David Moles

But also maybe they should ruin his life?

A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.

Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.

Now THIS is American progress!

The first half of a passage from Yanis Varoufakis’ “Adults in the Room,” reading: Things were proceeding better than I had hoped, with broad agreement on everything that mattered. It was no mean feat to secure the support of the formidable Larry Summers in the struggle against the powerful institutions, governments and media conglomerates demanding my government's surrender and my head on a silver platter. Finally, after agreeing our next steps, and before the combined effects of fatigue and alcohol forced us to call it a night, Summers looked at me intensely and asked a question so well rehearsed that I suspected he had used it to test others before me. 1 'There are two kinds of politicians,' he said: 'insiders and outsiders. The outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their version of the truth. The price of

The second half of a passage from Yanis Varoufakis’ “Adults in the Room,” reading: their freedom is that they are ignored by the insiders, who make the important decisions. The insiders, for their part, follow a sacrosanct rule: never turn against other insiders and never talk to outsiders about what insiders say or do. Their re-ward? Access to inside information and a chance, though no guarantee, of influencing powerful people and outcomes.' With that Summers arrived at his question. 'So, Yanis, he said, 'which of the two are you?'"

Elizabeth Warren and Yanis Varoufakis have each written of meeting Summers for the first time and him posing a specific, pretty odd question. I wonder how many of your scores of equally unimpressive people who wrote pieces defending him have gotten the same question and answered him differently.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Harvard grads can call the Harvard Alumni Association and politely let them know they won't donate to the school as long as Summers is working there. Their number is 617-496-0559.

it's a hell of an act -- what do you call it

*Larry Summers wondering why the Streisand effect gets to be named for a woman when he’s obviously so much better at it*

i am starting to think larry summers should not be listened to

concerning to me that former harvard president and treasury secretary larry summers writes like a functionally illiterate zoomer

The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"

A funny project for someone who is bored is go back and sift through the reactions of your faves to larry's "bitches are stupid" speech from 2005. A lot of "well he probably had a point about girlybrains and math but he shouldn't have said it"

Are there any catalogers/libraries with documentation for cataloging tarot decks using MARC? I’m writing documentation for our collection and want to make sure that I’m following best practices.

I know about Yale’s documentation, but it’s focused on historical playing cards.

or not even in disguise, just nostalgic for that trip to Vancouver where everyone was too tired to call her on her bullshit

who is responsible for military history / international relations folks saying “compellence” when they could just have gone with “compulsion”, and what’s their excuse?

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

who is responsible for “learning” becoming a countable noun?

and just when and how are they planning to atone for that?

“And I wouldn’t be friends with Nurse Ratched, so I concede that. But Hannibal Lecter, now…”

is #stackoverflow broken for everyone, or just for me? pages load, but "Add a comment", "Show X more comments", etc. do nothing. JavaScript console shows "Uncaught TypeError: n[e] is not a function" in follow-ups.en.js and follow-ups-flag-modal.en.js.

"performativity cheat sheet": a diptych of two black-and-white cinema images. on the left is Greta Garbo, in a sleeveless cocktail dress, lots of jewelry, lots of makeup, elbows on the table, chin on her hands, looking not quite directly at the camera, performing an over-the-top sultry femininity that could fairly be described as camp. this image is labeled "Butler." on the right is Charlie Chaplin, in overalls, work shirt, and his trademark mustache, hands on the lever of a giant machine, recoiling in horror at the sight of a co-worker caught in the gears and looking likely to be decapitated as a result of Chaplin's attempt to hit the day's performance targets. this image is labeled "Lyotard."

Bullcrap people believe about digitization and digital preservation For LIS 668 "Digital Curation and Collections"

not exactly a peer-reviewed paper, but Dorothea Salo's “🐂💩 people believe about digitization and digital preservation” makes a lot of good points speakerdeck.com/dsalo/bullcr...

thinking abt all the user-indifferent, lowest-bidder throwaway Oracle shovelware I’ve been stuck w/ over the years & it’s like, Larry E may not use your social network as kindling to burn people alive, but if it saves 5¢ he’ll absolutely replace all your friends with a pile of dusty mannequin parts

The Lord of Mars - Lightspeed Magazine The grow pods clung to a red, humped ridge about a twenty-minute hike west from the habitats. Inside one of their plastic domes, a farmer named Oliver Judd nestled potato starts in the ground with nim...

There really is a lot in there about potatoes. Also unions and associated traffic jams www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

Bluesky labeling a historical photo of a black man with scars on his back "self harm" is peak Bluesky moderation.

Screenshot of an info box appearing at the top of a Gmail message. Text reads: "You blocked [email redacted]. Future messages from this sender will be sent to Spam." Buttons read "Unblock sender" (default, selected) and "Move to spam".

If I BLOCKED it, Google, why am I SEEING it

#YouHadOneJob

the uptick in these 🐴💩 emails claiming ”so-and-so recently imported your address from another platform to #Substack” makes me suspect some dark-pattern shenanigans, so listen, if you’re giving Substack access to your contacts or whatever, stop that.

also, stop using Substack, Substack is for Nazis

call-out box from unsolicited email; text reads: Welcome to Nolan Higdon's Gaslight Gazette Don’t recognize this sender? Unsubscribe with one click Nolan Higdon recently imported your email address from another platform to Substack. You'll now receive their posts via email or the Substack app. To set up your profile and discover more on Substack, click here.

no you damn well didn't, noah

bold to put "gaslight" right there in the name

every software architecture / engineering / systems analysis role at my organization, per its boilerplate job description: "A cyanotype blueprint representation of cyberspace", by Flickr user 紅色死神 the lived experience of working in any of these roles: "Smoke and flames: Match factory fire 1954", Museum of Hartlepool

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(I would say "especially when it's this good" but come on, I knew it was going to be this good, Meghan's always been good but this is a Meghan story with a decade-plus of award-winning nonfiction writing and investigative journalism behind it, and it shows)

The Lord of Mars - Lightspeed Magazine The grow pods clung to a red, humped ridge about a twenty-minute hike west from the habitats. Inside one of their plastic domes, a farmer named Oliver Judd nestled potato starts in the ground with nim...

I feel like the first @meghanmccarron.bsky.social short story in a decade should be bigger news than I can make it www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...