K. Chen
@tznkai.bsky.social
Heartless humanist, unmovable automaton, fount of terrifying knowledge and purveyor of Collegey Velveteen Discourse. Creative, slightly off-putting, entirely accurate. Insightful and painful enough to be the germ of something really excellent.
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K. Chen
@tznkai.bsky.social
· Nov 8
I think I'll use this thread as a table of content for my health insurance and personal finance explainers, but with clickbait titles
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Direct hit, losing altitude, everyone get your parachutes
NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
February 1, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Direct hit, losing altitude, everyone get your parachutes
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Like oh my god anyone who thinks game content expansion was just a video game thing please allow me to share with to you this 1985 remake of a 1977 world war 2 board game's MODULE DEPENDANCY CHART upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
February 1, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Like oh my god anyone who thinks game content expansion was just a video game thing please allow me to share with to you this 1985 remake of a 1977 world war 2 board game's MODULE DEPENDANCY CHART upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
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it’s basically the “we’re winning so we must be the fittest” caucus, which has turned out to be a shortsighted thing every time in the past forever but I’m sure they got it now
What I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.
January 31, 2026 at 11:51 PM
it’s basically the “we’re winning so we must be the fittest” caucus, which has turned out to be a shortsighted thing every time in the past forever but I’m sure they got it now
Statutory miniBivens
ICE and CBP are terrorizing our communities and trampling on the Constitution. I wrote a bill to give Americans legal tools to sue and hold lawless agents accountable.
Exclusive: Democrat’s bill would let people sue ICE over misconduct
It’ll be a nonstarter for the Republicans, but will demonstrates the scale of change Democrats now believe is needed.
www.semafor.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Statutory miniBivens
I hate this framing. Mental capacities are physical capacities, we are meat bags. I hope we are also more than that but that more isn't our mental capacities.
It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.
January 31, 2026 at 10:56 PM
I hate this framing. Mental capacities are physical capacities, we are meat bags. I hope we are also more than that but that more isn't our mental capacities.
On the one hand this order is like, full on Facebook libposting and on the other hand the lawlessness of some of the higher courts...
“Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The
Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:54 PM
On the one hand this order is like, full on Facebook libposting and on the other hand the lawlessness of some of the higher courts...
This is correct but also reductive. There were a lot of parts to Woke 1, some better and some worse, but this was the apex pattern that survived evolution until you know all of this.
woke 1.0 loved social sanction but hated every other means of coercion, including the law. it was primarily a game people played online with others who had consented by their politics to participate, and its objective was extirpating the hidden seed of evil in the things in which it was latent.
because it feels like there’s whole swathes of people who feel like Woke 1.0 didn’t go far enough, and those two dynamics seem….at odds, but that might be a misreading by me.
January 31, 2026 at 10:04 PM
This is correct but also reductive. There were a lot of parts to Woke 1, some better and some worse, but this was the apex pattern that survived evolution until you know all of this.
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I gave Jon Ossoff money once for reasons I don't remember and while I don't regret the spend I do regret getting into his distribution list.
you: don't give your email to No Kings because the FBI will use it to kidnap you
me: don't give your email to No Kings because that inbox will be unusable for the rest of your life
me: don't give your email to No Kings because that inbox will be unusable for the rest of your life
October 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I gave Jon Ossoff money once for reasons I don't remember and while I don't regret the spend I do regret getting into his distribution list.
Latest bar reform just dropped
JUDGE DILLARD GAVE YOU A SWORD?
Officially a licensed Indiana lawyer as of today! I arranged to get sword in by Judge Dillard of the Georgia Court of Appeals, because the paperwork said *any* judge, and I found it too amusing to pass up. Many thanks to His Honor for going along with it.
January 31, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Latest bar reform just dropped
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January 31, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Again, bigotry can be about what you pay attention to, the centrality you give something to the narratives you give the world and your life.
January 31, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Again, bigotry can be about what you pay attention to, the centrality you give something to the narratives you give the world and your life.
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i have a problem both with passing up the rampant, masturbatory eugenics and also with thinking it's uniquely jewish. every ethnocentrist or ardent eugenicist is convinced their demographic specifically is superior, regardless of which demographic that is, and they are uniformly awful people
January 31, 2026 at 7:14 PM
i have a problem both with passing up the rampant, masturbatory eugenics and also with thinking it's uniquely jewish. every ethnocentrist or ardent eugenicist is convinced their demographic specifically is superior, regardless of which demographic that is, and they are uniformly awful people
Trying to design a 3d printed part and I keep running into gravity being a problem.
January 31, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Trying to design a 3d printed part and I keep running into gravity being a problem.
Thinking about this more, I think there's a real argument that NVIDIA selling/renting its chips in exchange for stock in chip-users is a breach of fiduciary duties. Caveat: I am working from first principles, not describing how I think a court or regulator will operate.
IMO the shovels for gold futures deals were terrible financial malpractice even if you really do think the gold is coming. But I'm pretty conservative about this stuff.
January 31, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Thinking about this more, I think there's a real argument that NVIDIA selling/renting its chips in exchange for stock in chip-users is a breach of fiduciary duties. Caveat: I am working from first principles, not describing how I think a court or regulator will operate.
You shouldn't fight the hypo but this is a neat thing to learn.
January 31, 2026 at 3:33 PM
You shouldn't fight the hypo but this is a neat thing to learn.
In a weird way this gives me hope because I believe in backlash and it isn't just for conservatives.
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 3:26 PM
In a weird way this gives me hope because I believe in backlash and it isn't just for conservatives.
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Squid and octopus are the greatest food scams of all time, even leaving aside the ethical issues with eating octopuses.
January 31, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Squid and octopus are the greatest food scams of all time, even leaving aside the ethical issues with eating octopuses.
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(extraordinarily laudatory)
January 31, 2026 at 2:17 PM
(extraordinarily laudatory)
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@kathryntewson.bsky.social likes to tell her attorneys that the only reason we became attorneys is because this dumb reality doesn't have paladin schools, and that is largely correct. If we see nice and good people being bullied by sewer goblins led by an animated rodent, we can't let it slide.
January 31, 2026 at 5:04 AM
@kathryntewson.bsky.social likes to tell her attorneys that the only reason we became attorneys is because this dumb reality doesn't have paladin schools, and that is largely correct. If we see nice and good people being bullied by sewer goblins led by an animated rodent, we can't let it slide.
That whole business also more-or-less spawned a law firm.
The LawyerVoltron™ that formed in response to Vic Mignogna's LOLsuit had told folks – explained to folks in excruciating detail – that the results in the scorecard were going to be the results, months ahead of time
It is simply not possible to adequately recount how predictable it all was
It is simply not possible to adequately recount how predictable it all was
January 31, 2026 at 2:47 PM
That whole business also more-or-less spawned a law firm.
Writing ability correlates with power and pay but only to about $300K/yr and then breaks down dramatically.
Why the fuck does Epstein put like five spaces on either side of every comma and shit this is driving me mad.
January 31, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Writing ability correlates with power and pay but only to about $300K/yr and then breaks down dramatically.
We don't know this but every bit of evidence we have on here suggests that they're trying.
The more random bullshit the people On Here invent the more transparently obvious it becomes that this is just a personal online grudge against Stancil that went irl
What I actually did was allow credentialed press from mainstream outlets sit in my car on the condition that they identify no one but myself, something dozens of observers have done, but it’s fascinating how paranoiac mania over that imagined offense has evolved into vast crimes in 24 hours
January 31, 2026 at 1:50 PM
We don't know this but every bit of evidence we have on here suggests that they're trying.
Terrible things happen and the world doesn't stop and neither do I and that feels wrong somehow.
January 31, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Terrible things happen and the world doesn't stop and neither do I and that feels wrong somehow.