Layne Flake ❌ 👑
@laynef.bsky.social
Science, Secularism, Human Rights, and Beauty —
Computer Hardware Engineer
Computer Hardware Engineer
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I’m just wondering how many ways we’re going to hamstring defenders before anyone addresses the fact that the pitchers are too close to the hitters, and that drives almost every gameplay problem baseball has.
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I’m just wondering how many ways we’re going to hamstring defenders before anyone addresses the fact that the pitchers are too close to the hitters, and that drives almost every gameplay problem baseball has.
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I wrote about how to "win" the "culture wars," in the sense that once you start playing you have already lost.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
Culture Wars Are For Cowards
And most people don't like bullies.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I wrote about how to "win" the "culture wars," in the sense that once you start playing you have already lost.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
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to reiterate a point from the column trump’s pardons of fraudsters and corrupt politicians should be understood as an expression of his belief that corruption should not be a crime
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
to reiterate a point from the column trump’s pardons of fraudsters and corrupt politicians should be understood as an expression of his belief that corruption should not be a crime
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You know what? I'm going to toot my own horn a little bit. Here are the first two pages from "Lost Worlds." If you've read "Sapiens," compare the depth of his understanding of the material he's citing with what I'm doing here.
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
You know what? I'm going to toot my own horn a little bit. Here are the first two pages from "Lost Worlds." If you've read "Sapiens," compare the depth of his understanding of the material he's citing with what I'm doing here.
Enshittification coming for LLMs
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Enshittification coming for LLMs
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Writers: I implore you to get the fuck off of Substack. mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
Substack has a Nazi problem AND a health disinformation problem
Substack creators and Substack audiences are supporting a platform that profits off of promoting dangerous antiscience content – at the expense of public health.
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Writers: I implore you to get the fuck off of Substack. mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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"there's always a tweet" is starting to get ridiculous now
There is a famous tweet where Nuzzi says "why does Hollywood always depict female reporters as sleeping with their sources"!!
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"there's always a tweet" is starting to get ridiculous now
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the key to overcoming imposter syndrome lies not in understanding that you're better than this but in accepting that everyone else is worse than this
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
the key to overcoming imposter syndrome lies not in understanding that you're better than this but in accepting that everyone else is worse than this
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one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.
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One of the finest portraits of a world leader/dictator/tyrant ever. MeanCat neither needs nor wants an invite to the White House. He’s so far beyond that garbage.
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
One of the finest portraits of a world leader/dictator/tyrant ever. MeanCat neither needs nor wants an invite to the White House. He’s so far beyond that garbage.
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Problems like this are why the world needs a global government that can regulate global corporations
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People (Gift Article)
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Problems like this are why the world needs a global government that can regulate global corporations
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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ain't nothing like a Trump peace deal!
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 13 people in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, local officials said — an attack that could put pressure on the fragile ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
13 killed in Israeli strike on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
The IDF said it targeted a Hamas training facility in southern Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh. The attack could put pressure on the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza.
wapo.st
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
ain't nothing like a Trump peace deal!
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
Consistently great writing and always must read
Vance is a sword of Damocles hanging over the USA and I hope he is never in charge
Vance is a sword of Damocles hanging over the USA and I hope he is never in charge
i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
Opinion | JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Consistently great writing and always must read
Vance is a sword of Damocles hanging over the USA and I hope he is never in charge
Vance is a sword of Damocles hanging over the USA and I hope he is never in charge
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Good morning happy Sunday, here, start your day off with a fun little story about cards, luck and how to prove a negative by yours truly
www.frivolouscomma.com/three-card-c...
www.frivolouscomma.com/three-card-c...
Three Card Caper
“You want me to prove this guy is cheating?”
“Oh no,” says Atul, holding his hands up, palms facing me. “If he was cheating, we’d have caught him. We need you to prove he’s not cheating.”
www.frivolouscomma.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Good morning happy Sunday, here, start your day off with a fun little story about cards, luck and how to prove a negative by yours truly
www.frivolouscomma.com/three-card-c...
www.frivolouscomma.com/three-card-c...
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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The Trump administration has learned that tariffs raise the price of imported goods. Will they apply this lesson to anything except coffee and bananas? No of course not
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Trump administration has learned that tariffs raise the price of imported goods. Will they apply this lesson to anything except coffee and bananas? No of course not
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Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
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Not to be nitpicky but these (Wapo/ WSJ) are bad headlines. Is the important news here "The Democrats released emails"? Or is the important news, you know, "Epstein says Trump spent hours with underage girl"? Put the important news in the headline!
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Not to be nitpicky but these (Wapo/ WSJ) are bad headlines. Is the important news here "The Democrats released emails"? Or is the important news, you know, "Epstein says Trump spent hours with underage girl"? Put the important news in the headline!
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I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
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Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.
Three former San Antonio police officers were acquitted on Monday of all charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman who appeared to be having a mental health crisis when they were dispatched to her apartment in 2023. nyti.ms/4qRnvvT
3 San Antonio Officers Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Woman in 2023
Melissa Perez, 46, swung a hammer in their direction and appeared to be in distress in her home when the officers arrived, officials said.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.
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Since I’ve been in Mexico, listen to your friend, @stevevladeck.bsky.social who is trying to help you. :)
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Since I’ve been in Mexico, listen to your friend, @stevevladeck.bsky.social who is trying to help you. :)