@vaguery.bsky.social
he/him. Gradually sidling over from @vaguery@a2mi.social. Was a complexity-toucher, starter-up; got paid for schmancy thinkleading. Then ~15 years "off" (as caregiver). Now I sell our—and dead people's—stuff on eBay & scan [PD!] books to give away for free
Oh okay so if I do this shit I'm a fat American pig but when a French chef does it, it's "leveling up". Never tell me I can't use donuts as hamburger buns ever again.
"Why aren't the youth out protesting right now?"
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
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In that sense, conspiracies are not dystopian, but utopian — since, unfortunately, in the real world, uncovering malevolence is often not sufficient to make malevolence disappear.
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This list of questions that agent Paul Bogarde asks potential clients formalizes for me something I have been thinking for awhile now
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.
Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:
Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.
And recognized as such by the US Government.
From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
I don't think the consultants advising Democrats realize that Libby Normielib is really fucking tired of this shit.
Americans are about to learn one of the things I was yelling about during the campaign: the US cannot produce enough oil to keep us from feeling the global shocks of oil prices, because oil is produced by companies who will just charge us more money if the supply goes down elsewhere.
EVERYONE should be going bonkers on the first amendment implications.
And yet it's one of those things that is quietly being relegated to a few opinion columns.
Thanks for continuing to read, cite, and share this paper. It remains controversial in some corners of the discipline, but I stand by it completely.
Many Black folks don’t use terms “liberal” and “conservative,” which makes the liberal-conservative scale a noisy tool for studying Black politics.
Too much to keep track of, but don't sleep on AG Bondi's new proposed rule that would let DOJ lawyers avoid key ethics checks that prohibit lying to court. Ratcheting up the assault on courts & the reality-based world at the same time. Mine in today's NYT. (Gift Link)
As our technology gets worse, wonkier, more addictive, more invasive, and downright dumber, the idea of analog and “obsolete technologies” sounds better every day. baltimorebeat.com/whats-poppin...
Everyone go watch this! Excellent performances and really good costuming to boot.
youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8
Some background to Trump/GOP willful ignorance so painfully obvious in the war against Iran: A short history of the US government knowing stuff. At GP/BP. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/willful-ig...
I really think you could get so many of the toxic dipshits out of adjacency to power by holding a meeting with all the tech execs and then springing a surprise drug test on them. no time to prepare
"everyone gets a cup to go pee in. if any of you piss hot we're canceling your contracts"
A few years ago, we hosted a brilliant talk on the risks of lionizing tech bro culture and making heroes of its leaders. One academic attendee admonished us for bringing feminism into a tech conference. Said he wouldn’t be bringing his students again. Political intent in software is real folks
Punishing student protestors only to get mad at them for not protesting anymore reminds me of how survivors are sued and harassed for coming forward only to then be blamed for not wanting to name and report their perpetrators anymore
I'm starting to think if I say "ICE has not left Minnesota" (which of course is true!) I should also say "ICE has not left Chicago" and "ICE has not left LA" because I think the point is that ICE wants to occupy a lot of places at this scale so that it just becomes reality, it's not just Minnesota.
Respectfully, eat shit. Those kids were expelled, arrested, and targeted relentlessly by their school administrations with the specific goal of preventing further protest. Eighteen year old kids were held down and maced by campus security, hit point blank with tear gas canisters by riot cops.
WTF!!
Been sitting on this news for a while! There's going to be a Children of Time TTRPG courtesy of the amazing folk at Rowan Rook and Decard (Heart, Spire, DIE, Eat the Reich and many more).
I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
I looked it up. 80 YEARS?
Did you know that arXiv is exploring to add Typst? The world's largest preprint archive faces unique challenges to keep science open. Join arXiv veteran Norbert Preining and learn what's ahead for arXiv and Typst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZl...
I've been listing back issues of "The Morgan Horse" on eBay and trying to figure out how this 75 pounds of glossy pages full of ads and photos survived for like 40+ years as a hobbyist magazine.
Then I realize: I guess horses are probably… not cheap?
"They love the songs!"
Behold the hooded grasshopper. It feeds primarily on leaves—and it’s perfectly camouflaged to look like one, too. This species inhabits parts of India and Sri Lanka. Females can grow up to 2 in (5.2 cm) long, while males are only about half their size.
Photo: pathanimran, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
Aside from teeth, I agree there's a strong anatomical resemblance. I wasn't able to pause the uvula scene to compare to e.g. the Pinocchio Whale and related lesser "swallower" clades. I wonder if Ahab had ever sung a little song to Moby Dick there might have been a much better outcome in that case.
