Mark Madsen

Disheartening shifts as Russia still remains firmly enmeshed in the european and american banking system and has faced minimal actual penalties since it started the war

So our present is a huge lose-lose situation.

Our increasingly consolidated markets simultaneously create a class of rich ppl in a country that mistakenly equates wealth w ability while weakening the market forces that would ideally show their lack of imperial clothes.

This is what I believe as well. Static markets with minor shifts in marketshare mean that any old bullshit will suffice since the dynamics are minimal, it takes too much to displace inertia, and size has the ability to quickly squash new entrants that might offer competition

Great to see a digital design tool that starts with a problem statement and defined benefits (not actually optional).

Remember: don't build anything creepy and weird!

US household income rose slightly last year, roughly matching 2019 level The income for the typical U.S. household barely rose last year and essentially matched its 2019 peak, the Census Bureau said Tuesday, as stubbornly high inflation offset wage gains.

A reminder, we only just got back to 2019 median wages in 2024, that’s all likely been eroded this year

Also anyone who tells you the Biden economy was good without mentioning that at no point were people back to pre-COVID wages is lying to you, especially that one guy

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It Was the Epstein Shutdown All Along Read more here.

The pundit and political class tended to downplay the Epstein Files because they believed it too salacious and not serious enough to drive government policy and decision-making. Except, they are doing just that. Dismissing the importance of the Files ignores who Trump is and who he has always been.

I had hopes of this happening with media in general and news in particular, and it hasn’t. Maybe the dynamics of entertainment financials will be different but I have my doubts

Key points from CNN’s report on a missing binder full of intelligence on Russia | CNN Politics During then-President Donald Trump’s final days in office, a 10-inch-thick binder of raw Russian intelligence transported from the CIA went missing after it was last seen at the White House, CNN repor...

Worst case part 2: he really was bribed, then blackmailed into handing over top secret US intel to Russia, making him a literal traitor who should be facing the ultimate sanction.

It's always worse edition.cnn.com/2023/12/15/p...

every Tesla recall starts overseas, and then eventually comes to the US after a matter of days or weeks... it's one of the best ways to measure the decline and fall of this country's regulatory capacity/credibility

“Cognitive atrophy” is a great phrase for this

And I state again...WE NEED A SEPARATE ARTISTS ALLEY (like the ones at anime/sci-fi cons) AT SCIENCE CONFERENCES. LET ME BUY PLUSHIES AND COOL PRINTS FFS.

Washington Cities Question Use of License Plate Readers Citing Federal Overreach » The Urbanist # A recent University of Washington report on data security issues with automatic license plate readers has been creating waves among law enforcement agencies using the technology, including Lynnwood,...

NEW STORY // Washington Cities Question Use of License Plate Readers Citing Federal Overreach

Story by Amy Sundberg via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/13/w...

These cops learned a valuable lesson: never meet your heroes

The social-interpersonal ethics of American businesses is such that executives are treated like mini kings, which very much has an “elites kicked in the head by a mule”/“dictator’s dilemma” effect on their sense-making and constructed knowledge, and how people just carry out their insane decisions.

Hello from Ireland, where our police force, formed at the end of a bitter civil war, does not carry guns. Up until recently, they had to deal with large terrorist organisations, yet only dress like this if they’re expecting a riot. Even then, only a very select, well-trained few will carry guns.

Like, to a billionaire, who has completely forgotten what it is like to be told "no, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about, shut the fuck up," who has forgotten that there are any limitations on his every fucked up Epstein whim, genAI just sounds like literally everyone he talks to.

Warnings rise for U.S. as severe flu strain causes outbreaks in Canada, U.K. A flu strain that emerged over the summer is causing "unprecedented" outbreaks in Japan, as well as in Canada and the U.K. The CDC hasn't provided insights on flu in the U.S. in nearly two months.

With RFK Jr. at the wheel we ALL must remain vigilant.

As flu season begins in the US, following the deadliest flu outbreak in children outside of a pandemic since record-keeping began in 2004, pediatricians are taking the lead on vaccine messaging. CDC says NOTHING!
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My wife works at a school in Southeast Portland. ICE terrorists are in the area and so the school is in lockdown.
The fact that you have to protect kids from so-called law enforcement is disgusting. These fuckers belong in their own jails.

That’s not a good thing.

Ken Bain Changed College Teaching Forever What the Best College Teachers Do is perhaps the most important book I’ve ever read.

I never met one of my most important mentors, Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do. This could be the most important book I've ever read and it's more relevant today than when it was first published 20 years ago. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Every location has a picket line in front of it. Don’t cross the line.

Wilson Defeats Harrell » The Urbanist # Katie Wilson will be Seattle's next year. The progressive challenger expanded her lead over Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell to nearly 2,000 votes in Wednesday's count, and The Urbanist and other local o...

Katie Wilson will be Seattle's next year. The progressive challenger expanded her lead over Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell to nearly 2,000 votes in Wednesday's count.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/12/w...

AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.

sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate:

ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires

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What if the real reason for not releasing the Epstein files is that they were such great blackmail material and the blackmail campaign and shakedowns of billionaires would end?

“A haircut or the guillotine” would be a good campaign slogan for whoever primaries Schumer

And so we're clear, corp Dems R selling out Americans to their donors then gaslighting us like we're all too fucking stupid to realize we've been had. AGAIN. No one should be moving on from Schumergate & everyone should be calling for their heads. @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Looks to me like he was giving someone the rusty trombone

I am in Edmonton and I can’t see the aurora. This is an intolerable situation. I demand to see the manager

shiba ennui @TomSchally the secret to work-life balance is inherited wealth

always remember:

Many modern technologists and computer scientists are very cogent systems thinker because any sufficiently advanced technology *is people*, all technical systems are socio-technical. The capital T Tech dipshits talking about “alpha” are mainly cosplaying finance people, regardless of their training