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VIRTUE AND A SLEDGEHAMMER 🔴 OUT NOW 🔴 I STILL LOVE YOU MORE THAN I HATE YOU store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/...

NEW: Hormuz reminded fuel importers that buying energy cargo by cargo means importing every price shock. In TIME, María Mendiluce and I argue the response will decide who becomes the electrostates of the next decade. @wemeanbusiness.bsky.social time.com/article/2026...

A story of the trans community's resilience and expanding cultural relevance, even as our lives are threatened by the fascist political movement that made us enemy #1. Don't miss this, from @c-cauterucci.bsky.social, on @slate.com slate.com/life/2026/10...

between serbia, brazil, and hopefully november 3, a good reminder: voting works it’s not the end, there’s always work to be done after the vote, but if you want to beat the motherfuckers and keep them out of power: vote your asses off

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

of all of the people in this administration who deserve to go to jail stephen miller deserves to go to jail the most

Battery electric, solar-powered reefer units reach their first customers

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

The Original Delicious in Dungeon: Dungeon Master! The popularity FTL's pioneering Atari ST real-time dungeon crawler in Japan led to its own comic/manga series. 📖: Dungeon Master, Dengeki Comics, 1993

Plugging away at Sovereign Tower on steam deck and it is impossibly charming, both in its gorgeous sun-soaked art and its knowing playfulness. Great to play a game that feels like the devs *loved* making.

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

the handful of die-hard anti-trans voters that exist are going to vote GOP no matter what. so this ad will not pick up a single new voter. all it does is further disenfranchise trans ppl – a marginalized group MAGA hates. this is a pro-MAGA ad & Turek is furthering MAGA's cause by airing it

Really enjoyed starting my day with this post. The drop in the grid’s carbon intensity is incredible. “two decades ago the average carbon emissions per kWh were around 500 g CO2 / kWh. In 2025 it was 121 g CO2 / kWh.”

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

Happy first day of early voting, New York!

Really loving OpenBallot (www.openballot.app) for this election cycle. Getting a good read on some of the more labyrinthine California propositions used to be a slog of searching for different news sources and tabulating their comparative responses. OpenBallot automates that. It's great!

My next Big & Bright 🌈 ⭐ newsletter is about the anti-trans flyers flooding Texas during the midterms, plus the battle against AIDS & HIV under a fascist government. Subscribe today to get it tomorrow: www.thebarbedwire.com/newsletters/

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

The opportunity to argue about observable reality with someone actively demonstrating their unwillingness to observe it is not as attractive a proposition or as necessary an activity as many people seem to believe.

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Democratic-aligned group Progress Action Fund has released a PRO-trans ad, attacking Republicans for being creepy in bathrooms. It will run in Texas and Ohio, and is expected to reach millions. You have to see the ad itself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

tech LinkedIn is depressing. logged in to see the goodbye post of a long-time Googler but absolutely. everything. else. in my feed is about AI. pro-AI, anti-AI, tips on using AI for coding, how to deal with reviewing AI-written CLs... is nobody writing software that actually helps users anymore?

thinking about putting "18+ ONLY — MINORS DO NOT INTERACT" on my LinkedIn profile and "RECRUITERS: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CONTACT ME" on my bluesky profile, just to keep things confusing

I mean if he wants every American to have stake in SpaceX I guess we better go ahead and nationalize it.

genAI boosters are always like “you think you’re better than me because you drew a picture? You think you’re better than me because you read a book?” and it’s like, well, no, but you seem very unhappy

look if shit is so dire for the democrats that they NEED every vote from trans people, maybe they shouldn't run candidates who are transphobic or fold on even the slightest pushback to trans rights it's not our fault y'all's guys suck

What’s going on in the United Kingdom right now is unspeakable. And it’s Labour, the ostensibly left of center party that is doing it. Horrific.

This post isn’t making a point about voting, but people with pundit-brain can’t approach any idea w/o equating it to voting, and so they respond by demanding assurances about voting—to which I say those who offer no assurances will receive no assurances. Feel a fraction of the anxiety you cause.

Ive spent the last 2 weeks feeling intermittently quite miserable from a covid exposure so expect me to once again be one of those obnoxious people who thinks we should take care of each other's health and the air quality at our gatherings. I never really stopped but im fully back on my bs now.

But I can spend hours making little patterns and stringing them together. Reversing or inverting them, finding ways to recreate chords my hands can't produce the normal way. We in the industry call this "fun." This is yet another case of ai offering to fuck my wife so I can answer more emails.

Netanyahu called me a liar when settlers detained me, along with a NYT photographer, in Zanuta this past July. Now, he is calling a Washington Post photographer a liar. Netanyahu, you are the liar with the blood of Palestinian children on your hands.

It's Saturday and that means TEN! 📺 Is retro the future of EV design? Paris goes retro, the Trump administration tries to un-approve a wind farm that's already built, and Rivian goes Ghostbusters. 👻 https://youtu.be/NRn__ZjFEwc

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Iowa Democratic Congressional Candidate Christina Bohannan breaks with other Iowa Democrats and releases an ad that does NOT throw transgender people under the bus. She answers "unfairness in sports" with "unfairness in prescription drug prices." Subscribe to support our journalism.

I'm absolutely gutted to hear that Anita Borg have had to cancel their Grace Hopper conference, which was going to take place end Oct, due to a lack of funding. The tech industry really has abandoned women now. They just no longer care about equity or inclusion. www.anitab.org/press-release

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New shipwreck just dropped.

This remains true: it is not an engineering discipline. It's just deploying shoddy systems in inappropriate contexts, ignorant of (or sometimes reveling in) the externalized harms. What would it take to start doing engineering? Construct validity, adversarial audits, robust governance, and more.

Happy Ada Lovelace Day, everyone! I'm always proud to trace the foundations of my research area (programming languages) through three brilliant women: Ada Lovelace (invented the idea of programming) Grace Hopper (popularized high-level languages) Margaret Hamilton (pioneered software engineering)

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