Lee Leighton

the “disinformation” part of the e2e encryption “abuse” discourse has some deeply dystopian doublespeak

So why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs.

zero people actually know exactly what they are doing. we are all just doing our best to not fuck up enough that we're noticed. :)

If I were dining with philosophers, I would simply steal all the silverware, so that they would deadlock and shut the fuck up

Friendly neighborhood biologist here. I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes and gender right now. Lots of folks make biological sex sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex...[a thread]

Someone in their late 20’s has now seen two rigged electoral college presidential elections, an illegal war, the longest war, a financial collapse to rival the Depression, and now two impeachments

A long time ago— like 15 years ago— I worked at Sun Microsystems. The company was nearly dead at the time (it died a couple years later) because they didn't make anything that anyone wanted to buy anymore. So they had a lot of strange ideas about how they'd make their comeback.

The Mandaens have it right: every paradise we didn’t choose for ourselves is a prison. There is no Fall, only escape. Freedom is opposed to oppression, not suffering. The latter implies the former, but not conversely. The best prisons are built on the foundation of contentment.

You’d think a new lisp, after talking about all its pros, would then have a list of cons

I suppose this body is well out of warranty and there's no way I can return it