Bryan Zug

You watching Pluribus?

real nice decentralized network you’ve got there, be a real shame if capitalism happened to it

+∞

Wipe on, wipe off.

#TheWindowWiperEconomy

97.5% of the people Trump arrested in Chicago had no criminal record

100% of the people Trump pardoned for Jan 6 had criminal records

The difference is the former are mostly Latino & the latter are mostly white. This is systemic white supremacy in 2025. If you still don’t see it, you’re complicit

Peak "joining company to fix one specific bug" moment

I did not see that turn coming.

could i make it any more obvious

The best skewering of the Seattle grunge boom ever. RIP Todd Snider. youtu.be/lYm8HotzmSw?...

Taking a moment to realise that in the movie 2010 its revealed that HAL in 2001 goes nuts because he is asked to lie.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.

How NOT to design a conversation… yet.

a “Space Force”, if you will

Harrell canvasser stopped by our place and took details notes on why we would not be voting for him.

Woah, what the hell was that? Bruce just said that there are people telling him not to concede because there were "anomalies." That's a wild and irresponsible thing to say.

My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?

Have you seen Pluribus yet? This united garble across all fronts now is sitting differently with me now (and not in a good way)

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

So our entire economic well being hinges on a company with $20B in revenues spending $1.4T on AI infrastructure when there isn’t enough electricity generated on the planet to power that many data centers?

Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.

There's this story about how CS Lewis was out with a friend and stopped to give a vagrant some money. Lewis's friend chided him, saying "you know he's just to buy liquor with it, right?"

Lewis responded, "Well, so was I."

Being excellent at math is knowing *how* to build the Torment Nexus. Learning to interact with other people is knowing why you *shouldn’t* build the Torment Nexus.

Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

AWS should be a democratically accountable public utility

just like the diplomat except real and terrifying

It will never not be funny to me that an important writer like Joyce Carol Oates who writes captial S Serious Literature is also really good at posting. It's like if Stravinsky had lived long enough to be really good at Animal Crossing too.

i wrote about shame, its role in our civic life, and why we need to make america ashamed again.

Food as Weapon:

A most basic human need and therefore right is food.

But food has been weaponized against the poor and anyone who is not wealthy.

So I drew a cartoon exploring what Jesus would do if he was someone who would allow others to starve so he could get richer.

this is what Jesus was getting at when he said “How hard it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven!” imo. He wasn’t necessarily referring to a utopian afterlife. Jesus came to build
a kingdom in the here and now, and the more wealth you have, the harder it is to get in.