The first definitive case of Poster's Madness in the historical record occurred in Athens in 399 BCE

ok setting aside really obvious stuff that goes without saying... - Cat's Cradle - if you try to make me narrow Le Guin to just one or two I'll be forced to demand pistols at dawn, so I'll just say "something by Le Guin"

one small silver lining re: Platner is that that primary may help convince senior elected Democrats that yes, their own base absolutely will eat them alive if they try to repeat their "uwu holding these people accountable would be so mean :(" routine from 2019-2025

libcom enough that not even a quiz that doesn't acknowledge that libcoms exist could hide it lol

the only actual reason to be unhappy about Nolan making the Odyssey is if you, like me, think he's a self-indulgent hack whose movies make the world a more annoying place lol

me omw to the Ren Faire

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter need to get the corporate equivalent of an execution by gunshot to the back of the head the very first day of the next administration

Egg who spends 6 hours a day at the gym to prove she's totally cis, call that cisyphus

we need some kind of licensing exam before you're allowed to use llm-generated code or use an llm to answer technical questions. I'm so tired of having to tell people "no the code you sent me doesn't actually do the thing" or "actually the answer the llm gave is 2 years out of date, here's the docs"

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

If anyone was looking for a fun new way to reference It, I just learned about this and "at sunrise the following day there would occur a historic incident" is an absolute all-timer

Is there an actual technical reason QTs can't have the same granular permissions as replies? I realize a badly behaved app can just ignore the interaction settings and render the link as a quote anyway, but that's true of the hide-quote-if-blocked behavior too and we still have that

When it's definitely not a bubble

I feel like the basic idea in danluu.com/p95-skill/ also applies to generative AI right now. In a lot of domains it's equivalent to, like, an 80th %ile or whatever practitioner, but 80th %ile is still *way* below an actually-skilled human because most people doing the thing are really bad at it

oh. oh that's not good. don't like that at all

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

hostile to bad coffee, maybe

Starmerism is an experiment to determine whether the UK parliament has a secret relegation system

Daily affirmation: It could happen today!

Once again engaging in open warfare with that rat bastard, calcium oxalate

just saw a Shadow the Hedgehog AMV set to an English version of Cruel Angel's Thesis. man, idk.

Endwalker was the worst FFXIV expansion story-wise

It's gotten clearer just about every year since at least 2010 that the whole US Constitutional system has stopped functioning. Unfortunately, absolutely *nobody* wants to find out what happens if you call a Constitutional Convention to try to fix it, and that's the only real mechanism available

a lot of people on bluesky with a sub-"play stupid games, win stupid prizes" level understanding of how to behave in social spaces

"my favorite pastime is poking the bear" ok, but you see how this might be an issue when coupled with your dislike of bear attacks

seems bad

Use it anyway

You can tell we've made genuine progress on security because local privilege escalations get hyped like this now lol. No RCE, no remote key disclosure, no hypervisor escape, literally just local user -> root

"is my insomnia coming back or have I just been paying too much attention to Events lately" and other 3am questions

"we should have a centrally planned economy and also guillotine anyone who understands a spreadsheet" *is* an incredibly stupid opinion, but I do also think a lot of people on here are way too eager to dismiss the question of exactly what is measured and how those measures are done

Tired: One Billion Americans Wired: One Billion *Californians*

*slaps the roof of California* you can fit so many Chicagos in this baby

remember the “i’m a smol bean why did you ban me mr mods” after talking out of pocket shows a real lack of poaster’s bushido.

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

Someone should unironically introduce Zizek to HSR. "gacha game about gods who exist purely as manifestations of & humans who gain magical powers through their commitment to particular ideologies" is the most Zizek shit imaginable

Someone should unironically introduce Zizek to HSR. "gacha game about gods who exist purely as manifestations of & humans who gain magical powers through their commitment to particular ideologies" is the most Zizek shit imaginable

Small business owners are the most reliable, diehard reactionaries on planet earth lol Present them with literally any progressive-coded proposal and they'll take it on faith that it would hurt them. No volume of evidence that it will actually benefit them will ever persuade them

all prod environments are bastards

A massive economic crash is basically our only hope for getting out of this long-term. We need progressives to have a trifecta for at least 8-10 years, even when bad things keep happening under them because of damage done before they retook power

The contrast between Obama's talent as an individual politician and total ineptitude as a political *leader* was such a cautionary tale and nobody anywhere on the political spectrum learned anything (except "fuck Obama" in some cases, I guess) from it lol

Intel *has* experience building and running fabs and even they can't seem to figure out how to build and run a fab these days

LLMs can do like 75% of a senior executive's job (the average senior executive can do about 60% of their job lol) so it's awfully interesting that we haven't seen companies slashing their number of SVPs

selling property in the settlements is evil, full stop

I wish these people would just go hang out on their own private mastodon instances rather than demanding that extremely-obviously-necessary rules never apply to them and their friends

wish people would keep their C programming language kinks to themselves