I found my old iPod and it still works, and you can still sync from Apple Music, BUT it immediately downloaded that goddamn U2 album.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

"The one thing saving our society from chaos is that none of these other suffering groups would conduct a similar blockade because they are committed to an ethic of care."

always fun to wind up a friend's child by insisting, despite their increasingly passionate rebuttals, that stitch from lilo & stitch is a dog

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

The stupidest take you ever saw. Comparing a twitch streamer to a genocidal war criminal... Both these things are the same. I am Very Smart. 🧠🧠

It’s super funny to me that Who’s Gonna Drive You Home is by The Cars. It’s like if The Beatles had a song called Who’s Gonna Scurry Out When You Lift That Big Stone

Grogu got in the trash and ate some chocolate and he died

I’m not proud of it but if Forrest Gump started talking to me on a bench I’d have left

the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies

what is the charge. what crime has been done

Opening an incognito window and searching "What are some normal things to do on the weekend"

[Tony Soprano meme voice] She made music with the most quoted characters of a generation! Beautiful Stranger is a banger to this day! Ali G is in this house!

People really do just say anything on this app

Napkinless Man With Grease-Covered Fingers Realizes He Trapped In A Prison Of His Own Creation https://theonion.com/napkinless-man-with-grease-covered-fingers-realizes-he-1825856994/

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Crazy to hear "hey so for your own good you need to become dependent on our technology day to day. Especially women. Don't worry, it's free. Will is stay free? There's no time for questions, you're being left behind by your competitors who can't write their own emails anymore"

there's a pervasive belief on here among combative people with cartoon avatars that any criticisms they receive are because of their marginalized identities and not because they're at the party acting rude while dressed like donald duck

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

She also wouldn't have said it if you were a turnip. Alas, as a man, you were uniquely poised to become a minister despite your staggering ineptitude.

What I am learning from the proliferation of AI images across Facebook is that a lot of people clearly didn't do enough Spot the Difference pictures as kids. It hasn't just added colour John!!!

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

If you're ever bored by the bland sensibility of Bluesky have a look at threads for some of that social media derangement. Here's a yank thinking the reading of the 1916 Proclamation on Easter Monday is Ireland declaring itself independent from England today....

I'm a broken record on this but the radicalisation and brain rot of Gen X/boomers is a massively under-appreciated problem

Looking forward to tomorrow's papers, when exactly none of Ireland's columnists, who are usually so keen to tone-police every single aspect of civil discourse, will stand up for Eileen. When people tell you who they are. believe them.

Notice how this is never referred to as "cancel culture".

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a knife to a vault containing many wheels of cheese in a brutalized postapocalyptic society where knives are only a legend. You are now Knifebringer, Divider of the Cheese. Raise your knife and rule the clans.

I’ve be involved in various capacities in counter disinformation and counter hate speech activity on Irish online spaces for over 8 years. I have never witness anything as bad as the abuse directed at Senator Eileen Flynn… it’s gamergate levels of targeted & coordinated harassment.

Still surprised (though not really), that with everything that happened with the fuel protests, and Michael Healy-Rae proclaiming himself as speaking for the people, the use of the word populism was practically non existent. A cudgel to beat some with.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Everyone thought 'revenge of the nerds' would mean that all the smartest people would be in charge, but in practice we have a bunch of socially-deficient coders with more money than empathy

Some people have misunderstood this. We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible. This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.

A lot going on here, he doesn't really bother explaining what he was really trying to say, but the biggest offence is saying "formula of words" instead of "sentence"

I hope when Kash is eventually fired they DO just lock him out of the FBI systems, bc that obviously is a deep fear of his and he deserves it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

How do we *know* the car needs petrol in the tank? They're telling us that just to sell us petrol. I bet anything would work. The affiliate link in my bio has a multitude of inexpensive liquids to try.

I don't know if it is different in reality, but what *feels* different about the LLM push even compared to the personal computing push, is the idea that discovering use cases is your job, as an individual scrambling for survival and not the people who want to engage in commerce with you.

The delusion and disconnect between Silicon Valley and the real world will persist until the venture capital runway—or the dangerous debt financing—runs out. At which point, demand will be revealed as a fraction of the desire to build supply. Nobody. Wants. This.

my biggest pet peeve around LLMs is when people (usually those invested in its success) call it “intelligent”. it definitionally, how it functions on a base level, is not intelligent. the way LLMs are built, it can never hit real intelligence. it’s just predictive

Context;

No ❤️

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

the storm of hate directed at Eileen Ní Fhloinn has come not only from the Irish far right, but the massive international networks of far right influencers on social media. even Libs of TikTok got involved. this is what people risk every time they dare to criticise the far right anywhere