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Unix and guitars. And humanism. Unix and guitars and humanism.
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I always thought Wallace Shawn had the ideal career: you get to be this well-regarded highbrow playwright and art house movie maker AND you also get to be a part of millions of people‘s childhoods by being in Clueless, the Princess Bride, and Toy Story. What a life.

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

if your podcast offering critical analysis is still running ads for AG1 and Shopify well i have news about your analytical skills

Damn that sucks bro, howd that happen

Hey, look, here’s @chriswarcraft.bsky.social out there walking the walk www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...

The pro-life party, ladies and gentlemen

Presidency-ending scandals that make Watergate look like a middle school prank, happening now hourly. Total failure of Article I. Maybe someone, anyone, in the DC press corps wants to ask Speaker Johnson or SML Thune about this? 🤷‍♂️

"I'll take 'The Ivy League' for 200, Alex."

Google's doxing removal request form is abysmal. I've tried multiple times to get them to remove links to a neo-Nazi telegram channel that has posted my address and my parent's address. I've included screenshots demonstrating the malicious purpose of this. Every request was rejected.

American Psycho sequel just dropped

I wrote about the Educational bookshop, and why the ugly and ridiculous attack on its owners matters. I don't know Mahmoud Muna personally but I heard him a few times and he always struck me as one of Jerusalem's most inspiring intellectuals. artreview.com/mahmoud-muna...

Vos has spent over a decade lying about life/work/people on our campuses, suggesting we're not real Wisconsinites, cutting our budgets based on lies, comparing us to alcoholics, etc. I guess I'm glad he finally came to campus for something other than ESPN Gameday, but spare us the nonsense, please.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, our tech overlords at play. Just think these guys were pushing code to production in the US Treasury payments system. What a joke the US has become.

More on the "American justice is just Calvinball now" file. Good going, John Roberts! Over the past decade, you've completely destroyed any pretense that American justice was anything other than for sale! Congratulations!

DeAdder's on fire. Again.

Hey, I dunno if there are any gamers out there, but is Kerbal Space Program 2 a dead project, or is it being developed at all, or what?

The No. 1 issue on my mind right now is Donald Trump trying to let my crook mayor get away with stealing public money in exchange for the mayor letting Trump's immigration goon squad trample on the city

If you think you've seen this move before, you have. (These are from mid-2019.)

I'm a one-issue voter and it's "we absolutely need to let banks do mortgage fraud again, it's important." So this is a pretty big day for me.

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

This is as good a summary as any of Trump's approach to government: it's awful and I don't know anything about it

Read the whole etc.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Should we be looking to modernize air traffic safety? Yes, obviously. Should we be doing this by "deleting" air traffic controllers and having a bunch of 19-25yo hooligans led by a drug-addled billionaire take complete control over our systems? Hell no. time.com/7213980/avia...

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

Says it all about those tender tender snowflakes.

This is important. “Disappearing” migrants is the stuff of nightmares and we must not forget them.

The word "Musk" currently does not appear anywhere on the front page of NYTimes.com