Craig Johnson

Lt. Gen. Van Riper sends his regards

"In our conversations, Manz came off as incredibly concerned with rules and safety, and a bit bewildered by his experience with American institutions."

perhaps the single most German thing I have ever heard

i think i've been getting more trolling - bots? just more trolls around these days?

friend, this is a microblogging site for pithy or maybe kinda funny little bits, so I will not be engaging with this any further, I wish you the best

ya got me, I live in the place that I live

a living wage

but also, books don't become successful or centers of our culture just by being written - they have gave to be read, which means publishing, publicity, bookstores, etc

move fast, break brains

the beauty of most Lynch productions, as others have put it before, is that two characters in the same scene can act as if they're in two very tonally different horror productions and yet somehow belong on the screen together - this episode always feels like that

oh nice

Trump and co. are open about being surprised that Iran isn't going the way Venezuela did - but that only worked because there were people in the Venezuela leadership who were willing to work with the US

...did they "accidentally" kill their co conspirators in the first day of strikes?

Probably Scots-Irish

I bet a lot of high school Model UN clubs would've thought about this

folks I'm pretty sure a half decent DM at your local DnD meetup would've seen this one coming

sadly the positivists seem to have won this one

Quick addendum on this: the one part of the left that truly understood power was ... unions. Union organizers were never under the illusion that they could sweet-talk concessions from bosses with the right framing. They dealt in power.

That's why the right killed them.

when people are turned away at the polling station, it will be too late

i sometimes find myself grateful that we got several centuries of good literature and about a hundred years of good film before defunding and devaluing these forms of art

After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?”

And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.

this is the culmination of a century of power moving from the legislative to the executive

still, somehow, there's a misunderstanding about the fight we're in

our opponents hate democracy and think we're not people, and they are winning

Screenshot from an email. webinar: mitigating burnout: how AI can support higher and staff during peaks periods.

Dear “staff,” they’re trying to make fools of you. “Helping you” avoid burnout, cut “busywork,” or wherever is prelude to showing you the door.

(Note: They keep pushing. I get stuff like this almost daily, this from The Chronicle, which increasingly seems to be in league with big tech boosterism)

spectacular post

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

the contradictory messaging on Iran transforms the conversation into one about what Trump says, rather than what he does - he can be a liar, rather than a murderer

it's intended to confuse you, the market, and the international community

when Iran attacks after the war is "over" that's them being belligerent and cruel

when the liberals complain after the war is "over" that's them being weak

I'm concerned people see the contradictory messaging on Iran - it's not a war, it's a war, it's over, it'll last for a long time - and think "haha another disordered Trump policy"

the disorder and contradictory messaging is the policy!

THIS is the take on LLMs and the job market. They can probably do some jobs, which will worsen millions of people's lives. But much more than that, people who don't understand your job will assume that it is worthless, even more than they already do.

I can't compete with this.

I started my class this semester talking about the US's abduction of the Venezuelan President, now about the threats against Cuban sovereignty