Jason M.
slothparlor-jason.bsky.social
Jason M.
@slothparlor-jason.bsky.social
Web Dev | Pittie Parent | Skeptic w/ Compassion | Media Literacy Advocate | Gaming Enthusiast

I want to learn as much as possible, believe as few false things as possible, and use it to think better for better action.
Little sad to see even the funny joke thread kinda miss the likely point here. As a webdev, no amount of familiarity or dev experience changes the fact that you need a domain/business reason to have a framework out in front of your *static site*. Too many of us neglect that.
May 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Fuck, I just realized I wish this were true. It’s not. It’s way worse. A shocking number of people only hear fraudulent alarms.
May 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
We’re a country dense with people primed to hear alarmism louder than the sound of the alarm.
April 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I need to get a feel for more agent-first workflows because currently I’ve only used one. My experience fun-bad. In personified terms, I just couldn’t get it to focus. Every iteration it went down off-topic paths and made little tweaks that hit me like noise. It also got caught in a cycle.
April 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The stock market is not the economy!



It’s eggs or something, right?
April 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
This isn’t even a difficult thing to work through. I can’t think of any awful thing a person does that makes me think they don’t deserve a process or that they do deserve torture. Rule of law has table stakes. How many times do we need to fuck this up before we figure out how to hand them down?
April 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It’s more than a little frustrating that we’ll likely see arguments over the details but the larger, principled issues filled with symbolism, not so much. Embarrassingly unequipped for fascism.
April 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
That sounds right on. We see it in so many spaces we hope would stand on merit. With structured debate, skills specific to the firm eclipse subject matter expertise every time. Same with public communication. Same with coalition building. (And yes, I picked things a politician is nexus to)
April 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Don’t understand Elon through the lens of scientism or even techno-optimist fanaticism. These are terribly dangerous, but if you extricate cynicism from them, even lots of power and influence just amount to bad, gross bets, not this fascism.
April 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Strong agree from me, but I can imagine that people are tripping over the idea of a talented politician. We’re in the midst of this obsession with authenticity even though our ability to spot it is terrible. That obsession undergirds a cynicism towards the idea of politicking as a skill.
April 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Got it. I must have missed the pushback against the concept. I think I must be in circles bullish on them (or bullish on solving the problem they are thought to solve).

Appreciate the response.
March 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I’d be curious about your thoughts on if we flipped this around a little bit. Are there any practices where the balance of equities is such that we A*want* something obtrusive to a user flow to juice adoption? And, if so, why not passkeys?

Love your work, man. Hope this is received well.
March 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It’s also an administrative stay that would result in more irreparable harms accumulating which, lay person here but, I think implies that the chief justice finds the arguments of the appeal compelling and/or he thinks this would be acceptably adjudicated in terms of damages.

gl con law scholars
February 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Stelter’s point here has the look and feel of a “don’t let perfection be the enemy of good enough.” But actual news media compromising their coverage in a way that favors those who would abuse media isn’t a “good enough.”

Propagandists in line to take their spot is a separate problem.
February 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Having had more than a few conversations with people in his corner, his cynicism manages to inspire cynicism and the people didn’t even seem to know it. I cant begin to describe how disheartening that was. He disregards good info for influence and leaves impedance to shared-values in his wake.
January 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM