Vern McCandlish

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I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

Dropping the dime on someone too.

Image listing three logical razors, Occam's, Hanlon's and Hitchens'. Occam's Razor: The simplest Explanation is often the best one. Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Hitchens' Razor: Anything asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

If you are trying to claim something is a complex conspiracy with multiple people and intricate planning, I beg you to review the following before posting about it.

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

Because the next couple days are gonna be confusing for everyone, here's a reminder that you do not ever have to "hand it to" any of the following guys:

Elon Musk
Donald Trump
JD Vance
RFK jr
Stephen Miller

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

Leopards eating faces hold waiting time

This cruelty and insanity has personally honestly cost me so much - I'm gonna just enjoy this.

Vibevestors

This is the happiest I've been in days. Maybe weeks.

Thank God we didn’t pick the lady wanting to give first time homebuyers $10 K in assistance. We’d be missing out on the serious business of addressing important government tasks that’s on display right now!

It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

Let’s not forget that earlier today, this day was known as “we cannot build bananas in America” day. That is, until everything went bananas

Today was supposed to be about the domestic production of bananas, then all hell broke loose and no one will even remember the bananas.

if you are terminally online STAY ON LINE

I actually don’t have to understand the big brain reason yarvin wants to accomplish

If I just …. DONT ABANDON PEOPLE OR DEHUMANIZE THEM

a man in a suit and tie is talking about functioning idiots Alt: a man in a suit and tie leaning into another man's face and intensely saying "They are functioning idiots"

I implore anyone trying to sell the idea of an intricate multiple-level deep plan being executed to fool us to first look up Occam's and Hanlon's razors before posting.

We chose the right day to launch the share button

Every PR rep in America is scheduling that bad news press release for 5pm EDT tomorrow and setting it to auto post because they know this will be the best weekend to bury bad news.

I was trying to come up with the words to express this but @bencollins.bsky.social was able to condense it and express it so eloquently I am just going to quote skeet their post.

Tolkien used hobbits to represent traditional English values. This is why Bilbo leaves his home, lies to a foreigner, steals his treasure, and causes a war which kills and displaces millions of people.

Bun-Bun!

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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Disruption is always more quickly impactful than recovery.

installing the internet from a CD you got in the mail

Digitally illustrated graphic with big, bold, black text in the center reading "trans lives are more important than harry potter". Two cats with alternating colours of the trans flag lay above the top left and bottom right of the text, turning it pink & blue where they cross over.

happy pride month!

Omfg. Sorry who is running against her? I want to check the betting markets.