Caleb Spare

Ride-sharing apps are good, actually The real "cautionary tale" is that the old taxi cartels were bad

The rise of ride-sharing apps has been change for the better.

It's also an illustration of the fact that sometimes positive change for society is bad for some reasonably sympathetic people and life isn't all Evil Billionaires.

www.slowboring.com/p/uber-is-go...

YouTube video by NBC Sports MUST SEE FINISH: 16 year old, Brazier, and Hoppel combine for exhilarating men's 800m | NBC Sports

Holy shit this men’s 800 final youtu.be/AWs6ctiEBvA?...

Is that a HR estimate or did you get it done professionally? Kinda wanna know my number.

Kansas Votes to Preserve Abortion Rights Protections in Its Constitution (Published 2022)

2.) winning elections on the state or federal level -- big races in which millions of people vote -- will require doing and saying things that appeal to a broad coalition of people. See: how Kansas defeated an abortion ban. www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/u...

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My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life.

In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded.

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remember to rub it in the Trump administration's face every chance you get

My favorite part of SeaTac is when there's a 45 minute traffic jam just to get into arrivals at 11pm on a Tuesday

Our airport is such a goddamn shitshow, sorry you have to deal with it

I think a really underrated idea for Democrats would be to to try:

(a) Study public opinion accurately
(b) Adopt views, especially on social and moral values issues that align with public opinion

Or they can try this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...

Look who this "Abundance" review cites for the claim that the regulatory process isn't standing in the way of American nuclear.

Dems: Who’s our liberal Joe Rogan?

Also Dems: How dare you platform journalists who’ve written a deeply reported book that makes some Biden supporters uncomfortable?

I know it's hard to enforce in the American system, but it's not great when members of Congress, Supreme Court justices (or possibly presidents) die in office from illnesses related to old age. Social and professional norms around SCOTUS should change. Donors should pressure politicians to retire.

proposal: simd: architecture-specific SIMD intrinsics under a GOEXPERIMENT · Issue #73787 · golang/go Proposal Details SIMD is crucial for achieving high performance in many modern workloads. While Go currently allows access to SIMD via hand-written assembly, this approach has significant drawbacks...

github.com/golang/go/is... Exciting!

“But Trump blah blah blah” people generally dislike Trump and still preferred what he offered to what Democrats were offering, probably should be some more soul searching about that. I personally think it’s important to keep people like Trump out of power by running the best candidates in every race

May we become a nation worthy of Rumeysa Ozturk's faith.

The Kleptocracy Presidency Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.

"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world"

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Switched from zsh to fish shell a few months ago. It has been mostly great, but two main annoyances stand out:

* No {} or similar for string interpolation. foo_"$bar"_baz sucks.
* Universal variables are a terrible idea. Even though I don't use them, some builtins use them under the hood.

Just this, on repeat, for 3.8 more years

Tangential: I'm confused why the quote tweet I see is different from the original when I click on it. (The original doesn't have the last sentence.)

We already have negotiated free trade deals with many of these countries ! They are absolutely not charging the tariffs he’s saying they are. It’s totally made up.

Please reporters and editors. I’m begging you!

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

The Five Scandals (and One Fascinating Political Insight) of Signalgate The Trump administration's group chat tells a lot about itself

Across the last 48 hours, “Signalgate” has morphed from one scandal into what I think is best thought of as five distinct overlapping scandals, as well as providing some fascinating political insight into who has power and how decisions get made in Trump II. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

Here's petes:
1. Order up some strike
2. Had a beer
3. Share them on an unsecure platform
4. Lie when caught
5. Get shitfaced.

David: Are you concerned about retaliation from the Trump administration because of this story? Jeffrey: It’s not my role to care about the possibility of threats or retaliation. We just have to come to work and do our jobs to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, in our society today—we see this across corporate journalism and law firms and other industries—there’s too much preemptive obeying for my taste. All we can do is just go do our jobs.

A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Mr. Free Speech Absolutist strikes again

Jaw dropping ignorance. Witkoff knows nothing. Has no knowledge of the violence that Russians have used to suppress Ukrainians in Occupied Ukraine

This is incredibly dumb