I can’t stop laughing

I’m weirdly obsessed by reading about how shitty life on the high seas is.

So, I feel like I can say with authority that the last thing these guys on the oil tankers — from the Philippines, India, Indonesia most often — need to hear is “man up and sail through the mines!”

Trump wears campaign baseball cap during ceremony honoring fallen soldiers would have been better.

Hi! I'm the new Head of Communications @bsky.app.

I've been watching the open social web evolve over the past couple of years. Bluesky represents what I believe the future of the internet should look like: built on principles that put people first.

And thus the tried and true Newsom tale continues.

“Oh, people like that now? Yeah, me too, always have. Yeah.”

Oh god no. The closest he got was through the filter of Verhoeven.

It’s not just a lack of philosophy, they don’t read anything that doesn’t reinforce their narrow world view.

Le Guin, for example, is a sci-fi/fantasy author with a perspective radically different than these bozos.

This always ends well for us 20-30 years later.

I love all the people who haven't had to live with Gavin for years suddenly learning who Gavin actually is. Learn from those of us who went through this almost 20 years ago.

Our neurodivergent kid's fifth grade teacher recommended they use ChatGPT as part of their writing practice. Not to do the writing, but to ask questions that could help them make the essays stronger. Essentially, write the essay and tell it to ask questions that will help you flesh ideas out.

One of the Epstein emails where he is informed that Hermes is refusing his donation to their charity event.

A luxury brand with more integrity and morales than the people who buy their products.

Europe has done more, yes. Enough? I don’t believe anyone has yet. Maybe none of it ends up being necessary. Fine, even then we end up with a strong safety net for everyone.

We already have what? And yeah, I agree, that’s a possibility. But I’d prefer we also plan for the potential of a more basic change occurring.

Sure. But what's the regulation look like? Is it directed at implementation? Development? Does it come in the form of enshrined labor protections? We can either start working through this now or wait until the impact is obvious. Like we did with privacy on the web after Meta already had all our data

Yeah, but Tim, regardless of whether or not this ends up being a big financial bubble, there's utility in planning for the possibility of impacts.

You and I might not see this as a revolution, but a handful of CEOs viewing it that way fundamentally changes the landscape of employment in the US.

That's true right now! Yes.

So we should start planning for this to continue or accelerate. You don't have to believe the hype yourself to see that there are already impacts and we should start building plans for the possible ways this goes from here.

We need to plan for all of those scenarios. How do you start empowering labor to respond? What's are the changes needed in education? Etc. Etc. What if it's all just a market bubble?

You can start planning for possible outcomes which usually helps blunt the impact when they arrive.

But the point of the original message is that, whether it's worth it or not, we should have a plan B.

Maybe this is all hype and the bubble pops? What then.

Maybe some of it's true and a few jobs get disrupted? What then.

Maybe a lot of it's true and everything gets blown up. What then?

The more that comes out of the Epstein files the more it seems like Specter. Only worse. Bond never had to protect a bunch of kids from the decrepit old rich guys.

Oh shit, that’s good!

A friend and I were talking about the inescapable presence of gambling in the US right now. He asked what would change it and I said the first thing that came to mind, “Moms. At some point they’ll get sit of their sons losing all this money and they’ll rally together to fight it.”

How much joy can we take in one night?

Bad Bunny bringing so much beauty and fun and love to halftime.

The evil Patriots getting crushed.

USA winning team gold.

Amazon unintentionally making everyone aware of the dangers of AI and Ring surveillance cameras.

Don’t know if I can take more.

Huh. I guess Ezra Klein and Matty Y are not in fact that average American voter.

Name them. Name them. Name them.

I'm starting to think that all those wild sci-fi stories warning us about oligarchs owning the most important parts of society were onto something.

Three Tweets from Senator Chuck Schumer recounting violence committed by ICE and then outlining the completely toothless reforms he is advocating for.

A three skeet run destined for ignominy in the history books. Just a perfect encapsulation of a total failure to rise to the moment and lead. @schumer.senate.gov

The moral contrast between the community actions in Minneapolis and Portland, and everything coming out of DC tonight could not make it clearer that it’s not a cliche, it’s a core truth.

Power corrupts and great power corrupts absolutely.

Hard disagree. Both are great, but Bowie’s original will always be the best.

How many of us need to die before the democratic leadership moves to this instead of “I introduced a bill to require better training and badges for the guys out there murdering citizens”?

There may be no better example of how fundamentally disconnected our institutions have become from everyday life than the lack of coverage of how citizens are responding to ICE.

Well, that and the stock market’s complete disconnect from the economic realities of living.