Short Kings
11.03.2026 14:55
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Short Kings
I got too bored to finish
Hermit crabs of Japan
My fear… remains as it has always been
That Donald Trump is a stress test for Democracy… and if so… we’ve failed horribly
It’s not about the first guy who does authoritarianism poorly
It’s about the second guy who does it well
One of my favourite guys on here are the ones who doesn’t get that newspapers employ people to write on a number of topics.
They’re always like “good to see the NYT Cooking section focusing on a carbonara recipe instead of the war in the Middle East 🙄”
A conversation I've had a couple of times goes like this:
me: "code review is dead"
whoever: "that's ridiculous, code review isn't dead"
There's a fundamental "is vs. ought" misunderstanding going on here.
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Monster Scale Summit (free and virtual) starts tomorrow. Pop in to learn from an incredible lineup (@skamille.themanagerswrath.com, @antirez.bsky.social, @martin.kleppmann.com, @muratdemirbas.bsky.social, @dominiktornow.bsky.social, @teivah.dev Pat Helland, Joran Greef....) www.scylladb.com/summit
I'm just gonna say it: Booker's proposal to end income taxes below $75k is idiotic. We've just crippled our state capacity and your response is a tax cut? Come on man
This is dire stuff and a whole lot of "I'm sure someone (else) is planning for that"
Aqui é o Brasil 🥰
it was always pretty imperfect even with the career ladders but at least there was some structure. I'm not sure how it would be rewritten today tbh
I really liked this meditation on Baudrillard and war and I think @eliasisquith.blog has nailed a bunch of the dynamics.
Just signed up as an annual subscriber to The Necessary Fictions which is a good deal at $80 IMO.
Incredible, awful bloodshed - and for what? To possible find the remains of someone who went missing 40 years ago?
Very useful post from Bryan breaking down the challenges of growing engineers in the land of AI
If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...
Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
Happy women's day if you're a woman
if you're not there's always next year
there's all this stuff going around about how when novels first came out people couldn't comprehend fictionalized writing but now for the most part everyone does understand that concept. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, I think these folks are just being lazy af.
yuck, yuck, yuck
I mean apparently it does. I honestly don't get it, I can't imagine being so opinionated about that I would throw a book away but clearly I'm far far from the target audience
I suspect Hegseth/Miller think a silent majority will rally to zero-sum nationalism (tariffs), treating all immigrants as criminals, and a kill-first-think-later military posture (what Hegseth calls the “warrior ethic”). It's a big deal that this isn't happening. 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....
No I just like taking pictures of him
Watched The Secret Agent and now I too am in love with Wagner Moura hubba hubba
Orange cat on a striped blanket
Caturday
I think they're opportunists but I'm not sure how knowing that changes my analysis of fascism etc
I think the point is that they will be used by it in the long run