"More than 700,000 tech workers have been laid off in the last four years, according to Roger Lee at Layoffs.fyi (this number includes all jobs in tech)." Grateful to @clivethompson.bsky.social for digging into the bigger story here. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...
Is James Fishback how you spell Milo Yiannopoulos now?
And how soon until he's just as irrelevant?
Another Diderot quote I love:
"Only the rich can afford to be stupid; for others, ability is a necessity, not an option."
"With the guts of the last priest, let us strangle the last King."
- Denis Diderot
"Beware the iatrogenic repair."
Phrase of the day and utterly relevant in terms of American foreign policy right now.
(I'm reading Stewart Brand's "Maintenance: Of Everything ")
This last week was cinematic
The Tim Denee designs for the Deathmatch Island TTRPG from @evilhat.bsky.social are just glorious.
Thank you to everyone who has shared their memories of Rob.
The team wanted to share some of his MetaBrainz story and our personal experiences with the master of mayhem, and this blog post has emerged:
blog.metabrainz.org/2026/03/05/r...
We miss you Rob.
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
These are beautiful games. The world of game zines becoming communities and scenes is one of the things that give me hope these days.
Republican voters: "Naw, we want an even bigger prick"
My first glance said vintage iMac
The Economist's
language analysis of Donald Trump’s state-of-the-union address :
all hat, no cattle
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
How it started How it’s going
@NikkiHaley edition
Nikki Haley's spineless capitulation is notable even in a very busy field of toadies and lickspittle Republicans.
It wont be a Skynet or Terminator situation.
It will be "an Open-Claw just messaged 1000 journalists the gps coordinates for US soldiers on a sensitive deployment via Hegeth's What's App."
This worries me as much as any of the already stupid things that Hegseth's Pentagon has done so far
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This week's listening
I still have the Ryan Laucat games! We can bring them back.
New from me: What do Jeff Bezos, Bari Weiss, and RFK Jr. have in common?
Each has used the trust trap: they bemoan a loss in institutional legitimacy as a justification for radical actions that further undercut trust in their institutions. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...
How's that OpenClaw set-up working for you so far?
This is the best piece of data journalism I've read in a while
laurenleek.substack.com/p/britain-lo...
Why the Year of the Firehorse caused a spike in fertility rates in Japan in 1966.
spoiler: It's because men are afraid of women.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...
There's too much ambient music. Things would improve if ambient musicians had to produce a symphonic power metal LP, a Carnatic grindcore ballet or a jazz fusion opera in F# Phrygian once every 5 years, just to show they can (cf The Straight Story) before being allowed to fire up the reverb again.
My god the @economist.com loves a melodrama!
and if not, I will bet one of them is filing an FOI request RIGHT NOW!
You know they can probably access that data, right?
Is Stanfordketamine the latest street version of the California Ideology? And what are the cutting it with?
They are hoping it's 1939
But what if it's really 1789?
#nomorekings
