oz yigit

"Ever wonder what it'd be like to go back in time and help fight nazis? Support Civil Rights Era? Resist Native genocide? Now's your chance!" -- Xeni Jardin

Put him on an ice floe with Ross Douthat, Ezra Klein, and Jonathan Chait, and see how much the discourse improves

Willis Wins Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Award locusmag.com/2026/10...

“i don’t want to know what you think. i want you to think what i know.” — tom duff [he was probably having an annoying day]

anti-vaxxers will be so pissed. shadenfreude time.

this thread!

President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the EPA. Read more: nyti.ms/4il3336

We owe the U.S. no loyalty while Trump treats our country like the enemy. Canada has every right to choose who we do business with. We don’t need anyone’s permission to build a stronger, more independent future. 🇨🇦

Watched the Musk documentary today, and was not surprised to see @lorak.bsky.social interviewed in it.

never give up never surrender #galaxyquest

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

on an unrelated topic: some led zeppelin songs could have been prince songs and vice versa. vocal work of prince and plant are so remarkably similar.

my natural habitat!

beaverton!

banksy!

The Ford Government, everyone. www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

“even more problematic for the marketplace-for-ideas notion is that an idea’s validity in the eyes of the people depends on on the prevailing distribution of power in society.” — acemoglu & johnson [“power and progress”]

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

i miss the (good) old days when i could stay up all night and finish a book like this in one sitting. #nowreading

my goodness my traction/engagement in here is like well worn regular tires on a skating rink. smdh

Chris Hayes’ MS NOW interview tonight with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is just an astonishing, riveting, long-form interview.

“if aliens were ever to visit, NOW would be a good time!” — eren yigit

jfc. ps i always hated PHP. www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/critica...

To the people who are still talking about how Canada is "not taking Alberta seriously" -- what on earth are you talking about? The PM is an Albertan. The leader of the opposition is an Albertan. Our national politics revolve around Alberta's interests and concerns. What else do you want?

#nowlistening oscar peterson was a chancellor and adjunct professor at york university, my alma mater.

"Think before you speak. Read before you think." ― Fran Lebowitz

too many levels of abstraction leaves your head in a cloud and your feet in a swamp.

I'm thinking back to when we were young if only to find out forensically what it was we used to want. -- gord downie

always good to revisit this fun music video!

phrase of the day: “have your cake and eat it too contextualism” — daisy dixon [philosophy bites]

nothing gives me as much joy as albertan seperatiste/traitor tears this morning!

"Guard your time fiercely. Be generous with it, but be intentional about it. Guard it the same way you guard your money. It’s the one resource with which we have increasingly less to do our life’s work, and to be with those we love. Say yes to those things first." -- david duchemin

This is what it looks like when billionaires and their lapdogs order journalists to capitulate to power, rather than hold it to account.

musk the “genius” gets schooled by a turing award winning computer scientist and one of the fathers of modern AI.

this is the stage of capitalism not mentioned in textbooks: “buy our shit or we’ll f*ck you up” gangster operation stage.

quiet piggy via tod maffin