Murali Suriar
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I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.
two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
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October 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.
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New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent
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The illegible nature of software development talent
Here’s another blog post on gathering some common threads from reading recent posts. Today’s topic is about the unassuming nature of talented software engineers. The first thread was a …
surfingcomplexity.blog
October 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent
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surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...
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They kept Telegram on their App Store even after it was used as an organizing platform first for ISIS and then for murder Nazis
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE official sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal (Ashley Oliver/Fox Business)
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October 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
They kept Telegram on their App Store even after it was used as an organizing platform first for ISIS and then for murder Nazis
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Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.
Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival
Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
bit.ly
October 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.
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You should fire whoever wrote this headline.
The feds are engaging in a brutal crackdown on innocent people, causing damaging and wasting tax dollars. Look at Chicago. Look at LA.
They are enemies of a free society; debating whether it's "smart" is gross.
The feds are engaging in a brutal crackdown on innocent people, causing damaging and wasting tax dollars. Look at Chicago. Look at LA.
They are enemies of a free society; debating whether it's "smart" is gross.
October 3, 2025 at 4:36 AM
You should fire whoever wrote this headline.
The feds are engaging in a brutal crackdown on innocent people, causing damaging and wasting tax dollars. Look at Chicago. Look at LA.
They are enemies of a free society; debating whether it's "smart" is gross.
The feds are engaging in a brutal crackdown on innocent people, causing damaging and wasting tax dollars. Look at Chicago. Look at LA.
They are enemies of a free society; debating whether it's "smart" is gross.
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A sex-blind admissions policy at selective universities will not go the way that the Trump administration thinks it will.
October 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A sex-blind admissions policy at selective universities will not go the way that the Trump administration thinks it will.
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Okay look:
There’s theoretically a Marxist definition of working class, which means anyone who doesn’t own the means of production. But no one actually uses it (even if they claim to), because means doctors and many CEOs are working class, but a streetside food vendor is a filthy capitalist.
There’s theoretically a Marxist definition of working class, which means anyone who doesn’t own the means of production. But no one actually uses it (even if they claim to), because means doctors and many CEOs are working class, but a streetside food vendor is a filthy capitalist.
September 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Okay look:
There’s theoretically a Marxist definition of working class, which means anyone who doesn’t own the means of production. But no one actually uses it (even if they claim to), because means doctors and many CEOs are working class, but a streetside food vendor is a filthy capitalist.
There’s theoretically a Marxist definition of working class, which means anyone who doesn’t own the means of production. But no one actually uses it (even if they claim to), because means doctors and many CEOs are working class, but a streetside food vendor is a filthy capitalist.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his attempted military coup in Brazil, but you didn't hear much about it in the news because the people who did the exact same thing in the States dominated the media crying hysterically over a podcaster. None of this was inevitable.
September 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his attempted military coup in Brazil, but you didn't hear much about it in the news because the people who did the exact same thing in the States dominated the media crying hysterically over a podcaster. None of this was inevitable.
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I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.
think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all
Myself I feel powerless to stop this fascist rise precisely because it feels like all our institutions are just rolling over to it.
September 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.
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This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car.
It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable
It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable
September 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car.
It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable
It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable
Today in "At Google we used to..."
Currently missing a 20% project from 200x that let you group pages/alerts from the same event into "outages", and let you tag outages with stuff like "impact:none" and "action:none", so you could find and nuke shit alerts.
Truly unfathomable space alien genius.
Currently missing a 20% project from 200x that let you group pages/alerts from the same event into "outages", and let you tag outages with stuff like "impact:none" and "action:none", so you could find and nuke shit alerts.
Truly unfathomable space alien genius.
September 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Today in "At Google we used to..."
Currently missing a 20% project from 200x that let you group pages/alerts from the same event into "outages", and let you tag outages with stuff like "impact:none" and "action:none", so you could find and nuke shit alerts.
Truly unfathomable space alien genius.
Currently missing a 20% project from 200x that let you group pages/alerts from the same event into "outages", and let you tag outages with stuff like "impact:none" and "action:none", so you could find and nuke shit alerts.
Truly unfathomable space alien genius.
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US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
September 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
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Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:
www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.
www.404media.co
September 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:
www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
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"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.
September 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"He reviled, belittled, and demeaned large numbers of my fellow Americans, but he was quite cordial to me" sets my teeth on edge.
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Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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They're going to spike everyone's energy prices. Your energy prices are going up and it's Trump's fault. Plain as day.
"The developers behind the project had said it was on track to produce enough electricity for more than 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut by next spring."
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
August 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
They're going to spike everyone's energy prices. Your energy prices are going up and it's Trump's fault. Plain as day.
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anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.
August 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.
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I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
August 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
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Newsom: He is a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time while having a conversation like this? Someone who is weak, broken. His weakness is masquerading as a strength. The most unpopular president in modern history.
August 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Newsom: He is a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time while having a conversation like this? Someone who is weak, broken. His weakness is masquerading as a strength. The most unpopular president in modern history.
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The US-Canadian Road Safety Gap Is Getting Wider
“Despite similar infrastructure and vehicle fleets, the US and Canada are going in very different directions when it comes to traffic safety. A new study breaks down the divergence.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @bloomberg.com CityLab.
“Despite similar infrastructure and vehicle fleets, the US and Canada are going in very different directions when it comes to traffic safety. A new study breaks down the divergence.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @bloomberg.com CityLab.
The US-Canadian Road Safety Gap Is Getting Wider
Despite similar infrastructure and vehicle fleets, the US and Canada are going in very different directions when it comes to traffic safety. A new study breaks down the divergence.
www.bloomberg.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The US-Canadian Road Safety Gap Is Getting Wider
“Despite similar infrastructure and vehicle fleets, the US and Canada are going in very different directions when it comes to traffic safety. A new study breaks down the divergence.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @bloomberg.com CityLab.
“Despite similar infrastructure and vehicle fleets, the US and Canada are going in very different directions when it comes to traffic safety. A new study breaks down the divergence.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @bloomberg.com CityLab.