William B. Fuckley
@opinionhaver.bsky.social
Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗
I sort of appreciate how committed Ryan Lizza is to the bamboo metaphor. He's decided on a literary device he likes, and he's sticking with it.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I sort of appreciate how committed Ryan Lizza is to the bamboo metaphor. He's decided on a literary device he likes, and he's sticking with it.
you don't `need therapy`, you need the hrbrthemes package. theme_ipsum_pub() would fix you.
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
you don't `need therapy`, you need the hrbrthemes package. theme_ipsum_pub() would fix you.
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I think the key difference is between "let Dan Osborn cook" and "Everyone should be Dan Osborn"
a kind of funny thing about this thesis is that it's basically the same as the whole Ygelsias et al. 'moderate on cultural issues to win' thing with the serial numbers filed off. but for some reason this is based economic populism and not pathetic centrist selling out
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I think the key difference is between "let Dan Osborn cook" and "Everyone should be Dan Osborn"
a kind of funny thing about this thesis is that it's basically the same as the whole Ygelsias et al. 'moderate on cultural issues to win' thing with the serial numbers filed off. but for some reason this is based economic populism and not pathetic centrist selling out
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
a kind of funny thing about this thesis is that it's basically the same as the whole Ygelsias et al. 'moderate on cultural issues to win' thing with the serial numbers filed off. but for some reason this is based economic populism and not pathetic centrist selling out
there's a lot of dumb shit that you can pin on media and how Americans perceive the world but it is a little unfair that Sicario became the "cool badass operators taking out cartel guys" movie for morons because the very explicit text of both movies is that none of that shit works
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
there's a lot of dumb shit that you can pin on media and how Americans perceive the world but it is a little unfair that Sicario became the "cool badass operators taking out cartel guys" movie for morons because the very explicit text of both movies is that none of that shit works
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The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
"we predict the coming year will have a vibe of grayish despair."
November 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
"we predict the coming year will have a vibe of grayish despair."
ahh, hello old friend.
How long before YIMBY zealots say if you don’t want the military deployed in your city you are a NIMBY?
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
ahh, hello old friend.
Techno thriller FPS where you play an elite black ops commando unraveling a sinister corporate conspiracy. The end twist is that there is no sinister conspiracy, it’s a normal corporation doing R & D, your CO is just insane and you murdered hundreds of security guards for no reason.
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Techno thriller FPS where you play an elite black ops commando unraveling a sinister corporate conspiracy. The end twist is that there is no sinister conspiracy, it’s a normal corporation doing R & D, your CO is just insane and you murdered hundreds of security guards for no reason.
My most boomer video game complaint is stop trying to make be fucking social, stop trying to get me buy a season pass, stop trying to funnel me to a ‘community’. Let me buy the videogame and play the videogame. Stop microagressing me by implying it’s weird to want to play alone.
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
My most boomer video game complaint is stop trying to make be fucking social, stop trying to get me buy a season pass, stop trying to funnel me to a ‘community’. Let me buy the videogame and play the videogame. Stop microagressing me by implying it’s weird to want to play alone.
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Ok this is a sign
Wow: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon seems to think that companies involved with Trump's ballroom project could be criminally prosecuted. thehill.com/business/559...
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Ok this is a sign
evidently the first governor of California, originally from Tennessee, was too racist for slavery (didn‘t want any black people *at all*).
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
evidently the first governor of California, originally from Tennessee, was too racist for slavery (didn‘t want any black people *at all*).
for all they scream about "importing the third world" it's the most idiotic, base tribal clannishness they aspire too as well. fuck rule of law, fuck the law, fuck rules, fuck neutral institutions, fuck universalism, fuck meritocracy.
i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
for all they scream about "importing the third world" it's the most idiotic, base tribal clannishness they aspire too as well. fuck rule of law, fuck the law, fuck rules, fuck neutral institutions, fuck universalism, fuck meritocracy.
increasingly using YouTube for music because it's the one major website you can lock down to not remember anything, not suggest anything not directly relevant to what you're currently listening.
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
increasingly using YouTube for music because it's the one major website you can lock down to not remember anything, not suggest anything not directly relevant to what you're currently listening.
The wars of conquest have begun.
Metro Vancouver - "Do you think amalgamating all of metro Vancouver into one municipality is a..."
Good idea: 42%
Bad idea: 42%
Research Co. / Nov 16, 2025 / n=1501 / Online
Good idea: 42%
Bad idea: 42%
Research Co. / Nov 16, 2025 / n=1501 / Online
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The wars of conquest have begun.
"folx" is another one. I can understand the logic behind like "Latinx" even if I don't use the term, but not these. the amount of people you are avoiding irritating or offending cannot *possibly* be larger than the amount of people who find this weird and grating.
yeah this is exactly why USians continues to irritate me
Like it’s one thing for a group of people to say “I prefer to be called this” it’s another to TELL another whole country of diverse ethnicities and heritage that you will now be calling them something else.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"folx" is another one. I can understand the logic behind like "Latinx" even if I don't use the term, but not these. the amount of people you are avoiding irritating or offending cannot *possibly* be larger than the amount of people who find this weird and grating.
unintentionally getting owned by help pages with "don't know this? click here!" links & you keep not knowing & you keep clicking until eventually there are no more because they assume they've reached the absolute floor of possible ignorance, & it's still '1st step: Woozle your Blang values' to you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
unintentionally getting owned by help pages with "don't know this? click here!" links & you keep not knowing & you keep clicking until eventually there are no more because they assume they've reached the absolute floor of possible ignorance, & it's still '1st step: Woozle your Blang values' to you.
look you know what if your 'simple solution' webpage assumes that I know what 'debian' is, I'm just gonna assume the issue is beyond my ability to fix ok
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
look you know what if your 'simple solution' webpage assumes that I know what 'debian' is, I'm just gonna assume the issue is beyond my ability to fix ok
"AI makes many things easier for many people and improves their quality of life. This is bad for society overall." sounds like an insane crank take but is I think true. Costly signals are good and useful.
I think this is an underrated source of the extent to which Bluesky is in a false consensus about public AI hatred. If you are a power user on a microblogging site you are basically by definition not going to see the "take the effort out of reading and writing" machine as being useful
I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"AI makes many things easier for many people and improves their quality of life. This is bad for society overall." sounds like an insane crank take but is I think true. Costly signals are good and useful.
you cannot cut back on R support for plotly! YOU WILL REGRET THIS.
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
you cannot cut back on R support for plotly! YOU WILL REGRET THIS.
AI use is gonna be like plastic surgery: when it's obvious and over the top will incur some stigma, when done well, you won't even know.
You can, but it's going to be demo and social network based. There's definitely going to be a major stigma towards being a Clippy addict in a lot of white collar professional circles.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
AI use is gonna be like plastic surgery: when it's obvious and over the top will incur some stigma, when done well, you won't even know.
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yeah I hate generative AI and will go through every effort to not use it, but I already know I’m gonna spend the rest of my life as a weird Luddite. I’m not happy about this, but being delusional is worse.
it's normatively bad in many ways and also clearly useful for millions of people. it can run on a laptop, thinking that it's going away is cope. gotta engage with the world at it is.
this is a bluesky bubble opinion. 800M+ people use chatgpt every week. I hate Facebook and Instagram and I wish they didn’t exist, but 3B and 2B people use them every month, respectively. it’s very hard to picture a mass or even a niche left backlash against them
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
yeah I hate generative AI and will go through every effort to not use it, but I already know I’m gonna spend the rest of my life as a weird Luddite. I’m not happy about this, but being delusional is worse.
it's normatively bad in many ways and also clearly useful for millions of people. it can run on a laptop, thinking that it's going away is cope. gotta engage with the world at it is.
this is a bluesky bubble opinion. 800M+ people use chatgpt every week. I hate Facebook and Instagram and I wish they didn’t exist, but 3B and 2B people use them every month, respectively. it’s very hard to picture a mass or even a niche left backlash against them
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
it's normatively bad in many ways and also clearly useful for millions of people. it can run on a laptop, thinking that it's going away is cope. gotta engage with the world at it is.
remember `panican`? he's been losing the juice for a while
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
remember `panican`? he's been losing the juice for a while