Ross Schulman

You know those explainers where they try to use a really big stack of paper (or something) to get people to comprehend how big space is? We need one of those for how far away from a proper private key '4' is.

I pasted a json blob into Mac TextEdit for safe keeping for a few minutes and the damn thing changed a quotation mark into a fancy quotation mark and that's how I lost a half hour yesterday. AMA

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Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and post one that you like

If you told me I’d be redownloading Mapquest in 2026 to try to stay ahead of the surveillance state I wouldn’t have believed you

This thread is the best.

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.

"hard times make strong men" actually statistical error. Most hard times make starved peasants, who lack the capacity for successful use of force. Swiss Cantons Georg, who lives in a fortress and practices with a pike formation, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

Has anyone else heard the absolutely fucking insane "Department of War" ad running on pandora now? Holy shit.

If we thought consent/cookie fatigue was bad, "Claude permission fatigue" is the new hotness.

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

"I've made a horrible mistake..."

For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

This is 100% a good point. The books are mediocre at best. I couldn't finish the series because I just. Didn't. Care.

'Safety first' when sacking Rome.

Damn, dude. You're telling me that when you join a fascist movement you run the risk of having the state apparatus turned against you in a factional dispute? This is the first I'm hearing of this.

I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well.

Just finished Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social . Waiting to see which of my 10 library holds comes up next!

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

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No. Any other questions?

What could we bake in to federal institutions to allow them to be more experimental? A fun conversation with me, @seemaychou.bsky.social and Daniel Correa @scientistsorg.bsky.social fas.org/publication/...

This is near hilarious levels of "too little too late." Anyone with a shred of sense has been going on about this problem literally since before Flock was founded.

I hate this attitude of blaming the victim. Don't you know the 4-8-12-7 rule?! Engrave all of your family movies in cuneiform on stone tablets then bury them under 10 feet of volcanic ash! Why are you complaining about this business screwing you over? Its your fault!

The Appalachians are a billion years, two supercontinents, and 4 orogenic periods old. They’ve been eroding since 200 million years before the Rockies formed. They are the same range as the Scottish highlands, Scandinavian Mountains, and Atlas Mountains. The caves predate bones.

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)

Brenda Romero's beautiful 'Chasing Lilacs' is a personal history told through the lens of gaming: aftermath.site/chasing-lilacs/

Reinvention Blueprint No. 2: Democracy Works When Government Works, by Loren DeJonge Schulman (@lorenraeds.bsky.social) and Rob Shriver (@rshriver3.bsky.social) Their concrete proposals would rebuild hiring, pay, and accountability so the civil service works for the 21st century.

At least it's not a 30% discount at a municipal grocery store. Because that would be really objectionable.

Elon Musk is calling for the execution of the Economist editor who interviewed him. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

Only exception to this: If you live in DC, call every last one of the bastards until we get the right to vote in our own legislature.

So we're all clear: The international legal body that evolved from that which held the Nuremberg trials issued an arrest warrant on November 21, 2024. Almost two years later, the Brown, Muslim mayor of NYC says words acknowledging this, functionally and Jews worldwide become wildly unhinged

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

Holy... Shit... Just ... Fucking wow, man... You know? Like... Fuck me... You actually posted this?

I spent a lovely four hours on a porch last night grilling yummy foods and bullshtting with my oldest friends and nobody recorded a goddamn thing. Do not let these absolute tossers tell you otherwise.

NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.