They’re playing pink pony club at the dentist’s office and I can hear the dentist humming along is this a good sign

I knew getting back on dating apps after 3.5 years away would suck but my god the apps have gotten really bad haven’t they.

I just asked the woman working at my supermarket where the relish is for a potato salad. She said “you’re not putting that in potato salad,” walked out from behind her counter and made sure I got every single ingredient for a proper East German one.

Between Weapons, 28 Years Later, Sinners and now Alien Earth, I feel like horror fans are eating good

Couple sitting across the aisle from me on this train with a bunch of labubu keychains were watching No Country for Old Men on an iPad. They then started making out while the movie continued playing. I’m not entirely sure I didn’t hallucinate them.

"The problem is when you get these billionaires who maybe haven’t matured as fast as their finances have, they think these are great ideas, and they push them, and then unfortunately, the rest of us have to deal with them." www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

So far the three sentences of Polish I have remembered from childhood have been enough to get my train ticket checked and to buy a coffee. Someone please tell my mom so she can finally be proud of me.

If you wanna talk to the actual godfather of AI talk to Frank Rosenblatt, who created the perceptron, one of the first practical neural networks. You might not reach him though he died in 1971.

There are Mentats everywhere for those with eyes to see.

This is a FASCINATING article. Tbh I knew OnlyFans creators were automating messages, but I didn’t realize how broad-based AI support is. I kinda assumed there’d be a stronger anti-AI sentiment in the adult industry. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

A few months ago I wrote my first play, a very short one-act horror story. Today I get to see it performed. This is such an incredible feeling.

Tapping the sign theonion.com/this-war-wil...

It says a lot that an organization that made a big deal out of stopping local endorsements felt so threatened by Mamdani that they basically broke that promise but in a way to keep what I assume they think is plausible deniability.

Topical creams always seem fake to me. You’re telling me I can absorb pain relief through my skin? Ok homeopath

We do know that amateurs can already post their writing right? There's no real barrier to doing that. What this means is that the Washington Post will be selling their brand credibility to anybody with an AI.

Wore a suit for a wedding in Montreal and made sure everyone took enough photos to last me a few years.

I’m in Montreal for the first time in a decade and I am sorry to Berlin but I have a new love.

There’s a couple, mid 40s, sloppily making out in this bookshop, like teens. I love this for them.

I’ve been a bit distracted but yesterday I hit the anniversary where Berlin is the city I’ve lived in the longest in my adult life. I’m glad this is home ❤️

I’m in the hospital for a few days (mysterious fever don’t worry) but my roommate not only looks like, has a name that sounds similar to mine but I just found out he has the same symptoms as me???

We used to be a proper society

When my therapist says “oh that’s interesting” I know I’m about to get read to filth

I remembered my first year stats class well enough today to help someone with a problem and I want to take that experience and bring it to my stats professor who told me I “should never pursue the sciences.”

kevin roose literally spends 75% of the article defensively preempting the obvious criticism (see comments on original post) and yet people are still mad at him (the author, not the featured ai researcher). not beating the "didn't read the article" allegations

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

I know these decisions are made long in advance but it feels particularly bad that Hogwarts Legacy is available for free on PlayStation Plus the same week the UK Supreme Court ruled against trans women in a legal battle JK Rowling funded

I asked Siri for the weather forecast and instead got Maxwell’s Silver Hammer blasted at me from every speaker in my house, which really goes to show me for trusting technology.

Oh no an exposed nipple??

Trans people will always exist and all this ruling does is hurt people that are just trying to live.

Wow I wonder if anyone else in history ever tried using this defense. Maybe it even has a catchy name?

The guy checking tickets at this Vivaldi concert barely glanced at mine. “I don’t think anyone is going to sneak in here,” he said. I think I found a new hack for next time.

Apologies to the three books I packed on this trip, but I will instead be doing an Anne Rice re-read.

Fun fact the German word for outer space is “All” which you’d think would mean “everything” but actually comes from the Middle High German meaning “god.” So when we say someone went to outer space we say they went to god.

I’m doing a playwriting workshop this weekend and it crystallized why I think generative AI should be nowhere near art creation:

Noah Kahan needs to understand that winter is over so I’m no longer depressed and he therefore has no right to show up in my shuffled songs.

Myazaki spent decades making films about how the human spirit gets crushed by the demands of capitalism and industry. You’d think anyone using AI to recreate his style would consider that before posting those cheap knockoff images.

workshopping severance bits is this anything I’ve got a fever and the only cure is ms cobel

I can’t get over the idea that someone’s innie is a band geek #severance

He has a green card. They didn’t care. I don’t know how anyone in American can feel safe right now.

This is literally just the plot of Bioshock

I love how half of Severance theories are like “the score shifts down to a flat whenever we see Gemma, here’s what that means,” while the other half are “did you notice Ricken is writing another book.”

I’ve had the privilege to know a few of the people who worked or work at 538, and they’re without exception the most talented, kindest people I know. This is a huge loss for everyone.

Jesus

A lot will come down to how the new German government performs over the next four years. If nothing changes, expect the AFD to get even more votes in the next election. They benefit the most from resentment of the establishment.

Like everything else in Germany, these election results aren’t one clear message. They’re three or four, each worthy of their own attention.

I can tell I’m in my 30s because I saw a magpie today and for a microsecond understood how birdwatching might be fun

The Night Manager did this and it was great and it should never be done again.

How’s your day going? Because I just accidentally called my boss “dad” in a work call.

“Happy Friday!” I say in my morning meeting. “Everyone excited for Monday already?” I get a few laughs in the Teams call. I smile. The seconds pass, hurtling me closer to oblivion, as the universe continues its unrelenting pace.