Stowe Boyd

I love that essay.

When they go low we kick them in the face

Sean Duffy's 'DEI bike lanes' is peak Trumpian nonsense.

So people who buy huge cars and trucks are selfish assholes.

The term is 'relationslipping', when teammates would rather get bad advice from AI than talk to human teammates.

AOC: "They call people communists, they call them this or that. But really what it is is they're afraid of a waitress in the House and a logger in the Senate"

We should rename the MAGA GOP the 'Know Nothings', the right-wing populist party that was anti-immigrant and pro-white supremacy in the 1850s, and then fell apart. Instead of anti-Catholic, MAGA is anti-Islam, anti-women, anti-Black, and anti-Democrat. Good riddance.

Rein in data centers. Block corporations from mass layoffs. Make the AI economy benefit everyone. Stop AI abuses of our data. Require government approval for new AI products. Together, these five guardrails will protect us from an AI-powered dystopia.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says we need to “accept some bad things happening” in exchange for the benefits of AI. Hello? No we do not. In fact, we can rein in AI before it’s too late. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sCRveGK50

Categorically wrong. Blanche takes an oath which says he is to serve the U.S. Constitution, not Trump: U.S. AGs under 5 U.S. Code § 3331, requires appointees to swear or affirm support and defend the U.S. Constitution, bear true faith and allegiance to it, and faithfully discharge their duties.

bibi trailing in the polls ahead of next week’s elections in israel (explains his eagerness to relaunch iran offensive)

Madison Andrus | 'We’ve clearly seen is that these gerrymandering attempts have backfired. And as we get closer and closer to Election Day, we are just seeing Republican chances in these districts absolutely crater.' The GOP is panicking, and they should. Yay! newrepublic.com/article/2168...

Yay us!

Between Taxation and Inflation Vladimir Lenin | capitalism.edu | Relationslipping The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. | Vladimir Lenin www.workfutures.io/p/between-ta...

Just a wild guess, but I'll bet the constant talk among certain commentators about the parties' relative "brand" problems is suddenly going to go quiet now.

Resurfaced: Our Common Wealth Wendell Berry | What Happened To Hybrid? | A Tribute To Claudia Goldin | The Tragedy of No Commons Ask of any proposed change or innovation: What will this do to our community? How will this affect our common wealth? | Wendell Berry www.workfutures.io/p/resurfaced...

"The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth." ~ John F. Kennedy #AndyMarlette

Word of the Day: Dummymander May it blow up in their faces. “Dummymander” is a play on the term “gerrymander,” and it refers to a redrawing of a district map that actually ends up benefiting the opposite party that was designed to help. www.stoweboyd.io/p/word-of-th...

Long Island right-NIMBYs are genuinely some of the worst people on earth. they’ll beg for a government handout in the form of NIMBY policies that artificially inflate the value of their homes, and then turn around and say that simply making it legal to build apartments is “charity” or something

I signed the AI Charter

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

Short Takes #38: The House of Being Martin Heidegger | A Business Is Not A Family | Factoids: Work in the AI Age; What To Do With Billionaires www.workfutures.io/p/short-take...

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...

Everyone should stop comparing Republicans to Nazis as soon as Republicans stop acting like Nazis.

Task List Kanban, version 2.21.0 I am re-revisiting the Task List Kanban plugin for Obsidian because of new features that match my use. www.workings.co/p/task-list-...

Vote in the midterms.

Blue Tsunami

Yeah, thank you … Putin … for helping to save Trump from the oil shortage he caused by attacking Iran. Oh and here’s some money for Russia to help them kill Ukrainians? Great. Weakened America, weakened Ukraine, helped Russia, has no values. Fuck everything. Two more years.

Ivan Krastev's quote is everywhere: www.workfutures.io/p/belief-in-...

Belief in the Future David Blaustein, Anton Jäger, Ivan Krastev, Katsuhiro Otomo | Short Takes | Recently Belief in the future is the unspoken baseline of the social contract. | David Blaustein www.workfutures.io/p/belief-in-...

I am making this post from October 2025, 'On The Soil They Cultivate', freely accessible so it will be easy to link back to in upcoming posts. www.workfutures.io/p/on-the-soi...

They tried their best to make the idea of having more things we want nearby, more options and choices in our cities and neighborhoods, seem like a conspiracy. But never forget what the REAL urban conspiracy has been — moving everything further away and making us car dependent. #1HourCityConspiracy

Fox News really giving Trump the middle finger here with this graphic (remember, the only reason Ken Paxton is the GOP nominee is Trump ordered GOP voters to choose him instead of Cornyn)

In 2014, though it now applies now more than ever, @stoweboyd.bsky.social wrote: "It is not at all clear that society is prepared for the fallout from this radical shift to [...] a precarious — work economy, where only the most skilled and educated are likely to have [employment]...

Resurfaced: Only With Difficulty Thomas Kuhn | The Cycle of Management Models In science, novelty emerges only with difficulty. | Thomas Kuhn www.workfutures.io/p/resurfaced...