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(political) decelerationist, software dev, nerd
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on the occasion of the ride breaking down

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Someone said I was exaggerating. I am going to ask you to not only look at the broadsheets but read the descriptions. The description of today's? Begins with "The front page features a prominent image of a spacecraft orbiting Earth, labeled as the lunar lander Athena taking a selfie..."

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

#ThingsIAppreciateThatIDoubtAnyoneElseDoes The first line in the film Human Nature: “I’m not sorry.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump is actually doing the worst possible iteration of what the GOP screamed that Hillary Clinton was attempting in 2009 with the Russian Reset Button.

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

increasingly convinced that the low quality of our own arguments and our ignorance of some details helps to reinforce our opponents' certainty. online, we're all usually walking weak men because we don't even know our steel arguments, we just know we're right www.juliansanchez.com/2009/07/01/t...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Adding: Gemma > Ms Casey Seems like a real trend here

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

having one of those "why doesn't it work when I do something the system definitely does not and never has done and no one who knew what they were talking about would ever have told me to try it" days

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Finally some good news

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

programming constructs I was most wrong about early in my career, in the order I think of them, not in order of wrongness or how great or bad they actually are:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

funny thing about Amazon: their surprisingly good “you may like” recommendations were the first thing in “Big Data”/machine learning that made me go “what is this sorcery??” back in the mid-00s

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Honestly just peak hilarious that we went from Biden's DOJ investigating his own son to Trump putting in parody level loyalists across every agency and department including DOJ

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I never spent a lot of time in the really dire corners of YouTube but this reminds me of one time I was searching for a Tim Pool video and I found like 50 different no-follow would-be knockoffs reacting to his outrage of the day. Captain Marvel of course

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Helena Eagan and Mark Scout are both way hotter than Helly and Mark S but y’all aren’t ready for that conversation

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Is it a good sign when you’ve been listening to an audiobook on and off for 3 months and you can’t remember what it’s called

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“Severance” and “several”! Not semantically related in common usage! Unless you’re a constitution

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment