Cyd Harrell

taco truck on every corner, drag queen story hour every single day

these racist shitheads

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Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

the rare article that ties our current political danger back to the Bush era www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality

There is a "fix" for that, but it's the long struggle of building an actually democratic society in which learning is valued more than knowledge and knowledge is more valued than certification. Any number of experimental colleges & programs work toward this.

The Lottery in Babylon is a warning, not a manual

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit

They renamed the entire company around this.

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.

25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.

Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

nighthawk’s solstice! the earliest sunset of the year!

i didn’t know that

did not know, & do not love 😬

thread worth your time

"instead of your dark lord, you would have a QUEEN"

eat it!!

for me it's the robust institutions that keep advanced tech managed for the benefit of all

a more personal thread about why TPG matters to me & why I've asked for your support bsky.app/profile/cydh...

a more personal thread about why TPG matters to me & why I've asked for your support bsky.app/profile/cydh...

I'll also repost my thread from last week about this, but if you'd like to see non-DOGE-style technologists doing good work in governments across the country, & crucially, see them supported & thriving, TPG would love your support!

White background, red ribbon. Text says “World AIDS Day”.

My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

#100smallpress is out on LitHub! This is a list of 100 books curated by a team of enthusiastic readers from among many small presses across the US. I picked three books for it from science fiction and fantasy. lithub.com/100-notable-...

I hope this email finds you worthy of love.

once gave a talk called "metaphor is more important than data" - maybe I ought to haul those slides out...

ha! when I finally figured out that my husband is neither Gilbert Blythe nor Mr. Darcy, but actually Christopher Heron...

(sorry, that was a gender assumption with no basis. but it's a wonderful book!)

oh, and how could I forget - it is 70s, but The Perilous Gard is the best manual ever for smart girls in the world - Tudor era fantasy retelling of the Ballad of Tam Lin. cult fav for kindred spirits.

more in the slightly goofy/cozy vein, Malka Older's Mossa and Pleiti stuff, or Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric & Desdemona series (lower stakes than Curse of Chalion)

- there's also a marvelously weird, genre-bending little book called Light From Uncommon Stars that is loved by a huge age range of friends
- & The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar is a beautiful, weird little book (her This is How You Lose the Time War is beyond brilliant, but maybe a bit older)