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Regulation, justice, climate - are among things I work on.
Science fiction, Baroque music, Frank Zappa are things I don't work on and enjoy very much.
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Neurodivergent and bipolar (FTW!)
Irredeemably woke
Regulation, justice, climate - are among things I work on.
Science fiction, Baroque music, Frank Zappa are things I don't work on and enjoy very much.
Support
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Neurodivergent and bipolar (FTW!)
Irredeemably woke
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Poor Donald. He's so stupid and confused.
He thinks Barack Obama (who was no longer in power) controlled the 2020 election.
And he thinks Joe Biden (who wasn't yet in power) authorized FBI agents to be sent to the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, when DOJ reported to Trump.
He thinks Barack Obama (who was no longer in power) controlled the 2020 election.
And he thinks Joe Biden (who wasn't yet in power) authorized FBI agents to be sent to the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, when DOJ reported to Trump.
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Poor Donald. He's so stupid and confused.
He thinks Barack Obama (who was no longer in power) controlled the 2020 election.
And he thinks Joe Biden (who wasn't yet in power) authorized FBI agents to be sent to the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, when DOJ reported to Trump.
He thinks Barack Obama (who was no longer in power) controlled the 2020 election.
And he thinks Joe Biden (who wasn't yet in power) authorized FBI agents to be sent to the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, when DOJ reported to Trump.
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Man mistakes himself for white; hilarity/fascism ensue
Man mistakes himself for white; hilarity/fascism ensue - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti on June 7, 1917, in Steubenville, Ohio, to Italian father Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti (1894–1967) and Italian-American mother Angela Crocetti (née Barra; 1897–1966). Gaetano, who was a barber, was originally from Montesilvano, Pescara, Abruzzo and Angela was born December 18, 1897, in Fernwood, Ohio. Angela’s father, Domenico Barra, emigrated from Monasterolo, Bergamo. Francis Albert Sinatra[a] was born on December 12, […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Man mistakes himself for white; hilarity/fascism ensue
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
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You know what every great opera house, concert hall, theater, and show venue in the world has in common?
They don't have marble armrests.
They don't have marble armrests.
December 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
You know what every great opera house, concert hall, theater, and show venue in the world has in common?
They don't have marble armrests.
They don't have marble armrests.
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Why not just make the whole seat out of marble? Seats like the world has never seen before!
December 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Why not just make the whole seat out of marble? Seats like the world has never seen before!
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Siri, show me a guy who has never ever gone to see a show.
December 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Siri, show me a guy who has never ever gone to see a show.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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especially at this point, when material like this has been weaponized by a far-right, anti-semitic administration. incredibly poorly thought through.
I don't know anything about this class or the professor who teaches it - maybe it's good, maybe it isn't. But either way, I am deeply uncomfortable with national Jewish advocacy organizations going after individual classes at universities because they dislike the content. This will not end well.
December 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
especially at this point, when material like this has been weaponized by a far-right, anti-semitic administration. incredibly poorly thought through.
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As we bomb Nigeria for Xmas, remember that Leonard Leo, in 2009 as a USCIRF political appointee, was one of the first to push for Nigeria to be named a “country of particular concern” opening to way for trump attack.
Some USCIRF commissioners openly dissented.
www.uscirf.gov/publications...
Some USCIRF commissioners openly dissented.
www.uscirf.gov/publications...
December 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
As we bomb Nigeria for Xmas, remember that Leonard Leo, in 2009 as a USCIRF political appointee, was one of the first to push for Nigeria to be named a “country of particular concern” opening to way for trump attack.
Some USCIRF commissioners openly dissented.
www.uscirf.gov/publications...
Some USCIRF commissioners openly dissented.
www.uscirf.gov/publications...
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Literally did the meme lol
December 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Literally did the meme lol
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I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.
President Donald Trump gifted the world with nearly 200 Truth Social posts (and counting) on Christmas Day, where he amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.
Trump Posts Nearly 200 Times in Unhinged Christmas Day Spree
The president amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.
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These psychos care immensely about online chatter about them, even though they pretend they don’t care. Musk sued Media Matters, Thiel sued Gawker. They care desperately and we on the left don’t invest enough time, energy and money in pushing out good, accurate, embarrassing intel.
We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.
December 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
These psychos care immensely about online chatter about them, even though they pretend they don’t care. Musk sued Media Matters, Thiel sued Gawker. They care desperately and we on the left don’t invest enough time, energy and money in pushing out good, accurate, embarrassing intel.
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Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Don't need to imagine, Sinatra had something to say about multicultural liberal democracies 🧵
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"Big man on campus." Herblock, February 1967. In 1966 Reagan promised that, if elected California governor, he would set up a commission to investigate why “the campus has become a rallying point for Communism and a center of sexual misconduct.”
December 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"Big man on campus." Herblock, February 1967. In 1966 Reagan promised that, if elected California governor, he would set up a commission to investigate why “the campus has become a rallying point for Communism and a center of sexual misconduct.”
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Sinatra hated racists and would have punched Miller in the mouth.
Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."
Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Sinatra hated racists and would have punched Miller in the mouth.
Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."
Or as Phil Hartman's impression of Sinatra put it, "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."
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I can handle people advocating for a totalitarian society with outcomes precisely like their idiosyncratic prejudices.
I just can’t handle people who are so insufferably pretentious about how they get there.
I just can’t handle people who are so insufferably pretentious about how they get there.
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
December 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I can handle people advocating for a totalitarian society with outcomes precisely like their idiosyncratic prejudices.
I just can’t handle people who are so insufferably pretentious about how they get there.
I just can’t handle people who are so insufferably pretentious about how they get there.
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i always come back to the reality that if miller’s preferred immigration rules had been in effect when his family immigrated he probably would not exist because they would’ve been killed by einsatzgruppen in belarus
December 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
i always come back to the reality that if miller’s preferred immigration rules had been in effect when his family immigrated he probably would not exist because they would’ve been killed by einsatzgruppen in belarus
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NYT: look these are inherently subjective judgments, one man’s field of sorghum is another man’s terrorist
NYT version typically incomprehensible: “President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, but experts question his framing.” One would hope so if indeed the targets were empty fields www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/w...
Trump’s Claims About Nigeria Strike Belie a Complex Situation on the Ground
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
NYT: look these are inherently subjective judgments, one man’s field of sorghum is another man’s terrorist
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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is there anybody even denying that the pardons are paid for or do we just kind of all accept this now?
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
is there anybody even denying that the pardons are paid for or do we just kind of all accept this now?
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Damn, I found a “Catholics aren’t Christians because they worship Mary” in the wild! I thought those only lived in message boards and Utah.
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Damn, I found a “Catholics aren’t Christians because they worship Mary” in the wild! I thought those only lived in message boards and Utah.
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Holy fck, this rag just can't help itself.
December 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy fck, this rag just can't help itself.