Craig X

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

i feel like i don’t know anything anymore
it’s always just been a rum or brandy drenched xxxmas pudding

2025... Visitors to the USA required to hand over 5 years worth of social media records. Australia bans under 18s from accessing social media.

2030... The only tourists visiting the USA are young Australians.

curious to see screen time stats for people who installed the new apple ios

it is so ugly and user unfriendly it makes me not want to use my phone at all

did QAnon do this

What the social media ban assumes about our society is that the places where adults congregate to share ideas are never safe for children. And it’s wrong

the penalty for being homeless should be safe housing

After Eurovision’s move to let the israelis to compete in 2026, Spain broadcast a split screen to expose the TRUTH of who they are: killers

kinda crazy how it’s acceptable to eat your twin as long as it’s in utero

this is the dead zone for Spotify wrapped. this is your moment. binge all your most embarrassing shit. no one will know.

Trump has orchestrated a golden age for Australia China’s epochal rise was the driver of Australia’s first resource boom, in 2025 President Trump has engineered something almost as astounding.

1: Trump slaps tariffs on Australia, despite U.S. having a trade surplus with the country.
2: Countries get scared away from US assets, buy gold.
3: Australia is one of the top gold exporters.
4: U.S. trade surplus with Australia sinks to lowest level in 20 years because gold sales to U.S. grow 10x

The problem with betting markets is that the rich can manipulate them for personal reasons and it looks like public consensus.

traffickers..

Trump has pardoned:
(1) A former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking
(2) Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold
(3) Binance founder Zhao who failed to stop criminals from using Binance to move money tied to drug trafficking. 1/

the thing that happens a lot is that someone asks for accommodations and people insist they are not actually disabled. this is a huge way in which ableism works. disabled people are constantly told that they are not really disabled.

Book Cover for The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Duran. Red background with white and black text, and a tech circuit background.

Cover Reveal!

“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.

How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.

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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

DEPORT MELANIA

looks like the white house pill mill has a new supplier

[flour marketing meeting] let’s put it all over the outside of the package

"Patriotism is how much you hate Russia and the more you hate Russia, the more patriotic you are" is one of those things that sounds like a joke but is actually a pretty good heuristic, and the just-over-four years in the 1940s when it didn't work featured a very specific worse villain

Not to kick on Larry Summers when he's down, but once, on an academic panel, I ventured that any economic model that could not provide half the young black men in a major city with legal employ wasn't working well. He replied by lecturing us all on the dangers of communism.

First-rate mind there.

I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real

jarsquatter returns

So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?

ground rats too?

A map showing a town called Deer Park next to a town called Kildeer

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation