Freek van Ostrand

@sullenfish.com

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The guy you think you know. Whether it's Chris Elliott (I can see that), Chris Evans (thank you...?!?), or your friend's uncle Chris ("Hey, we met at the wedding"), you know you recognize me from somewhere.

seize the means of computation

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Had to look this up to see who else was a sponsor and… …Forest County Potawatomi?

Starbucks is now a proud RNC sponsor, in case you still go there

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Choat Farm South

Is he going to be JD Vance's helpmeet?

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Erin Fogg

These are almost certainly Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters

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IN PLACE OF A DARK LORD YOU WOULD HAVE A QUEEN! NOT DARK BUT BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! TREACHEROUS AS THE SEAS! STRONGER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR

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Jamelle Bouie coming back like hey everyone I just had a great time, some of the best paella I’ve ever h-OH NO

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Midtown_Doom_Loop

Free one: why should fetal personhood be only for humans

techlash is when you worry Cory Doctorow is earning a healthy living

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abelle

Need to create an account label like "block-magnet"

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Laptops used to come with micro-cassette drives and sherry glasses, we have lost our ways

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Erin Fogg

Thank you! I also agree with your personal belief. Admittedly, change towards that ideal often seems insurmountable. The older I get, the more I think about the systems we have in place, what they actually accomplish, and if people truly believe in them.

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Erin Fogg

Is there a modern criminal justice system anywhere in the world that truly gets people out of the system? One that isn't exploitative, abusive, and cruel? Genuinely asking because this is way out of scope of my personal knowledge, and I don't know where to begin.

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Midtown_Doom_Loop

Baseline cost of living in LA appears to be "software engineer, preferably senior or lead"

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Riker Googling

I feel like Boimler has a personal log entry on this one

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Yo dawg, we heard you liked ChatGPT, so we put ChatGPT into your ChatGPT.

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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Greg Pak

I am incredibly serious about this. If you personally know any politician, any staffer, anyone in power, it is your responsibility to call them up and demand that they do something other than just murmur their disapproval. They care about the contempt of their families and friends. Use that.

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If anyone reading this personally knows anyone in the White House or the Biden campaign, I hope you're calling them up and yelling at them right now. They do not seem to grasp the incredible danger of this moment. And I'm not talking about the debate.

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cait

Epsilon Guy is still only theoretical but the research looks promising

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People like me have been weirdos on the edge of society that nobody likes—talking about amending the Constitution and expanding the Court and abolishing the EC and resizing the House—and now if we don’t do these things, we will be destroyed. Radical problems require radical solutions.

This is your reminder that the Union did not enter the war to end slavery but discovered that ending slavery was the only way to win the war. Everything that has brought us here needs to be dismantled if we want to survive. That’s not radicalism; that’s pragmatism.

remember when people were like "pack the court" haha wouldn't that have been something

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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear

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thadeus

I guess we won’t all be living out Neuromancer quite yet

For a short time, at least!

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Katie Mack

This reminds me of a rant one of my CSci professors went on (decades ago, now!) about how desktop PCs were an abomination, the goal was supposed to be for computing devices to be unobtrusive, like the one in your refrigerator.

For the first time in my life, I did an Excel =RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-SEARCH("-",A2)) formula right the first time. This is my Alexander Wept moment.

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Tobias S. Buckell (co-wrote: The Runes of Engagement)

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Thomas Fuchs 🔭🕹️

This is great for a techno-conspiracy-thriller that proposes that the two SSIs are one and the same, with a tagline like, "The simulation never ended."

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Sage Still Masks

“Can I get a suggestion from the audience?” “PLAY AS ZELDA!” “I think I heard, ‘Weapon durability.’”

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Chambraigne Socialist

I remember seeing old Venture Bros promos and thinking “Why is Link in this Johnny Quest parody?”