Kancho Yogo
@kanchoyogo.bsky.social
I write official jargon for a living. Views are my own, so there's no one to blame but myself.
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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Thread of stories run by Bari Weiss's group blog that did not ask the targets of (frequently uncorroborated) accusations for comment, let alone give them a preemptive veto over the story:
In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions.
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues.
Not even a “no comment.”
www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...
Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.
www.thefp.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Thread of stories run by Bari Weiss's group blog that did not ask the targets of (frequently uncorroborated) accusations for comment, let alone give them a preemptive veto over the story:
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Bari Weiss' reporting experience is summed up by the time the NYT bizarrely gave her the cushiest possible assignment - go to Australia and hang out and write about it - and she produced a story so bad and so wrong about basic facts of Australian life that it became a running joke there.
December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Bari Weiss' reporting experience is summed up by the time the NYT bizarrely gave her the cushiest possible assignment - go to Australia and hang out and write about it - and she produced a story so bad and so wrong about basic facts of Australian life that it became a running joke there.
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Jesus Christ, this guy did everything so by the book he didn't even cross the border until he had his day in court and they still just black bagged him off to torture prison.
Detainee they are interviewing was a college student in Columbia. Waited in Mexico until he had a 2024 immigration interview in CA - a scheduled appointment - where he was told he was a danger to society. Claims he has no criminal record, never even got a traffic ticket. Was immediately detained
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Jesus Christ, this guy did everything so by the book he didn't even cross the border until he had his day in court and they still just black bagged him off to torture prison.
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Russian milbloggers rage after Ukraine showed agents infiltrating Lipetsk-2 airbase, sitting in Su-27/Su-30 cockpits, setting them ablaze, and escaping untouched. They blame poor security, saying airbase staff were reassigned to infantry. “A slap in the face to Gen. Afzalov,” one wrote.
December 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Russian milbloggers rage after Ukraine showed agents infiltrating Lipetsk-2 airbase, sitting in Su-27/Su-30 cockpits, setting them ablaze, and escaping untouched. They blame poor security, saying airbase staff were reassigned to infantry. “A slap in the face to Gen. Afzalov,” one wrote.
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[TANG TAIZONG]: "Please just ignore Prince Changqian over there playing with his goats next to his personal yurt. It's... uh... Tujue cosplay?
Anyways, let me direct your attention over to our *extremely* authentic family tree... tracing us Lis all the way back to Laozi himself! Imagine that!"
Anyways, let me direct your attention over to our *extremely* authentic family tree... tracing us Lis all the way back to Laozi himself! Imagine that!"
@thoc.bsky.social really do want to write a parody complaining the Tang is a "foreign Turkic colonial power" and not a legitimate Huaxia dynasty carrying the proud tradition of the YELLOW EMPEROR.
December 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
[TANG TAIZONG]: "Please just ignore Prince Changqian over there playing with his goats next to his personal yurt. It's... uh... Tujue cosplay?
Anyways, let me direct your attention over to our *extremely* authentic family tree... tracing us Lis all the way back to Laozi himself! Imagine that!"
Anyways, let me direct your attention over to our *extremely* authentic family tree... tracing us Lis all the way back to Laozi himself! Imagine that!"
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I can kinda guess what next week's news from Nepal will be
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I can kinda guess what next week's news from Nepal will be
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And once again I'm tapping the sign that privateering and the issuing of letters of marque is a violation of international law as the 1856 Declaration of Paris has been custom for over a century
U.S. lawmakers moved to revive privateering, a practice banished since the age of sail, which will allow government-backed ships to target enemies.
To stop drug boats, GOP lawmakers want to license pirates of the Caribbean
A bill introduced Thursday looks to revive a presidential power from the age of sail, by which Trump could issue letters of marque to modern-day privateers.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
And once again I'm tapping the sign that privateering and the issuing of letters of marque is a violation of international law as the 1856 Declaration of Paris has been custom for over a century
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Another datapoint for the argument that we are living through an increasingly ludicrous market bubble
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Another datapoint for the argument that we are living through an increasingly ludicrous market bubble
"Clearly the people to blame for the murders are the murderers, that’s self-apparent. But why didn’t Penny Wong" okay that's enough, old man. Let's get you back to the home.
Bloke did one decent thing in 40 years in public life and comes off the recliner to say it doesn't matter. (He got complete support from all bits of the ALP on guns BTW.) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Howard slams Albanese’s leadership, calls changes to gun laws a ‘diversion’
Former prime minister John Howard has declared the government’s push to reform gun laws following the Bondi terror attack a distraction from fighting antisemitism.
www.smh.com.au
December 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
"Clearly the people to blame for the murders are the murderers, that’s self-apparent. But why didn’t Penny Wong" okay that's enough, old man. Let's get you back to the home.
It took less than 24 hours for an Australian politician to go from "the murders of Jewish people at Bondi is horrific" to "people coming to this country should speak English." Surprising? Nah. Disappointing? Yeah.
December 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It took less than 24 hours for an Australian politician to go from "the murders of Jewish people at Bondi is horrific" to "people coming to this country should speak English." Surprising? Nah. Disappointing? Yeah.
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You have got to be kidding me
December 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
You have got to be kidding me
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When historians ask what radicalised me in relation to international law, it was reading these economic figures in 2012 when I was starting my research career after already having had it established through multiple evidence and historical sources that poverty alleviation was how you stop crime
December 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
When historians ask what radicalised me in relation to international law, it was reading these economic figures in 2012 when I was starting my research career after already having had it established through multiple evidence and historical sources that poverty alleviation was how you stop crime
This whole thread is entertaining. But this here sums up the problem. Assuming better means more useful and accurate (not just faster), it's no big help if AI generated answers are better than what the average person could do. It needs to beat expert knowledge to really value add.
You and I can be the judge.
This question evades my point.
Certainly, since you have such strong opinions on this, you're aware that LLMs can already produce better outputs on this sort of thing than the broad population? No matter your beliefs as to how they got there.
This question evades my point.
Certainly, since you have such strong opinions on this, you're aware that LLMs can already produce better outputs on this sort of thing than the broad population? No matter your beliefs as to how they got there.
December 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This whole thread is entertaining. But this here sums up the problem. Assuming better means more useful and accurate (not just faster), it's no big help if AI generated answers are better than what the average person could do. It needs to beat expert knowledge to really value add.
That bloke is an absolute legend. God knows how many lives he saved with that act of bravery.
Incredible footage out of Australia, confirmed by NEWS AU, of a brave bystander neutralizing one of the terrorists in the Bondi Beach attack which took place during a Hanukkah gathering.
Australian authorities say multiple people have been killed.
At least two suspects are in custody.
Australian authorities say multiple people have been killed.
At least two suspects are in custody.
December 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
That bloke is an absolute legend. God knows how many lives he saved with that act of bravery.
This is not as bad as one of my unshakeable core beliefs, which is that every* car driver should have to get a motorcycle/scooter licence and pass a road test on that before being allowed a car licence.
(*unless they are physically incapable of mounting so much as a three wheeler.)
(*unless they are physically incapable of mounting so much as a three wheeler.)
I should never serious post about traffic laws, should go back to my original position: every cyclist should be allowed to empty a clip into any car that inconveniences them slightly
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is not as bad as one of my unshakeable core beliefs, which is that every* car driver should have to get a motorcycle/scooter licence and pass a road test on that before being allowed a car licence.
(*unless they are physically incapable of mounting so much as a three wheeler.)
(*unless they are physically incapable of mounting so much as a three wheeler.)
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The real lesson of Christmas is that if God had wanted to win over working-class Judeans, he should have sent down a less divisive Messiah.
December 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The real lesson of Christmas is that if God had wanted to win over working-class Judeans, he should have sent down a less divisive Messiah.
He will die. Of dementia, or of whatever he's getting the intravenous lines for that bruise his hand. I choose to believe Americans aren't so self loathing that they'd elect a Trump kid or JDV. But whoever is next, it's hard to imagine what it will take for them to restore respect for the US.
Trump: "The European nations are reporting that your president might as well be the leader of the European nations also. They respect us like they've never respected us before."
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
He will die. Of dementia, or of whatever he's getting the intravenous lines for that bruise his hand. I choose to believe Americans aren't so self loathing that they'd elect a Trump kid or JDV. But whoever is next, it's hard to imagine what it will take for them to restore respect for the US.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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All heritage is Hogwarts, in that it’s part of a children’s story designed to coddle you, and make you feel special, and make you believe that old places lend their significance to the people who use them. Being pandered to is no way to live an adult life though.
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
All heritage is Hogwarts, in that it’s part of a children’s story designed to coddle you, and make you feel special, and make you believe that old places lend their significance to the people who use them. Being pandered to is no way to live an adult life though.
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When people refer to old buildings as ‘like Hogwarts’, remember that in a sense, the project of built heritage conservation is also the conversion of memory (of experienced places) into formal values (of real estate, or public secular meaning), which can be a profoundly ideological, harmful, process
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
When people refer to old buildings as ‘like Hogwarts’, remember that in a sense, the project of built heritage conservation is also the conversion of memory (of experienced places) into formal values (of real estate, or public secular meaning), which can be a profoundly ideological, harmful, process
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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CDT Quote of the Week:
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December 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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We are doing this because media companies hate the platforms (for commercial reasons) and many parents are lazy or don't get it. Solidarity to Ezra and every other kid who just had their world narrowed for no purpose. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m 15 years old and have a disability. Social media has been a lifeline – why is the government kicking me off? | Ezra Sholl
As I come to terms with life as a quadriplegic, Instagram and TikTok are a reminder I’m not alone
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
We are doing this because media companies hate the platforms (for commercial reasons) and many parents are lazy or don't get it. Solidarity to Ezra and every other kid who just had their world narrowed for no purpose. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...