i called this phenomenon "the pachinkofication of intellectual labour" and this is very close to how i imagined it graphed:

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The Great Republican DHS Funding Rake-Stepping Fest The shutdown has become a debacle for MAGA.

For PN, I wrote about last week's DHS funding fight, where Ds stood on principle against ICE funding and watched the Republicans rush to smash their faces into other Republicans' faces. www.publicnotice.co/p/the-great-...

I keep hearing this word normies. From what I can tell, a normie is a white American that is so self-absorbed and callous, that no amount of suffering or horror experienced by other people can cause them to inconvenience themselves in the slightest. They only act when they themselves feel discomfort

I love the smell of market manipulation in the morning

I'll never understand why "Cucker Tarlson" never took off

posted this in 2021 but I’m sure now that robert mueller is dead all the news outlets that printed this lie will issue a correction

This really needs to be shouted. Social media became the running wheel in our gilded cage.

oof... systemd definitely ain't beating the allegations now.

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An important thread for today. The insistence on conflating "Jewish" with Israeli puts Jews around the world in danger.

Yes I've seen this personally - in fact, I think it's the best place for organizations to start.

Now we know that billionaires would rather blow up the planet than have to abide by democratic constraints.

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.

trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️

republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️

“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️

naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️

villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️

powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️

list goes on

There's been a whole lot of collective anxiety about the future state of open source, so I wrote about it. Open Source will be as important, if not more, than ever, but it will look very different. And it will not be without consequences or harm...

osenetwork.com/2026/03/09/o...

With Us or Against Us, Again Congress didn’t authorize this war, and the only response to questions is a loyalty test we’ve fallen for before.

Afghanistan started at 92 percent approval. Iraq started at 71. Iran started at 27. The "whose side are you on" rhetoric is identical. The country underneath it isn't. I wrote about how the framework works, and who's deploying it. www.readtpa.com/p/with-us-or...

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

your enemies fighting each other can be useful but it doesn't make them your friends. anthropic doesn't want to help with hegseth's apocalyptic fantasy *because they have their own*

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them

Kelsey!!!

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This is my shocked face.

It's only Tuesday.

I've been noticing a pattern recently among my friends who have become "AI-centric" - they seem to be suffering from anxiety, and I was wondering why. I've settled on an explanation: "AI Brain" and I try to examine some of the causes

aint.johnmark.org/2026/02/22/t...

This is the last entry in my "New Open Source Playbook" series. Whereas in the previous entries I focused on platforms, in this one, I talk about the product space:

- What are free products?
- How to accelerate free to paid
- How to adapt to an agentic world

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Jesse Jackson, a leading African American voice on global stage, dies at 84 As a civil rights activist, he joined the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, and Memphis. He later launched two historic presidential campaigns.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who became the leading voice of Black American aspirations after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and was the first African American to gain significant traction as a presidential candidate, died Tuesday.

if you want schumer out, you might consider donating to stratton's campaign. she is cash poor, and the leader with all the money is a centrist asshole who I think would legit be worse than Durbin.

The @nytimes.com called this debacle "striking a more conciliatory tone" (forgot the actual language) - it's funny what passes for conciliatory these days. I guess it is compared to flaming poo

It's happened again - some AI hype bro wrote the latest missive that has everyone agog. Matt Shumer wrote a lot of breathless words to basically say that "AI is coming for all yer jobs! Fear!!!!"

I argue that we should treat these things as apologia

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Art.

Every now and then I think of the 2 young women accused of the Manson murders who waltzed into a courtroom singing and laughing, oblivious to everyone's horror at their behavior.

So anyway Pam Bondi...