Christopher
@selectstarman.bsky.social
Data sadist. High quality, high variance, galaxy-brained takes. Urbanism, rage against cruelty and inefficiency, scifi/fantasy, shoegaze, stats and programming. I live in Denver, say hi if you're on Ikon.
Waymo is like nicotine Vapes: an order of magnitude safer than what they replace, but way less cool, so it's Bad. (Everyone is 16 theory of politics)
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Waymo is like nicotine Vapes: an order of magnitude safer than what they replace, but way less cool, so it's Bad. (Everyone is 16 theory of politics)
I'm really excited the zoomers are learning the classics
youtu.be/XycBLF6kWuY?...
youtu.be/XycBLF6kWuY?...
The Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
YouTube video by Maik S.
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I'm really excited the zoomers are learning the classics
youtu.be/XycBLF6kWuY?...
youtu.be/XycBLF6kWuY?...
How am I supposed to get any work done when a guy a few cubes over is poorly explaining the plot of LOTR to a hot woman.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
How am I supposed to get any work done when a guy a few cubes over is poorly explaining the plot of LOTR to a hot woman.
Constitutional ProTip: a state is not "deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate" if the powers of the Senate are moved to the House
Some powers you may want to require 2 consecutive Houses, e.g. constitutional amendments
Some powers you may want to require 2 consecutive Houses, e.g. constitutional amendments
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Constitutional ProTip: a state is not "deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate" if the powers of the Senate are moved to the House
Some powers you may want to require 2 consecutive Houses, e.g. constitutional amendments
Some powers you may want to require 2 consecutive Houses, e.g. constitutional amendments
Good deed of the day: not telling strangers at the gym they are fucking up their joints with their shitty form
November 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Good deed of the day: not telling strangers at the gym they are fucking up their joints with their shitty form
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.
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an idea that crossed me, that i have no concrete reason to believe would work in practice, is that groups like DSA (or just not-dead-on-arrival regional democratic party orgs) should pickup robust schedules of happy hour at X where X is a rotating list of bars/parks/libraries
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
an idea that crossed me, that i have no concrete reason to believe would work in practice, is that groups like DSA (or just not-dead-on-arrival regional democratic party orgs) should pickup robust schedules of happy hour at X where X is a rotating list of bars/parks/libraries
Everyone either has poaster's madness or loneliness:
Redistribution for the attention economy.
Universal basic moots.
Redistribution for the attention economy.
Universal basic moots.
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Everyone either has poaster's madness or loneliness:
Redistribution for the attention economy.
Universal basic moots.
Redistribution for the attention economy.
Universal basic moots.
Socialism is not about gov ownership, it is the idea that land and the technium of accumulated engineering knowledge is our common Treasury.
State corps are a rearguard action against bosses: unions are property rights for proles.
State corps are a rearguard action against bosses: unions are property rights for proles.
November 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Socialism is not about gov ownership, it is the idea that land and the technium of accumulated engineering knowledge is our common Treasury.
State corps are a rearguard action against bosses: unions are property rights for proles.
State corps are a rearguard action against bosses: unions are property rights for proles.
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I consider myself a leftist because I deeply believe that everyone deserves to live in conditions that allow them to thrive. This is not a universal leftist position!
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I consider myself a leftist because I deeply believe that everyone deserves to live in conditions that allow them to thrive. This is not a universal leftist position!
I really like the "mountain bunker" vibes of this parking garage
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I really like the "mountain bunker" vibes of this parking garage
History is not written by the winners, but by weirdos obsessed with the event long after everyone else has moved on.
This is part of the war over How We Remember the Pandemic
Always remember the truth: it was a big deal, most regular people were sensible at the time, the anti-vaccine craziness set in late & has been trying to rewrite history ever since
Always remember the truth: it was a big deal, most regular people were sensible at the time, the anti-vaccine craziness set in late & has been trying to rewrite history ever since
we have now reached the point where Astead is dunking on libs for… getting vaccinated during a global pandemic
seriously what is wrong with him?
seriously what is wrong with him?
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
History is not written by the winners, but by weirdos obsessed with the event long after everyone else has moved on.
An under-considered outcome from Reconstruction would be at least a few Black majority & controlled states (SC, GA, MS, AL, LA) avoiding Redeemers and Jim Crow - doing focused land reform in these states to encourage in-migration of freedmen?
October 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
An under-considered outcome from Reconstruction would be at least a few Black majority & controlled states (SC, GA, MS, AL, LA) avoiding Redeemers and Jim Crow - doing focused land reform in these states to encourage in-migration of freedmen?
Isn't it weird that it took this long for first person point of view to become the dominant video medium? Why has prestige film been so insistent on a voyeuristic POV?
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Isn't it weird that it took this long for first person point of view to become the dominant video medium? Why has prestige film been so insistent on a voyeuristic POV?
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Every discussion or article about weight lifting assumes you're a noob who will be adding plates every week.
Never "middle aged guy who has been consistent for years and just hoping to keep hitting the same numbers without injury"
Never "middle aged guy who has been consistent for years and just hoping to keep hitting the same numbers without injury"
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Every discussion or article about weight lifting assumes you're a noob who will be adding plates every week.
Never "middle aged guy who has been consistent for years and just hoping to keep hitting the same numbers without injury"
Never "middle aged guy who has been consistent for years and just hoping to keep hitting the same numbers without injury"
It wasn't the "sending money to Washington" part of taxes the wealthy mind, it is subjugation to a representative legislature.
October 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It wasn't the "sending money to Washington" part of taxes the wealthy mind, it is subjugation to a representative legislature.
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the more I think about it, the more I suspect that the "humans will never live in space, ever, that's ridiculous" is an incredibly cis idea, and as a trans person that's why it pisses me off so much
because I think it's the same soil as "humans can't be transgender"
because I think it's the same soil as "humans can't be transgender"
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
the more I think about it, the more I suspect that the "humans will never live in space, ever, that's ridiculous" is an incredibly cis idea, and as a trans person that's why it pisses me off so much
because I think it's the same soil as "humans can't be transgender"
because I think it's the same soil as "humans can't be transgender"
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the thing is that without a strong base of politically-casual users, the likelihood that I'll encounter people talking about, like, 60's Blue Note releases or Wong Kar-wai or Cy Twombly is just greater over there than here. I should be spending less time on social altogether, but that's the reality.
October 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
the thing is that without a strong base of politically-casual users, the likelihood that I'll encounter people talking about, like, 60's Blue Note releases or Wong Kar-wai or Cy Twombly is just greater over there than here. I should be spending less time on social altogether, but that's the reality.
Teenagers knocking each other up is trad, but if you want that, any actual babies should be 100% the responsibility of the 4 grandparents to raise, the bio parents being more like older siblings.
okay so. setting aside all the rest. this is a good example of the weird "back to the past to the future" aspect of reactionaries. they want to structure families "like we have for 99.9% of human history" but they also want the .1% of history where "billionaire military industrialist" is a thing
Palmer Luckey is having a pro-pedophile crashout
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Teenagers knocking each other up is trad, but if you want that, any actual babies should be 100% the responsibility of the 4 grandparents to raise, the bio parents being more like older siblings.
One obvious lesson from Trump II is there is a fixed volume of press/opposition complaints. Trump does something impeachment-worthy daily; each gets 1 news cycle of attacks.
Obama spent all of his trifecta passing Obamacare and the ARRA, which took hits for months.
Pass 1001 laws in 2029
Obama spent all of his trifecta passing Obamacare and the ARRA, which took hits for months.
Pass 1001 laws in 2029
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
One obvious lesson from Trump II is there is a fixed volume of press/opposition complaints. Trump does something impeachment-worthy daily; each gets 1 news cycle of attacks.
Obama spent all of his trifecta passing Obamacare and the ARRA, which took hits for months.
Pass 1001 laws in 2029
Obama spent all of his trifecta passing Obamacare and the ARRA, which took hits for months.
Pass 1001 laws in 2029
AI in corp world:
1) stakeholder wants to use LLM, talked down to random forest
2) (I look at their data, they aren't tracking the necessary y): 6+ months till they can add needed logging
3) finally got clarity on business problem, it can be solved by sorting standardized value
1) stakeholder wants to use LLM, talked down to random forest
2) (I look at their data, they aren't tracking the necessary y): 6+ months till they can add needed logging
3) finally got clarity on business problem, it can be solved by sorting standardized value
October 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
AI in corp world:
1) stakeholder wants to use LLM, talked down to random forest
2) (I look at their data, they aren't tracking the necessary y): 6+ months till they can add needed logging
3) finally got clarity on business problem, it can be solved by sorting standardized value
1) stakeholder wants to use LLM, talked down to random forest
2) (I look at their data, they aren't tracking the necessary y): 6+ months till they can add needed logging
3) finally got clarity on business problem, it can be solved by sorting standardized value
Platner did the thing! But it turns out he was the neopagan internecine/confused anti-fascist :(
Planet should rip off his shirt and show his new pec tattoo which iconographically says exactly what kind of anti-fascist he is now
October 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Platner did the thing! But it turns out he was the neopagan internecine/confused anti-fascist :(
I heard Nelly's Hot in Here on an ad for a menopause product 💀
October 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I heard Nelly's Hot in Here on an ad for a menopause product 💀