Shannon

anima muliebris virili corpore inclusa 🏳️‍⚧️

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

I feel like the overton window, though widely understood as a concept, is not appreciated for its power - especially in free speech debates.

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

a hot girl that has aged out of conventional "hot girl" era is a terribly beautiful thing. like a superhero that has slowly lost its powers and is learning to live a civilian life.

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

@ContraPoints @dryadarbour Disney zionism

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

watching this

[Jay Baxter @jaybaxter]

My interview from TED with @kcoleman and @audreyt just went live!

Tons of gold in here:
-why we stuck with crazy principles like not having an override button
-how AI and humans collaborate to write better/more notes than either on their own
-how much impact community notes are making
-why our algorithm is smarter than regular upvoting/downvoting
-new ideas for finding common ground on social media

https://t.co/No3xbHX8u4

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

@Strawberryenema @ContraPoints nessiiie phillll

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

by jaades co

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

I actually thought I would dislike backrooms, such is my contempt for the popular mind, but it wasn't half bad

[MagicPingPong✨ @MagicPingPong]

Bernard Plossu

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

hmm

[JD Work @HostileSpectrum]

You may mock Russian private firms for seeking to purchase air defense assets, but it will not be as funny when one realizes every refinery, power plant, and date center here should already have C-UAS coverage yet does not.

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

a marner conne smyth + cup would be great. i know some leafs fan might be butthurt but you gotta love it.

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

hmmm

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

I,m relatively lucky on the family front, but seeing stuff like this still funks me out

[harper @harper033_]

genuinely the most hateful message I’ve ever received

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

one angle is :

"the network state is here and it is, hate to say it, discord"

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

Mud? What are you Marge Heggenbrinder now? What do you know about the mud?

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

in the 2010s, the distinction between liberals and leftists seemed to become fuzzy. this distinction seems to be reasserting itself. a notable exception is arguably mamdani. but he doesn't seem to be too dogmatic and ppl take to his earnest, good-natured rizz.

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

the dog park in the morning is intriguing. for some reason, everyone is saying "morning" and talking. much more social. this makes me want to be a morning person.

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

Been thinking about a certain relationship I had in the past today. No one made me laugh, feel connected, afraid, confused, violated, changed, more than this person. I often look back grateful, edified and, sometimes, like today, unhealed and raw.

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

acknowledge a bricker

[cav empty @cavempty_]

was sleepy as hell on my drive to work and i couldn’t stop thinking about the brick method of driving

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

the classic "the problem isn't solved until you don't care if it is solved" routine?

[Julian Lage @julian_lage]

The “Omission” live performance video is out now! It features none other than Jorge Roeder on bass, Dave King on drums and Patrick Warren on keys. Watch the full performance here: https://t.co/z7UYGPy1yz

[Shannon @OHSNLobby]

he was a voracious illiterate