Dr. Steve

We’ll be fine. It’s fine.

Nobody's gonna care if that coal was shoveled by hand or by steam engine

How is it only Monday

Elon Musk has spent more on politics in two years than George Soros has in his entire life. Now he’s trying to buy Ken Paxton a Senate seat because he knows how easy it is to bribe that scumbag. It’s up to Texans to tell Musk their state isn’t for sale.

I disavow the Mucinex Brotherhood

I wonder if we should stress that NOT voting has consequences, too

Maybe the slugs are finally tiring of all the salt?? Maybe? Why don't we stop being slugs for salt here in the USA? In fact, let's just go ahead and do that. Stop being 'slugs for salt.' For a change.

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

Interesting. The problem with the "marketplace of ideas" is that the person with the money gets to buy the ideas.

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

Do people enjoy watching Family Guy? I don't get it

Working on a personal web page for being an Independent Researcher for micromobility. It's a weird feeling to write about myself in academic terms again.

2016 was 20 years ago and 1990 was 25 years ago. Memory is logrithmic

Obama: "Republicans are doing what they always do, running all kinds of scary ads about Democrats and how the woke police will arrest you and force-feed you tofu. We are not gonna fall for that. They run that same okie doke every election. It's tired. Tired!"

I'd pay $20 just to never hear from/about James Carvell again

If you think Trump ordering the Justice Department to stop the certification of an election that hasn’t even happened yet is bad, just wait. They’re scared as fuck right now and panicking. A wounded animal is dangerous. It’s going to get crazy.

I think "American Ocean" was on everybody's bingo card at this point www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

anybody else just like... tired

Why the f are you people trying to make me like Doug Ford. Stop it.

as I keep saying, your job (and mine, and everyone’s) is baying in your Democrat representatives ears over and over to demand that Elon Musk be brought to justice for his genocidal crimes.

I will donate heavily to any Democrats seriously and credibly promising Nuremberg-level trials starting in 2029

Turning Point UK even worse than I imagined. Nice to be shocked every once in a while.

Y'all got to be more imaginative in seeing the ways we're being lied to, IMO.

Saw this earlier. His "flying car" isn't even a car...it's a lightweight toy. It was all a fraud.

I might have gone for the Lusitania analogy myself, but whatever

I dislike pseodo-military terminology in tech. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) for real, from the AI industry? You guys aren't climbing out of Higgins boats to storm the beaches of Normandy, you're handholding clients watching your slop generator output slop at a client site and making excuses.

I have somehow been pulled into watching "A Discovery of Witches"

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Yes, this is the nature pf fluctuating process, making them go up and down. It doesn't say by how much, though fortune.com/2026/10/18/d...

Retired guy whose healthcare bill is entirely paid for by working adults talking about how he shouldn’t have to pay for other people’s kids to go to school while standing in front of a mansion he owns is really just an excellent encapsulation of the Republican base.

So how does one start a research institute, asking for a friend

I live in Baltimore, this hardly narrows down people I know

The more I am learning about the AI cult and SV/Bay area tech culture, the more I understand why the industry’s outputs suck so much. It’s all burrito taxis and wire mothers because that is what youngish people who make six figures but live with 5+ others in drafty victorian houses want.

Whether it's Kamala Harris buying cookware in France or Donald Trump lifting sanctions on Russia, both candidates have had troubling interactions with foreign entities.

Oh, bother

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

Corporations are only obligated to shareholders. "Pro-social behavior" is Reaganesque / Heritage Foundation smokescreening.

Not to ruin the vibe, but quarterly No Kings rallies are the bare minimum. We need relentless, everyday organizing.

the GOP candidate in Stefanik’s district, NY-21, asked about the highest city in the district he’s running in. straightfromthehut.substack.com/p/a-rebrand-...

“We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.”

The Defence Industry calls this "know your number"