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I wrote a love letter to Peter Welch's "Programming Sucks" essay, about the state of the tech industry in the age of AI. Hope you'll give it a read & tell me what you think: stvn.sh/writing/prog...

me, tied to a chair in the kitchen: i can make another throne delilah but you gotta put down those scissors you're scaring me

GUYS, A COUP IS IN PROGRESS IN BRAZIL PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ARE BEING PREVENTED FROM VOTING. THEY'RE DESTROYING OUR EVMS AND BLOCKING ACCESS TO BUSES ON POORER AREAS PLEASE, IF YOU FOLLOW ME, YOU NEED TO SPREAD THIS TO OTHERS!!!!!!!

The protests are huge in France. The people will not be silenced. It truly is the Socialist Spring for Europe.

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

Are you or your company working on anything related to OAuth/OIDC or building anything that needs trust & safety (moderation)? If so you can currently hire me: emelia@brandedcode.com I'm a freelancer on US eastern time. #oauth #oidc #hireme

marine biologist: holy shit guys, the ocean has a floor? did you know about this?

Ohh hey it’s “the left is plotting a Color Revolution” time again — right on schedule w/this election rumor that recurs year after year. This time it’s brought to you by govt-paid midwit DataRepublican. The “XYZ is plotting a Color Revolution” trope plays well. It goes viral every time.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

it's fake josy is on vacation far away

There's a form of grief about the state of the climate, the species we killed with out actions, the damage we've done to the ecosystem. Grief about not what we "lost" but what we destroyed (often through negligence).

"hey babe. yeah everything is alri- well, ghehe, you're not gonna belie-yeah that's right, wrong kid. I know, again, I'll be more careful next time, can you call janet's parents?"

Extraordinary undercover reporting in Reform by ITV, uncovering what many of its councillors and activists are really like, when they think the cameras are off. A racist party which attracts racist people. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

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.

treat yourself

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

if I make toasters and test them by throwing them in a public pool, I would be rightly sent to jail.

is that jon hamm?

Holy shit.

look I know it's not the point but technically speaking the pope _is_ elected

AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

"To save democracy, democratize the economy, admonishes economist Weber in her outstanding debut." This is the first advance review @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Humbled it’s starred and moved by how concisely it captures the message of ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS ❤️

if your sports team can only survive with gambling money, fuck your sports team.

blogged: Leaving them behind dbushell.com/2026/09/28/l... — small but significant change to my AI policy and content going forward

I don't know if the movie is good, but if all the billionaires are colluding to make sure nobody watches it, I'll signal boost this for now. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

Raise your hand if you don’t give a fuck what bathroom people use 🙋🏻‍♂️

adding snyk to your ci is not shifting left on security. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

luigi was right

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

20 year old me was working shit jobs, in debt, a few weeks away from homelessness and not sure whether it made sense to keep on going. I'm 41, have an amazing partner and adorable baby boy, great friends, live in an awesome place and have a job I love. I don't think he'd even believe me.

MrFeast actually, MrYeast was my father

I'm proud to announce my policy agenda to empower Michigan’s Black communities. For generations, Black communities in Michigan have received promises of federal investment that never fully arrived, or arrived without any way to track whether it actually improved people's lives.

No shit, 100% agree here.

Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United.

yes louder please

This piece directly compares the core's net-appropriation from Africa’s CFA zone to China’s. We found that the core net-appropriated on average 20x more than China across materials, land and water. The disparity is even more extreme in per capita terms. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/unequal-ex...

wow loftis made a deal with the island huh?

our cat just bumped into our son while we were vacuuming so naturally he is now terrified of the vacuum 🤦

the drug dealers in Berlin are using AI to design their ads