election day is great because it shows you "what if we started arguing about who was currently winning the Super Bowl four hours before kickoff"
ZigZaggin
@zigzaggin.bsky.social
Just a work-at-home dad and husband trying to maintain some contact with the world outside.
Kiah Stokes going to send the Aces a postcard from the Finals. #WNBA
News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering. It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules: newrepublic.com/article/2093...
My spouse said that this is the Golden Age of conspiracy theories, but I posit that it is the Fool’s Gold Age of conspiracy theories because the conspirators (or pyrites, if you will) behind it all tell everyone exactly what they’re doing, and a third of the public believes the opposite anyway.
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
Decency and empathy may not “poll well.” They may not win elections. The folks in power don’t care about either one of them. They’re more focused on performing cruelty to prove their (false) strength. But without decency and empathy, we live in hell. A line in the sand, folks.
Currently at 719,000 views. I expect it to be in the millions by end of day. Colbert’s forbidden/banned interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 9mo agoBreaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
the-reframe.com
I've just decided that instead of "affixes" as the general word for prefixes, suffixes, and infixes, we should now and forever simply use the word "fixins."
One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.
Panthers fan here. Did not expect to cheer so much today. @minakimes.bsky.social how is this happening?
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now. Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government. Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives. Duh.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
wow, new rule of posting / emergent atmosphere best practice: anytime you make a bluesky post with ≥ 1k likes you *have* to write a leaflet post to expound, extrapolate, and expand upon it!
Some Thoughts on Nostalgia for the Economy of the 1950s, or 1980s, or 2000s (or Whenever) - Simon's Leaflets
Some people say they want the economy of the past, but that economy is not what they imagine
simonlester.leaflet.pub
I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The Shutdown Surrender
I just... I mean... Whatever.
open.substack.com
Let me tell you about Designing Women.
Designing Women - Julia Sugarbaker on School Prayer "The Candidate"
YouTube video by turi319
youtu.be
AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."
The never ending struggle to explain that descriptive statistics are not predictive statistics.
Wrote a while back about how the algorithms convinced a lot of folks they were living through a total economic collapse during the Biden years. badfaithtimes.com/the-algorith...
The Algorithm's Economic Unreality
How did Americans vote for a man who pledged to collapse the global economy? The algorithm told us to.
badfaithtimes.com
@stonemom.bsky.social · last yr.And when they didn't get one, they just decided to report on a "vibe of a recession" every single fucking day.
You are not a parrot. And a chatbot is not a human. And linguist @EmilyMBender.bsky.social is very worried what will happen when we forget this. nymag.com/intelligence...
You Are Not a Parrot
And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
nymag.com