In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

You say Torment Nexus like it’s a bad thing

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

"Hey GUYS GUYS GUYS, WE'VE TAKEN THE BASTILLE" Followed by the roar of the crowd. (can't tell you how moving this is) via @LucAuffret

I don’t think anyone has adapted to how many of us are like this

i think its funny that after multiple stock market bubbles, the great recession and insane wealth concentration that people (conservatives and even some centrists) are so bewildered why socialism is increasingly popular.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

RIP Margaret Hamilton. She created software that adapted when things didn’t go how they were supposed to. If she hadn’t, the first moon landing wouldn’t have happened.

I'm in a comedian FB group. Someone posted about losing their licence due to speeding. Someone else posted "I am a wheelchair user because a speeding driver hit my car, maybe don't speed" and people are replying to THAT post being all "well, not all speeding is the same". Car brain is WILD.

FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

Holy shit.

No matter how hard they try brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain—or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain

I think there’s a stronger case for pretty much the opposite rule. If you’re studying a field where you’re going to rapidly be making a lot of income, why do you need a government loan? Get one on the private market.

The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.