the optimized life is not worth living. https://allpro.social/@thomas/116021092370100103
when Bezos bought The Post, he wanted to be respected among the professional managerial class. his goals have changed. he no longer wants the respect of educational professionals. he want subservience. so he is destroying The Post to show his middle finger.
if you become a client, my advisory will help ensure you place bets only on the highest quality numbers of the roulette wheel.
thinking of housing shortage in terms of raw numbers of homes is just stupid, because homes aren’t fungible. scatter 40 million new homes across the tundra of Alaska and you’ll do nothing to address housing miseries. build a neighborhood 50,000 people are excited to live in and you’ll do a lot more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/04/us-housing-shortage-millions/
the humans are always squabbling, and it might be kind of cute, but then they go ahead and start murdering one another.
you go looking for the third biggest city in Norway, you are on a Stavanger Hunt.
"The irony here is that their impunity to consequence has its own consequence: the dismantling of the system that protects and empowers them." #CharlesHughSmith https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2026/02/power-and-impunity.html
Kind of a social democratic answer to "network states", @alphistia https://stinkhorn.us-west.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:u6htnzwc6uyc3nd2wavjncqf&cid=bafkreielyscggsmouu5r3oob7hldm4yqrrvidgd6sjoxq4gogm5qflsf2u
i now view nearly all digital ads and sponsored content as some mix of cheating and manipulation and treat it as an ethical gaffe to click or even offer my attention to them.
does AI mean young people should typically have more years or fewer years of education?
don’t mistake disillusionment with the status quo center for embrace of the particularities of ugly radicalisms. people are choosing from whom to disaffiliate more decisively than they are choosing with whom to affiliate.
it is good to wish. it is good to wash. but it is bad to be wishy washy.
"Recalling the decades-old Lorax Rebellion to save trees at New College as more large oaks are razed" by #KerrySheridan https://www.wusf.org/environment/2026-01-29/decades-old-lorax-rebellion-save-new-college-trees-more-large-oaks-razed
it’s remarkable how many strangers want to give me a grand piano.
they hate us for our freedoms.
a photo of spikes and netting intended to discourage pigeons.
does anyone else think it’s irresponsible how they dox all the actors in the credits?
we've developed a tool that supersedes and renders obsolete the guillotine.
it's called taxation. we've never quite had the courage to deploy it as indicated.
very few administrations have resolved as many serious crises they created in such a short period of time.
perhaps it's too early to say, but i am heartened by the prospect of peace between the United States and NATO.
i like to sign up for expensive classes so i can have the pleasure of skipping school again.