S. Francisco (@thebeautifulsystems) Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Thomas Hobbes stated the conditions for The Leviathan, we didn’t know it was a product roadmap.

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dawg the pedophiles are unionizing

The Beautiful Systems Finding the harmony in the code, the concrete, and humanity.

More space than these character limits. Look for me on substack: thebeautifulsystems.substack.com/p/the-beauti...

You tax AI by attaching an kwh consumption tax on data centers.

We should use an AI tax to fund Social Security. Fewer jobs means we should accelerate people exiting the workforce. We should slowly lower the Social Security age as AI becomes more capable.

a man with a green circle on his chest says there 's no war in ba sing se. ALT: a man with a green circle on his chest says there 's no war in ba sing se.

There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

An Ad for Melania movie before the NYT Daily Podcast today. What even is this timeline?

Greenland sure is an odd way to spell Epstein Island.

Disney Agrees to Bring Its Characters to OpenAI’s Sora Videos

One of the most horrifying headlines I could have ever imagined for the lives of children.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...

The bailout Argentina's right wing government ($40B) would have funded about 2 years of USAID globally at 2024 expense rates.

In the wake of Elon Musk securing a $1T incentive package, let's remember DOGE "savings" were somewhere between $1.4B (realistically) and $52B (self reported). So with anywhere from 0.14% to 5% of just his personal payout thay he set up firing ppl investigating Tesla.

The Louvre Heist: A True Work of Art YouTube video by Josh Johnson

Josh, you outdid yourself. This is comedy gold. No pun intended. @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social

I think Mamdani missed a chance to build bigger on his victory speech. It was late, he's young, but the campaign was not "against trump" but "for affordability". It's a powerful inversion that he should continue to wield, and he was at his best when he sung that tune.

I was held together today by an abstract journey into Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. It was a day that needed abstraction and difference because no writing could capture it, nor should it.

LEE doesn't endorse candidates. LEE supports eligible LEE members in their journey as leaders to engage civically and increase access and opportunity in their community. But we don't take policy stances or make endorsements.

He Made a Friend on Roblox. Their Relationship Turned Sinister.

I did not let my kids play these platforms until age 13. At that time they saw the negative effects on their peers and said no. The closest were private Minecraft severs where I knew the kids and their parents. I don't think the responsibility is on the platforms, its up to us as parents to say no.

'We should not
have to live in a country where the Government can seize
anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our
constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
Sotomayor, September 8, 2025
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Facts.

This is your reminder that you don't need that item in your Amazon cart, you just need to Google "epstein files".

Yesterday, I learned that the US brought German and Italian POWs to the US and put them to work on US military bases.

June 9, 1944 The Pallisades newspaper, reporting on Camp Shanks, NY.
#ww2 #rockland #nys

Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say Venezuelans back home under Maduro-Trump deal tell of isolation, beatings and dirty water – ‘a living nightmare’

Used to be people fleeing a communist dictatorship for the USA were lauded. Today we pay for their torture instead.

Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say | US immigration | The Guardian share.google/R9gGWOwg4ESy...

The only thing more expensive than poverty is ignorance. Cutting NPR and CPB funding will only lead to more poverty and ignorance.

Tell me you're in the Epstein files without telling me you're in the Epstein files.

Some people think she's smaller than she is. Yet she grows bigger with each wave of immigrants she welcomes, with each batch of freedoms, of rights, of generation welcomed into the Middle class. Don't let them make her small, not on this July 4th.

Damn. When you put it that way.

No tanks in our streets.

Due process is not just for the innocent. It's how you prove you are innocent.

(PDF) Palantir's Predictive Policing Technology: A Case of algorithmic Bias and Lack of Transparency PDF | This paper examines the ethical implications of predictive policing technology through a critical analysis of the New Orleans Police Department's... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Palantir got a deal to build a vast database for a surveillance state.

This is Palantir: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

@owasow.bsky.social would be interesting to compare with William Gamson's Strategy of Social Protest.