Reposted by ainlifGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 42msetting aside that musk is nowhere near this popular, the US is years deep in a pretty massive accountant shortage, a fairly basic fact about the labor market the vice president should know, but doesn’t 53779145
Reposted by ainlifJesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 1hNow that I've moved back home to the Bay Area, I can get back to my primary life project, which is becoming a local legend. Please invite me to address your civic luncheons and/or to receive your official commendations. 2301
Reposted by ainlifJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1hThe divide that now seems apparent is between optimizing and experiencing. Someone needs to write “Cat’s in the Cradle,” Silicon Valley edition. 6749
Reposted by ainlifSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1hBest campaign ever.texastribune.orgPaxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audioIn a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M... 1820972
Reposted by ainlifWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17hThe money pit restaurant I would open as a billionaire would be the opposite of farm to table. What are the most unnatural flavors possible? Hiring top food scientists, giving a blank check and telling them to really explore the dark corners of the flavor latent space. I want to taste eternity. 7795676
Reposted by ainlifjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h“we call this flavor ‘the shoggoth.’ it opens the mind to non-euclidian geometry. it drove three of our top technicians to madness.” 49109173
Reposted by ainlifjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 47mcome 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states 891844289
Reposted by ainlifGabe J @airbagabe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The boomers now resorting to passing laws forcing us to hang out with them 0384
Reposted by ainlifJames McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 3hIngrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said the author was in Iceland “listening to the wind” when the academy reached her to notify her of the win. apnews.com/article/nobe...apnews.comCanadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literatureAnne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create ne... 7488139
Reposted by ainlifshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3hi resent how there's a stable of a couple dozen dudes whose whole thing is 'has a racist blog' & they regularly get mainstream newspaper and magazine profiles. i have trouble keeping track of them all, i'm like 'what did he do again' & check his wikipedia & it's ah, has a racist blog, that's all 182285280
Reposted by ainlifKrinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026images that spring to mind unbidden, part 998: "oh mein gott it's Kraftwerk" 1435
Reposted by ainlifBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12hI don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom 292356301
Reposted by ainliflauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3hcarl sagan's demon haunted world mandatory reading at ages 15, 35, 55, and 75. no driver's license if you don't pass the test 721614
Reposted by ainlifEuan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 4hI do think the most important lens with which to understand the Anglosphere far right is that it is a coward's politics rooted in insecurity in their own identity, because they think it can be 'spoiled' by multinationals or cultural change 1234
Reposted by ainlifHELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 4h“There’s a huge hidden cost, but almost no one cares,” is a concise description of the entire 21st century so far. In the field of software engineering, but in pretty much everything else too. 093
Reposted by ainlifRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 4hNight owls of the world: unite! People are finally taking our chronotypes seriously! Well, sort of. This week's New Statesman column: on the research showing the health pitfalls of a later sleep pattern, and why it matters for everyone - early birds included www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...newstatesman.comNight owls aren’t lazy – we’re being punished for our biologySociety rewards early risers. But what if our body clocks have other ideas? 54611
Reposted by ainlifSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6hThere is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others 1026176
Reposted by ainlifJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 14hOver time we evolved to a system where students simultaneously compete for admission while institutions compete over enrollment. What has this competition done to benefit either party? 1286
Reposted by ainlifBrendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 16hAside from everything, $100 million is pretty damn small potatoes, especially in the context of ongoing research funding cuts. Like it would be $2 million to 50 research universities. Everything with these guys is a grift. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comWhite House Makes $100 Million Push to Train American ScientistsThe Trump administration is injecting more than $100 million into education programs for American researchers in STEM fields, as federal policies stanch the flow of foreign scientists to the US and po... 65112
Reposted by ainlifEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 20h“We can’t eat road salt” is a zinger, but you didn’t see the stadium hot pretzels I grew up eating in the 80s, don’t be so sure. 624114
Reposted by ainlifThe Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 13hanyway! it's fine that everything now is scams, magic beans, gambling, and financing at usurious interest rates 120932
Reposted by ainlifButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 14hHarvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 7649031946
Reposted by ainlifThe Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 13hI will simply say I am seeing exactly this situation play out right now in a different field. Work that would have taken about 3 weeks start to finish via traditional methods is now into week 6 and still in what amounts to first draft territory 2847252
Reposted by ainlifPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 18hGetting older is awesome. You get a medical education about all sorts of conditions you never heard of before. 8793
Reposted by ainlifliz @bookjanitor.bsky.social · 22hthis story feels like a heavy-handed moral parable about america and i think we’re *still* not getting it 0124
Reposted by ainlifPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible. 211373348
Reposted by ainlifryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/10/2026a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests 351571261
Reposted by ainlifTim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It’s funny how every retiring member of Congress thinks they have some great legacy to protect and yet the moment they leave office I stop thinking about them until they run for something else or they die and everyone lists all the terrible things they did 423427
Reposted by ainlifThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The actual endgame of “AIs making reservations” is a $50 reservation deposit 6745
Reposted by ainlifMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Imagine if the national media covered American politics through the lens of which party actually competently staffed & governed the country when it was in power, instead of covering it as horse races, theater, & grading on a curve for the One Special Boy & the far right authoritarian party. 731480
Reposted by ainlifAlexis @alexispace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026AOC's energy right now seems very "ugh I don't really want the next decade of my life to be consumed by being the president but :/ strange women in ponds are throwing swords at me and idk if you can just ignore that" 311318
Reposted by ainlifceej @ceej.online · 13/11/2023the band Train doesn't make music that reminds me of trains. they should change their name to pt cruiser 1155270
Reposted by ainlifThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 185108991815
Reposted by ainlifAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt 1378213564973
Reposted by ainlifjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible 107105101780
Reposted by ainlifMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 571213494151
Reposted by ainlifBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/10/2026Every thing the President does is going to be interpreted in an official capacity, which is why the President must speak clearly and thoughtfully at all times. If the President does not do that, it is not on us to bail him out, he is failing at doing his job. 423730
Reposted by ainlifScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026In the ranks of American converts to Catholicism, JD Vance holds a special place. And that's largely because the Vatican has the most severe doubts about his sincerity, and therefore carefully monitors his claims about Catholic doctrine, which are riddled with falsehoods.open.substack.comNew Book: Pope Leo XIV Helped Francis Draft His Rebuke of JD VanceNPR’s Scott Detrow and Daniel Burke also report that Prevost privately disliked Trump’s politics. Go yearly by Thursday and their book, American Pope, is free. 15625
Reposted by ainlifGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026i don’t really give a shit about straining to interpret trump’s meandering, word salad horseshit, he’s the president of the united states, if he’s being misinterpreted, that’s his problem 371662202
Reposted by ainlifmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026this is all a joke to them because far-right conservatives think that rape is good, and that high status men should be entitled to rape any women around them who are not also already attached to other high-status men. this is their actual ideology 291271259
Reposted by ainlifHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This policy is so bad and shortsighted while also being incredibly popular that I'm surprised every red state hasn't suspended their gas tax already 4723
Reposted by ainlifNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People won't voluntarily give up their Kid-Crusher 5000s unless we make driving them considerably more costly and inconvenient, which is precisely what we should do. 5722113
Reposted by ainlifT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Can't wait until he's dead 1637324
Reposted by ainlifThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Campism but it’s Camp of the Saints 1141
Reposted by ainlifTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Susan Collins cannot be trusted with voting on our next Supreme Court Justice. She voted for the three justices that overturned Roe v. Wade. And she's going to do the same damn thing if Alito retires unless we win this election. 10827256
Reposted by ainlifelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 06/10/2026Hannah Arendt argued that the two things couldn't really be separated, that true evil could never build or create but only destroy (another way to say "is stupid") 316824
Reposted by ainlifAsad Margins @catsashimi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Simone Weil hit on something similar: "Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating." 310826
Reposted by ainlifAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 05/10/2026NEW via @andrewperez.bsky.social and me for @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/de-trumpif...zeteo.com‘De-Trumpification’: America’s Ruler Is ‘Consumed’ by Fear His Self-Tributes Will Be ErasedAs Dems flirt with tearing it all down, Donald Trump is forcing administration officials to brainstorm novel legal arguments for institutionalizing his personality cult forever. 9550192
Reposted by ainlifSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Looking for legal arguments to protect what he did illegally. 47817
