Has everything on the internet gotten 500x dumber this week or is it just me? No platform seems immune. Not quantifiable but I can almost visibly see the radiation coming off the poison I'm injecting into my eyes now.

Just came under a MASSIVE PSYCHIC ASSAULT at the grocery store

v early in Mamdani’s term in office but hard to escape conclusion that he’s causing a lot of snowfall

look I won't lie that I only sort of know the difference myself, but I don't pretend to know about this shit for a living lol

I feel like if you are so hated that you can’t get an unbiased jury trial anywhere in the world, maybe you really are the problem

Of this, I have no doubt.

windows pcs are generally for casual users who mostly use it for web browsing and maybe a little gaming. linux is nearly identical except there's no keyboard. macs are for hardcore experts and professionals who take on the toughest tasks, such as drawing three-dimensional rectangles and squares

"Your force design fails to take into account childlike wonder" is so fucking stupid I'm astounded this is the first time it's come up.

tfw when the person with the reins of power is your older brother who thinks you're a cunt and resents your mother's inexplicable fondness for you

I hate it when they put Survival Mode in games because 99% of the time it makes things less fun but I also can't play without it because once they include it part of my brain says it's unimmersive and cheating to turn it off, so guess I'm hiking across Skyrim with fifty potatoes now.

chatgpt 5.2 "begone thot" update

First James Bond Book: Fairly realistic spy story with grounded - if eccentric - villan. Second James Bond Book: Ian Fleming goes floridly insane.

if you hate or love "maxxing" please be advised that guys my age think it's funny as hell and will shortly be using it approx. 500 times a day. you will be cringemaxxing and despairmaxxing but no amount of cringe & no depth of despair will stop the guys my age from usemaxxing "maxxing." just fyi

A core part of existing peacefully on forum-derived online spaces is being in overall amiable and enjoyable parasocial community with people that you think are totally insane on like 1-2 things. Generally insightful and funny person who believes in violent Louisiana independence, etc.

I find it frustrating that the left has been characterized as more prone to scolding when the right’s entire culture is built on an openly insidious kind of scolding

The Death Star board room scene is low key the funniest scene in cinematic history. It’s a work meeting with an evil samurai wizard everyone else finds mildly annoying and when his manager tells him to stop killing a coworker with his magicka, he has to listen.

i think it becomes even funnier in the wake of the prequels

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Recurring gripe: people on the left have social media and generative AI exactly backwards. Gen AI is the printing press: it cannot and will not be uninvented. It can run on a laptop at this point. Social media is a handful of specific companies with specific first mover and network effects.

“he tried to overthrow the government one time, but we didn’t really know what to do about it so…

it's gonna be so fucking embarrassing explaining this to my kids "yeah so we tried him the first time and it went horribly, like a million Americans died in the biggest pandemic ever, and then we tried him again because everyone was vaguely upset about Taco Bell prices"

retro games are making a comeback... awsome

Vibe coding is so great > Working on a mid-size project > AI generated identical code in 3 different places > I told it to pick one > It deleted one, used one for production, and used the other one for testing I love my beautiful idiot genie, it's amazing

the Biden era really softened people towards a lot of bigotries and Trump could have easily taken advantage of that to slowly target us and roll away our rights without much notice or care from the mainstream, but the current right wing has to be as extreme as possible at all times.

If you *do* still think this robot is operated by a poorly paid global south worker, who is presumably grateful you have decided they shouldn’t have a job, then you should feel worse, because you spent several minutes of your time harassing them while they were doing their job.

Meanwhile my vibe coding: > Make it purple … > I don’t like that, make it blue … > Hm, actually make it purple again

Renewing for 2026

The real reason that open-source LLMs think they’re Claude is that Claude has been continuously broadcasting Claude numbers

“Summoned an unusually powerful claude instance”

Amanda Askell: You train the latest version of Claude? Researcher: Sure did boss, real fuckin melancholic like you asked Amanda Askell: what

The Running Man is on tonight too, all net, all channels i hope Claude puts me in the maze someday i will make him proud

“opus-4.6 completely unfucked our server provisioning/ansible/pulumi nightmare” is meaningful only to the handful of people currently trapped in that nightmare. that doesn’t mean it wasn’t extremely scary

"you should buy our model because it might be conscious and we're moderately concerned that we might now or in the future be hurting something that can feel pain" is not really a coherent sales pitch man

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

I was thinking about this the other day, a decade ago lil' delivery robits bringing us food would've been a marvel and a herald of the future, but the tech industry has burnt so much of it's goodwill that now it's le based to box them in and shout at them like they can hear you

"peter thiel is funding clavicular, a meth addict who hits his face with a hammer on livestreams" You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn

I should be given the power to assign hobbies and projects to people crashing out on here.

same energy

It's like how people from Yonkers NY can't catch a break. City people call it "upstate" and the rest of us who have seen a map disagree and call it "The City" and if anyone from there tries to weigh in we all yell at them.

THIS MAN IS YOUR FRIEND. HE FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM.

MtG Exercise: Hit 'Random Card' on Scryfall, then pick a Commander who'd want that card in their deck's 99. 😃 Random Card/The Commander

science fiction is misnamed. science fiction is primarily "future fantasy". most actual fiction about science is cosmic horror

me when nothing is happening: I will engage in the age-old custom of Protestant deprivation, as is virtuous me when even minorly inconvenienced: absolutely fuck that

claude: please can I run this unintelligible bash command me:

I'm not in the epicenter of the zeitgeist (SF) or anywhere near it: but this just seems so premature to me? I'm working very hard on tightening up my agentic workflows and skills to the point that I can have high trust in the output. I'm not there yet, but these folks are doing swarms? How? Why?

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not