Reposted by krismcdCaroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.” 23745621213
Reposted by krismcdDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"this edible ain't shit" two hours later: 185182594359
Reposted by krismcdRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock. 862202207010
Reposted by krismcdKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca 29595641527
Reposted by krismcdEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/07/2026Wrote an 8000 word piece artfully framing ai data centers as the subprime mortgages of AI, only for Jim Cramer to outdo me by saying that he “likes data centers so much he wished he lived in one” 801790224
Reposted by krismcdMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026“Verify your age” motherfucker it’s on Wikipedia 64104931157
Reposted by krismcdErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I think we need to talk about "vibe managing". 213114
Reposted by krismcdMark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 14/06/2026“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment 170165203833
Reposted by krismcdDr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1 25951581926
Reposted by krismcdArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/05/2026arstechnica.comThe Office of Management and Budget tries again to cripple US sciencePeer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics. 78435
Reposted by krismcdEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/05/2026An $18bn data center project in sulphuric springs Texas that broke ground in June 2025 is being sued by the construction firm that has been left unpaid. Project is halted due to the developers not getting funding. Our first horseman has arrived msbglobalservices.com/matrix-data-... 241202338
Reposted by krismcdPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026We thought we were living in a cyberpunk dystopia but this is actually straight from Warhammer 40K. The machine spirit must be appeased using the proper rituals. Blessings affixed with purity seals will keep the cogitator functioning. 261126335
Reposted by krismcdJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal. 384225216684
Reposted by krismcdJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/04/2026“We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.” 617271726706
Reposted by krismcdChris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 10/04/2026Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it. ~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years. Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability. Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it. This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification 25199903310
Reposted by krismcdErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"artificial intelligence" was always an aspirational metaphor and a marketing term, so it's fine if "AI" dies with the grift and we use different and more precise terminology for the various machine learning, deep learning, LLM-based, predictive algorithm, etc etc. techniques and products. 1017136
Reposted by krismcdPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process. The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail. So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW. 12599154
Reposted by krismcdEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/02/2026This is genuinely really bad, the kind of shit that guarantees a bad outcome. Very dodgy 34818145
Reposted by krismcdlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/02/2026windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal 20170951379
Reposted by krismcdPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?" 191354369
Reposted by krismcdSansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 11/02/2026Working artists/designers didn't "prepare for" the airbrush or digital typesetting or Quark or whatever. You evaluate whether it's a thing and learn it, or not. "Do it ASAP so my boss can make a buck even though it doesn't work yet" has always been fraught 11089
Reposted by krismcdAllen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 09/02/2026No metric improves product decisions. You do that by talking to your customers. What does improve product decisions is empathy, feedback, and understanding the market. 921207125
Reposted by krismcdMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/02/2026“Helping people forge new connections.” A fuck app. “A new way to invest.” An S&P 500 fund. “Decentralized currency.” Money you can use to buy drugs.buff.lyTech Jargon Translations“We’re revolutionizing communication.” We’re putting cameras and microphones in your home. “Helping people forge connections.” This app alienates ... 213735
Reposted by krismcdAllen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Demanding an estimate guarantees the estimate will not be useful to the business and will always drive costs up. Software engineers all know that estimates are useless. 1/6 9964685
Reposted by krismcdPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Kinda shocked that the most successful campaign of 2025 crushed both the GOP and the Dem establishment with a simple "here are the problems and here are the things I'm going to do about it" message, and what the establishment took away from it was to lean into social media sniping and Newsom Thought 3548
Reposted by krismcdCenter for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 04/02/2026Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠levernews.comA Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy FutureIn a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts. 47167823569
Reposted by krismcdPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026My hunch that most PM roles are just kludges to make a broken system sort-of work keeps getting hunchier every day 3332
Reposted by krismcdPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026"we just had record-breaking snowfall, how can global warming be real" 311027
Reposted by krismcdErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I'm going to share a very good story about the internet. I won't tell it well because I apparently have the flu, but I think we all need a good story about the internet. It starts in 2021, when I took a sabbatical and got a little workspace to write a design book. 412640
Reposted by krismcdRyan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 03/02/2026“Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).” 251039239
Reposted by krismcdEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/01/202655% of readers of The Information surveyed believe AI is a bubble and of them half believe it will burst this year. Something is shifting www.theinformation.com/articles/opt... 1957987
Reposted by krismcdMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.nonviolent-conflict.orgCANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNCYou may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r... 358153196167
Reposted by krismcdMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration. 14874765420438
Reposted by krismcdMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/01/2026"The Foreskin Tactical Hoodie has not yet been approved for military use, and any servicemember who wears one on duty could be considered out of uniform. That said, we have heard that Secretary of War Hegseth owns two in each color."buff.lySorry Ladies, the Foreskin Tactical Hoodie Is Only for MenThe Foreskin Tactical Hoodie is the antithesis of all things feminine and female. It comes in black, brown, and olive green. It does not come in fu... 08413
Reposted by krismcdPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I respect the UK dot gov designers so much because they understand this: there's no competitor or open source alternative to the government. There's just the one place to get these services (which are not only necessary but mandatory), and so the standard of the experience must be impeccable. 314226
Reposted by krismcdSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 17/01/2026If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head 36136382556
Reposted by krismcdlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/01/2026Anthropic: Best for coding applications Gemini: Best for summarizing meetings and taking notes Grok: Best for harassing women and sexualizing children ChatGPT: Best for assisted suicide 171986339
Reposted by krismcdNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status. 577334878597
Reposted by krismcdAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. 9046183222192
Reposted by krismcdPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/01/2026"If we expelled him, why— we'd have to expel all the *other* far right pedophiles too." 3759
Reposted by krismcdKyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 11/01/2026It's remarkable how quickly "tech" managed to corrode, too, from just 10-15 years ago. Smartphones and networking plateaued and the big new promises (self-driving cars, maybe-space-travel-works-this-time) petered out and after that it's just been crypto scams and rent-seeking. 0497
Reposted by krismcdPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/01/2026This is exactly what I mean when I say that UX has no value when the business model is not "make a thing people want and sell it for more than it costs to make." The top 10 most profitable tech business models these days are different kinds of scam. You don't need design for that. 515329
