I have sort of vaguely reactionary cultural preferences in that I don’t really care for the more twee kind of tumblr-inflected turn that a lot of sci-fi/fantasy lit has taken of late, but this is entirely the market rationally responding to who buys books. Dudes need to be more literate.

an underratedly cyberpunk thing was when that one sysadmin went insane in 2008 and locked the entire city of SF's network down because people weren't listening to his suggestions. my dad couldn't get paid for some stuff for a few days. Gavin Newsom had to meet him in prison to get the city passwords

some of the worst non-profit industrial complex people in LA crashing out about Nithya Raman is a pretty strong endorsement as far as I'm concerned, considering that being too influenced by those people is probably the main concern I would have about her

the thing about that Edward Said quote about every empire telling itself that it's mission is to civilize and enlighten rather than destroy is that for many if not most empires you usually *can* point out ways in which that was actually true, alongside all the killing and conquering.

once again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals

Restrict to ~20 mile land border jurisdiction, everyone hired after 2024 who you can’t lay charges on goes on the remote southern border in the summer and the remote northern border in the winter to encourage addition by subtraction, remove from DHS and put under DoI would I think be the start.

The Witcher knock off series about another caste of semi-reviled half-human mutants reluctantly tolerated by society at large, but they’re bred for securities regulation rather than monster killing.

Iron Bank of Bravos probably one of the more progressive forces in Westeros tbh. No one else is incentivized to care as much about cross-regime prosperity, stability, and good governance.

Gonna see if I can stick the landing by having a fuckup free ViaRail travel experience as well.

Why is Macron gamer-posting

Alligator Alcatraz I miss my pal Juan Diaz Now what else is there to do Unholy moly, me oh my From the city they took my guy Goons, I've never hated like I do you Man, oh man, this must somehow end I scream it to old John Brown's grave There's just one thing that I need

Identifying the arbitrage opportunity presented by fine dining restaurants. I bring my laptop, order one coffee every two hours. Lower markup than a coffee shop, better coffee. WeWorks everywhere for those with eyes to see.

really the most larger than life greek tragedy figure of living presidents. an apex politician perpetually undone by his own appetites, simultaneously extremely principled and craven. all politicians are to some extent of course, but it's just 100x with him.

Now that I have secured my checked bag and cleared customs I’m comfortable calling it: this is the first Air Canada flight where nothing has gone wrong. Arrived and left on time. They didn’t lose anything. We did it.

Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords

I think the trick to using Claude Code for data science and causal inference stuff is breaking it into as many verifiable chunks as possible. You have to consciously build robustness checks into your own workflow earlier than you would if you were actually coding.

academics have been writing about the impact of The Nether Wall, The Rampart of Out Dark, The Fortification of Salt and Ash, on Trump for almost a decade now but go off I guess

Woke 2 is firing on all cylinders and ahead of schedule, I didn't have "the president has to retract his nakedly racist social media posts" on the calendar until july

The Lion is listening and learning from the concerns that the sheep community have raised.

You’re so right: those were civilians, not combatants! I apologize for the error. How bad is it: -Clear violation of the Laws Of Armed Conflict -There appear to be multiple casualties -Steps in the escalation of force protocols (the “Kill-Chain”) were NOT followed Next steps: ☑️ Find next of…

I’m not like going into hySteyerics but i think that of an overall kinda meh field Steyer is who I like for governor.

sorry ChatGPT bootlickers... I'll be over here using the liberal democracy supporting Claude

Thank you for flying Air Canada Economy Basic! Please keep the following in mind when flying Bitch class: -No carry on allowed -Please indicate your language preference (FR/EN), you will be addressed in the opposite -Aeroplan members may spit on, kick you

I do not support Sam Wang’s candidacy. We cannot allow political scientist jobs to be taken by neuroscientists.

it’s funny how readily it translated it.

I do not support the Flesh-King’s plan to bring about the Blood-Moon by enacting the Murder-Sacrament. It goes too far and is not in keeping with our values.

I am DEVASTATED that Will Stancil would betray us like this.

why are you all so into that canned midwestern state school cheese?

One of the best things about sports is the weird idiosyncratic histories of teams, each one has a a story, many of which doesn’t start with their current city. For example LA ‘Lakers’ are called that because they’re originally from Minnesota, and Boston, a normal city, has an NFL team that is evil.

Yes, yes!

Does anyone have the original screenshots of this? It looks like the original tweet has been deleted (QT of me at the time). x.com/opinonhaver/...

I downloaded java one time for one thing three years ago, something that will evidently result in me getting aggressive popups for the rest of the time I own this computer

apple seems to be getting worse in a lot of ways but I've had an account with iCloud, messages, etc longer than I've had a driver's license so I'm kinda stuck in the the whole ecosystem

I think I’m kind of flipping a little on public records/availability of body cam footage. The cottage industry of YouTube videos of people having their worst day ever (some of whom are never even charged) is pretty gross. There’s not really a compelling public interest there, it’s just titillation.

This is an irritating website to be on when democrats do something that’s not perfect but basically fine because the two relations people have to the party are OUR PERFECT FIGHTERS TRY SO HARD, ONLY TO BE STABBED IN THE BACK and THE FECKLESS COWARDS HAVE LEFT US TO DIE ONCE AGAIN

If you urinate standing, do you use the little hatch in the underwear? 1️⃣ Always 2️⃣ Often 3️⃣ Rarely 4️⃣ Never 📊 Show results

Eating the apple core is: 1️⃣ Weird 2️⃣ Normal without seeds 3️⃣ Normal with or without seeds 📊 Show results

the thing is that even the most monstrous governments possible contained a lot of people doing unambiguously good and necessary work because the modern state does a lot of things. there were civil engineers under Stalin

the midterms will show us if the oblivion remaster counts

ahh so this is what Kamala's announcement was about

The orange peel one is a little weird, I’ll own that. But eating apple cores being normal is a hill I’ll die on.

No more doppelgängers. We are *done* with doppelgängers.

A fun Bluesky thing is that people will arrogantly condescend to you about insane opinions that cannot have more than like 200 adherents total as though you are the weirdo for not holding them. “this mf eats food WARM 🤮”

My cover is blown, the yanks are onto me, Mr. Carney I need extraction NOW

Slowly replace everyone in apartment building with paid agents/actors, except one guy. One of the actors becomes his friend. Offer him a “really intense trippy drug”. Take it in apartment. Totally insert substance. Various pyrotechnics and special effects around him that no one else reacts to.

I don’t know if “in the pedophile billionaire files, but not considered cool enough to get into the sex parties despite clearly desperately wanting to” is that much better than just being in them tbh

Imfdb probably the stupidest thing on the internet that I love the most. There is no reason that I *need* to know that henchman 5, seen for five seconds, had an FN200 with an trijcon sight (likely replica). This is totally useless information to me. But do I want to know it? Yes.

It’s a tough burden being one of the few dozen who hold this objectively correct opinion, but it’s our cross to bear 😔

GROK IS A KULAK

Claude? Bourgeois. ChatGPT? Lumpen. Gemini? Gentry. Deepseek? Comprador. Hugging Face? Trick question. Superstructure. Copilot? Smallholder.