Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it. But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted […]

to be sure, the reasons people believe untrue things are often very clearly downstream from lies told by politicians, billionaires etc who have both the means and motivation to intentionally shift the window. but you can't take your mental state "I'm 100% confident it's a lie" and apply it to […]

And yet another reason of thousands to not get Covid in the first place... Long COVID May Increase Your Heart Disease Risk Long COVID was associated with a substantially higher risk for new-onset cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly cardiac arrhythmias and coronary artery disease, in […]

win by opponent's pre-move https://www.chess.com/live/game/167512228464 #chess

It's a measurement for how much magical power you have left, in a mana of speaking.

If you're scheduled to be the concert pianist, but when you arrive the Yamaha grand has broken down, just use a handheld keyboard that needs to be squeezed, and everything will go accordion to plan.

The street finds its own uses for the master’s tools

Copycat implies the existence of pastedog

Isn't it strange that everybody's house has a special machine with the sole purpose of cooking already-cooked bread?

The existence of Les Misérables implies the existence of Les Biens

The US President is praising Allah and the President of Iran is defending the Pope. Welcome to 2026.

Newsgroups: net.slow.announce, soc.fraud Subject: PSA scam alert There is an Excessively Multi Posted fraud in progress where Slow Zone planets are advised that they will be reassigned to the Unthinking Depths unless they accept audit by a Beyond Intelligence. This is not true, the unthinking […]

I went to a community fruit preserving event the other day. It was a bit of a jam session. #puns

So I was at Bunnings on the weekend, wearing my respirator of course. One of the staff member saw me, and loudly exclaimed “that's a great mask, what is it?” She said she tried to wear masks over winter, but didn't like the “usual ones” (not sure if she was talking about surgical or proper […]

If the Cars in that Pixar universe can get sick, does that mean they have an auto-immune system 🤔

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@Paul_Taylor/116393432979937863 Google and Microsoft - the global email service duopoly - block other services in the name of "fighting spam". I get it. Spam is a perpetual arms race. But the opaqueness of Google and Microsoft's practices and decades-long predatory […]

Anyone interested in solving the problem of e.g. Instagram-driven anorexia would be much better off banning Instagram's machine-learning algorithms whose entire job is to get vulnerable young women trapped in cyclical problem behaviors, not getting involved in draconian liability regimes where […]

If all you do in your tech career is: 1. When something is slow, you look carefully at the output of a profiler or a query plan & make measured suggestions about what to improve; 2. When something breaks badly, you gently but insistently ask what & why until you truly know, then the next time […]

I really despise how risky hospitals are for respiratory transmission today. Its mitigatable right up to the point you have an issue that makes it not mitigatable. Hospitals should not be a place of unmanaged risk resulting in health danger. #COVIDisAirborne

guy who only knows i18n, trembling: and... this 'l33t' you speak of?

[gifted kid burnout] gifted kid burnout results in the conditioning "everything worth doing can be made easy." i think that covers every case i've seen so far. the gifted kid -> grifter pipeline exists because grifters are just people who never stop taking shortcuts. the burnout happens […]

“If you give ppl UBI, everyone’s just going to be making pots or painting or something!” Good!! Good! Can’t express how much more I want to fill my home with pots and paintings than with a stovetop that inexplicably connects to the internet.

Elo per covid infection (unusual units)

if, in order to achieve your out-of-control doomsday robot scenario, a trillion dollars worth of human effort must be expended annually, and if any of it stops for even a moment than the whole thing implodes and grinds to a halt, _you can stop worrying_ that it is "the machines" which dominate us

the idea that a "singularity" is possible is just the idea that you can turn "mistaking a sigmoid for an exponential" into a millenarian religion

One thing about Docs as Code is that it comes with a built-in consensus mechanism, at least among the devs If you make a doc in Confluence, you have to build consensus around it separately, at which point the doc is superfluous at best and probably doesn't actually reflect the consensus as […]

life is made from DNA, while chips are made from NDA

Columnist: I'm standing up for what I believe in! Protecting women's sport! And I'll keep standing up for it, no matter how much those snowflakes try to silence me and my right to free speech! Citizen: That's fantastic! You know, female athletes have to put up with so much vicious misogyny and […]

existence of grad school implies the existence of degree school and radian school

to admit that slop "works" requires qualifying that "works" to an extremely narrow sense. you can shit out a lot of foamy crap that produces some kind of result. but when you ask "okay, and how do you maintain it" or "how does it work" or "why did you do it this way" the answer is always "idk […]

Witch came first.

Robin Peter. Toupee Paul.

Elo per covid infection (unusual units)

[US Pol: I'm so tired of hearing about "cognitive decline"] I could imagine an excellent president who also had strange bruises on his hands. I feel like this is a way of dodging the real issue. It's not the health struggles, whatever they may be that are the problem, is the bad decisions, bad […]

You wanted me to be more honest, I became more honest. You wanted me to be more reliable and responsible, I found a way to do it. You wanted me to be less clingy and more emotionally stable, and I worked on myself until I was. You wanted me to stop performing in our conversations, and I don’t […]

I don't own a car. I take public transit everywhere, and I do think personal vehicle use has real environmental costs. But I don't think driving is inherently unethical. I live in Seoul, and the city makes transit easy for me. That's not a virtue. It's a condition I happen to benefit from. Some […]

The train just passed a presumably disused length of track where they have stored many hundreds of glass windows upright right across the tracks, presumably waiting to be used to rennovate a station somewhere. And I can’t stop thinking about a miscommunication leading to a very loud, very […]

@offby1 @pythonbynight @bitprophet "LLMs will take away what's so great about [_____]." "The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing." "You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental [...] until three […]

seed corn offsets

This is what upsets me about the "enthusiastic junior engineer" explanation. The value in mentoring an enthusiastic junior engineer is that you'll have a capable senior engineer at the end of it.

@pythonbynight @bitprophet And here is an excellent counter to my own argument: https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/ "People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has […]

Plastic surgeons are just doing the bust they can.

The Great Pillow Heist: It's a Take-Down

The existence of dependency manager implies the existence of codependency manager

Liberated Joke - Should we make this a sticker?

1. GenAI is probably going to impact us but how? Nobody knows. 2. The worst thing about GenAI isn't the technology, it's the shitty people: https://karlbode.com/the-problem-with-ai-is-shitty-human-beings [<must-read] 3. We can’t have a grown-up conversation on the subject because the […]

Purring is a form of **kinetic mind control** And any time someone designs an experiment to investigate this? A cat hops on their lap and makes them forget about-- about... something. That's funny. There was something I wanted to tell you all urgently but it just slipped my mind. 😽

The Great Pillow Heist: It's a Take-Down