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Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

My kid demonstrating the mathematical law that as you cut things in half they forever approach zero but never reach zero by slurping smaller and smaller spoonfuls of the dregs of cereal milk from her bowl.

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

thing I just learned:

The dominant meaning of "agog" is not, as I've always thought, "astonished" but "excited and eager."

Go know.

Kid: "Dad what's leather made from?"

Dad: "Hide".

Kid: "What???"

Dad: "Hide... a cow’s outside".

Kid: "I'm not afraid of a cow..."

David Lynch on It's a Wonderful Life:

Mother-in-law: “Should I pretend to recycle while you guys are here?”

YouTube video by More Perfect Union How Amazon Ruined Christmas

BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.

The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.

Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...

Hey hey
Yum yum
Figgy pudding
Bring us some

I like the part in “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” where it turns into a nonviolent protest.

🗣️ We won’t go until we get some!

When Insurance Rejects Life Saving Care A deeply personal and vulnerable story about our daughter, the power of resilience, and the desperate need for change

This is a deeply vulnerable & personal piece my wife Ayesha & I wrote about our daughter & the incurable disease she lives with. We wrote it not because her story is special—but because it is all too common. This torture must end.

Please read & share your story:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/when-insur...

a day which will live in famy

I feel confident that if the healthcare CEO murder happened in late September, there would be a contingent of dudes wearing their winter coats/backpacks/masks dressed up as the killer for Halloween. Low effort/high reward costume.

Piglet is a grown man

Where the fuck is Piglet's mom by the way

Tragedy of the crumb’ns

My daughter loves the song, “We Wish you a Merry Christmas” and now she’s happily prancing around the house asking for Piggy Footing (figgy pudding).

She’s got spoonerisms coming out of her ears! It delights me to no end!

A paragraph from Ta-Nehisi Coates' book The Message, which reads: "It may seem strange that people who have already attained a position of power through violence invest so much time in justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims. And so a story must be told, one that raises a wall between themselves and those they seek to throttle and rob."

Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.

My 4yo just said “what if there was an advent calendar for opossums filled with different pieces of trash.”

Omner to be narmernated

for most of my life I believed that only one turkey in the pair was pardoned and that America voted to determine which of the two would be spared in a sort of macabre public spectacle akin to the freeing of Barabbas over Jesus

Note for the upcoming holiday season,,, some of us are on a sobriety journey and mocktails or non-alcoholic beer options make a big difference 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Sometimes when I’m looking for a lil nickname to call my daughter, I call her “Doug.”
I call her “duck” a lot but somehow I swallow the /k/ and land on Doug and just go with it.

before I get out of bed I wish to record that the thought that’s getting me up in a great mood is “can’t wait to drink tea”

Seeking employment with an independent film production as a fear of intimacy coordinator