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writer & editor, inveterate communist, wife guy, he/him
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happy pride to the bisexual 90s taco bell

layoffs are getting imminent at my work because of federal cuts to science and R&D funding. brilliant people who could have made a lot more money in industry but dedicated their careers to doing work that benefits the american public. it's all so inconceivably stupid

my big-picture takeaway from being involved in gen AI governance at work is that "looks good to me Sent from my iPhone" is the dominant ethos of the gen. AI era and the death knell of creative labor

my wife and I are doing a co-op honor mode run of Baldur's Gate 3 and it's been fun finding out that we are a very good team at this

"It is offensive to call us the Gestapo when in fact we are simply a Secret State Police force. A Geheime Staatspolizei, if you will."

the american revolution was a military, economic, and political victory against Mad King George but not a psychological one. americans long to be ruled by a deranged old man

George W. Bush was the worst President of the last few generations and it's really not close. what we in the US are (rightly!) up in arms about is that Trump is the worst President for us, specifically - which is a different thing

In the Harry Potter books, the highest virtue for women is to be a self-sacrificing mother to a boy. There is a reason Rowling has never written a book with a female protagonist.

reading this physics proposal that refers to axions as "possibly the most degenerate fluid in the universe" and I'm just not sure the PI is fully aware of the competition

smugly dropping a link to an AI-generated report you haven't read may be the stupidest recorded form of discourse. god I love this website

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I will quit my job and work for any candidate who promises to put the leadership of this administration in the same overseas gulag they've been shipping people to

normal people should not have to pay attention to the stock market. they should have federally guaranteed pensions. the market is for 1. finance guys named like Thurston, Chudley, etc. 2. degenerate gamblers the 401(k) is the devil's invention

my 401k plan replaced the "projected income at retirement" dashboard with an infographic about the financial planning benefits of smoking cigarettes