I’ve seen you argue that perceptions of economic conditions are out of line with reality. I don’t recall seeing you make the case that those perceptions don’t hugely drive political outcomes. (I may have missed it tho)
It's funny, MAGA leaders have always idolized Orbán's movement. Seems it never occurred to them the feeling was so non-mutual.
I installed Bun and it was installed in .bun/bin/bun
Finally wrote the post I’ve had in my head for over a year. Actors in the 60s showed us how to respond to the massive coming AI displacement: opcraft.co/writing/2026...
A wide twilight sky dominates the photo, layered with swollen, fast-moving storm clouds whose tops catch a faint cold light in pale blue and lavender while their underbellies sink into deeper charcoal and blue-gray. The sky shifts in a smooth gradient from lighter icy blue near the horizon to richer dusky blue overhead, making the cloud masses feel heavy and three-dimensional. Along the bottom edge, a suburban shopping strip sits in near silhouette, dotted with glowing streetlights, a red Target sign at right, a Taco Bell sign at left, low storefronts, and a few cars on the road.
Still wet, still cold. #mnwx
The $1800 Dell laptop I just sourced for a client gets a Browser Speedometer 3.1 score of 26. The $600 MacBook Neo I just tried at Target scored 53.
A large protest crowd fills the lawn in front of the Minnesota State Capitol on a bright winter day, with the white domed capitol building rising behind them under a clear blue sky. In the foreground, people in hats and coats hold American and Minnesota flags, handmade signs, and a few large blue and dark flags; one sign reads “NO KING,” another says “ICE OUT.” A stage with big screens stands near the building, and leafless trees frame the packed scene.
It's a beautiful day for fascists to disappear and die #mnwx
My "doing taxes" strategy is: do a first pass as quickly as possible with all the info I can gather, don't fuss about getting everything right. Then I leave it alone for a week or a month. Then I go through it again with a fresh brain, fill in the gaps and double check everything before filing.
A good heuristic these days is that if you haven't verified they are human, your counterparty in a political socmed shouting match is more likely a shelf full of cell phones in Estonia than "the left" or whatever
A quiet residential yard at night after a fresh snowfall, the ground covered in smooth unbroken snow that glitters faintly under a bright streetlamp. Snow blows diagonally across the scene in dense streaks, partially veiling bare trees, a utility pole, and the dark outlines of neighboring houses and garages, giving the whole image a cold, hushed, wintry glow.
Twelve inches of fine wet snow. Months from now people will still be possibly able to remember the Highly Adequate Blizzard of '26 #mnwx
Black-and-white XKCD-style cartoon showing a tall, wobbly tower of stacked blocks representing software layers. At the very top, a curly bracket points to a cluster of many small, uneven blocks labeled “All of useful Python.” Beneath them is an enormous, solid rectangular base block labeled “Fortran and C.” The base is dramatically larger than everything above it, emphasizing that most of the Python ecosystem ultimately depends on compiled libraries written in C and Fortran. The drawing has simple hand-drawn lines and a humorous tone, with the tiny Python stack perched precariously on the massive foundational block.
Not exactly disagreeing, but
Don’t tell anyone but I added this functionality to my not yet released Racket static site generator
Just finished my last bag of moss tea I bought in Reykjavíc. It was mouthy and kinda terrible but it was special to me.
I'm seeing more and more America. people talking about not paying taxes as a form of protest. And I have to say because I don't see anyone else saying it: that is just a really really bad idea. Please for your own sake if nothing else, file your return and pay your taxes.
At first I thought NOT looked more like function application in BaSIC but I checked and it turned out I malremembered
I guess you could count NOT as unary, and maybe - to reverse the sign of a variable. I think that’s it though
So like BASIC then
Maybe she learned how to pronounce it from James 😀 youtu.be/u7Z9UnWOJNY?...
Shout out to the engineers who decided that the capacity of the windshield wiper fluid container on all cars shall be 1 gallon less five tablespoons
As a guy who grew up in churches I disagree with that assessment. A homeschooled guy in my church who got a fake law degree from Bill Gothard is now one of my state senators. The pro life movement did a lot more than just march.
Ok well, I’ve never heard of her before today so your universal “only” claim is unsupportable. Probably there are people who want a magic solution in this as with any other issue (how is “just vote” working out?). I don’t think that says anything about the inherent possibility of a strike happening.
The urge to denigrate people calling for us to remember how to use labor as political power just strikes me as defeatist doomerism. It's the kind of energy we could really stand to get rid of in our party. Agreed tho, a strike won't cure my mom's rheumatism and whiten my teeth while I sleep.
I think the history of what has been accomplished by strikes in Minnesota and nationwide is pretty undeniable. I am glad that support for it is growing, however slowly, and I think the organization that would make it possible is going to be needed for real change anyway.
I don't know how you got to "the only people". I voted for Clinton and Biden and Harris despite caucusing for Sanders so maybe I’m not in the group you speak of? I and I've been watching general strike talk grow for ten years now.
yes: the exercise of power is exactly what I am talking about, and specifically not marches and protests. A coordinated withholding of labor is the exercise of power in a more direct way even than voting. We need to stop thinking about it as being in the same category as a march.
Will “general strikes are fake news” Stancil says we really got im for sure this time
”while the minneapolis resistance actions against ICE were impressive, they didn’t really constitute a general resistance movement. And actual organized resistance actions are pretty much non-existent in the US.”
in the US, strikes were even less legal back when they were happening all the time
