Tom Lee
@tjl.bsky.social
I leave message here on service but you do not call
I admire @anildash.com for trying, however gently, to push back against the AI denialism that’s so prevalent here. There is lots to fear, regret, mourn about this change. But it’s somewhere between silly and pathetic to deny these things are popular and, yes, useful www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/w...
I know you don’t want them to want AI, but… - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I admire @anildash.com for trying, however gently, to push back against the AI denialism that’s so prevalent here. There is lots to fear, regret, mourn about this change. But it’s somewhere between silly and pathetic to deny these things are popular and, yes, useful www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/w...
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this is 1. incredible and 2. basically a silversun pickups song
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
this is 1. incredible and 2. basically a silversun pickups song
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arguably the most incredible technological achievement of my lifetime (not counting the internet) is that they managed to make vegetarian food actually taste good.
vegan breakfast sausage is good enough now that we should get rid of the regular stuff
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
arguably the most incredible technological achievement of my lifetime (not counting the internet) is that they managed to make vegetarian food actually taste good.
Megyn Kelly checking the “ephebophilia” box means “prima nocta” is the only rhetorical move left
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Megyn Kelly checking the “ephebophilia” box means “prima nocta” is the only rhetorical move left
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The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
I do think *some* of the NYT hate here is overblown. if you got an email from a scumbag asking you to use your bully pulpit to prosecute a grudge against another scumbag... you might reasonably say to yourself "I'm gonna let one of his other email recipients pick this one up"
If we're charitable, some of the journalists may have had legitimate reasons, but it's pretty extraordinary how many prominent men continued trading friendly e-mails with Epstein long after he was exposed as a child predator on a horrific scale.
Ken Starr signed an email to Jeffery Epstein with "hugs"
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I do think *some* of the NYT hate here is overblown. if you got an email from a scumbag asking you to use your bully pulpit to prosecute a grudge against another scumbag... you might reasonably say to yourself "I'm gonna let one of his other email recipients pick this one up"
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genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Spent half a sec checking whether I could vibe code a static site but ran out of time (doc total is around 2gb, a little big for in browser to be def viable). Surprised no one has tho
At last: every American is getting to discover the joys of doing doc review.
(Can the Oversight committee load the trove up in a Relativity instance or something?)
(Can the Oversight committee load the trove up in a Relativity instance or something?)
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Spent half a sec checking whether I could vibe code a static site but ran out of time (doc total is around 2gb, a little big for in browser to be def viable). Surprised no one has tho
Maybe some pathological personality traits confer advantage in individual political competition but eventually lead to collapse when widespread
America has long feared it would suffer the same fate as the Roman republic, but never quite truly appreciated how utterly absurd Roman elites had become by the time of the late republic.
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Maybe some pathological personality traits confer advantage in individual political competition but eventually lead to collapse when widespread
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America has long feared it would suffer the same fate as the Roman republic, but never quite truly appreciated how utterly absurd Roman elites had become by the time of the late republic.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
America has long feared it would suffer the same fate as the Roman republic, but never quite truly appreciated how utterly absurd Roman elites had become by the time of the late republic.
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
stanning for the new leader of Syria… not a karmic investment I would make
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
stanning for the new leader of Syria… not a karmic investment I would make
The @brianbeutler.bsky.social theory that Trump was a cooperating witness is how you square this circle. Burning a witness for political expediency really would have been a horrible precedent. But now here we are!
I'm not sure why the Biden administration didn't release the files when they were in power, but I am 100% sure that if they had Leavitt and all the other MAGA flaks would have howled that Biden was "weaponizing government" to "attack his political rivals" or something.
Leavitt on Epstein: "This is truly a manufactured hoax by the Democrat Party"
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The @brianbeutler.bsky.social theory that Trump was a cooperating witness is how you square this circle. Burning a witness for political expediency really would have been a horrible precedent. But now here we are!
this is a good post www.slowboring.com/p/did-prison... and I am sharing it here knowing how bsky norms will receive it
a point Matt doesn't make is that deinstitutionalization can't be understood absent the context of the advent of antipsychotics.
a point Matt doesn't make is that deinstitutionalization can't be understood absent the context of the advent of antipsychotics.
Did prison just replace mental hospitals?
Deconstructing a statistical myth
www.slowboring.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
this is a good post www.slowboring.com/p/did-prison... and I am sharing it here knowing how bsky norms will receive it
a point Matt doesn't make is that deinstitutionalization can't be understood absent the context of the advent of antipsychotics.
a point Matt doesn't make is that deinstitutionalization can't be understood absent the context of the advent of antipsychotics.
haven't been reading hackaday regularly for a while--they kinda burnt through hobbyist topics and moved onto cool but unattainable industrial stuff--which I guess is why I'm only learning about ESP-NOW today. pretty cool, kinda sits between LoRA and BLE advertisements in complexity/power
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
haven't been reading hackaday regularly for a while--they kinda burnt through hobbyist topics and moved onto cool but unattainable industrial stuff--which I guess is why I'm only learning about ESP-NOW today. pretty cool, kinda sits between LoRA and BLE advertisements in complexity/power
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Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
Read @daveweigel.bsky.social on the widespread societal consequences of Elon's link suppression:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
Vermont's alt weekly has a single RSS feed, so you get the obits with the stories. I found this one particularly gutting.
Sharing regardless as a reminder of what real disability and institutionalization mean. Online culture betrays little understanding of it www.sevendaysvt.com/life-lines/o...
Sharing regardless as a reminder of what real disability and institutionalization mean. Online culture betrays little understanding of it www.sevendaysvt.com/life-lines/o...
Obituary: Shawn Hill, 1953-2025 | Seven Days
Shawn Greywood Hill, 71, died in Bennington, Vt., in MissionCare nursing home after an extended decline in health. Shawn was preceded in death by his parents, Grace Louise Anthony and Delmer James Hil...
www.sevendaysvt.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Vermont's alt weekly has a single RSS feed, so you get the obits with the stories. I found this one particularly gutting.
Sharing regardless as a reminder of what real disability and institutionalization mean. Online culture betrays little understanding of it www.sevendaysvt.com/life-lines/o...
Sharing regardless as a reminder of what real disability and institutionalization mean. Online culture betrays little understanding of it www.sevendaysvt.com/life-lines/o...
always have mixed feelings about headlines like this.
is it bad? yes, very bad
is it inevitable, given these platforms' scale & human nature? maybe
is it a good idea to discourage Meta from writing reports about the problem, even internally, & instead opt to hide it? ...probably not, I'm afraid
is it bad? yes, very bad
is it inevitable, given these platforms' scale & human nature? maybe
is it a good idea to discourage Meta from writing reports about the problem, even internally, & instead opt to hide it? ...probably not, I'm afraid
“Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day.”
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
always have mixed feelings about headlines like this.
is it bad? yes, very bad
is it inevitable, given these platforms' scale & human nature? maybe
is it a good idea to discourage Meta from writing reports about the problem, even internally, & instead opt to hide it? ...probably not, I'm afraid
is it bad? yes, very bad
is it inevitable, given these platforms' scale & human nature? maybe
is it a good idea to discourage Meta from writing reports about the problem, even internally, & instead opt to hide it? ...probably not, I'm afraid
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what a time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
what a time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
sitting in a @pwramsey.bsky.social talk at FOSS4GEO and while it's more of a an intro I'm still having a great time on behalf of anyone in the room who's new to postgis, I feel like an religious zealot watching heathens hear the Good News
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
sitting in a @pwramsey.bsky.social talk at FOSS4GEO and while it's more of a an intro I'm still having a great time on behalf of anyone in the room who's new to postgis, I feel like an religious zealot watching heathens hear the Good News
I am about to be charged $18 for a lackluster themed cocktail, I’m sure of it
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I am about to be charged $18 for a lackluster themed cocktail, I’m sure of it
nice to see github.com/edde746/plezy -- hopefully a balancing force discouraging Plex from continuing to junk up their app. I am sure there are people at that company arguing for doing right by users--they need reasons to cite why growthhacking has costs/will drive people away
GitHub - edde746/plezy: Modern cross-platform Plex client built with Flutter
Modern cross-platform Plex client built with Flutter - edde746/plezy
github.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
nice to see github.com/edde746/plezy -- hopefully a balancing force discouraging Plex from continuing to junk up their app. I am sure there are people at that company arguing for doing right by users--they need reasons to cite why growthhacking has costs/will drive people away