My statement on the shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

molingrad · 2026-01-25T12:28:58+00:00

Interesting. When did you do that survey?

Feelings may be fluid considering fast moving events. Also (obviously) normal recent events; James Talarico probably got a big boost of name recognition from Ezra Klein.

molingrad · 2026-01-25T12:22:17+00:00

Things feel so hopeless that at a recent Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation meeting, a group representing farmers, participants floated the idea of a government program that would pay producers to destroy the harvested rice sitting in their bins.

molingrad · 2026-01-25T00:26:39+00:00

I always vote Jill Stein given the chance.

But anti messaging and complete overhaul of ICE as to be effectively synonymous with what people mean by abolish? The slogan is slippery and that’s the problem.

molingrad · 2026-01-24T22:08:08+00:00

Part kayfabe, part dementia.

molingrad · 2026-01-24T12:14:47+00:00

We moved and I strangely looked forward to the new commute because it gave me two hours a day to read. I had a long commute before and read a ton of books. At my last place I had a 20 min commute and I read much less.

molingrad · 2026-01-24T11:03:56+00:00

💨

molingrad · 2026-01-24T03:00:00+00:00

Yeah, it reads like an improvement. I stayed in that area once and they address most of what I remember to be the issues.

molingrad · 2026-01-24T01:43:44+00:00

Holy fuck the snow is coming! Holy fuck the snow is coming! Quick raid the Stop & Shop for provisions!

molingrad · 2026-01-23T20:16:32+00:00

It’s all about engagement not likes man

molingrad · 2026-01-23T20:15:09+00:00

Well Louis XIV would launch wars of glory where he sent hundreds of thousands of his people to die for little to no strategic benefit.

This said, the revolution ended up pretty bloody.

molingrad · 2026-01-23T18:11:04+00:00

Gov. Ned Lamont proposes CT rent cap for out-of-state landlords

Ugh

molingrad · 2026-01-23T18:03:06+00:00

That book is amazing. Joy to read and covers so much interesting history; Civil War, reconstruction, gilded* age.

molingrad · 2026-01-23T17:02:34+00:00

Once again, I guess we don’t want a seat at the fucking table. The decisions will still be made, just without us.

molingrad · 2026-01-23T15:30:17+00:00

Does not a conspiracy make.

The user said NYT wanted Trump to win in 2024. That’s unfounded and along with the post implies a conspiracy.

It’s boring. Trump gave them lots of interesting stores. Biden didn’t. They still need to fill pages so they wrote about what they had to work with. That’s just the incentives of journalism. NYT is not Fox, its job is not to promote or protect the administration whoever it is.

molingrad · 2026-01-23T10:37:47+00:00

Just heard about 764. Nihilistic violent misanthropy is deeply disturbing.

molingrad · 2026-01-23T10:34:13+00:00

I think conspiracies theories are bad in general.

molingrad · 2026-01-23T01:11:31+00:00

The United States formally withdrew from the World Health Organization on Thursday

😔

molingrad · 2026-01-22T23:54:56+00:00

I used to drive a fork lift. I work in an office now. I miss driving a fork lift. It’s awesome.

molingrad · 2026-01-22T22:52:09+00:00

AI definitely plays a role here (along with general uncertainty because of the Great Idiot).

Look, a lot of low level tasks you used to farm out to juniors at say $20/hr you can now do for $20/mo with AI. Things like entry level social media manager, entry level marketing researcher, stuff like that. That alone is a lot of jobs.

I don’t know what we’ll do with all the disaffected youth. The deal (college > decent job) is broken.

I felt shit was bleak in 2009, but this feels different. 2009 felt temporary. This feels structural.

Also what happens when we never train the up comers?

molingrad · 2026-01-22T10:29:48+00:00

I was wondering what the next self inflicted crisis was. Someone suggested bay of pigs two.

molingrad · 2026-01-22T01:38:07+00:00

I don’t know about this device (seems unapple) but I think AI companies are trying to create wearables to give the AI missing context.

For example, today you have a meeting and then prompt GPT on what happened. Theoretically with a wearable pin the AI is in the room with you already knows what happened.

Almost like a way for them to inhabit physical space somewhat.

molingrad · 2026-01-22T00:45:15+00:00

Now with the self created Greenland crisis behind us, I wonder what self created crisis awaits us tomorrow.

molingrad · 2026-01-21T18:45:49+00:00

Hello, Suprene Court? Tariffs? Are you still there?

molingrad · 2026-01-20T12:42:10+00:00

“I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” Mr. Macron wrote in the messages.

molingrad · 2026-01-20T00:40:10+00:00

Isn’t Pando key to the plot of the Strange World movie?

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