stephen

Trying my best. Doing systems work with @GaultCenter; also doing things with @IDRAcommunity and @Columbus_DSA. (he/him, opinions mine, tweets delete)

[Jo Ingles @joingles]

BREAKING: Ohio voting rights group says it was raided by the FBI https://t.co/3fgcJfxYMw

[stephen @makingarecord]

Currently grappling with the reality that I and many comrades have spent years thinking about how "we" can stop this sort of thing and have found some answers but have largely come up short / identified effective strategies that are let's say in a different sphere of risk

[stephen @makingarecord]

I bike by this often and also hate it of course, just thinking that if the question is "why do we allow this?" the answer is familiar: because "we" don't make these choices, and Anduril gave shitloads of money to the people who do. Same answer as for any of these questions!

[Elizabeth R. Blackburn 🌽🔥 anarchist bimbo @InnateOptimist]

Maybe we shouldn't allow Anduril to put a big fascist billboard on the shoe—

[Greg @GregGrandin]

For perspective, the East Germans over the course of nearly 3 decades, killed 140 trying to cross over the Berlin Wall.

[Sarah @Sarah_pdx]

I sympathize with the people frustrated at hegemonic DoTheWorkism: “If you’re so smart why don’t you do it?” is such a frustrating response. But, there really is no substitute for Doing The Work as a way to actually test if your ideas are as good as you think they are!

[stephen @makingarecord]

stop using it

[Brian Lovin @brian_lovin]

How do I make Claude Code stop talking like this ffs

[stephen @makingarecord]

Thinking about Mound Street in downtown Columbus, OH, and how the mound it got its name from was destroyed so its earth could be used to build the foundations of our state capitol building

[Bobby @spudchungus]

This is a extremely sad site to visit. Even going here as a boy it was a very odd feeling.

[stephen @makingarecord]

seems optimistic to say "final" stage!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We are in capitalism’s final stage, where global capital can’t expand or sustain past profits. It now consumes public institutions and key systems, sacrificing democracy, welfare, infrastructure, education, healthcare, and ecosystems for short-term gain.

[Mountain Ğeneral @MountainGenera]

Since Pope Leo XIV mentioned this in encyclical, this means if your employer is pushing you to use AI, you can cite religious conserns as a reason to not use it at work

[Skyler Higley @skyler_higley]

dude who made this is a real reader cause this is how it is

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

This was an amazing and incredibly damning experiment using Microsoft Copilot, by @adamjkucharski https://t.co/r3WvNMF9jD

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

In general I think there's something fairly corrosive about living in a world where all material goods are extremely cheap compared to housing and healthcare, because it feels completely futile to be frugal on the small stuff.

[stephen @makingarecord]

I think things have been hard for me and many of my millennial friends because even adjusting for inflation the costs for some basic necessities have doubled since we were born

[Ryan Satin @ryansatin]

This is why the shift to everyone hating each other has been so hard for millennials.

Many of us went to diverse schools where everyone basically got along. Sure, jokes were made & bad people existed, but there was a general code of respect.

Social media + rage bait ruined that

[stephen @makingarecord]

@transjawnder Haha hyping his own book over Tolkien to a random 12 year old is even funnier

[stephen @makingarecord]

Not huge celebrity interactions but all very fun to me!

[stephen @makingarecord]

- William Mapother (from LOST) giving out coconut waters in an airport when he realized he couldn't take them through security
- Dick Vitale gave me a basketball with a cartoon of himself on it
- Brian David Gilbert was in front of me in the chili line at "Oklahoma!" on Broadway

[im keef girgo 🌹 @flex_luther13]

- Dave Portnoy on the street, 5’6”
- Nick Kroll in the bathhouse locker room, asked me for a towel
- the gay guy from broad city at Radegast, bothered him
- Christopher Meloni on the street, mutual head nod

[stephen @makingarecord]

Remember when we learned that Pokemon Go was using the data from players scanning pokestops to train pizza delivery robots? Fast forward a decade and your augmented reality photo of a snorlax will be what teaches a drone how to find and kill you for wearing a mask at a protest

[ebonically intelligent papi 🌻 @julianakilrose]

What does waymo do with all the footage they’re constantly recording of everywhere within 30 miles of an urban center