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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Good luck… marathon weekend? Makes things kinda busy from what I recall when I ran it and when I lived there

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026

Everyone's seen how the most powerful tycoons in Silicon Valley have manipulated politics (and society) to their will. But we're stuck thinking of them as "VCs". They're not. They evolved years ago into something far worse, which we could consider Cancer Capitalists: www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/c...

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VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reminds me of the dial up internet days, but worse

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’m so sorry to hear about this. I’ve always appreciated reading his perspectives and they will be sorely missed

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/06/2026

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

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Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 22/02/2026

I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

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On Joy and Resistance | dansinker.com

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

There actually has not been enough reflection in the tech community about DOGE

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The joy you bring to your shows is incredible! Thank you!

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I was just thinking watch parties of these movies need to happen

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Yeah this whole thing was baffling and infuriating

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

“If you think the assault on higher education is about anti-semitism, or that the purge of the federal government is about DEI, or that taking over Democratic cities is about crime, you are helping perpetuate Trump’s rationales for undermining democracy.”

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“Democracy is the ultimate decentralized technology. It distributes power away from kings and aristocrats to the people—imperfectly, through struggle, but fundamentally. The early internet promised to do the same for information, communication, and commerce.” — great read

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Thanks for the summary. FYI it looks like the Wedgwood image is showing Madrona instead

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

To quote one of my favorite KEXP djs, “You are not alone.” Unrelated I was hoping there was a Ready Room episode recapping the SNW holodeck episode with you sharing your passion for all things Trek that was referenced.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 17/07/2025

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

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Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I know I’ve said a thousand times, but platform economics made customer satisfaction irrelevant to business performance. That made everyday life coarser and meaner. Degraded a lot of our civic life.

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Sorry you went through that. Just did some searching and the County has info on all this and how to report kingcounty.gov/en/dept/sher...

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Scam alert - King County, Washington

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I don’t listen to many podcasts but this one is incredible. I’m a fan of both of their work so it was great to hear them together.

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Nazi, yes. I also think it is fair to say un-American.

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I prefer the Prime timeline but you got me watching it again too (thank you it is good)

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 25/06/2025

Embrace immigrants. Celebrate diversity. Fight for equality and commit yourself to serving the needs of those with needs. Be real. Be empathic. Be human. That’s a recipe for Democratic success. Not whatever it is that the party has been doing recently.

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Diego Luna is hosting Kimmel for a bit and is talking about the importance of immigrants. It’s good to have friends everywhere youtu.be/7726WoO7mTM

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Guest Host Diego Luna on Trump’s Immigration Policies & the Importance of Immigrants in the U.S.

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Nothing says freedom like a war on summer

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

“The real crime was compassion. The real crime was noticing and caring and wanting to make it right.” — these sentences hit so hard and explain so much about where we are today.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Gini coefficient … darn auto correct

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Yes, and it’d be interesting to see what a Gino coefficient model could look like at a state or local level

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

“What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety?”

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

On a similar note @kexp.bsky.social is doing a whole week of programming connecting one song to the next (like six degrees of Kevin Bacon). Also check out Larry Mizell Jr’s OG Thursdays where he digs deep into one artist and all their connections

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Haven’t seen the latest but this season has been incredible

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/04/2025

Nobody should have been sent there, period. Not the ones with no record, not the ones with a record. Nobody.

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

As we get ready to head out to the handsoff rally, I keep thinking of these lines from The Last American Road Trip. “There are no red states or blue states. There are only purple states, purple like a bruise, and people trying to survive in a broken-promise land.” us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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The Last American Road Trip

Written and read by New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country, Sarah Kenzidor, The Last Americ...

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Any day that makes Elon Musk and the ghost of Strom Thurmond sad is a good day for the rest of us.

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Thank you @corybooker.com for showing what senate opposition could look like and providing inspiration to those listening

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tammymorales.bsky.social @tammymorales.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"We must stop viewing political life through the lens of American politics as we have known it and adopt the viewpoint of dissident movements in autocratic states. The Democratic party has more to learn from Alexei Navalny or the protesters in Serbia than it does from Chuck Schumer..."

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

My parents, and many of their siblings, left China when things went bad with Mao. I would not be here were it not for those choices. I think of this daily

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

People are literally being disappeared and our council leadership wants to play with procedural issues? That’s not leadership, that’s complicity

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/03/2025

I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus." www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...

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Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds

For years, we’ve been hearing breathless warnings about a “campus free speech crisis” from self-proclaimed free speech warriors. Their evidence? College students doing what colleg…

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Brian Hsi @brianhsi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Ditto. Calling all Gen X and Oregon Trail generation folks

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