I was there for the rise of the internet and smart phones, and they absolutely sold themselves. People took one look and got excited. There was no point, years into the smart phone, where companies were having to be like "you may not like the iPhone but it's here to stay so get used to it"

Absolutely noxious type of guy who wears this but also lol at making RDJ white

Hard drive expensive

Sorry to keep Clair Obscur posting but a 9 hour, 160 song soundtrack is absolutely nuts

Well?

thought this comment on hacker news about the energy race was interesting

Why did mission control simply not cut off Ryan Gosling's head and shoot his brain into space? It worked out for Yun Tianming

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Hmmmm shouldn’t have looked up the author of the book I just finished

Perfect

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

what if we blended every famous woman into one woman and then thats every woman you see now. here at nvidia we

NVIDIA presents DLSS 5

Yeah I’ve seen the groundbreaking movie where a leading man plays two different brothers

re: The Oscars I am seeing a lot of people worked up over the tensions between art, commerce, and ideology. Fortunately I think we're going to solve it today

Happy #Oscars Day! Why wait? Congratulations to Michael B. Jordan, Jessie Buckley, Sean Penn and Amy Madigan.

A story in four parts. 😭

Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash,,, very good! It’s like someone stuck George Saunders in the Bob’s Burgers writers room

You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen

"But lukan you must be exaggerating.. no one's calling anyone a fascist for saying writers should read!" *EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER NOISE*

Do the people who think chatbots are alive also worry that popcorn is angry at them because it's so loud?

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

Started playing Clair Obscur and I’m not surprised the internet went crazy over the barefoot party member

"If you listened to the campus left over the years.." Most adults actually don't spend much time thinking about what college students are up to. That's a bizarre hobby that only exists in the elite media clique.

“oh no, they added a movie normal people have heard of to the criterion collection” is a top 5 fakest problem of all time

Strip Law is crazy good

here's the thing about george r r martin: writing outlines for a genre fiction story is one of the funnest things you can do, and "writing" is Adonai's final punishment meted out to the human race. he's living the fucking dream

The Rainbow coalition platform he ran on in the 80s is to the left of modern Democrats

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Gender affirming treatment has an astonishingly high rate of satisfaction. You probably already know this, but I feel like we need to repeat it over and over.

Well, it's cool that Control 2 is probably already close to being done already at least rip

Imagine being this zonked

ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race

maintenance mode

It's Elmo's birthday

love that early american colonial vinyl siding

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

Successfully selling my friends on upgrading to OLED monitors

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

(huge bong rip) dude, what if you could like.... freeze things that weren't rent. dude.

this is The Time of the Oaf

The other night I dreamed that there was something like the Kardashev scale to see how advanced a civilization was but instead of measuring how much energy they had harnessed it was whether or not they had yet created SpongeBob