Chris Ferdinandi

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You ever think about how Sisqo changed the underwear buying habits of an entire generation with a single song?

The guy who runs the local pizza joint in our new town LOVES old-school hip-hop and just does NOT give AF whose in the restaurant. He's always got it cranked up super loud. Last night, he had Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me" blasting while a senior citizen couple was eating. I love it!

“how could German citizens just sit back and do nothing while the Gestapo kidnapped their neighbors?”

⚓️ New Article: The SpeechRecognition API

This part in particular is so 🔥🔥🔥 "Usefulness itself is not a sufficient criterion for whether something is good. Slavery and child labor are strictly speaking useful, but many societies have strict rules against those since they are also deeply exploitative."

⚓️ New Article: Documentation-Driven Development

Charlotte, my amazing wife and a teacher in France, went and protested with the students of Paris on Saturday. What she saw did not match the media narrative. She wrote up her thoughts on what she experienced on the ground. Please spread far and wide! #france #protests #paris #lesetudiantes

My local library has a "The ABCs of Queer History" poster up in the children's room and an "All Genders" sign on the bathroom. I fucking LOVE where I live!

One of the patches that got sent is bigger than I ordered… but I might like it that way anyways? That “we all do better” patch was supposed to be the same size as “become ungovernable”. I swapped its placement with the pride flag here. Should I… 1. Keep it 2. Exchange and swap with pride spot

And the reason that happened is because local repro rights and repro justice groups went and talked to people in their communities and spoke their language. Meanwhile it took Joe Biden like three years to say the word Abortion on TV. I wrote about it: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/07/30/f...

⚓️ New Article: Life on Foot

⚓️ New Article: The Village

your harry potter fandom is killing trans people. full. stop.

"Libraries should be open late as an alternative to the bar" is going around some groups I'm in again and I just Y'all can't convince enough people to fund libraries to be open during the day with reasonable pay and expectations Where do you think you're finding night shift premium pay money

WRITE!!! BAD!!! FICS!!! people really need to realize that the only way to write good fics is to write bad ones. the only way to get less AI slop is to be okay with the bad human fics. the only way to have fun and learn is to get really comfortable with bad writing.

Then why did he unwaveringly stand with Israel through his presidency and fund their oppression of Palestine. That’s on top of doing his own war criminal shit against muslims in the Middle East. Fuck Obama. Fuck Bush. Fuck Biden. Fuck Trump. War criminals, every last one.

GOOD! Now let’s also prioritize reducing car use overall. More rail. More bike lanes. More mixed-use and walkable suburbs. Less sprawl. Fewer roads.

We could choose another way but instead we choose, time and again, dead kids.

Every now and then I'll chat about Dungeon Crawler Carl with someone and learn that a lot of folks don't see the (to me) VERY obvious political overtones in the book. It's wild!

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to censor ourselves before they even have a chance to do it. We will not do that. We will confidently put resistance politics out there into the world to go along with the movements of people who are actively trying to fight against these systems.”

Solar canopies above crops produced clean energy while reducing heat stress, boosting summer yields by 20% and improving barley quality in field trials.

Since two tech writers have made annoying announcements recently: I cover tech and don't use Twitter. There's no need to. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. They just want to be there

"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

⚓️ New Article: We live in a world where...

For a US-based example, MA saw the same results.

HTML Can Do That by @chrisburnell “HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.” chrisburnell.com/html-can-… Great reminder of all of the advances we’ve seen!

Y'all... I can't stress this enough: Ms. Rachel is amazing. We should all be more like her.

Same energy www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TLo...

⚓️ New Article: No human is illegal

⚓️ New Article: Radical books that aren't a slog

Honestly instead of learning new techniques to hack my nervous system I'd like to live in a equitable life-affirming society that didn't push me into fight or flight hour after hour. You?

Fucking hero

He would know!

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

The turn most software devs have taken shouldn't have surprised me. Well before LLMs, most devs I've met had the soul of a landlord Sometimes "landlord trying to be cool". Sometimes "landlord who wants suffering with the rent" But both see the world with the eyes of a rent-seeker

I'm trying to buy some leftist patches for my backpack, but everything I'm finding on Etsy is 3" or larger. Anyone have any other places to look that aren't Amazon or the like?

I'm trying to buy some leftist patches for my backpack, but everything I'm finding on Etsy is 3" or larger. Anyone have any other places to look that aren't Amazon or the like?