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I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
…but Web 4.0 will be fought with sticks and stones.
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
…but Web 4.0 will be fought with sticks and stones.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
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"Knowledge is power" is a thought-terminating cliché.
Power is power. And it often grants the ability to make knowledge irrelevant.
Power is power. And it often grants the ability to make knowledge irrelevant.
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"Knowledge is power" is a thought-terminating cliché.
Power is power. And it often grants the ability to make knowledge irrelevant.
Power is power. And it often grants the ability to make knowledge irrelevant.
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the ketchup banchan is fucking destroying me
October 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
the ketchup banchan is fucking destroying me
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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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Do you ever think about the generation we're making of people who talk to their partner like a GPT prompt
August 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Do you ever think about the generation we're making of people who talk to their partner like a GPT prompt
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The sheer number of vacant storefronts that could be employed for this purpose.
“The truth is, every North American city could be doing this... And if we’re serious about making cycling a safe, reliable, everyday form of transportation, we have to.”
momentummag.com/nyc-bike-par...
momentummag.com/nyc-bike-par...
NYC’s Secure Bike Parking Plan Could Revolutionize Urban Cycling Across North America
New York City is doing what many cyclists across North America have been dreaming of for years: tackling the bike parking problem head-on.
momentummag.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The sheer number of vacant storefronts that could be employed for this purpose.
As of today, 37 years in the United States.
As of tomorrow, 26 years as an American citizen.
As of tomorrow, 26 years as an American citizen.
June 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
As of today, 37 years in the United States.
As of tomorrow, 26 years as an American citizen.
As of tomorrow, 26 years as an American citizen.
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The Comptroller getting arrested *was* a publicity stunt, but not by the Comptroller.
The stunt:
1. Instigate a light scuffle while a public figure is protecting an immigrant.
2. Arrest them; threaten charges.
3. Release them w/o charges.
Now everyone is afraid to protect immigrants.
The stunt:
1. Instigate a light scuffle while a public figure is protecting an immigrant.
2. Arrest them; threaten charges.
3. Release them w/o charges.
Now everyone is afraid to protect immigrants.
June 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The Comptroller getting arrested *was* a publicity stunt, but not by the Comptroller.
The stunt:
1. Instigate a light scuffle while a public figure is protecting an immigrant.
2. Arrest them; threaten charges.
3. Release them w/o charges.
Now everyone is afraid to protect immigrants.
The stunt:
1. Instigate a light scuffle while a public figure is protecting an immigrant.
2. Arrest them; threaten charges.
3. Release them w/o charges.
Now everyone is afraid to protect immigrants.
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
The subway would be cleaner and less of a refuge for the unhoused if the bond measures that ensured its upkeep were renewed, social safety net programs weren’t constantly being cut, wages were higher, and housing was cheaper. The drug thing is a real problem though.
Duffy: "If you're liberal, they want you to take public transportation ... the problem is that it's dirty. You have criminals. It's homeless shelters. It's insane asylums. It's a work ground for the criminal element of the city to prey upon the good people."
May 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The subway would be cleaner and less of a refuge for the unhoused if the bond measures that ensured its upkeep were renewed, social safety net programs weren’t constantly being cut, wages were higher, and housing was cheaper. The drug thing is a real problem though.
Great so ransom from AI is gonna be a product/feature.
Just saw this interview where the question was “how far do you think we are from having AI operate as a junior engineer 24/7?”
I cannot stress enough that I would pay a reasonable fee to 𝘯𝘰𝘵 have an unsupervised junior engineer operating 24/7 in our codebase.
I cannot stress enough that I would pay a reasonable fee to 𝘯𝘰𝘵 have an unsupervised junior engineer operating 24/7 in our codebase.
May 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Great so ransom from AI is gonna be a product/feature.
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Hard drives will go down as a lost pinnacle technology we will lose the ability to produce. A literally unbelievable architecture and competency, like electro-mechanical phone exchanges before. The old ways will be lost. It wasn't easy then, it won't be today. You fall now – and you fall forever.
May 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Hard drives will go down as a lost pinnacle technology we will lose the ability to produce. A literally unbelievable architecture and competency, like electro-mechanical phone exchanges before. The old ways will be lost. It wasn't easy then, it won't be today. You fall now – and you fall forever.
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Be here FRIDAY.
The most incredible competitor to the early iPod is essentially unknown. But I knew. And for 20 years I have wanted one. Now I do.
Swap a new HDD+battery backpack. Broadcast to FM. Browse files. Early version of Shazam. Record microphone and radio.
BE HERE.
The most incredible competitor to the early iPod is essentially unknown. But I knew. And for 20 years I have wanted one. Now I do.
Swap a new HDD+battery backpack. Broadcast to FM. Browse files. Early version of Shazam. Record microphone and radio.
BE HERE.
May 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Be here FRIDAY.
The most incredible competitor to the early iPod is essentially unknown. But I knew. And for 20 years I have wanted one. Now I do.
Swap a new HDD+battery backpack. Broadcast to FM. Browse files. Early version of Shazam. Record microphone and radio.
BE HERE.
The most incredible competitor to the early iPod is essentially unknown. But I knew. And for 20 years I have wanted one. Now I do.
Swap a new HDD+battery backpack. Broadcast to FM. Browse files. Early version of Shazam. Record microphone and radio.
BE HERE.
MTV Music Generator
If you could only play one PS1 game for the rest of your life, what would it be?
May 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
MTV Music Generator
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I’m sure it’s been commented upon but everything takes me so much more time to accomplish now than it did even seven years ago.
The information ecosystem has been sufficiently trashed to the point that every basic task of writing and publishing takes twice as long to complete. And I’m PRIVILEGED.
The information ecosystem has been sufficiently trashed to the point that every basic task of writing and publishing takes twice as long to complete. And I’m PRIVILEGED.
May 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I’m sure it’s been commented upon but everything takes me so much more time to accomplish now than it did even seven years ago.
The information ecosystem has been sufficiently trashed to the point that every basic task of writing and publishing takes twice as long to complete. And I’m PRIVILEGED.
The information ecosystem has been sufficiently trashed to the point that every basic task of writing and publishing takes twice as long to complete. And I’m PRIVILEGED.
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Wanna reduce crime?
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do public libraries help mitigate crime? Evidence from Kansas City, MO - Journal of Cultural Economics
We examine the relationship between public libraries and local crime rates. Previous studies have looked at different factors that could account for changes in crime, but few have focused on cultural ...
link.springer.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Wanna reduce crime?
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
open.spotify.com/track/7wCo3b...
I played this on repeat throughout my 20s. I saw her at the old Largo in LA and my friend shouted “JETPACK” and she played it and we were giddy. The words still hit, more than 20 years on.
I played this on repeat throughout my 20s. I saw her at the old Largo in LA and my friend shouted “JETPACK” and she played it and we were giddy. The words still hit, more than 20 years on.
Jetpack
Jill Sobule · Underdog Victorious (Deluxe Edition) · Song · 2004
open.spotify.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
open.spotify.com/track/7wCo3b...
I played this on repeat throughout my 20s. I saw her at the old Largo in LA and my friend shouted “JETPACK” and she played it and we were giddy. The words still hit, more than 20 years on.
I played this on repeat throughout my 20s. I saw her at the old Largo in LA and my friend shouted “JETPACK” and she played it and we were giddy. The words still hit, more than 20 years on.
A “triple single,” no less. And the most nonsensical 40% from 3, a statistical aberration relative to his homely shooting form.
April 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
A “triple single,” no less. And the most nonsensical 40% from 3, a statistical aberration relative to his homely shooting form.