TehLaser🏳️‍⚧️

This is what I need denialists to understand: the AI evangelists' wildest fever dreams (sentience, the singularity, whatever-the-fuck) don't need to be real for the tech to be hugely consequential. A machine gun doesn't need to be superintelligent.

Yesterday I provided my immune system with the latest enemy intel and let me tell you it is working VERY hard on those cellular combat drills right now 🫠

Pfft, best laugh about AI I’ve had in a while

Seize the means of computation! m.youtube.com/watch?v=_M4F...

A rising tide lifts all yachts.

What did we learn from the Supreme Court's three-sentence Monday night ruling leaving on hold the Trump administration's effort to interfere with mail-in voting? Quite a lot, as it turns out—and at least some of it is good: www.stevevladeck.com/p/250-what-w...

In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. Plugging this chip into your IBM PC made math 100 times faster, good for CAD and spreadsheets. I opened up the chip to reverse-engineer exactly how it does complicated calculations. Let's take a look inside...

The Roberts Court doesn't get that much credit for only handing the GOP a dozen seats in 2026 and holding off on adding one more at the last minute.

I think it’s worth explaining what the Supreme Court actually did. As Justice Sotomayor explained, the decision only postpones whether California can sue over Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting.

Yesterday I told you my story. Today, my interview with Adam Harris at The Atlantic — how it felt. Thank you to everyone who wrote yesterday, the officers still serving who can't say anything aloud, the parents of trans kids, who only want them to have a future. I read every note.

The White House fired me for being transgender. In 2013 I became the first CIA officer to successfully transition. I worked for Mike Pence for a year. Then I volunteered to serve the second Trump White House.

The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban There's been a bunch of news this... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/30/the-worst-person-you-know-just-filed-a-good-first-amendment-lawsuit-against-a-very-badly-drafted-nudify-app-ban/

So that’s what they mean about not picking a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

It's not often that I read a judge’s ruling and start cheering out loud. Yesterday’s order in Trump’s IRS case was a welcome instance. My write up at the link in comments.

Every time I make the typo "grabity" part of me wants to argue that it should have been called that all along.

For any who haven’t realized: A “real name” policy acts to silence trans voices. I got my face permabanned from Facebook by attempting to use my real name instead of my deadname.

In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to be faster for spreadsheets or CAD, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point chip. Internally, the chip runs special code called microcode. We opened the chip, extracted the microcode, and are figuring out how it works. 1/n

#pixelart

I had turned off Signal message previews in my iPhone system settings, but I just went to the app and found that “notification content” was still enabled. FYI!!!!

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Yesterday, SLC came together to protest the site of a new ICE detention center warehouse. We showed that we will not watcn as a rogue government brutalizes our immigrant brothers and sisters and tramples the Constitution. But this was just the start. Please watch for more ways to resist with us.

A generation of writers wrote primarily for search engines. Tragically, the next generation of writers is probably going to have to write for LLMs first and humans second, if at all. What a waste of human potential. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/t...

It seems timely to re-re-up this crystal clear Nov. 2025 @lawfaremedia.org article explaining precisely when federal officers can and cannot be criminally prosecuted by state authorities. It's by @bgodar.bsky.social of Univ of Wisconsin www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-...

my son got two different toy fire trucks for christmas. two. and despite being considerably more familiar with their purpose and operation, i didn’t receive a single fucking fire truck

If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it

In 1980, Intel announced the 8087 Math Coprocessor, a chip that made floating-point 100 times faster. I opened up the chip, took photos of the silicon structures, and analyzed its circuitry. It's a very complex chip for its time. Let's take a look inside...

Hot off the keyboard and gifted: Hegseth has to go. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Schumer needs to go. The democrats need leadership, not someone afraid of his own shadow.

And it is unfortunately extremely dangerous for someone to take the letter of the law to its logical conclusions, instead of its practiced one. Because the law in text is extremely punitive and not something you want to be subject to.

I thought maybe it was time for a judge story. This is a story of the time a federal judge made fun of me, repeatedly, for passing out during a cross-examination. /1

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH (from @ellecordova.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...