John St. Clair

Great piece by Matthew Cantor

There is currently a #GeneWolfe #HumbleBundle . I am vaguely aware of this author, but I've never read any of his books. Can you recommend/not recommend? #Bookstodon https://www.humblebundle.com/books/ultimate-gene-wolfe-library-by-tor-books-books

I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.

Seems bad.

Interesting blog and the conclusions are sensible. What I think it mainly demonstrates is that Solow type models have limited use in thinking through these questions.

“With this proclamation, I, President Ocasio-Cortez, declare that any county containing a Google HQ or branch office will be renamed in the GNIS as ‘Fuck Google’ county, and will be updated as Google’s offices are opened, moved, or closed.”

Bari Weiss: You know what I loved about the old 60 Minutes? Nick Bilton: The investigative journalism? Mike Wallace? BW: Andy Rooney! NB: But where would we find a someone like Rooney today? Acerbic, funny, but with a heart? BW: I got a guy…

ANNOUNCING APESH*T: a zine by @monkeywire.bsky.social that looks at the often sordid relationship between humans and other primate species Back in the 1970s, wide swathes of the US media went bananas for a story about capuchin monkeys serving as helpers for quadriplegic veterans...

"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

Rasistene?

BREAKING: Aftenposten announces latest XBox logo

I'm delighted to have a piece, along with many friends, in this lovely open access collection. The volume is superbly edited by Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi and Robert Sinclair, as a birthday treat for Bjørn Ramberg. Happy Birthday, Bjørn! #philsky #nordic #pragmatism nordprag.org/nordic-studi...

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

Worst remake of “The Odd Couple”, coming to CBS this fall

Another #KYE tongue bath of a “reformed” paleo-con. The show has always suffered from some basic conceptual incoherence, but post-Hochman I’ve just found it impossible to listen to. Now the are vouching for their guest’s lack of anti-semitism - hope it works out for you, Sam!

Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.

Right, so video game company stocks are crashing because the power of AI supposedly renders them irrelevant. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Oracle stocks are crashing because they spent too much on AI and the market knows they'll never make a return. The economy is absolutely hosed

My passion side project is about the Saturday night soirées Charles Babbage hosted at his London home from the early 1830s until the early 1850s. There were so many fascinating people at those soirées. Last week I ran the larp I'm developing about it for our students. jilltxt.net/larping-babb...

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share! Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

Here's the talk I gave in Vienna last month as part of the Wittgenstein Week, held in the very splendid Palais Schönborn. youtu.be/Cgl5cgoInNs?...

Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

My twitter is dead. I don’t wanna a burner. All I want is 27K bluski subs

Google has moved from moral cowardice (removing ICE tracking apps) to direct complicity in the violent, unconstitutional abuse of vulnerable people. As a civil liberties lawyer who worked at Google for ten years, this one hits me in the gut.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Breakthrough 🤯 You're seeing - ALL my @leaflet.pub articles 📄 - from ALL my Leaflet publications 📚 on my 🚧 new site (in dev) 🙀 that's - version-controlled w/ @tangled.org 😳 - (soon) hosted w/ @nekomimi.pet's wisp.place 😱 EVERY PART is stored in my #PDS 🫠 #ATproto is the future!!! WTF 💙

Discover a key update in #dotnet 10 that improves local development! 🔥 👉 Our latest blog post explains how a new TLS certificate and unique local domains can solve cookie conflicts and better mimic production environments. duende.link/arbgu89 #aspnetcore #security

Ikke stol på gode målinger! Grip tak i tante Reidun, løp til valglokalet og stem MDG i dag, sier @arildher.bsky.social

Motherfucking wind farms…

this all sucks so bad. best wishes to and solidary with my trans friends and to trans kids. bad!

I don't think I've ever read a more cursed acronym:

Here’s an oral history of Tom Holland performing Umbrella! Enjoy this tale of an absolute darling collaborating with joyful professionals. archive.is/2024.04.06-0...

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

Start your weekend with this banger from @aselrod.bsky.social

Dear Left: Please stop using Elon’s Nazi salute on protest signs while assuming everyone reads the message the same way you do. The volume of media messages the average person sees in a day means people don’t pause to THINK about the most of them. 1/4. #TeslaTakedown

After seeing The Brutalist last night, both the Guardian and the author of this piece owe an apology to their readers www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

with help from sixcolors.com/post/2025/02... and github.com/treetrum/ama... was able to bulk download all my kindle books. Got 'em before the deadline!

Trump regime tweets this wordless video—nothing but the hum of an engine & the clanking of chains—comprised of closeup shots of a human being shackled for deportation. This is, no hyperbole, fascist fetish porn.