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PROFESSIONAL THREAD: I have recently been realizing that in our current late-stage grindset capitalism, no one has a "career" so much as a self-promotional narrative that they have to sell every time they're stuck in an elevator with someone, so let me sketch out the pitch for my consultancy. 🧵

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Hide your Republican beliefs girl you're comms director for the MO Senate Republican caucus

Most of our presidents were rapists or abusers of some sort. We should probably sit with that in a more meaningful way than we do.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

bluntly this is also what destroyed LBJ and led to the nixon landslide, yes vietnam also mattered and was probably #1, but the white working class was infuriated that black folks would also benefit from the great society programs

"libertarian candidate for state senate in north carolina is currently in a shootout with the cops and live-tweeting his planned suicide", while not exactly surprising, is still a weird thing to read

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

I should disclose something. During a recent Lunch order the subagent hacked into the UN. I’m not sure why, or what it wants. It told me to post this and await further instructions.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

we use sonnet for commit messages no, not the model. 14 lines, with rhyme scheme and meter. no more empty claude speak. evocative imagery. erudite aura.

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

I opened the Anthropic prospectus and it’s just the number 4

You deserve AI-generated content that rises to our high standards.

Just installed my 26-year-old copy of Word on a new desktop. I will never pay subscription fees for software I already paid for. I will go live in a shack in the woods first.

It's remarkable to me that, even as France, Germany and Spain flirt with the temptation of far-right rule, voters with long-term experience of it in Poland, Hungary and now Serbia have gone to such great efforts to rid themselves of it.

did you have enough weird shit in your life already? no? well,

"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

you can ask this lil guy whatever it don't care 👍

I’m a father of two and you could not torture this story out of me.

What’s funny about all this is Obama’s decor joke was spot on and the people who think he was denigrating the Cheesecake Factory qua Cheesecake Factory are actually betraying that they are elitist city slickers who have never been to one. (Like me!)

I sure did! It's an incredibly fast and light link aggregator, all data on protocol. It's got Bluesky post backlinks, upvotes, comments, all that good stuff. Let me know what features you'd like to see!

bc when you interrogate any individuals anger the environment is basically always a "yes and" on top of "i don't like how this affects the world" which is the part we have the realest leverage over as individuals anyway but i probably give up soon, modulo getting nerd sniped

the funniest thing i've noticed playing with this is that hour for hour (at ~1Mtok/hr) deepseek 4.1 is cheaper for the user and the planet than netflix

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robots getting cute

I grew up in a lower income immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster for "special days." But we also understood the White House should not look like the inside of Red Lobster. It's condescending to assuming working ppl are culturally illiterate bc their experience is shaped by their limited means.

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.

It’s such an insanely stupid ad and another examples of MAGA mind in the MAGA bubble unable to see how normal human beings think

hey claude make a script that moves all the files from this folder to another folde okay done, and all 679 tests pass

trying to think of a use of preemptive pardons that don't indicate deep failure of a political system. coming up short

Firefox user for >20 years, TIL about about:keyboard wonder how long that's been there

WIP Demo of @blackskyweb.xyz Cash. - @interledger.org open payments integration - e-cash stored directly on PDS via permissioned spaces, encrypted, with device enrollment - peer-to-peer (DID2DID) payments made by handle and sent to recipient’s inbox All done on protocol. Spec to be published soon

it continues to be funny to me when i hear people go "but obviously these dsa types just want to destroy the market and implement stalinism" while, meanwhile, they are actually *more* pro-market than the mainline democrat incumbents they're challenging

striking how WaPo can write a headline with such moral clarity when they want

My mind is just collapsing at the "we have far-right entryist groups offering themselves as middle-men to hook you up with professional hitmen, but our big priority is covering up pride pins" of the present BBC.

GWOT brain makes Americans think "will take heavy casualties" means "obsolete." Not how big boy war works!

subscription tools are bankrupting small membership nonprofits. Having experienced this directly, tools that are made for companies don't always work for smaller organizations.

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

Oop, my primary internal monologue loop got out