Nick Nguyen

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Fact checker and cofounder at Viet Fact Check. Creator of CANdash.app. Dad. Former VP Firefox Product @ Mozilla. he/him/his
I want a new drug. One that makes me feel like I feel when i find something I thought I misplaced.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2023/04/23/carolyn-hax-relocate-give-him-kids/ Hell of a pull quote for me to teach my kids as they make life decisions on their own.
Carolyn Hax: Partner is pressuring her to relocate, ‘give’ him kids

Her partner wants her to drop grad school, move West and start having his kids, and she feels « backed into a corner. »

The Washington Post
oh dear, andreessen horowitz has released their latest annual "state of crypto" ̶p̶r̶o̶p̶a̶g̶a̶n̶d̶a̶ report
I wouldn’t normally link to The Bad Place, but Ben Collins is not here and @cstross is and Mr. Stross might be interested/horrified/morbidly amused to know that Steve Bannon et al are talking themselves into the premise of the Laundry universe, but claiming it’s real: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1645837085385818117 Maybe the next book (if there’s more planned) can include a weirdo fascist who wears multiple shirts & dissolves ppl in his hot tub.
Ben Collins on Twitter

“Today in AI Panic, from Steve Bannon's War Room: It makes "Demon-Summoning" too easy.”

Twitter
I used Facebook to post something for the first time in ages and completely messed up the tagging. At some point, I will need to ask my boomer parents for help using Facebook.
I just realized that 'Andor' could be just as easily be a boolean algebra textbook.
A Proud Boy kept his job as a Pentagon intelligence analyst after he joined the Jan 6 mob storming the Capitol, even as he amassed a huge arsenal of weapons and began to think about kidnapping Jewish leaders and others he considered an existential threat.
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/13/january-6-military-intelligence-hatchet-speed/
Pentagon Analyst Kept Intel Job After Joining Jan. 6 Mob, Planned to Kidnap Jewish Leaders

Hatchet Speed built a career as a Beltway contractor and Navy reservist while praising Putin and Hitler.

The Intercept
In #topchef, why are there always jerks named Dale?
It’s definitely MFCT.

After kicking out the abortion leg of their three legged platform by actually repealing roe, GOP is trying to make 'Wokeism' the new abortion.

Threatening to revoke abortion rights was a vote getter, but the actual repeal of roe has grave consequences to human beings that vote and takes it out of the quiver of unrelated issues that is the stapled together GOP platform that combine rich people who hate taxes, social conservatives, and poor people who are victimized by the other two groups.