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Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.

YIMBYLAND My offer to rural America: build in MY backyard so no one needs to build in yours.

Robert Harrison Isaac King 🔍 I mean it seems like a bug if you can have a 45% variance in the evidential threshold of a trial based on an unrelated preconceived semantic notion in one of the jurors... Saying "It's a feature not a bug" loudly does not resolve this problem.

Francis Fukuyama:

Going to the No Kings protest tomorrow in Dolores! Join us!!!

Just a reminder that a WINNING Democratic coalition includes people you may not like, we need wine moms, progressive college students, socially moderate POC, union members, slightly crunchy hippies, environmentalists, small buisnesses owners and edgy frat bros

I just subscribed a few weeks back, and it's quite fun to get a physical paper each weekend!

the day opening with a right wing fanatic gunning down politicians in cold blood and ending on a split screen of massive, colorful, and cheerful liberal protest vs a grey, shambling, low-energy dictatorial parade feels like a not particularly subtle episode of the West Wing

lmao

The "3.5% of population protesting = change/Utopia/revolution" meme going around is weird/kinda dumb. 3.5% is not a magic number, you need a theory of change.

it’s insane to me that police officers are allowed to retire with pensions after 20 years makes no goddamn sense of course every city is underwater with pensions like that

As a corollary to: "predictions are hard, especially about the future" I would like to propose: "communication is hard, especially with other people".

>Saddam Hussein is no more >Al-Qaeda in Iraq was essentially destroyed >ISIS was defeated >The constitutional regime we helped build up still stands in Iraq to this day, as problematic as the country is We unequivocally won the war even if it wasn’t a victory worth the price.

Say what you will about Shiite theocracy, but the Teheran Metro route design is elite: Every line intersects with every other line, zero missed connections, each transfer station has exactly two lines.

You can hear when your car engine has a problem. You can see how long a book is, and how often it's been read. I think digital systems should do more to unobtrusively leak information about their internals.

Progress bars should be weird greebled shapes that reflect the sort of task the computer is currently doing. Accessing disk should look different from computing, should look different from RPCs.

ICE should obviously have to wear a uniform and no masks… this shouldn’t be controversial.

A frequent failing of gamedev software engineers is to imagine that the value of a game is in the quality or even the elegance of its software engineering. If a technique lets you ship a game that players like... You win. It doesn't matter if that technique was bogosort.

pah, no one would lie that brazenly *remembers elon cheated at video games* nevermind he totally would

In my pro. opinion, there are vanishingly few jobs where an average person would benefit more from a +1SD increase in IQ than a +1SD increase in diligence or organization. IQ is easy to screen for, but it is hard as hell to screen for the most important qualities of a worker.