Did he misspell solitaire in a drunken stupor?

Would anyone have a gift link for this piece? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

Saw Serena Williams out here promoting GLP-1/fat reduction shots and felt like it was time to tap the MFing sign

Not easiest to just not use it. Especially if the noose is tightening at workplaces in the form of incorporating AI in your workflows.

Curse be upon colleagues who start a Teams meeting 5 mins EARLY and drive you into a panic to finish what you were working on

There used to be a time I took semi nudes and had several people to send to. Now it's just one person who routinely sees me naked anyway. I miss dating sometimes.

Our anger for LLMs using em dash is displaced. The real culprits are the ones whose data trained chatgpt to do this. Look what you did with your punctuation!

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

My theory is that if we taxed most of these people without telling them and the people they pay to manage their money didn't tell them, they'd never notice. And if you'd never notice you should be taxed even more.

You cannot put anything past anyone these days

This is the 4th largest economy in the world as the ruling party would tell anyone who cares to hear. Bombay is the financial capital of the country. Home to the country's richest. But for most people, basic commute is either unaffordable or dangerous. I am full of shame for where we are.

House of Leaves for the first book I ever read that referenced a viral thing from the internet

American conservatives are scary

It should be news if Google functions as a search engine, not the other way around

Opening Bluesky in the morning and confronted with the login page. Why was I locked out? I get that I don't post here enough. But, my god, you didn't have to slam the door on me.

Didn't realise Hulk Hogan was hated. All I ever knew was that he was "some famous wrestler".

Is it celebrity pandemic? 3 people have died in this week alone.

If everyone can make apps then everyone will make and use their own apps. Is this going to be the decentralised web we keep asking for?

At work, they have foisted on me an overenthusiastic, gen z, mansplainer who is chaotic, unorganized and speaks in MBA jargon It's like working with chatgpt except its somehow worse

I need to incorporate afternoon naptime in my workdays. This relentless pursuit of tasks through the working day is not sustainable. I need a long, drooling-on-my-pillow break.

Coming as I do from a BBC comedy background, I have a shitload of suggestions for how to make great television programmes more cheaply (such as not budgeting them at $10m+ per episode) none of which anyone is interested in. They don’t want cheaper TV. They want cheaper people.

I haven't bothered to learn the nuance of the Target Shoplifter Indian discourse. But how is this different than any other shoplifter ever?

My family lore is passed on to me in oral history form even in 2025

I feel about Gen AI exactly the way I felt about Bitcoin Unfortunately, the bubble won't burst, it will only fizzle out and we will never have the opportunity to call out the fools who perpetuated this hype.

The only thing that ages worse than comedy is comedians

I have been trying to "bake" but I don't have an oven. Now I have been hunting for chocolate chip and sea salt cookies on stovetop and none exist? The internet has really fallen.

Really appreciate the little up arrow on the bottom left

People like Hasan Minhaj have to peddle products to keep their YouTube podcasts afloat?

Am I overworked? No Do I love my job? No Can I continue? Also, no braindread.substack.com/p/running-to...

Are white people unable to comprehend the concept of two races?

I need to start assaulting some political workers

The reason LLMs are popular is bc, for a large part, people are forced to do work no one actually wants, needs, or cares about bc of idiotic policies, bad management, & broken processes So if no one wants, needs, or cares about the work but still requires it be completed, an LLM is perfect

My TL is full of American politics. How do I change this? Am I destined for Twitter? I have been trying to make this place work since over a year and it's been difficult. I feel like an alien.

S4 and I am finally starting to get annoyed by Carmy. Troubled genius is the worst kind of a trope. Men worrying about their passions and killing the whole vibe for everyone don't need to be made into protagonists.

Average episode of The Bear: A-Plot: Carmy struggles to decide if his passion for cooking remains. B-Plot: Sydney is conflicted about working with Carmy. C-Plot: Richie tries to co-parent with his ex-wife. D-Plot: The Faks have to transport a 4-tier wedding cake through a plate glass factory.

Is this the start of something beautiful?

How about we: Move slow and make long-lasting things

AI is being advertised as the complete proletarianization of daily life. Soon you won't need to know anything, even how to talk to people or remember facts about your kids. The machine will know for you. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/m...

I was devastated to learn recently that a bunch of this movie was shot in... Canada?

My housing society WA group has been seeing a multi-day long discourse on Sintex water tanks. It continues unabated. I tried to keep up for fun. Not anymore.

It seems to me that T-rump is very much like ChatGPT. His answers to your questions vary greatly based on how you ask those questions. He does not in fact have any opinions or insights into anything, but chains together words in a way that seems like he is expressing an opinion.

Succumbing to the dopamine hits 'views' get me on Substack, I am back to peddle my blog. braindread.substack.com

I guess you could say the people who thought Andrew Cuomo ran a better campaign than Zohran Mamdani were sequestered in echo chambers and out of touch with what people offline wanted out of a candidate

is there any reliable search engine left? I really don't want to use AI as an alternative for search and then go through all the sources

My partner is veryyyy happy reading this. I only found out this morning that he subscribes to my substack.

Wrote the only thing I am very confident about. Lol. It's slightly long. But read?

Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

AI can be useful when it's put to useful tasks like early identification of cancer cells. The problem is we're putting it towards "freeing" us from the burden of thought instead. This is creating a cognitive debt in people.

I went through the trouble of pirating Lake Mungo and it didn't even scare me. That's saying something because I am such a wuss, even horror reels scare me.