Charlie Thomas

And yeah, I think that the DOGE folks at agencies kind of had unilateral decision making authority in a way that's kind of scary because they both had the we should come into government and do common sense things mindset without realizing that the most common sense things are actually the hardest to accomplish for very specific reasons.

Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

he was in the fucking Klan

In my experience, most students who avoid the assignment & say "It was boring/what I did is better" don't know how to do the work. They can't admit needing help & so do what they know. The worst thing I can do for their development as a student & a person is to indulge that coping mechanism.

“How does the computer know something happened if no one tells the computer about it” is the easy-reader way to explain why we still need human reporters and data-collectors

And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this

Anyway read @eomproject.bsky.social and follow @tranquilitypress.bsky.social

The enemy of my enemy is my friend The reopening of a border between Eritrea and Tigray masks a deeper realignment. As old foes unite against Ethiopia’s government, the risk of renewed war grows.

The reopening of a border between Eritrea and Tigray masks a deeper realignment. As old foes unite against Ethiopia’s government, the risk of renewed war grows. africasacountry.com/2025/08/the-...

A tweet reading, stupidly, "Literally every civilized society in history until 60 years ago was ethnonationalist."

Meanwhile, on Twitter, the Everything App...racism, mostly?

But also bad, obviously wrong history - lots of multi-ethnic pre-modern states: Romans, Persians, Mongols, etc.

Or just note the numbers of Welsh, Irishmen and Scots in key posts in the British Empire.

The current publishing landscape for 13-15 year olds is so saturated I don’t even know what to say here. Conor is not just speaking out of ignorance, he is apparently sitting in a black hole of knowledge that not facts can escape from.

and as far as responsibility goes, i think ferritor should be held criminally liable for the laws he broke while doing DOGE's work and referred for crimes against humanity

And if they’ve expressed said “pay it” and you decided you shouldn’t (even on the say-so of a “special government employee”) then yeah, that really isn’t smiled upon.

Yeah- even if you think that’s actually what they want, if you don’t have it in writing then you’re freelancing with appropriated federal funds which isn’t generally smiled upon.

If I understand the Bloomberg story correctly -- and if they have it right -- Ferritor and DOGE killed USAID contracts on their own after State Dept leadership and the White House had ruled in favor of keeping those specific programs. I have no problem sending them to jail

it's always two rude boys telling each other "exactlyyyyyy"

a) agreed on all counts and b) I would have no problem absolutely imparting extreme accountability on everyone in the chain here, preferably publicly.

Also honestly the most efficient way of transmitting information. For my work we have to account for every minute of "student time on task." When we look at average reading rates for comprehension (not skimming) it isn't even close for the amount and complexity of knowledge given to the students.

what is the interface for the AI technology we’re supposing is about to transform the world

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

We need to figure out some pithy name for the phenomena of "Assuming you can get rid of liberalism but still keep the baseline capabilities of liberal democracy" because hoo boy there is gonna be a lot of that thinking revealed in the next 2-4 years.

If only Congress had a role to play…..

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

"What is his level of responsibility? What is a fair moral comparison? What consequences should a liberal society impose—if any—on someone like him?"

One Lancet study estimates USAID's destruction by DOGE will cost 14 million lives. It also decimated an entire ecosystem of organizations & careers.

Learning about the terrible parts of our history didn't make me hate America. It made me admire Americans who called us to our ideals.

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death

And Shelby County is certainly one of the worst decisions in the most ignominious history of the Supreme Court! slate.com/news-and-pol...

There's a lot of people who insisted when you blow up society you start from the baselines of the liberal world order. Those who knew better of course needed legions of suckers. You can't beat the ride.

What the hell is this dude talking about? Like even Western Europe has incredible diversity and places like Indonesia or East Africa have massively diverse and fascinating cultures?

She literally handcuffed herself to Twitter headquarter after they banned her for being too racist. Why are they trying to make this person complex?!

I've watched over the past decade as "okay, we'll gerrymander the hell out of CA, NY, and IL" has gone from a fringe idea to an actually debated and visualized thing and I honestly think it's gaining steam as the only thing that can end this. "We can't unilaterally disarm" has started to look good.