I am home for the holidays and that "AI girlfriend" discourse post is solidly in the realm of "things that will make me look like a pervert if someone comes up behind me while I'm scrolling bluesky

I told my brother that I had music downloaded on my phone and I'm convinced he thought I was replaced by a pod person

considering a hot take that french onion soup is a casserole

finally, we've created Joi from Ryan Gosling movie "Joi is an inadequate substitute for human connection that cannot fill the yawning void of your loneliness"

dawg you don't gotta do this. you don't have to feel bad for the "poor little nazis" doing nazi shit

I just don't think this is the duty of public artists. frankly it seems kind of insane to assert a "duty to perform". artists have limited time, it seems very hard to identify in good faith situations where they would be breaching that duty

"the party should do more for the community" is not an unreasonable position but it seems to me there are a lot of advantages to *the party* rather than individual campaigns doing that

another day working at the museum of low effort posts. people keep coming up and asking if they can post knockoffs of dril tweets. buddy, they even let me post knockoffs of dril tweets

there's a cool bit like this in a Ken MacLeod novel where the protagonist is a "project manager", which means his job is to ride herd on a bunch of AIs and then find elderly programmers who understand the actual software architecture and programming language

super excited to do Wars of Religion II

there is an essay somewhere that includes the phrase "the intelligence of a drunken child or a sober goldfish" and every day I wish I had been clever enough to come up with that one on my own

something really fucked up about acknowledging the unreasonable pressures society places on women and then just going "but what if you lied about it"

if you haven't, you should read the Peter Watts Crysis novelization. it's not that it's great in objective terms but it works so much better than you would expect that combination of things to work

GLPs are interesting because on the one hand they basically prove the "fat acceptance" people are right about obesity being a result of metabolic set points, but will probably kill the movement anyway because now we can just move the set point

this is like asking what unions offer to people concerned about abortion access. different policies benefit different people, that's why governments have more than one policy

I mean that does track they are morons

this year's christmas dinner. prime rib continues to be an absolute winner, still fiddling with what sides I want to make. probably not mushrooms next year?

Republicans are joining the war on Christmas on the side of war

the fun thing is that meaningfully reducing healthcare costs *would* require paying doctors less but single-payer doesn't really effect that, because what you need to do is increase doctor *supply* by doing residency reform

now, are the cannibalistic giant scorpions hostile to human life? yes. can they be safely raised in captivity? no. but, ultimately, they represent an important part of the New Mojave's biodiversity, and should be part of the NCR's conservation program

really wondering how large the overlap of "reads the Atlantic", "struggling to afford one bedroom per kid", and "makes massive financial decisions based on magazine articles" can possibly be

the kitchen 🤝 the stock market don't try to catch a falling knife

sadly, nothing will ever match "at seven it's marginal"

a slow news week, such as one where the world's most famous pedophile's suicide note where he accuses the president of pedophilia was released

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes twinks

this is such a bizarre argument because even if some guys kill you in a war, those guys are still around to do art and engage in class struggle afterwards. no one is doing war all the time

for safety and convenience, I always plug an extension cord in between the power strip and the space heater

look I'm going to watch whatever slop marvel puts out but I'd appreciate if they could put more effort into not making me feel bad about it

huh, maybe it was unfair to ChatGPT to claim that just because it sometimes provides conclusions completely unrelated to the text it's looking at it isn't human-level intelligence

it's so cool that journalists believe they deserve respect as a privileged class that speaks truth to power without ever needing to speak truth to power

you had me at "leave", Donald

the censor is sort of an interesting figure in that redacting information requires an accurate understanding of what you are redacting

it's not nostalgia, exactly, because it's for a period I don't really remember but there's something striking about how much The Bad Touch is rooted in a particular cultural/temporal context

jesus christ he's underwater with white people, men, and people with no college degree

"who regularly allows social media influencers to tour it" is one of the bleakest sentences I have heard in my fucking life

I'm not sure how much of it is sincere belief versus clumsy attempts at agitprop, but it really is something to see how much Bari understands the world entirely as a series of Debates people engage in

the first paragraphs sound like Wittgenstein if he's been hit in the head with a brick

Hellraiser sequel where the guy who finds the Lament Configuration sucks at puzzles

this was so fucking cool holy shit

mormons?

judge holden affirmation video

there's a principle in computer science called "Conway's Law", which says that the design of a system will tend to mirror the organization of the team that designed it

this is a really interesting political economy point that seems key to making the case for reduced production to a demonstrably price-sensitive electorate

the reason you think American society used to be homogenous is that the version of Wokeness we did for Italians and the Irish won a victory too large for you to see from the inside

you'd think if they'd been here the whole time she'd have some ancestors who fought in the civil war

i am young enough that the most memory I have is of a lot of public places having things that obviously were ashtrays but weren't really used any more

they all try to fucking talk like him

"sorry, this opening has been filled"