Internet's Bathroom. All-gender, always. 🏳️⚧️ Built on @atproto.com, Flushes is a silly app for sharing when you're flushing. You know what's not silly? Bathroom bills. They target & harm trans people. Try Flushes & join our fundraiser for @trevorproject.bsky.social:
Flushes
The Internet's Bathroom. Post your flushes, see who else is in there, and keep every record in your own AT Protocol repo.
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I know everyone hates the New York Times, but unfortunately you have to click on this anyway. It's a review I wrote about a book I did not like. FWIW I originally wrote more criticism and less explaining, but it was not to be. Happy to say more here in a thread! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
Book Review: ‘Don’t Be Evil,’ by Claire Stapleton
In “Don’t Be Evil,” Claire Stapleton, a former Google spin doctor, tries to make sense of her time in the industry.
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Also Dario Amodei: you must work from an office located in one of five of the most expensive cities on earth.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3d agoSource: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent (Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day, a short story by that plucky midcentury writer Ray Bradbury. It's been a minute since I read this one as I recall it's a heartwarming tale about the joys of home automation tech. gosafir.com/mag/wp-content/up...
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Always such a pleasure to chat with my pal @ethanmarcotte.com, I think y'all will enjoy this one
AT Protocol Developers@atproto.com · 2d agoWhat does it mean to design for uncertainty? Coiner of the phrase “responsive web design” @ethanmarcotte.com joined Off Protocol with some thoughts. atproto.com/off-protocol...
"I forgot how many fiddly bits go into putting out a podcast. I know I'll throw together a little CMS, that'll help" The ravings of a mad man. An imbecile. A man unfit to walk this earth.
Here's some of what I said to @espn.com at the transphobia rally outside the Fire-Fever game on Friday espn.com/wnba/story/_...
Right from the jump, @reckless.bsky.social shows how much he gets what we're trying to do and why it's critically important. Really nice chat with the boss.
![Screenshot of the transcript from the linked interview between Nilay Patel and Toni Schneider. I've highlighted a segment.
Patel: I am very excited to talk to you. [begin highlight]What is happening with the open social web is maybe the most important thing happening for media. It does not get as much attention as AI, but there’s something very big happening on these interoperable social networks.[end highlight] I know that you are a believer in it in the same way that you believed in the web when you were the CEO of Automattic, which is the company that makes WordPress. So let’s just start at the very start. Describe what you think BlueSky is today and what you think the opportunities with these new kinds of networks are.
Toni Schneider: BlueSky today is really two things. There’s the BlueSky app, which is what a lot of people are familiar with. It’s a social network. We think it’s a better social network. It’s more human focused, doesn’t have ads. It doesn’t have algorithms. But more importantly, underneath BlueSky is an open protocol called AT Protocol. And BlueSky is only one of now over a thousand apps built on that protocol.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lysqukqdu6hsrhet5v2brjgo/bafkreicojenssj3onyqbiyhsq7sxofx4nitpoz64qqdtkdjrh5q2n22o6e)
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoCEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...
Price is by far the most legible characteristic in a low-information online marketplace, so yes, people will index on it often. That doesn't mean it's what they *want*. They are satisficing not the object but the process of choosing the object.
If you didn’t early vote in the Tennessee primaries this year, here’s a reminder that Election Day is THIS THURSDAY, not Tuesday. 🦞
Added a cheap pair of readers to the tool bag. One step closer to my final form, I can feel it.
I'm just now learning the ground breaking documentary WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) apparently took some liberties with the truth.
Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 3d agothis is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
to take an actual crack at this: requiring effort to access entertainment (set schedules, physical media, rare reruns, limited home access), often meant you proved yourself a fan by dint of the consumption itself, and I think that’s been replaced by toxic fandom to prove your bona fides.
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop
An early memory of trying to parse adulthood and culture is the way I was absolutely certain every person in America tuned in for, and had a deep emotional reaction to, the Cheers series finale.
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
Ugh. The Jack Skellington face is showing up in my coffee grounds already?? It’s barely August!
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
The most recent ep of @danhon.com 's show made me think about how a lot of people don't distinguish between writing to think and writing to produce an artifact, and how modern work is predicated on not giving people *time* to think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYE7...
How People Work, Live! ... with Russell Davies
YouTube video by Dan Hon
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Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 5d agoI think straightforward deskilling is probably fixable, and frankly I have lost faith in this kind of study, but as a person who writes a lot, I think there is a very real difference between gesturing at ideas and working them through, and LLMs really have a lot of people conflating the two.
Will having fetid piles of trash outside become a luxury amenity? Truly, the nimby brain must be studied.
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
🚨 BREAKING: UEFA say they have "lost confidence" in FIFA's leadership and accuse Gianni Infatino of "broken promises". They add Infantino's "shabby, back room, opaque deal he hatched and tried to force through was anything but transparent."
whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d agoProsecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job