Jay Gruber

I have a long-held desire to go to Costco in a foreign country whenever the next time I travel. Costco is a place of wonders, so what must a Costco in a civilized country be like? Costco Canada? Costco Japan? I must know

So was he working for free? Or where was this bro collecting income from during that time period?

Woody Harrelson has done an ad "for Exxon". Well worth watching

Picturing the Venn diagram between "hates excellence" and "hates Black excellence"

Way too real

Wrote up a short piece about the ways in which NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND flips the script on portrayals of rationality and logic are often gendered, and why that seems so relevant right now.

It's like some of these guys never watched Shrek. And I know they did

This is addictive

excited to announce that @blackskyweb.xyz was accepted into the @interledger.org 2026 Open Payments Accelerator Cohort we're building native payment infrastructure for @atproto.com to enable peer-to-peer payments for mutual aid and community support

needless to say, the fact that the president is personally participating in *heavy sigh* generative animal snuff content at a time when his secretary of *heavier sigh* war is threatening to livestream an execution presents a more pressing and specific issue... but the moral rot runs super deep here

If your democracy cannot handle the cold reality voters have pancake batter for brains you need to redesign it.

Holy shit.

Once again, your "liberal" publications are the ones that launder eugenics and race science into the mainstream

Dogs do not need substantially different things than humans, and if you are training your dog correctly you will probably look at our society and whisper “what the fuck!”

Broadsheets are inevitable. Get on the broadsheet train before it leaves the station

"Only very serious people who follow the rules of civility can be allowed into our very serious institutions (which are doing great) and very serious businesses (doing fantastic, thanks for asking)." We say, in this the year 2026.

Good morning, happy Friday! May you sail this weekend with fair winds and following seas.

have they tried putting the agents in a box made of something sturdier than sand

One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.

We took this fun, non-zero sum game and made it a leech who insults you

This is a question I'm interested in hearing more about. All the versions of LLMs we have seen so far have been made by the worst people and have so so many harms baked in. Is it possible for other folks to build something different (_Small_ Language Models, maybe) that addresses most of the harms?

No one gets a PhD in "what if the people in charge of the Pentagon are chud idiots and they collapse the world economy because caring about strategy is Woke and Gay". But that is (self-evidently) a far more likely thing to happen, simply because it only requires stupidity to accomplish.

Software dev is all the 2nd 80% now

Consider this your assignment for National Voter Registration Day. Head to IWillVote.com and check your voter registration status. Then send this to the group chat and make sure they check theirs, too. We all need to turn out this November and be too big to rig.

This post has been echoing around me for a month

I think the Atmosphere needs to start talking about renewables given all the AI-related emissions going into the... Atmosphere. I recently purchased the domain atproto.solar. And I'll offer that domain to anyone who's able to run a PDS that operates 100% on solar/renewable energy. Let's chat.

Tag yourself. I am the dog in the background. Loving the song, but ensnared by the decadence of the comfy bed.

"We’re sharing both a writeup of the proof and a formalization in Lean" Shout-out to @danabra.mov for calling this one bsky.app/profile/dana...

Don't like

> The man is likely the 19th hunger striker in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention where the agency has had an application approved to conduct “involuntary medical procedures” since January 2025

To be clear, "once all the immigrants are gone" these folks tacitly expected Black people to go back into the fields

on today's Very Special Episode of "to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially from authorities" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...

Guys I hate to break it to you, but under capitalism, automation improves productivity but doesn't actually reduce the amount of time workers must work to survive. Instead, productivity gains are captured as profit. Only worker organizing will reduce our labor time. Yes, this applies to 'AI'

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Heck yeah