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I teach writing, play games, and read medieval.
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Thought about Harmonica Cat That Plays Purple Town From Border Down specifically

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Jeff Bezos, 2018: "I think the internet in its current incarnation is a confirmation bias machine." Jeff Bezos, 2025: "Today, the internet does that job." ["bring[s]... a broad-based opinion section that s[eeks] to cover all views"]. Big shift. Now he wants to make a "confirmation bias machine."

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Have been informed that Christian Riese Lassen's c. 2000 flash website is still up and fully functional on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20030210... my memories of this page have felt like a fever dream for the past 25 years, thrilled to see it's been preserved in perfect condition 🙏🏼🐬

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million.

submitted 9 days ago • 209 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 11 days ago • 861 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 13 days ago • 5656 comments

Pretty much every single person among the 100,000s the Trump administration is summarily firing is someone who works hard at a job where they earn much less than they could in the private sector, precisely because they believe in public service.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

🧵 Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how they would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

"Drastic reduction to this funding will not only disrupt the day-to-day important work of the university but will ultimately harm the livelihoods of real people across Wisconsin and the country, harm the innovation economy and will make our nation less competitive." news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-r...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Cigna forcing me to use Accredo pharmacy has lead to me being in a situation where I can’t get my chemo. And Accredo has been gaslighting me for weeks. Today I thought about quitting my treatment and just letting the cancer kill me. Because I can’t keep begging for care.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Ran the US Constitution through this. Words in both it and the banned list: disability, equity, privileges.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Reid Hoffman on fact-checking his book on the uses of GenAI: "We double-checked things. So, we'd say, Hey, we're writing about what the role of the printing press was or what was happening with cars or mainframes." Then he describes asking what the expert historian's analysis would be.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

posting another one because this is just funny as hell to me

submitted 59 days ago • 11 comments

I want to write a storefront into a game that, depending on the time of day, sells BOOTS, BOOKS, or BOONS. Probably a few other options there too!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

'Then said Merlin, "Whether like you better the sword or the scabbard?" "I like better the sword," said Arthur. "You are the more unwise, for the scabbard is worth ten of the sword, for while you have the scabbard upon you, you shall lose no blood, be you never so sore wounded."' (Le Morte Darthur)

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment