hemantha @hemantha.me · 11/10/2026Loved it till the play conceit reveal which was jarring. It seemed to lean towards "planet will adapt" angle which is difficult to square with the play's satirical tone? Can see the meta - media in service of vested interests - but that was not as clear as how the play itself depicted the descent 000
hemantha @hemantha.me · 16/09/2026"not aella" has built up an odious belief structure on top of that statement - richer is better, those who oppose rich are ugly and should be "removed as a class" missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-m... 000
Reposted by hemanthaSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Trump was impeached in 2019 for attempting to extort Zelensky. After taking office the second time, he sent Scott Bessent (nephew of Rep. John Jenrette who was imprisoned after the FBI's Abscam sting) to do it again. 191530531
Reposted by hemanthaSam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.comordinaryabundance.comOrdinary AbundanceA walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new. 13593221
Reposted by hemanthaMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them. 933155797
Reposted by hemanthaGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships. 1842131812
Reposted by hemanthaDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit. 3533136905
Reposted by hemanthaHagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him 138126582829
hemantha @hemantha.me · 22/07/2026Not just delay, aspirants had to write the exam *again*. Delays have happened before, even postponements due to leaks. Having to write twice was what made this so politically potent I think. 081
Reposted by hemanthaAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This is the kind of insight that could turn you into a more humble public servant or a nihilist, and I think we know which option Graham chose. 261900352
Reposted by hemanthaNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026An excellent little rant about the myriad structural reasons why health care care produces florid market failures. 29826
Reposted by hemanthaLuke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Probably putting too fine a point on but my official time of death for the rules-based order is this: youtu.be/tXrkVnQE2GU?...youtu.beTrump On Not Paying Taxes: 'That Makes Me Smart'YouTube video by TPM TV [Archive] 1264
Reposted by hemanthaSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 01/07/2026a subtle but devastating cost of having allowed winner-take-all dynamics to take hold in markets is a loss of the basic intuition, “what those people did, we can do too.” 1253
Reposted by hemanthaDavid Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 30/06/2026There’s a mine off the coast of Australia that has predicted a century of major wars, and it’s opening again. I went there to better understand tungsten, a critical mineral at the heart of the geopolitical struggle between the US and China: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comThis Mine Predicts Major Wars. It’s Opening AgainThe fortunes of a remote tungsten pit have risen and fallen through more than a century of conflicts. The critical mineral could now be a deterrent. 59232
hemantha @hemantha.me · 25/06/2026I read the comic and understood nothing. Others have jumped in to say they immediately connected tree law to this comic. Alt text was enough for someone with context. Requiring posters to supply all context is basically asking for blog posts, not tweets. 100
hemantha @hemantha.me · 21/06/2026Shekhar Gupta's outlet making up an enormously viral quote pitting people against billionaires ... I can't even 🤣 000
Reposted by hemanthaRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...moultano.wordpress.comWhere to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show YouAn atlas of the vibrance of the real world 471130381
Reposted by hemanthaJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Was at a seminar where an older participant talked about how he now asked Claude for a summary of anything he had to read, and here's what Claude had said about this text and what he thought of that. Was very sad. We complain about kids and AI, but I think 60somethings might be the worst victims. 1483
hemantha @hemantha.me · 26/05/2026Aus to afg in reverse alphabetical order. Except for first four 110
Reposted by hemanthaKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Just a bunch of blind baby birds squawking "Plot, plot, plot" with upturned beaks. 3395444
Reposted by hemanthaJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 01/05/2026From this side of the train car, this ad is a little concerning. 1314
Reposted by hemanthaChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Even if a $18,000 BYD car is sending data back to Shenzhen I don’t really care because by that point I’ll be in the Chinese Car Hackers Discord channel sharing PCBs that prevent it from doing that along with 3D printing STLs of cup holders in the shape of Luffy from One Piece. 192440286
hemantha @hemantha.me · 27/04/2026From having had access to the firehose before the suspension. I don't think there's a public way 010
Reposted by hemanthaKarthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026He was elected to help the Mittalstand, Scott. 0132
Reposted by hemanthaKarthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Jacobins have long backed the role of a revolutionary Vanguard. 1214323
hemantha @hemantha.me · 09/04/2026Huh? They had licensed Israeli tech which they have indeed used to make combat drones. If not shaheds, they might have have used these instead. united24media.com/latest-news/...armyrecognition.comIsraeli-Designed Russian Drone Targets Ukrainian Positions in Kursk in Coordinated StrikeIsraeli-Designed Russian Drone Targets Ukrainian Positions in Kursk in Coordinated Strike 100
hemantha @hemantha.me · 09/04/2026Israel *licensed* recon drones were then modified to be combat drones as well. Does that support the argument that if Iran didn't sell, war would've ended? 000
hemantha @hemantha.me · 09/04/2026If Iran didn't sell, Russia would've found other sources because of same capitalism. Could've been Israel even who were still selling drones to Russia after the donbas invasion. Agree on the proportion. Only actual participants should be called belligerants 200
Reposted by hemanthaYakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 30/03/2026The problem with "geopolitical risk" is that it is not risk but uncertainty so it isn't really quantifiable, thus there's no "efficient allocation" that can happen because that doesn't happen in conditions of uncertainty. 3403
Reposted by hemanthaNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026The two key neologisms of the French revolution were terrorism (1794) and nationalism (1798). For reference: Liberalism (1812) Socialism (1827) Conservatism (1830) Anarchism (1840) Communism (1840) Capitalism (1850) Feminism (1894) Fascism (1919) Environmentalism (1922) Totalitarianism (1923) 1149
Reposted by hemanthawint @dril.bsky.social · 25/03/2026i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health 73148692463
Reposted by hemanthadaryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026this one hurts the most 3251131733
Reposted by hemanthaExistential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 14/03/2026Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz? 9894022344
hemantha @hemantha.me · 15/03/2026Counsel says her cousin, the client (woman, not the man) read the fake case law out loud at family dinner; so this may not fly 031
hemantha @hemantha.me · 10/03/2026Straight out of Second Civil War (1997) "Every President has his foibles, this one just needs a role model ... that Trade War thing .. We got him all fired up over Harry Truman ... I thought he was going to nuke the Japs all over again" "What would Roosevelt have done if he'd had this crisis?" 020
Reposted by hemanthaNicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Being Rupert Murdoch is a full time job that only Rupert Murdoch is really good at. Larry Ellison is about to discover that media assets aren't an unalloyed source of power, and that owning them presents a giant, hyper-complex attack surface for your other businesses.wsj.comU.S. Investors, Trump Close In on TikTok Deal With ChinaOracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of a consortium that would control an 80% stake. 1153
Reposted by hemanthamore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 12/09/2025dan bongino and kash patel lying unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints 1482711338
Reposted by hemanthaMicah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2025rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words 27126653191
hemantha @hemantha.me · 18/07/2025ai learning from all the worst characters because they get most screen time 000
Reposted by hemanthaRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I've been trying to confirm my intuition that the rank "General" is actually "Captain General" and this led me to fact that Admiral is actually Sea Emir. 619629
Reposted by hemanthaBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Despite being RFK Sr's number one hater, this University of Kansas speech rolls around in my head once a month. 2264
Reposted by hemanthanilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Mark Zuckerberg now positioned to be the weirdest rebound relationship in world history 1289996
Reposted by hemanthajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2025RFK believes that he is one of the genetic elect and that it is a violation of the natural order to either impose on the genetic elect with public health OR prevent nature from taking its course with those who are predestined to biological damnation. 893160203769
