what kind of immigrant knows perfectly well ICE is detaining ~everyone who shows up to their court hearings and goes to the hearing anyway? extremely courageous stubborn people who just really respect our laws

me: it's not okay to hit your sister 5yo: is it okay to kill Vladimir Putin? me: ...yes, if you were in a situation where it was somehow relevant it's okay to kill Vladimir Putin 5yo: well, my sister is WORSE than Vladimir Putin

at this point releasing the files seems like it'd be wildly better than endless drips from disgruntled FBI agents who were parties to the investigation, almost no matter what's in them

Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten much much less bad under capitalism

This spring when aid was cut and it was clear that preventable deaths were going to spike, I sent off $5k immediately to efforts to plug gaps, then sat down with my wife and talked about our budget and how we could donate a lot more than the 30% of my income I usually aim for.

the best part about having children is that if you give them baked goods and toys they will happily accept any new holiday as having full holiday legitimacy. this year we are celebrating the moon landing with inflatable moons and mooncakes.

the hiring environment in the AI world right now is absolutely bizarre, unlike anything I have ever seen

Homeschooling is one of those things where the people who do it have generally made it one of the major focuses of their life and put thousands of hours of thought into it - which curriculum to use, which philosophy/approach, which tests and camps and resources, etc -

When I first saw this insane Grok companion prompt I went to Grok's new companions feature to see if it was real. It's not in the official personality description, but it is real (thanks @osmarks1 for not just finding it but showing me how to reproduce.)

I find the coverage of federal employee cuts that focuses on how sad the fired people are to be really offputting. That's not in fact a good reason not to fire them. There might be good reasons! But that isn't one.