The whole essay genre of "I had an interesting conversation with a chatbot" should be consigned to the dustbin of people's trying to tell you about their acid trips

Brothers from another mother.

Neal Stephenson: In Snow Crash, I wrote the toilet paper memo as a comical, extreme take on US government internal bureaucracy. US Government: In the name of efficiency, we created the situation in the toilet paper memo from the government-critical book Snow Crash.

A sandwich shop that's closed on the weekends. wtf.

Installing a south-side-of-Chicago-style home wet bar in the basement of the Alamo.

Dude wearing a German style motorcycle helmet riding around on his chopper, at a slow touring speed, revving the engine and blaring Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is".

Maybe this documents that it is illegal without giving the supreme court a chance to overrule and set their own precedent.

Visiting a memorial park bench? I wanna shoot the gun.

"What shouldn't I stop doing?" "Which countdown is it?" "Who did and didn't he shoot?" "Where should I stand?" "Minnie the what?" "The blue canary is where?" "Love in a what?" "Tossed salads and what?" "When does he want to rock and roll?" "He sees who walking away?" "Drop kicked his jacket when?"

Look at these villains

Try as you might, you can't shoot the floating gold head.

I threw a rapture party in high school on this day. We had pizza and watched Apocalypse Now.

Next do DB Cooper.

If my calculations are correct, this witch offers 2.2 kΩ of resistance.

In the Looney Tunes spoof of The Star Wars Holiday Special, Taz's family will play Chewbacca's family.

Never sit on a shitpost while wearing a wet bathing suit.

Help me settle a debate. What do these letters say? SHTLDR

Shit bearing load poster Bear posting load shitter.

Dark Phoenix Lite

In the near future of Neurocracy (laid out across omnipedia.app), brain implants are first adopted by people thinking they protect against a deadly disease, so the neural data mined from the implants is biased in favour of that latent fear, perpetuating the spread of both in an ongoing feedback loop

Breaking: Meta are working on a new ML-trained neural implant that will induce the constant belief that you just watched a quite amusing video five seconds ago — even though you can’t recall anything about it — and if you scroll down on your phone you’ll see an even better one!

"There was a scene where the turtles were dunking. And I don't mean it like rap-battle-dunking. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were playing basketball."

I love being able to hear fluids move around and pressure change all over the inside of my head.

The inverse Pascal's Wager.

Every demo of an AI chat interface added to datawarehouse reporting always has an exploratory what-if setting & uses questions that you should already have the answer to as a preconfigured report that is updated & reviewed on a regular basis. Stuff like "list the top five sellers in each region".

The Princess and the Pea, but it's me and a crumb on my mousepad getting caught up under the mouse drag.

If my calculations are correct, this witch offers 2.2 kΩ of resistance.

It's amazing that The Wizard of Oz is rated G because the wizard sure does swear a lot.

Normal bully behavior, lie and fail to acknowledge who started and escalated the original issue. The First Actor/Speaker Problem.

Reading comprehension on Hacker News is very low these days.

The LinkedIn Windows desktop app? Really? Heh.

Neal Stephenson: In Snow Crash, I wrote the toilet paper memo as a comical, extreme take on US government internal bureaucracy. US Government: In the name of efficiency, we created the situation in the toilet paper memo from the government-critical book Snow Crash.

Choosing which cracking software I'm going to use to attack these intrusion countermeasure electronics in cyberspace and writing "anti-ice" on the injector.

Writing anti-ice on the cover of sci-fi books.

Dude, your couch—YOUR COUCH—has a mf cord.

What's with this game of telephone? Nicki Minaj's cousin's Trinidadian friend saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

I always forget, because it's so stupid, that Roko's basilisk is about the AI running a simulation in which it tortures you. Many people fantasize about harm coming to others. Someone is probably visualizing you burning in a lake of fire right now.

As Max Headroom would say, "Your m-m-mom is a b-b-bitch."

Goofy Hog was not on my Bluesky bingo card tonight.

GGB Sunset.

Apple's implementation was truer to this original, but they called it "Cover Flow".

Has anyone started a pool where we can place bets on what excuses will be expressed on Wednesday for why the rapture 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 happen 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 time? Or are we assuming they're going to trot out the same ol' rationales that every other doomsayer and rapturist has been pushing for thousands of years?

*watching Total Recall* this meeting on Mars could have been an implanted memory.

Don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day.

Has anyone started a pool where we can place bets on what excuses will be expressed on Wednesday for why the rapture 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 happen 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 time? Or are we assuming they're going to trot out the same ol' rationales that every other doomsayer and rapturist has been pushing for thousands of years?

And of course the corollary: if you're not raptured, we know you sinned. Can't pretend you're more righteous than anyone else.

4.7 earthquake, Berkeley, California.

*watching Total Recall* this meeting on Mars could have been an implanted memory.

And of course the corollary: if you're not raptured, we know you sinned. Can't pretend you're more righteous than anyone else.

You're not going to be raptured, you're a sinner.