Kevin McMahon

Tech luminaries who are obsessed with both the pursuit of layoffs via AI and the pursuit of a higher birth rate to offset population decline are operating with incompatible goals that cannot be reconciled without a pretty high degree of human pain.

conservative columnists are best understood as laying eggs in the chest of whatever's handy in order to continue the life cycle of the parasitic grievance hornet

Do you make the back side width a little shorter (~1/16th ish) so the box will be just slightly trapezoidal? I find it helps prevent binding and makes it easier to pull in/out.

#facts

Third time was a charm I guess. Goosemas 2-Day floors secured though. LFG! 🪿

Who was president in 2018 and 2020 are the true intellectual questions of our time

congrats pat your apology is such a joke the fucking new york post is getting easy buckets on you

Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market is college worth it? and other questions about the state of things

Thought the framing by @kyla.bsky.social was sharp here: "Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market" open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/z...

This is a _great_ idea. Will be copying.

This implies self-reflection, and all the systems we have today are designed to enable people to avoid that at all costs.

And, if we wanted to zoom out a little further and encapsulate the Democratic Party, that someone is usually Durbin and that something is just writing a strongly worded letter.

Have you tried out something like XCancel for linking to Twitter posts and threads? xcancel.com/alexwei_/sta...

turning a big dial taht says 'Racism' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

How Elon Musk retrained Grok

Perfect off ramp too for getting back to the grift.

January 6 pardons more accurate at predicting future crime than that computer from Minority Report

What economic system has the government controlling the central means of production?

A photograph of the Cave of Hands

Another photograph of the Cave of Hands, featuring warm terra cotta and cream and brown stenciled hand prints on a rock wall

Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul

Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth

Imagine loving freedom so much you buy fan merch for a prison

Three best things about Chicago: June, July, and August.

god damn he's cooking

Writers: try to find metaphors that are evocative of a larger thing without being too on-the-nose

Real Life: not bothered by the "on-the-nose thing"

Impossible to overstate how bad and out of touch he is in this role.

You can't doxx a govt employee. If I, an employee of the State of Illinois, can have my salary publicly listed and my emails FOIA'd, then these jerks can show their faces.

incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war

Remembering When A Snow Storm Brought Down A Political Empire The pundits now are al

Not getting the streets snowplowed did in the Daley machine in Chicago. www.gpb.org/blogs/two-wa...

The new "Infrastructure Week" of this term...

RIP to a real one.