I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
This isn't going to go well, friends. These people are unhinged void crabs.
I remember reading some of Yarv's insane screed when I was 18 and thinking "surely this shit is too juvenile to ever be taken seriously" but here we fuckin' are
There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain
Gerrymandering is woke. Arbitrarily drawing lines around whole communities based on race instead of letting them vote on merit? We should delete gerrymandering
Look if I don't spin these plates nobody's eating dinner tonight. No I don't know who put the plates up there we just gotta spin 'em. Get them down? Get them DOWN? Get outta here!
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
Benno most likely if he hangs out with blue-collar workers, Benny if white-collar.
Benji only if someone thought he had immense golden retriever energy
Expecting quite a few billionaires to flip position on gun control policy in the next few days
this is your annual #hackersummercamp reminder that algo is an open-source roll your own vpn server script that is a) super easy to use, b) written by people i trust, and c) not a crime/LEO/IC magnet https://github.com/trailofbits/algo