Jjinandtonic

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local authorities deny catholic prisoners the Eucharist, bishop arrives, Papal sanction may follow”

Marco Rubio reluctantly puts on another hat

Need a narrow waisted cavalry twink so bad

rip

I love how much of baseball fights are just the guys jogging out to send a message then just standing around

Identifying “there is a bubble” hopefully sets the foundations for retethering the decision making metrics that make up management ideology back tonreality

I think it can have some effect when the bubble of speculative value serves as a justification for layoffs. it’s like an inverse of the diagnosis ive seen of the 1980s layoff wave where corporate decisions get increasingly based on ideological conclusions detached from the reality that spawned them

I need europeans to shut up and stay in their own lane about understanding the nature of americans. You dont see me talking about the sophistication of the average Pole or the mind of the Prussian

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.s... • 27m Two best words in baseball: Game Seven. 12 ≥ 12 . 182 贝 ¿ Reposted by Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org • 13m Bluesky Elder All the "the two best words in sports - Game 7" posts are fucking liars, no one in Toronto or Seattte Los Angeles is sleeping tonight and they will spend day all tomorrow in a low grade panic attack •Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org • 11d Bluesky Elder All the "the two best words in sports - Game 7" posts are fucking liars, no one in Toronto or Seattle is sleeping tonight and they will spend all tomorrow in a low grade panic attack

The duality of baseball

(UK and iirc American industrialization also saw a few bubbles, though less with looms and more with the railway

How Modern Researchers Are Trying to Recreate a Long-Lost Fabric Dhaka muslin was immensely popular for millennia, but the secrets of its creation faded from memory by the early 20th century

To be fair, there’s been an increasing amount of argument that some of the highest level patterns and fabrics were straight up better than mechanical loom stuff. (eg this muslin)

Latin is also sneakily a rhetoric and grammar class, which has been super nice

Clearsky is a great social experiment to see who would pull a sauruman and stare into the stone until they lose it

This is incredibly well done!

Welcome back fugitive slave act (and hopefully the anti manhunting societies)

If you can’t make hay of this politically, if you’re not hammering this every day, you might as well resign

It's low-hanging fruit lib posting but it's a hell of a thing to juxtapose the President and his supporters' priorities here

Oh them too, i was thinking more of eg bozeman

Similar issues popped up in the towns newly connected by the silver line around dc and in mountain towns made accessible to silicon valley people by remote work iirc

Langley says for some critics, such as privacy focused organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which have long criticized Ring and similar technologies, there is no reasonable debate left to hold. “There is a certain part of the country that just doesn’t prioritize safety, and like us, Jamie [Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who recently returned to active leadership of the company] does, and I believe everyone has a right to be safe and people should be held accountable if they commit a crime,” Langley said. For critics of use of surveillance technology in law enforcement, “There is nothing we can do other than shut down our business,” Langley said. “They live in a world of hypotheticals and I live in a world of realities, and we have to do something about it.”

EFF argues that the reality of surveillance technology is uncovering abuses. “Of course people have a right to be safe, but what companies like Flock and Ring fail to acknowledge is that their technology doesn’t make people safer, it just subjects them to a round-the-clock warrantless digital dragnet that keeps tabs on everyone whether or not they’re suspected of any crime,” said Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney Jennifer Pinsof. “That’s an affront to our freedoms, and a recipe for abuse and real harm especially in increasingly authoritarian times. Privacy isn’t dangerous, but giving privacy up for a false sense of security is very dangerous,” she added.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/a...

Unusually thorough piece about the Flock/Ring pairing. The quotes from Flock CEO vs. those from EFF are a useful contrast for how the same terms are deployed in vastly different ways, with Langley asserting that a privately owned panopticon somehow constitutes safety.

JD Vance reading this from Erika Kirk’s bedroom

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local authorities deny catholic prisoners the Eucharist, bishop arrives, Papal sanction may follow”

Humiliated and furious.

no they don't; yes they will.

Sometimes the just so story is the straw that breaks the balance structural issues

having deflationary unregulated shadow currencies/commodities/casinos linked closely to the U.S. dollar has been a complete fucking disaster for 95% of people over here

Iirc it was a substantial issue in mexico city — exporting inflation in the sense of people taking the strong dollar, converting it into local currency, and driving prices up

America exporting inflation via wfh expats was a wild substory of the 2022-24 economy

Yeah i know thats what i’m saying, EU guys should deal with their own homegrown fascists instead of opining on whats popular among americans

If there ever was a set of politicians who needed to clean their own backyard first, it is the EU