John Rogers

Still, in *Florida*?!

That’s a crime in *Florida*?! That makes no sense.

100% not the first time that guy’s laid hands on a woman smaller than him.

Three rules in FBI firearm training:

1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot

Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

This week over at Writing and Whatnot, I wrote about general meetings and how not to screw them up. One of the worst meetings Shawna and I ever had ended up getting us a job. So every general matters...

writingandwhatnot.com/blog/general-meetings

Imagine getting your ass handed to you by a group of kids that includes someone wearing a "choose kindness always" hoodie.

I really, REALLY wish I could have read this before my first few general meetings. They are a very odd, nerve-wracking things and I still don't feel like I know what I'm doing in them.

Along with MILK & SERIAL, a tiny indie found footage, they just made their first studio film OBSESSION.

The Adams Family - an actual family - make indie horror movies. I thought HELLBENDER was pretty great, made for a buck fifty. Just suggesting because it’s a very edge case not likely to make your list.

Any particular time period?

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Putting on my suit and tie and going on America Erwache to describe a 234 year old basic requirement of the constitution for lawful searches and seizures as a “nonstarter.”

Of course law enforcement wears masks. They have long not been accountable to "the people." They are their own super-class of people with special rules. It's a symptom; not a cause.

The Supreme Court Just Made Gerrymandering Even Easier A recent ruling has created another obstacle for voters of color trying to protect their rights.

These cases over the past ten years from SCOTUS tilted the House to Republicans.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

How Gerrymandering Tilts the 2024 Race for the House Skewed maps give Republicans big advantages in 11 states, mostly in the South and Midwest.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Christopher Nolan has cast a Genovian as Penelope and a Bostonian as Odysseus. And they will be speaking English, a language that did not exist in antiquity. This whole production is pure chaos.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

On Bullshit Engines’ Politics_Preprint This is a pre-print of the following chapter: Williams, Damien P., “On Bullshit Engines’ Politics”, published in Arrangements of Power: Tracing Langdon Winner’s Legacy Within and Beyond the P…

So I started writing this paper almost exactly a year ago, based on the talks I'd given across 2024, including my keynote for the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. This is the pre-print and, all things considered, the full edited version should be available in April.
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Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

The man who murdered Renee Good didn't need a bodycam because HE FILMED THAT SHIT LIKE IT WAS HIS IG REEL

The orcas have discovered fire.

"They start by questioning the assumption that CEOs necessarily seek to advance “legitimate” ends. Instead, they suggest that a persistent issue is predation: the exploitation of asymmetries in information and power to the disadvantage of shareholders, creditors, customers, or employees."

🔥🔥🔥

I read your stuff in print, which one did she narrate?

I've been writing professionally for 30 years, and when I wanted to transition to writing more prose I signed up for one of MRK's seminars. Very useful, very effective, and depending on your audiobook library, you get to spend an hour thinking "Wait, where *do* I know that voice from ..."

Today (2/2) at 8 PM ET: a class for writers on setting intentions. Join the "Live-streaming classes" tier to attend. patreon.com/maryrobinette

How to Calculate the Cost of Universal Basic Income (Hint: It's Not As Easy As You Might Think) I've written about this before, about how the cost of universal basic income is its net cost, not its gross cost, but because this question of the cost of UBI is so frequently raised, and so frequentl...

About the "rents will just rise" thing.

Most basic incomes accompany either a "guaranteed income" clawback up front or a "UBI" tax after so unless you volunteer how much you get how much would you be charged
www.scottsantens.com/how-to-calcu...

This administration says all moms should breastfeed unless of course they think you should be detained by ICE instead

The extent to which China is powering the world with affordable, clean energy technologies - from solar photovoltaics to electric vehicles - is astonishing. It's already the biggest energy story of my lifetime and it's still early days.

Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear

This is one of those "so freakin' obvious why didn't it happen years ago" fantastic ideas.