imagine if they made a hammer and you bought the hammer and used the hammer for years and then halfway through building a house the people who made the hammer said "we're disabling your hammer in a month" and there was basically no tool available to replace it without a significant learning curve

Eye doctors: I hear you don’t like your new prescription. It takes a while for your eyes to adjust. Your brain has to get used to it. Give it a couple of weeks. Also eye doctors: Better with one or with two? One or two? How about three? Now back to one. How about one or four? What if I flipped […]

Since AGI is in the news again for some fucked up dipshit reason, let me again highlight the typical LessWrong-style bait and switch that underlies a huge contingent of AGI discourse: "X is doable in principle" becomes "X is doable by humans" becomes "X is doable by humans on a timeline within […]

Just a reminder about letting down your guard down indoors due to the relentless social pressure... > I’m extra pissed at myself for allowing the people who never stopped complaining about my choice to continue masking to influence my decisions about my health and […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

When you can't decide what outfit to wear #grammys #grammyawards #huntrix #audreynuna

The real achievement is how many times they get Serious People to say the words KPop Demon Hunters #kpopdemonhunters

How elites handle covid > Close contacts of the two positive cases were immediately tested. They returned negative results and were administered anti-virals. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-02/winter-olympics-2026-australia-staff-covid-19/106294228 #COVID #CovidIsNotOver

"no no no no. It's a common mistake. I can't pay you because my money is all *cryptid* currency. You know... mythical, rarely documented, possibly imaginary. I'd never use cryptocurrency that's a scam."

fearless and undefined behaviour

like, one might be tempted to say "noooo it's a constructed hypothetical that only admits these two options" but there's something really lovely about a union coming in and being like "ah, no, a different world is possible"

When the heatwave was at its worst, rolling electrical blackouts struck as air conditioners and refrigerators struggled to cope. In conditions where the heat index reaches the black zone, no amount of sweating or ventilation can prevent hyperthermia. I shudder to think what the death toll would […]

[KPop Demon Hunters, 😭] "the whole world will finally know that you're depraved" 😭

[KPop Demon Hunters (spoilers)] During Golden, Rumi taps into / manipulates the honmoon by swinging from a hoop from a crane During Free, she does the same by reaching out just in front of her, it's right there Trying too hard to be perfect #kpopdemonhunters

The brace of six manual typewriters caught my eye at this particular flea market stall. No, five, the sixth one was a galactinet terminal from a Carragon type seven starlugger. It doesn’t pay to appear too anxious. “Does the Smith-Corona typewriter run?” “Yeah. You can still get new old […]

when jumping out of an aeroplane always make sure you're wearing your parachute pants #kpopdemonhunters

"you'll be pummelled until there are no remains" yeah, that's exactly how Mira fights #kpopdemonhunters

I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently. Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]

Most striking in this video was the plea that people "get to know the project and the people" -- Open issues, known bugs, feature requests... it's like some people think that you could just run AI and close them all and the development would be done. But software development is a conversation […]

Should be the same standard of "in fear of his life" for police officers and refugees #uspol

Story concept: An early alchemist does a long complex ritual to summon a demon (so it can help him find buried treasure) but, since he's a bit of a shy, sheltered guy, he says "darn you" rather than "damn you" and "to heck" rather than "to hell" when reading The Tome. So instead of a major […]

These AI companies are really different. - OpenAI: Used to be true believers but now mostly cynical scam - Microsoft: How garbage can we make office and people still pay any markup? - Google: Sure we can throw AI everywhere as well. No we still don't have product management or strategy - […]

"You could win a rook" ok but I'm winning a queen #chess

fearless and undefined behaviour

A note about the Queensland government's ban on puberty blockers. It's still just a ban on the state's *public* health system providing these. It's still legal to see a doctor privately for these. Locally or interstate. We can crowdfund this care for the kids who can't afford it. #auspol #qldpol

[KPop Demon Hunters, 😭] "the whole world will finally know that you're depraved" 😭

thieves stealing pillows of the finest feathers, it's a takedown

do they ever have angel hair pasta on buffy

Anyways, a few things that I'm sure everyone here knows but that bear repeating anyways: 1. Vaginoplasty in women who lacked a vaginal cavity is older than knee replacement surgery by a lot. The first (admittedly primitive) bowel substitution vaginoplasty is roughly contemporary with open heart […]

oh. The "Ants in Space Book" ? It should be called "The Formi Paradox"

Coprolites aren't my favorite fossil but they're a solid number two. #dadjokes #paleontology

nobody puts baby saja in a corner

What would the world look like if AI was real? I don't think it'd be limited to a few lousy chatbots here and there, or a few IDEs that output mashed up boilerplate. I don't know exactly what it'd look like, but if the claims made by boosters were actually true, they'd imply a hell of a lot more […]

kpop and other kernel stack operations

Meta lost $77bn on VR? I guess it just didn't have legs.

After several months of umm-ing and ahh-ing, I handed in my notice at work this week. If anyone knows of a Canadian company looking to hire a remote senior web developer who will NOT be working on LLM-related functionality (or be required to use LLM-based development tools), please point me in […]

Sydney NDIS provider director accused of $3.6m fraud as cash seized at home https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-20/ndis-provider-director-allegedly-defrauded-millions-from-claims/106249802 Here's a thought: instead of demonising people with disabilities and referring to them as a "drain" on […]

if diaeresis means that two letters belong to separate syllables, should we also write pang̈ram or pang̈ender or hang̈ul or saïng̈eom

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115924835176638545 Never accept life-changing/mission-changing amounts of money from someone fundamentally opposed to your goals. It will subvert them.

wookie mind virus

Is accepting money from customers trying to enclose and take ownership over all human knowledge consistent with the project of making human knowledge freely accessible? Does accepting a customer of that form create a financial incentive to work against Wikipedia's own immediately stated principles?

I tried to change my password to "BeefStew" but the system told me that it's not stroganoff.

RE: https://masto.nyc/@baer/115907047321400677 I recently saw some wag label all scroll-focused time-eating phone use as "eye cigarettes” and it's stuck that way in my head now.

During Prohibition, whoever built the first underground speakeasy set a low bar.

vivado what the fuck does this mean

"I made a model of the Himalayas." "To scale?" "No, just to look at."

All fun and games until Björk mobilizes Icelandic elves to protect Greenland

You know, growing up in the Cold War, i did not expect that World War 3 would be the USA and Russia against NATO and the former Warsaw Pact countries.