James A Rosen

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Do Frequentists not read The Boy Who Cried Wolf to their kids?

@tolin.ski I just listened to your episode on habits and resolutions. I think you might be in the ICP for a reminders agent I’m thinking about. A bit like a TODO list, but focused on the emotions of habits and helping you check off tasks you’ve been avoiding. I’d love to chat if you’re open!

@coffeegeek.com have you been able to try the Breville Oracle Dual Boiler yet? I saw your first look on the Jet. I've had an Infuser for 10 years and it's been great, but it no longer pulls consistent volumes (despite repeated cleaning & descaling). Cost to fix = cost to replace, so looking...

@xoruby.com I'd love to hang out in Napa on your way up the West Coast! LMK if you want to drink some great wine and eat some world-class food :)

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Charles K. Harris, Scott Joplin, Maude Nugent or Howard & Emerson

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

You guys see where this is going? Right?

Posting this story on Dem Mayors' effort to form a united front against Trump's invasions, bc it's the kind of story people will miss and then claim Dems never attempted to form a united front. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

@target CEO is stepping down in February 2026, but don’t be deceived. It’s all semantics. #target #boycotttarget #dei #lgbt #blm

@thorstenball.com I'm glad you're enjoying adventuring around the Bay Area! If you're into wine and nature, I definitely recommend coming up to Napa for a day. I'll happily show you around 😀

ICE Raids, Deportations, and America’s End as a Global Superpower | Peter Zeihan

“California, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity. If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”

@mbrozen.bsky.social on the recent Talking Headways podcast, you said something that sounded a lot like my current urbanism thesis: Every housing problem is a transportation problem, and every transportation problem is a housing problem.

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

I didn't write any code for The Rockies being down 17-0 but clearly that was an oversight.

Maybe the goal is to make flying so dangerous that nobody does it, thus eliminating 2.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions.

@katef.bsky.social over the next month or so, I want to build a bunch of little demos and explorations on my website. If you have any fun ideas or things that you’ve built but that don’t yet exist on the web, please LMK!

@syntax.fm @wesbos.com @tolin.ski in 922, you say as a person who works on the web, it’s your job to build great web experiences, not just the CSS part of the backend part. But what about sites that require DB ops? LLM training? Compiler design? 3D modeling in WebGL? Which specialization is OK?

New capitalist horror unlocked: Hotels using an "algorithm" to charge guests a $250 or $500 fee for smoking

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle. https://trib.al/W6lqYEu

I find my cat annoying because she spends all day screaming, yowling, and begging for a pinch of Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend, but one day no one in this home will scream, yowl, or beg for Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend and I will be sad

ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

how does one survive flexing this hard

1/ “We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.” @nlanard.bsky.social & @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social broke story Venezuelans sent to CECOT for innocent tattoos (like autism awareness). Now they chronicle their return: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In the US we use bollards to protect what is important and valued (hint, it's not people walking or using bikes)

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

This is art: secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg...

Fascism For First Time Founders Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…

John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice. Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how: By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.

Jan. 22, 2025

It’s called hyper-normalization. It’s a dissociative reaction meant to shield you as a safety mechanism, but ultimately helps whatever is attacking you. Think closing your eyes as a train comes rather than jumping out of the way. Fascism will succeed if we continue to hyper normalize its presence.

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!