jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 25/07/2026And now I’m well into book 5 and thinking about the ways in which it’s smuggling Galtungian insights into the pop reader’s consciousness 100
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I very much hate-read the first quarter of the first DCC book, until the politics (qua Aristotle) of the text started to become apparent. 120
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 16/07/2026So better to say that we need to tax in order to control inflation, which is true and (as you note) motivating, rather than we tax to afford things, which is neither true nor motivating. 001
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 16/07/2026That response demonstrates a fundamental misconception about inflation that is as common and destructive as the misunderstanding people have about taxation and federal spending 010
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Any leftism which perpetuates the myth that the federal government has to collect tax dollars in order to have dollars to spend is doomed to fail. As long as people hold to that misunderstanding, we won’t be able to have anything nice. 210
Reposted by jamberaPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 08/07/2026"If you start by ignoring everything that we already know, the best you can ever hope for is to accidentally rediscover the already-known." The mantra of our times.link.mail.beehiiv.comOver LeveragedThe inside story of Peter Thiel's MKUltra by someone who thinks it was kind of good, actually. 610313
Reposted by jamberaThe Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 06/07/2026An autistic woman’s day working from home was reportedly ruined by your request that she join a video call at short notice, you absolute psychopath.thedailytism.comAutistic woman asked to “jump on a quick call” suggests you jump off a quick cliffAn autistic woman’s day working from home was reportedly ruined by your request that she join a video call at short notice, you absolute psychopath. Talia Cohen, 40, was in full goblin mode when you… 240289
Reposted by jamberaDagoth Urlon Musk @maruhkati.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Well, anyone who knows their World Cup history will know all about the controversial missed handball call against Zaire in 1990. Google "Belgium Congo hands" to learn more. 39930
Reposted by jamberaDaniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The untenable bumps against the structure of the real 0287
Reposted by jamberaCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Congratulations to all my US friends on making it to the end of your epic 250 year experiment with democracy! May the subsequent imperial phase be mercifully brief and the aftermath painless. 1025945
Reposted by jamberaJason Horn @messyepicure.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Instead of hearing about this and thinking “how dare he take 3 months off!” consider thinking that 3 months’ paid leave for inpatient depression treatment could be available for everybody if people like Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) chose to pass a law that said so 33920258
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 29/06/2026It’s a term that pre-dates you, when game companies would release a demo or even full game into the wild and tell users they could make their own floppy-disk copies and share them with their friends. 0200
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 17/06/2026We must imagine him happy. Like, really, we have to so we can sleep at night. 020
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I did a large project on Williams’ score and you are accurately describing something that actually happened. George invited a bunch of his film school friends to see just such an assembly cut and they told him it was embarrassingly bad. 2 weeks later he had the score and this edit and they loved it 080
Reposted by jamberaUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. 228364
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 20/05/2026“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?” 020
Reposted by jamberaUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/05/2026It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be. 05015
Reposted by jamberaUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them. 16118
Reposted by jamberaemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026It really might be useful if Dems every once in a while note that to the extent there has been a "war" with Iran for decades, it started in 1953, not 1979. 1745387
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Literally though. Harvested and implanted to keep him from aging. 010
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The ballroom and arch monument are about legacy, not staying in office. The banners, money, and this passport foolishness are about his pathetic courtiers competing for favor. 000
Reposted by jambera#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/04/2026*Okay, if you're a wannabe AI-skeptic, and you want pro-AI people to flinch and duck and tremble when you show up, this is some state-of-the-art AI-skepticism here youtu.be/4CIlTOnc6I8?...youtu.beMicrosoft accidentally told the truth about AIYouTube video by Mo Bitar 15714
Reposted by jamberaDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22/04/2026In the simple model of the prisoner's dilemma, when facing a serial defector, you have to defect for a few rounds in hopes of moving them back to mutual cooperation. 531347
Reposted by jambera#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 19/04/2026*This really reads like something that a Pope in a science fiction novel would say 910224
Reposted by jamberaOut of Context Mickey Mouse Comics @oocmickeycomics.bsky.social · 16/10/2025 416545
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Get total cultural buy-in by making “Billionaire Pit” a reality competition show 010
Reposted by jamberaDan Hon @danhon.com · 31/03/2026asking for a friend, how do you finish something when you have the exciting combination of perfectionism and imposter syndrome 4735830
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Oh man, lots of college studying time got spent on that game instead 020
Reposted by jamberaJennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Hot take. 2026 does not represent America’s 250th birthday because the USA began in 1789 when the Constitution was ratified. This is America’s 237th year. The Declaration of Independence did not establish a country. It didn’t even end the war for independence. 75113
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 20/03/2026The primary structural issue is that UNT gets less per-pupil funding than any of the other major Texas universities. The growth in international students had helped offset this somewhat. The voters of Denton county are not the same as the voters of the city. 1263
Reposted by jamberaJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Men go talk to your friends and tell them to stop sexually assaulting women. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...nytimes.com‘I Can No Longer Stay Silent,’ Huerta Says in a Statement 1225251
Reposted by jamberaUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way. 0378
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 01/03/2026It’s because the Republicans want her to win the primary. I don’t think that’s a smart strategy, but it’s the one they’re pursuing. 020
Reposted by jamberajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2026i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions 1013691656
Reposted by jamberaRichard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 14/02/2026This rules. I love how delighted they all look! 143963582
Reposted by jamberaHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 11/02/2026NB: "This is not to say that language models are “really” thinking. It is to admit that maybe we don’t have quite as firm a hold on the word “thinking” as we might have thought." I'm highly skeptical about many of the claims made for LLMs, but that seems exactly right. 2121
jambera @jambera.bsky.social · 11/02/2026What about if I get the reverse? Idea is bad but experience is ok? 220
Reposted by jamberaMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I’m old enough to remember the crypto industry pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the 2024 campaign to defeat Biden, and I think a lesson — which will not be learned — is that burning down the stable world that gave you riches beyond your wildest dreams is not good for business.nytimes.comCrypto Takes a Deep Slide Despite Trump’s Support 512030
