timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 08/10/2025These will largely follow economic means as well. “Solve the problems of the rich!” is a common refrain for BuilderBros - meaning “help the rich jump the line…” which just hastens socio-economic divides. 010
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 26/09/2025One of my professors was one the creators of these. Based on the fact that people were many times more likely to pay a credit card bill rather than a medical bill. One being more frowned upon to ignore than the other. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025This is an aside - but in so many ways, only a healthy (disease free b/c of vaccines) society allows for this kind of reckless behavior. It is like a stored wealth that anti-vaxxers get to exploit only because it exists. In short - it’s a type of the socialism they rail against. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Talk about an evergreen post headline 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025“problem framing is a social task” is so well said. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Dear god, please don’t win it with the goal of “restoring decorum”. We’ll have plenty of time for that AFTER we utterly neutralize (let alone dismantle) the RW machine. We must be as - if not more - ruthless and cunning than they have been. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 30/08/2025There is a distinct feeling in the pit of my stomach when I join a group solving a problem and realize no one is curious. Everyone is too self concerned to explore, and be wrong 867 times so we can be right - like really, really right - on try 868. Personally, there is nothing I enjoy more. 020
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 30/08/2025My bet would be “Where’s Trump?” 010
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Hardly even tangential - I mean I almost pity her for the lack of awareness that presumes relevance in today’s world - but I’ve taken the phrase “uncredentialed organic intellectualism” from your post and am savoring it like some divinely epicurean morsel. Anyway, back to the void that is RW thought 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 02/08/2025You’d hate it. You know you would. Not the bank part, but the contrived value BS would kill you. I’m guessing. Don’t know yet, just uploaded all your posts to ChatGPT. I’ll let you know what it says. 010
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Sounds more and more like executives are the most fitting for replacement by AI. 060
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Trying to solve problems with uncurious people is hell. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I think the core of the idea is that they are lenses through which to evaluate current issues. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 29/06/2025The best illustration I heard of this was that period film pieces are never about the period they take place in. 130
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 29/06/2025“Specialized coding model” is giving Steve Buscemi “fellow kids” vibe 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Sgt. William Schumann - “Good ole Shoe” 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 24/06/2025🤢 instant response to that phrase 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Remember when 90% of the web was Flash 130
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 21/06/2025He did not thank me for my attention to this matter, so I am forgetting I ever read that. 010
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Which is probably why so few things are really figured out. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 31/05/2025There is a third circle, and it is people who protest, without a hint of irony, having to scan their membership card to enter Costco. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025I think the logical, deliberate folks project far too much onto the likes of executives and mgmt. Meaning, we transfer our own motivations (doing things well, and with consideration) to those “above”. When in fact they could not be less aware, let alone concerned, about logic or intentionality. 010
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Stage 1: marching in the streets until this government knows the constitution 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 20/05/2025What part of the coast are you on? 110
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 18/05/2025I’m currently going through the podcast series (audio book preview) of Lights On by Annaka Harris. One chapter explored this fundamental difference - whether consciousness is emergent (result of intelligence) or fundamental (exists and is only processed by creatures). Really fascinating! 020
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Quiche content is niche content. Gotta love the internet. 010
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Only if “very high and rising” is relative to the cost of living. Both can be true - median income could be higher than ever in history, and still be outpaced by the cost of living. So I’m assuming “real median” references inflation adjusted and tied to a basket of costs? 030
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I don’t follow what the alternative to birthright citizenship would be? How many generations does one go back? The Mayflower? Oh, wait… 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Adding “library” to “asylum” and “tariff” and countless others: “You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means.” - IM (actually, can we get a super cut of Mandy Patinkin saying this in response to the dunces of this admin?) 020
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 10/05/2025This was incredibly helpful, and I think a perfect example of what AI (or “AI” if you want) is good for. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Love how it makes more news in the UK than here. We’re exporting lunacy. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 08/05/2025So it will all be a very expensive trip around the block. 010
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Seeking for evidence of the veracity of the primary assumption (such as holding up the eloquent thinking of others who have held the same primary assumption) at some level indicates that the primary assumption may be in question. Which is great, though often leads where one may not want. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Whatever else they thought or did, the preamble was “Christianity is true… therefore…” If one never steps outside of dogma, if one doesn’t question the primary assumption, all and any thought and thinking will be curated and crafted to adhere to that belief. The belief was primary, the origin. 100
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025All of them were dogmatic - in the purest sense. They accepted as an immutable truth the claims of Christ, and more broadly Christianity, as primary. All subsequent thinking was made subject to the premise that Christianity was true as a foregone conclusion. They held a “belief” and all had to fit. 100
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Tracks with the reactionary vs preventative society we are. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Did we lose manufacturing or unions? The push for reshoring manufacturing seems at odds with the historical position the Right has had with unions. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Is the order of operations prescriptive or descriptive? I mean does it reflect something inherent in mathematics or is it an agreed upon method? 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 19/04/2025To encourage the use of segmented trash receptacles, restaurants should color code their disposables to match the right bin. Blue dot on the straw goes in the blue bin… 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 19/04/2025My question is were all of these jackboots just waiting for the administration to change so they were free to express their worst selves? Were we actually penning them in prior, but it was just beneath the surface? Probably a naive statement on my part. 100
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I swear their only thought is “lie HARDER”. 000
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 18/04/2025This is the Kennedy we were left with? Really? 010
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Reminds me of “a coalition of the willing” 030
timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025@marketwatch.com can we get numbers on how much wealth was transferred during the last week? 000
