Noah Richards

The vote is in, the #WALeg House has voted 51-46 to pass the Millionaires Tax!!!!

The Venn diagram of people that believe that (1) they should be able to run over protestors that inconvenience them, and (2) ICE agents should be able to stand near cars and murder the drivers, is a circle.

no one asked for a sequel to the shitposting fire emblem triangle article but i wrote one anyway www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge

When I was at Stripe, Larry was invited to talk. A ton of employees very respectfully raised concerns based on his open history of being a sexist bigot and Patrick Collison openly told them (in so many words) that they were being whiny and should reconsider if working for Stripe was a good idea.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Upgraded to iOS 26, is the new UI a practical joke? This is like…worse in every conceivable way. I turned down transparency and that helps a bit, but wow is this surprisingly bad.

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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Just voted in local elections, my local school district has open director positions in multiple districts and at least one candidate in each has a rabidly-anti-trans platform. Blegh :(

When people complain “our country is too polarized now!” it’s always conservatives complaining liberal family members are being meaner to them. But the actual dangerous polarization is: every conservative-leaning figure/body is actively abandoning their stated purpose to align with Trump.

How did the pandemic start? I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game. gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...

Democratic voters: we want a party with a spine. Democratic strategists: hear me out. What if, instead of a spine, we turned into basically an LLM generated platform where our prompt was just polling results?

To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.

"You should be praising me for being able to admit that—well, not that I was wrong, heaven forbid—but perhaps my faith in the mayor who was arrested thirty-four times for arson was misplaced."

This brought back many memories of delivering papers :) Though we (brother and I) had someone drive us on sundays, carrying even half the route was basically impossible. Also fun: *packing* the Sunday papers, which arrived in separate stacks, and you had to assemble before delivery.