Peter Boothe

It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

I think in fact that there is a very good “originalist” argument that the founders - who were breaking away from an actual king - did not, in fact, intend to imbue the presidency with the power to order people to do endless crimes on his behalf and then pardon them for it

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

it matters that the people who warned about the court, fascism, & democratic collapse were right

probably small comfort to ukraine but it is a little interesting trump and musk are blaming instead of trying to take credit which is usually something both of them can't help but do

If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...

When the American government is lying about the count of American corpses, things are pretty scary.

*The thing I like least about modern AI, among many things not to like *The lack of happy enthusiasm *The tech investors, coders, mathematicians, the people who know it best, they chew their fingernails till they bleed *Even the YouTube "techoptimists" chasing clicks and eyeballs look haunted

i often think that my crippling self-esteem issues are the primary reason I am not a rationalist because otherwise I fit the profile to a tee

we really are so tremendously lucky that mamdani is actually genuinely interested in governing and capable of doing it well, the list of charismatic guys who can’t do one or the other is very long and he could have done so much damage to the movement instead we got this

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.

"oh no our software is so powerful for us to work out what it's doing". skill issue. Hire some SREs.

"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

why are the midterms any part of this decision might be a question

Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead:

If you haven't seen @electrolemon.bsky.social's September 21st videos, I highly recommend doing so! They're a source of joy every year. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"A small price to pay for freedom, Mandrake. A necessary sacrifice to preserve our precious bodily fluids from communist infiltration."

Don’t pal around with terrorists.

31 years ago Newt Gingrich shut down the office of Explaining Computer to Congress and ever since we've had money pour into tech while Congress abdicates regulatory responsibility and now the leading industry in the country is engineers making machines that operate online wihout any guardrails.

some of them will but the unfortunate fact of the matter is that nothing really gets close to matching the United States for science funding - the rest of the world doesn’t have the capacity to just freely absorb what we’re losing here a lot of folks will leave the profession entirely

This isn’t leaving my head.

you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is

I’m so good at not watching television I don’t watch television all the time I was made for this

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

I know all software is created with AI now, so I’m “using” it in some second-order way. But programmers have always been perverts. All software was created with Emacs before and no one ever demanded I care about it (except the perverts). I’m normal, just leave me alone?

After Brexit my hot take was that the UK would never rejoin the EU, but that an independent Scotland would.

Come Out Ye Black and (Spray) Tans

9/12/2001, looking south at the corner of the West Side Highway and Houston St., Manhattan.

“I’m so tired of being called a racist!” is what the kids call Telling On Yourself

this is a man so hollow, pathetic and power hungry that he is actively trying to ingratiate himself with neo-nazi groypers who think he is a race traitor

his AfD just won a state election in germany. this is his victory lap.

reframed in my and @abenewman.bsky.social terms - what happens when weaponized interdependence direct.mit.edu/isec/article... hits hegemonic enshittification? www.wired.com/story/enshit...

Did you think X/Twitter was the only one doing it? Algorithmic feeds are not your friends.

U.S. autos have some of the lowest consumer privacy standards of any industry in the U.S., hoovering up no limit of driving and behavioral data and then selling it to any old random asshole yet when it comes to Chinese EVs, suddenly they're all hot and bothered about privacy

I don’t want to dunk in any one person, as I see this argument a lot, so I’ll post a screenshot rather than quoting it, because this sentiment is common. Peter Thiel has a philosophy degree. Lots of these guys have liberal arts degrees. Credentialism & reverence for institutions won’t save us.

Get off of X/Twitter and honestly probably anything with an algorithmic feed. For X/Twitter we can actually measure and statistically validate how it permanently warps your worldview.

The candidate who led the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party to a historic state election victory in Germany has thanked Elon Musk for his support www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?

front-end code is both the most tempting target for programmers to want to replace with AI, and also the hardest to fix AI's fuckups on, because bugs are subtle and can't be caught with easy boilerplate tests

Like @bruces.bsky.social says: The future is old people in cities afraid of the sky.