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The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.

This has been my experience exactly. I find I have to use all 35+ years of my programming experience to have an LLM produce good code. When I do this, the results are very satisfying and enable me to do things that I wouldn't normally be able to do... or that I dislike doing manually.

Somewhat Better Than Ezra

14 minutes for expired tags and then the cops run to check on their guy rather than the kid who's car was just totaled. As @gregdoucette.bsky.social says "Cops are great!" kfor.com/news/local/t...

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I saw The Princess Bride with my whole family in a packed theater when I was a bit older than the character Fred Savage plays and was concerned that a movie about princesses might not be my cup of tea. I've never been happier to be wrong in my life.

“It’s hard to understand why the focus is on expansion and technology that doesn’t get used when it’s the staff who make the work possible.” #UCDavis #ResetUCPriorities #IamUCDavisVetMed

Happy Wombat Day, @tkingfisher.com! www.daysoftheyear.com/days/wombat-...

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Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)

This is a great story, especially if you've read the main series.

Hell yeah youtu.be/dBMguDfirgA?...

literally every time I talk to friends

I’m the 2021 U.S. Muay Thai Open silver medalist.

As @gregdoucette.bsky.social says: "Cops are Great!" apnews.com/article/swat...

Tell me about a recurring bit you do among your nearest & dearest (or one of theirs) My grad school brother-from -another-mother and I are partial to compliments-as-threats.

"Bullies don’t tend to tell you what their motivations were afterward, and they tend to lie about their intentions even to themselves during." Can confirm -- also applies to grifters and scammers (relevant to this administration)

Zero points because I'm old?

iT aLl hApPeNs oN x, tHe fReE spEeCh pLatForM www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The team at Complexly did so much RIDICULOUSLY GOOD STUFF in 2024. I mostly stepped down from leadership and in that time: 🧵

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Amazing story! 🧵

In December 2021, I wove, a tapestry of sad and joyful memories that were in the front of my mind that year. It's one of the rare pieces I've written that I felt hit the notes I wanted to hit, exactly the way I wanted to hit them. I reposted it with thoughts: wilwheaton.net/2024/12/the-...

Folk hero in the making.

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Yesterday I pulled overt references of queerness off my site, my very successful store that sells my books that have queer main characters. Because a few days ago, Meta emailed saying my advertising on their platform will be restricted - my site was categorized as "sexuality and gender identity."

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

Cory Doctorow wrote a short story FIVE YEARS AGO about an online support group for people screwed over by the health system who encourage each other to wage violence against insurance CEOs. Cory let us publish the the story given the obvious timeliness. It's free to read here:

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Tech Marketing: The cup has built in N+1 redundancy

Between killing the last bits of booze in various bottles so I don’t have to pack them and packing The Fish that my stepfather made, I am feeling maudlin, and so I will tell you about my stepfather Tom, who has been dead for awhile now, and would probably agree with most of what I’m saying anyhow.

A Stanford student got in a car accident that killed two people and was charged with crimes. After the victims' families wrote to Stanford about it, saying he should be disciplined, he sued them and tried to use the suit to silence their advocacy. Yesterday he lost. This is the story.

If Trump's first administration was stocked with Bond Villains, it seems like the second one is going with more of a Legion of Doom vibe. A brief thread...

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”