Chris Lay
@chrislay.bsky.social
Villen, lefty, runner, engineer, in that order.
Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite.
Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook.
Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online.
Some ville, Mass
Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite.
Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook.
Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online.
Some ville, Mass
Pinned
Chris Lay
@chrislay.bsky.social
· Jul 24
An idea: UBI+JG. The SOEs staffed by the JG produce the basket of goods and services necessary to dignified material existence and participation in society, priced so that the whole basket costs the UBI. The UBI is fully taxed away by progressive income tax by the time you get to 1.5x median income.
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do you guys wanna see a dead body dot jpeg, but the body is an elite 20 post roast of Rob Schneider
Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.
December 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
do you guys wanna see a dead body dot jpeg, but the body is an elite 20 post roast of Rob Schneider
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Column from last year: www.curbed.com/article/amtr...
Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor Power Supply Is Ancient and Failing
Those hot-weather slowdowns and stoppages are largely the fault of one outdated piece of infrastructure.
www.curbed.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Column from last year: www.curbed.com/article/amtr...
Ruin two bands by combining them:
They Are Gutting a Body of Water Boys
They Are Gutting a Body of Water Boys
ruin two bands by combining them:
Boston Kansas
Boston Kansas
Ruin two bands by combining them:
ZZ Four Tops
ZZ Four Tops
December 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Ruin two bands by combining them:
They Are Gutting a Body of Water Boys
They Are Gutting a Body of Water Boys
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Foreign Policy Analysis is low key the darkly funniest field ever now. Are we at war? Does the president himself know? Who are we at war with? Why? Something to do with drugs and/or oil? We’re either invading Venezuela, Nigeria, neither, or both.
Either Trump believes the US struck a Venezuelan facility on Christmas Eve because he was told that erroneously, or he's conflating different stories, or we actually did what he claims. Regardless of explanation, we need that information.
December 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Foreign Policy Analysis is low key the darkly funniest field ever now. Are we at war? Does the president himself know? Who are we at war with? Why? Something to do with drugs and/or oil? We’re either invading Venezuela, Nigeria, neither, or both.
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Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science
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slate.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.
They admitted it.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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One of the saddest sentences written in the modern era of vaccines:
“We will lose our elimination status shortly.”
“We will lose our elimination status shortly.”
The U.S. has surpassed 2000 documented measles cases this year, the highest in more than 30 years.
This is driven by rampant disinformation about vaccines from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including in his capacity as a government official.
We will lose our elimination status shortly.
This is driven by rampant disinformation about vaccines from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including in his capacity as a government official.
We will lose our elimination status shortly.
US measles outbreak tops 2,000 known infections
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
One of the saddest sentences written in the modern era of vaccines:
“We will lose our elimination status shortly.”
“We will lose our elimination status shortly.”
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When the different factions here grift money they can’t repay without turning on one another, that’ll be them reenacting the Fourth Crusade.
Far-right groups are co-opting the aesthetics of the Crusades for their own objectives, transforming an obsession with feudal justice into a campaign for a White Christian nation.
Why We Should All Be Worried About "Crusadercore"
This online trend equips young, White men with a historically bastardized visual lexicon — one that gives new credence and religious authority to far-right bigotry.
hyperallergic.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
When the different factions here grift money they can’t repay without turning on one another, that’ll be them reenacting the Fourth Crusade.
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If you're a company pursuing small reactor design, much less fusion, and you don't know how to use your instrumentation because you don't have a neutron source I'm afraid you're going to get a lot of side eye from me.
Extracting money from AI chasing fools lacks honor. Hot grift on grift action.
Extracting money from AI chasing fools lacks honor. Hot grift on grift action.
a man with long hair is standing in front of a group of people in armor .
Alt: Thulsa Doom side eye
media.tenor.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you're a company pursuing small reactor design, much less fusion, and you don't know how to use your instrumentation because you don't have a neutron source I'm afraid you're going to get a lot of side eye from me.
Extracting money from AI chasing fools lacks honor. Hot grift on grift action.
Extracting money from AI chasing fools lacks honor. Hot grift on grift action.
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My take on people wearing face masks is very simple:
It's not my face, so I mind my own business.
That's it. That's the whole take.
It's not my face, so I mind my own business.
That's it. That's the whole take.
December 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My take on people wearing face masks is very simple:
It's not my face, so I mind my own business.
That's it. That's the whole take.
It's not my face, so I mind my own business.
That's it. That's the whole take.
Confiscatory top marginal income tax rates are a public health policy.
December 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Confiscatory top marginal income tax rates are a public health policy.
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billionaires are the sad victims of an inadequate tax code, which has allowed them to become surrounded by an isolating bubble of sycophants, severed from participation in community and ordinary fellowship. we owe potential victims of this condition prevention, and those already suffering remedy.
December 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
billionaires are the sad victims of an inadequate tax code, which has allowed them to become surrounded by an isolating bubble of sycophants, severed from participation in community and ordinary fellowship. we owe potential victims of this condition prevention, and those already suffering remedy.
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Somehow we’ve ended up in a position where the richest most powerful people in the world are innocent benevolent bystanders while a college professor with no tenure is part of a decadent and corrupt establishment that controls everything
The perfect Yglesias post: declaring “billionaires are good, actually,” as if it was some bold, counterintuitive take.
December 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Somehow we’ve ended up in a position where the richest most powerful people in the world are innocent benevolent bystanders while a college professor with no tenure is part of a decadent and corrupt establishment that controls everything
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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There are moments the mask is removed, and all the lies evaporate. This quote by a District Attorney in California is incredible. He says the volume of shackled poor people brought to court--what he calls the "cattle call"--makes it impossible to consider them as individuals.
December 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
There are moments the mask is removed, and all the lies evaporate. This quote by a District Attorney in California is incredible. He says the volume of shackled poor people brought to court--what he calls the "cattle call"--makes it impossible to consider them as individuals.
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The biggest input for politics for almost everyone now is their media diet, and you can tell when someone's media diet sucks pretty quickly
i still don't know where conservative zoomers get this from (from the Manhattan Institute voter panel of zoomer voters)
December 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The biggest input for politics for almost everyone now is their media diet, and you can tell when someone's media diet sucks pretty quickly
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An enduring problem from the assault on journalism and especially the decline in outlets and readership is that century-old principles and rules, super clear on the inside and easily known to any public figure, have been convincingly reframed as attacks to an audience of dupes.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
An enduring problem from the assault on journalism and especially the decline in outlets and readership is that century-old principles and rules, super clear on the inside and easily known to any public figure, have been convincingly reframed as attacks to an audience of dupes.
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Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.
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we should have stopped here
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The C64 dominated the low-end computer market (except in the UK, France and Japan, lasting only about six months in Japan[7]) for most of the later years of the 1980s.[8] For a substantial period (1983–1986), the C64 had between 30% and 40% share of the US market and two million units sold per year,[9] outselling IBM PC compatibles, the Apple II, and Atari 8-bit computers. S](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:64mdicpo7sq4k5bx2z3m2jo6/bafkreibhdrl2a4jpj3h4l4ecrohbzt7vufxthyuzyzjumkw4ymnttbbnqu@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
we should have stopped here
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The Musk twitter purchase continues to pay off: on no other social media site is this viral "Minnesota daycare fraud" video gaining traction, but on twitter it's dominating and mobilizing
December 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Musk twitter purchase continues to pay off: on no other social media site is this viral "Minnesota daycare fraud" video gaining traction, but on twitter it's dominating and mobilizing
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The funniest part is that the whole point of funding the crusades was to send your potential sources of domestic political instability (loud, violent lunatics) off on a mission where, worst case scenario, they were out of your hair for several years or, best case scenario, they died.
Far-right groups are co-opting the aesthetics of the Crusades for their own objectives, transforming an obsession with feudal justice into a campaign for a White Christian nation.
Why We Should All Be Worried About "Crusadercore"
This online trend equips young, White men with a historically bastardized visual lexicon — one that gives new credence and religious authority to far-right bigotry.
hyperallergic.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The funniest part is that the whole point of funding the crusades was to send your potential sources of domestic political instability (loud, violent lunatics) off on a mission where, worst case scenario, they were out of your hair for several years or, best case scenario, they died.
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“Zeteo Picks Its Hero, Villain, and War Criminal of 2025”
Plus, see who was named badass of the year, creep of the year, and most fascist couple!
Plus, see who was named badass of the year, creep of the year, and most fascist couple!
Zeteo Picks Its Hero, Villain, and War Criminal of 2025
Plus, see who was named badass of the year, creep of the year, and most fascist couple!
zeteo.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Zeteo Picks Its Hero, Villain, and War Criminal of 2025”
Plus, see who was named badass of the year, creep of the year, and most fascist couple!
Plus, see who was named badass of the year, creep of the year, and most fascist couple!
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MTG "broke" with maga for the same reason a bank robber leaves the bank.
December 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
MTG "broke" with maga for the same reason a bank robber leaves the bank.