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i'm just a bucket of parquet files, standing in front of a compute engine, asking it to query me. in a long-term situationship with neovim
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Right now, the U.S. is in a media crisis. Just in the nick of time, I'm starting a newsletter series about understanding media in the twenty-first century. I'll teach you how to challenge and change the messages that our media carries. Let's go. buttondown.com/thehypothesi...

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

hi! i'm holed up temporarily with a bunch of strangers, would like to find a board game that is easy to learn but has a lot of replayability — none of us to my knowledge are board game people so doesn't need to be anything to deep or crazy (in fact better if not) — board game nerds, i seek your aid!

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

Seems strange to lead with "get rid of factcheckers" instead of the new horrifically bigoted anti-LGBQT anti-moderation policies.

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

hi, cis folks! meet HB28. it's a sports ban on trans athletes. but actually, it's the first step to something much worse—see below. 45 sec call scripts for democrats & republicans in congress follow. if you've been saying you'd stand with trans people, now's the time.🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/HB28...

submitted 47 days ago • 118 comments

idk if this makes sense but i feel like 2025 is the first S-Tier scifi-sounding year we've had since 1984.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

my favorite anime is crobul beeepup

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

the corruption is so deep, so saturated into every fiber of govt at this point. that massive, monopolizing orgs are able to design and dictate such flagrantly anti-citizen laws, in the open, against the overwhelming will of the people… it’s just hard to feel like we actually live in a democracy.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t think people understand how devastating the end of net neutrality, and consumer protections around internet connectivity, are going to be. Imagine the situation where you pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services, each with different “exclusives” — but for the Internet itself.

submitted 51 days ago • 120 comments

i really like piña coladas but i do not like getting caught in the rain at all — what do we think chat can we still make it work?

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Musk wants to make American WeChat so bad and he is going to fail so badly. At least he has the state-sponsored nationalist censorship part cooking now, I’ll give him that.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Meta's great new idea, now that Facebook and Instagram are infected with AI slop, is to also let AI-generated characters made by users appear as actual accounts on the platforms. The last stage of "social" media is millions of bots giving each other thumbs-up reacts.

submitted 54 days ago • 190 comments

"i said ooh girl, shock me like an electric eel baby girl, send me home with your electric feel" has to be one of the highest [worst lyric]:[best song] ratios in pop music history imagine writing a song that rips so hard people ignore that being the *cornerstone* of THE HOOK

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

all of this discourse this morning is speaking to my heart 😌 — i reaaallly dislike the modern emphasis on ‘systematic cosmologies’ bc it’s actually deeply inhuman! mystery, intuition, and vibes are a huge part of the human experience. treating a world like a watchmaker is antithetical to life.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

for some reason i didn’t really like Bobbie on the Expanse at first, something about the stoic tough girl trope fell flat for me, but now towards the end of s3 i would pledge my life and allegiance to her. incredible example of an actor settling into a role through a phenomenal character arc.

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

i love books a lot, i tend to read on kindle but then buy a physical copy from a local bookstore if i finish and like something. that said — something in me is rankled by people going to a bookstore and buying like 10 new release books. i think this might be a holdover from collecting records?

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

The end game of this was always "we have to end women's sports to protect cis women from trans women." I hammer at this periodically, but the fear-mongering here isn't just about anti-trans rhetoric, but about promoting an image of cis women as delicate flowers. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/dona...

submitted 61 days ago • 102 comments