Colin Brown

Fair cop

Le carréxpert is great but "Control freak" was right there

“He’s joking” “he misspoke”
You do not get to do that when you have power. You get more responsibility, not less!!

I love TG2G in general but I one time did a €3.99 bakery bag from Dirk and it was just literally 11 full loaves of not quite expired bread. Amazing deal if you eat 30-50 sandwiches a day. (60-100 sandwiches if you are Dutch)

This story is inherently moderately suppressed simply because any of us posting under our government names have to pause and respond as members of a society, and not as our hearts or minds or the holy spirit would ask of us.

I am still angry that my hometown, on the other side of Portland from the High-A Hillsboro Hops, failed in its bid to shortly thereafter get the Single-A team that would have been the Milwaukie Microbrewers

There are more and more stories now of how Trump will unilaterally declare victory and go home. It bears saying that Iran will have a say in whether that will the end of the war as far as they are concerned.

Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation? | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Administrative democratic defence: Under what circumstances do civil servants counter autocratisation?

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Administrative democratic defence ⚔️

@jmvanlit.bsky.social uses elite interviews from the Netherlands to argue that administrative democratic defence requires continued awareness and action to prevent #Autocratisation and sustain resilience 🛡️

Looks Like We’ve Democratized Insider Trading Polymarket and Kalshi promise the wisdom of the crowds. They deliver something very different.

there are plenty of moral/ethical reasons to not like prediction markets but the thing that's most interesting to me is the way that they are a machine that destroys trust. by democratizing insider trading everyone assumes the fix is always in. it's corrosive! www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Chotiner: So you can save any form of life, at any point in time or space?

Doctor: A few events are locked, but yes, it's a gift and also a terrible burden.

C: And most lifeforms needing rescue are in 20th or 21st century Great Britain?

D: I'm going back to get you kicked out of journalism school

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

Our gratitude to everyone but I have to say in particular to Glen, well-done

This, but more seasons of Toast of London, mostly so that I finally know whether it was actually a real show and not just a fever dream targeted to my exact idiosyncratic and antisocial sense of humor, in a way that absolutely would not have been sustainable on a real life series

Yes, and seconding the post's endorsement of C Thi Nguyen's new book

A wooden donation box at PDX airport with a blue sign reading: "Supporting PDX Federal Workers — Federal coworkers are still here, keeping things moving — let's return the kindness. Donate nonperishable food, gift cards, or household items here. No cash, checks, or cash cards, please."

While state capacity is hard to assess, I feel like the food donation bin they've set up at the airport for government employees is not a great sign.

One thing about these big camp systems is that they inflict a tremendous amount of harm through sheer momentum. When a system is built to be both negligent and punitive, it tends to cause suffering by default.

<Cackles maniacally while also crackling maniacally>

I was late to a dance party on a submarine because I had to help the cafe across the street put out a grass fire.

Those who have known have made the necessary sacrifices

Few people know that the second book of Aristotle’s Poetics is mostly an interview with Chotiner.

Would you describe the color of the sea as:

1. White
2. Black
3. Wine-dark
4. Other (please specify, we really need more words for colors)

The attention crosstabs in our Iran poll are kind of interesting measurement of how attention corresponds to strength of opinion/likelihood of choosing DK when offered

Those following more closely are 26 pts likelier than those not to express strong opinion

www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

We give past generations extraordinary benefit of the doubt in these arguments. For instance: "people used to watch politicians debate the great issues of the day!" vs "people mostly gathered to watch speakers insult or even fight each other."

(Source: @jbf1755.bsky.social's "The Field of Blood")

Reasons to Love Portland 2026 - Willamette Week 26 Reasons to Love Portland

26 Reasons to Love Portland www.wweek.com/tags/reasons... #pdx #fmlcomix

the phrase "he's sampling the whole town square" has compelled me to ask whether you are familiar with the best* polling movie, MAGIC TOWN, which features Jimmy Stewart as a pollster who discovers a nationally representative town and then (spoiler) ruins it through panel conditioning

*only

Well I am now

There is no like in

(Rest of barbershop quartet): Like-ly!

Oh-ho the YouGov pollster is a comin' down the street
He's sampling the whole town square
Oh-ho the YouGov pollster is comin' down the street
And there's no room left for margin of error

How I'm Teaching About Generative AI Every choice I make about how to discuss GenAI with my students is predicated on trusting them

New today in TIW: Historian @cjdenial.bsky.social on teaching about AI. "in every iteration of this conversation I have had with students in the last two years, there is one constant: almost no one knows about the ethical issues surrounding GenAI before they delve into the readings I’ve assigned."

MACADAMIA!!!!