Shane

Musician, Spartan, pop culture enthusiast, DDR commentator, karaoke crusher, amateur speedrunner, angsty thirtysomething.

[Shane @PianoG21]

@Steven_Hyden Sad that this is Janelle Monae's only #1 😑

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Almost every promise of modern technology has delivered the opposite result

- Social networking made historically less social
- Unlimited information made people much stupider
- Technology use during childhood has made children less advanced

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

Next up, Trump is renaming gasoline to "Affordable Car Juice" so we don't have to worry about gas prices anymore.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Gulf of America didn't even bother me so much but Lake America sounds like a waterslide park where everyone gets tetanus.

[Chris P. Wicks 🔎🐜 @CrispyWicks]

DFW: I've written Infinite Jest, an epic about endless entertainment that kills you

Roku: At Last, We've Created Infinite Jest, The TV Channel That Kills You

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

You can get chips and soda now, alongside a trillion movies and a billion video games at the touch of a few buttons. As @janecoaston says, what you miss is being a child.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

I think what happened to Jason Arday is tragic and heartbreaking, but this counterfactual did actually take place in the United States, involving a professor and right-wing jokester who I became friends with over the years of having to defend his free speech rights. Mike Adams was mobbed and cancelled in 2020, and he killed himself shortly thereafter, and the American press largely treated it like he had it coming. Also, some commenters on the Internet seemed almost gleeful about his death. That was wrong then and it would be wrong now.

https://t.co/BMuS3hb8v3

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

glad to see that we do not live in a world where both Graham Platner and Ken Paxton will become Senators

now perhaps we can move towards the world where neither Graham Platner nor Ken Paxton becomes a Senator

[Katie Herzog @kittypurrzog]

I used to shoplift a LOT and convinced myself that was a good and righteous thing to do but then I turned 15

[The Goddamned Penguin @who_shot_jgr]

writing an e-mail and getting a prompt from AI "this sentence could be more concise"

no. i am verbose. i am loquacious. i am long-winded and often redundant even. you machine, do not tell me how to form my words

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

https://t.co/9XlZP9sBqX

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

Education is habituation/formation; you can't offload it. No one thinks AI can lift weights for you. Similarly, it cannot develop a mind for you. Sadly, we have an education system that has forgotten this, that has made itself transactional, narrowly focused on credentials.

[Shane @PianoG21]

@redsteeze Also Lehkonen and Kiviranta, so a net positive

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

The most difficult thing for Democratic voters to understand is that their political leaders just aren't interested in governing. They think their job is to go on podcasts and say things about elections. That's it.

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

Yes, Shakespeare, Austen, and Tolstoy are monuments of genius and human depth. But the moment you label them “white culture,” you��ve already fallen into the trap of identity politics. You’re bargaining within the terms of white guilt rather than transcending them. We need full, unapologetic access to the greatest achievements of civilization because their humanness and complexities transcend race.

[Kmele 🖐 @kmele]

I don't mind: "I need a bit more context, could you say more?" And I don't mind folks critically tracing out the implications of something I've said. In fact, I welcome that.

I loathe: "Are you saying [insert flagrantly ridiculous non sequitur]?"

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

ICE hasn't updated its use of force policy since 2023 and it contains zero guidelines for dealing with protesters, documents reveal:
https://t.co/TE9CiWRPKZ

[Joe Bernstein @Bernstein]

The idea that people shouldn’t experience friction, conflict, or ambivalence - or that these experiences aren’t a normal, even a constituent part of human existence - is behind a lot of the sickness in our culture today.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

2025 had the lowest rate of
- mass shootings since 2006
- homicides since 1950s
- teenage pregnancy in recorded history
- suicides since 2020
- road fatalities since 2019
- drug overdose deaths since 2019
- alcohol consumption in recorded history
- inflation since 2020

[CIX 🦾 @cixliv]

Using a mocap suit to kick yourself in the balls with a robot is a great metaphor to close out 2025.