Hui-ke me up before you go go

Y'all are the shiniest of counterexamples ❤️

did you catch this?

Pats offensive line looking like the US' checks and balances

You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof. What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate

Why Keeping Score Isn’t Fun Anymore

Great profile of C. Thi Nguyen in The NY Times! Why Keeping Score Isn’t Fun Anymore | In a new book, C. Thi Nguyen looks to his personal passions — from video games to yo-yoing — to illuminate the downside of our increasingly gamified world. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b... | @add-hawk.bsky.social |

New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.

The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.

Why Keeping Score Isn’t Fun Anymore

Never, in a million kabillion years, when I decided to say "screw it" to mainstream philosophy and started writing about the philosophy of games, could I have imagined that this road would take me down to having the goddamn NY Times profile me and my new book.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

Who are the experts / journalists / researchers you turn to for critical perspectives on AI & the tech world? I created a feed of experts who watch AI developments with a skeptical & critical (but *informed*) POV. I'd love more people to follow it, but I'm also looking to add people - recs welcome!

My dream (all my cognitive and emotional capacities halve in the summer)

A crocodile basking in the sun, mouth open for thermoregulation. Moisturized. In his lane. Thriving

Hoping that my experience machine will stimulate my brain to experience the pov of this handsome guy

There's a real glut of AI videos of men of the cloth in full regalia chewing out ICE officers and the way I was able to identify them is:

When men of the cloth get involved, it makes news, as in Rev. David Black. So if there's real footage of a priest screaming at ICE at a CHURCH it will be NEWS.

Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

dark times ahead. but we are going to win.

A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

Ok, philosophers, things I think I'm supposed, professionally, to know, but I'm worried I learned wrong.

What is a proposition?

Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

High water consumption in The Dalles, Oregon For a year during 2022-2023, the US city of the Dalles, OR, fought “The Oregonian” newspaper in court trying to keep secret the public records of how much water it supplied to Google’s data centers located there. Google had paid for the city’s legal expenses incurred suing “The Oregonian” and Google also paid for the settlement, which made public that Google was consuming 29% of the city’s water. That amount of water could cover the city to a depth of 2 inches/5 cm, according to “The Oregonian”‘s coverage. Around that time Google disclosed in its corporate environmental reports some data about its water usage, which all the Big 3 had previously refused to disclose.

I wish it was more widely known that Google fought like absolute mongrels against media outlets to avoid disclosing water consumption data - the only reason they disclose that data now is because they were pressured by activists and journalists

cloud.sustainability.watch/explore-issu...

Thrilled for this genius, but would it have killed you to write down this proof of yours?!

(written by me in November...)

don’t do the “maduro is bad, but…” thing. the defensive crouch won’t help, it muddles the message, and the important thing is that this is immoral, illegal, and idiotic. the three Is

The U.S. just kidnapped a foreign leader and his wife.

Venezuela doesn’t produce Fentanyl, but they do have the world’s largest oil reserves.

This is the war the $23 million Big Oil gave to Trump bought.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Welcome to 2003.

I'm hardly original in saying this, but a lot of people are going to try to make this about whether Maduro being gone is good or bad as such, rather than the blatant violation of international and US law in a destabilizing act of aggression.

Don't fall for it.

Live updates: Trump confirms U.S. strikes on Venezuela, says Maduro was 'captured' Follow live updates as a series of explosions are heard around Venezuela's capital after a military buildup in the Caribbean, tanker seizures, and Trump pressing President Nicolás Maduro to step down.

Something I've yet to see many on here talk about "Venezuela’s attorney general, Tarek William Saab, said innocent civilians have been killed in today’s strikes."

www.nbcnews.com/world/latin-...

BREAKING: Venezuela’s government has accused the US of launching attacks on civilian and military installations across several states, rejecting what it described as a "military aggression," according to an official statement.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p3fqh2

Don't we have the verb "kidnapping" to describe this?