Jonathan Kallay
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"Ethicswishing (in tech) is the belief that if you are committed to being ethical and understand technology, then you are well-equipped to build technology for social good."
Or
"Ethics can never work if you do the fucking around but someone else does the finding out."
Robin Berjon, on July 15, 2024
Or
"Ethics can never work if you do the fucking around but someone else does the finding out."
Robin Berjon, on July 15, 2024
I noted some similarities in narrative framing, too.
berjon.com/ethicswishing/
berjon.com/ethicswishing/
Ethicswishing
People mean well but ethics is hard. In tech, we have a knack for applying ethics in the most useless ways possible — even when we earnestly want to improve humankind's lot. Why does this matter, why ...
berjon.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:19 PM
"Ethicswishing (in tech) is the belief that if you are committed to being ethical and understand technology, then you are well-equipped to build technology for social good."
Or
"Ethics can never work if you do the fucking around but someone else does the finding out."
Robin Berjon, on July 15, 2024
Or
"Ethics can never work if you do the fucking around but someone else does the finding out."
Robin Berjon, on July 15, 2024
Can someone not still riding the "Defund the Police" train explain the wisdom of "Abolish ICE"? I don't hear anyone saying "Abolish the DoJ," "Abolish the Presidency," or calling to abolish any of the other institutions corrupted and weaponized. So "Abolish ICE" strikes me as inappropriate.
January 22, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Can someone not still riding the "Defund the Police" train explain the wisdom of "Abolish ICE"? I don't hear anyone saying "Abolish the DoJ," "Abolish the Presidency," or calling to abolish any of the other institutions corrupted and weaponized. So "Abolish ICE" strikes me as inappropriate.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Frum is providing an important and necessary explanation for how Trump can continue to be appealing even while stealing from his constituents: by providing redistribution of respect.
Those looking for a way out need to think about an 'abundance agenda' for respect
Frum is providing an important and necessary explanation for how Trump can continue to be appealing even while stealing from his constituents: by providing redistribution of respect.
Those looking for a way out need to think about an 'abundance agenda' for respect
Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
The vice president knows what ICE means to MAGA.
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:40 PM
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Frum is providing an important and necessary explanation for how Trump can continue to be appealing even while stealing from his constituents: by providing redistribution of respect.
Those looking for a way out need to think about an 'abundance agenda' for respect
Frum is providing an important and necessary explanation for how Trump can continue to be appealing even while stealing from his constituents: by providing redistribution of respect.
Those looking for a way out need to think about an 'abundance agenda' for respect
So much of this thread is just incoherent and cheap male-bashing. Incoherent because many of the comments clearly state "masculine" virtues and interests that are being violated and cheap because there's no social cost to bashing 50% of the population (although implicitly, it seems it's really only
they're doing it for gender, imo
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
So much of this thread is just incoherent and cheap male-bashing. Incoherent because many of the comments clearly state "masculine" virtues and interests that are being violated and cheap because there's no social cost to bashing 50% of the population (although implicitly, it seems it's really only
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“The challenging thing about living in a society that values disruption is that what looks transgressive is often more of the same, just louder,” Jon Grinspan writes.
Opinion | There Is a Way Out of This Mess
A second Gilded Age, a single solution.
nyti.ms
December 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“The challenging thing about living in a society that values disruption is that what looks transgressive is often more of the same, just louder,” Jon Grinspan writes.
I have needed to call the IRS several times over the past few months. Every single agent I've spoken to has been a model of good customer service.
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I have needed to call the IRS several times over the past few months. Every single agent I've spoken to has been a model of good customer service.
One of my favorite lines from @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy Cory Doctorow's book "Enshittification" is this response to complaints from Big Tech about 'stifling innovation': "...stifle innovation *in fraud*. Sounds good to me."
I plan to tack 'in fraud' on every time I hear
I plan to tack 'in fraud' on every time I hear
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One of my favorite lines from @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy Cory Doctorow's book "Enshittification" is this response to complaints from Big Tech about 'stifling innovation': "...stifle innovation *in fraud*. Sounds good to me."
I plan to tack 'in fraud' on every time I hear
I plan to tack 'in fraud' on every time I hear
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October 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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I love that @gilduran.com ends the interview by showing off his pet rat. 🐀 ❤️
I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago.
She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."
It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...
She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."
It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...
October 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I love that @gilduran.com ends the interview by showing off his pet rat. 🐀 ❤️
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My review of Yudkowsky and Soares' new book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. I consider Yudkowsky to be an intellectual fraud, and his book is nothing more than TESCREAL propaganda--in truth, he's pro-ASI and pro-extinctionist. Read more below:
www.truthdig.com/articles/und...
www.truthdig.com/articles/und...
Under a Mask of AI Doomerism, the Familiar Face of Eugenics - Truthdig
In a new book, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares hide their radical transhumanist agenda under the cover of concern about “AI Safety.”
www.truthdig.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My review of Yudkowsky and Soares' new book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. I consider Yudkowsky to be an intellectual fraud, and his book is nothing more than TESCREAL propaganda--in truth, he's pro-ASI and pro-extinctionist. Read more below:
www.truthdig.com/articles/und...
www.truthdig.com/articles/und...
Going out on a limb to say that SCOTUS rejecting bans on "conversion therapy" would fall very low on my list of things to worry about.
October 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Going out on a limb to say that SCOTUS rejecting bans on "conversion therapy" would fall very low on my list of things to worry about.
If Trump is serious about a Gaza peace plan naming himself as the chair of a "Peace Board," he should put up real collateral, say the deed to one of his prized properties, to be held by one of the Arab partners. Normally the reputation of the United States would be sufficient, but...
September 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If Trump is serious about a Gaza peace plan naming himself as the chair of a "Peace Board," he should put up real collateral, say the deed to one of his prized properties, to be held by one of the Arab partners. Normally the reputation of the United States would be sufficient, but...
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As Washington’s influence faded in the Middle East, U.S. officials increasingly embraced “an ideology of wishful thinking,” write Hussein Agha and Robert Malley. “Over decades, the United States had gradually built an alternate universe.”
The Lies America Tells Itself About the Middle East
As its influence faded, Washington dissembled and denied reality.
www.foreignaffairs.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
As Washington’s influence faded in the Middle East, U.S. officials increasingly embraced “an ideology of wishful thinking,” write Hussein Agha and Robert Malley. “Over decades, the United States had gradually built an alternate universe.”
Bret Stephens neatly summarizes the illiberalism of the present, including putting Charlie Kirk in his place as a very weak alternative to a truly liberal conservative -- worthy of positive recognition only because of how far discourse has fallen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
Opinion | Our Vanishing Culture of Argument
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Bret Stephens neatly summarizes the illiberalism of the present, including putting Charlie Kirk in his place as a very weak alternative to a truly liberal conservative -- worthy of positive recognition only because of how far discourse has fallen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
Electoral autocracy wins by keeping the opposition domesticated and focused on traditional irresolvable divisions.
asmallddemocrat.com/2025/09/02/n...
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Newsom is not the hero we need
We don't need Democrats to 'fight back.' We need leaders who see the way out of the Trumpism crisis.
asmallddemocrat.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Electoral autocracy wins by keeping the opposition domesticated and focused on traditional irresolvable divisions.
asmallddemocrat.com/2025/09/02/n...
asmallddemocrat.com/2025/09/02/n...
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Paywalled article, but the gist is that California needs to bind its own gerrymandering to the national map, such that it will respond in kind to gerrymandering elsewhere, and only then. This would make Texas's redistricting inherently self-defeating.
Paywalled article, but the gist is that California needs to bind its own gerrymandering to the national map, such that it will respond in kind to gerrymandering elsewhere, and only then. This would make Texas's redistricting inherently self-defeating.
There’s Only One Real Way for Democrats to Disarm Texas Gerrymandering
There is one way out of the partisan gerrymandering death spiral.
slate.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Paywalled article, but the gist is that California needs to bind its own gerrymandering to the national map, such that it will respond in kind to gerrymandering elsewhere, and only then. This would make Texas's redistricting inherently self-defeating.
Paywalled article, but the gist is that California needs to bind its own gerrymandering to the national map, such that it will respond in kind to gerrymandering elsewhere, and only then. This would make Texas's redistricting inherently self-defeating.
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David Grossman is saying it.
Israeli author David Grossman says his country is committing genocide in Gaza
Writer says for many years he has refused to use word but now must ‘with immense pain and with a broken heart’
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
David Grossman is saying it.
@adamsmith.house.gov this is welcome, but ironically passive given you advocate for the US taking the lead. Even prominent Israelis are going much further, advocating for concrete action, including sanctions and a halt to arms sales, to push the Israeli government to ending its war.
William Galston’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal acknowledges a hard truth: Hamas will never surrender. That truth underscores the urgent need for a fundamental shift in strategy.
July 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@adamsmith.house.gov this is welcome, but ironically passive given you advocate for the US taking the lead. Even prominent Israelis are going much further, advocating for concrete action, including sanctions and a halt to arms sales, to push the Israeli government to ending its war.
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Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation
Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation
Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of ‘brutal campaign’ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter
A group of high-profile Israeli public figures, including academics, artists and public intellectuals, has called for “crippling sanctions” to be imposed by the international community on Israel, amid mounting horror over its starvation of Gaza.
The 31 signatories of a letter to the Guardian include an Academy award recipient, Yuval Abraham; a former Israeli attorney general, Michael Ben-Yair; Avraham Burg, a former speaker of Israel’s parliament and former head of the Jewish Agency; and a number of recipients of the prestigious Israel prize, Israel’s highest cultural honour. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation
I pass my local Armed Services Recruiting Office, and am pleased by the fact that this is how the US Army is still advertising itself to prospective recruits.
July 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I pass my local Armed Services Recruiting Office, and am pleased by the fact that this is how the US Army is still advertising itself to prospective recruits.
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