Imagine making a product that successfully encourages people to kill themselves, then turning around and giving interviews about how incredibly much money it's going to be worth for you. Some of the worst people right now, in every way.

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Everyone: "Hmm? What was that?"

coffee will fix me

"Asshat" is not a word you should generally use in polite conversation. In polite conversation, you should instead use "Douthat".

If you're (still) on Twitter you're doing damage.

I think I may have broken my finger today, which appears to have been a bad thing to do for a job that involves a lot of angry typing.

Why does New York get everything

really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

the past 12 hours: okay you can have a little hope, as a treat

Whenever I take my phone out of its case I feel like a character in a prestige drama doing important business.

And every time it gets posted one should watch Moonstruck again.

There are more of us than there are of them.

A million people will leave New York? The rich will flee en masse? Pfft. I live on the Upper East Side. I'm at Citarella now. The blonde women in the New York or Nowhere hats on their way back from pilates are not pulling their kids out of Buckley and Spence to find out how the sushi is in Delaware.

If someone really rich is against something it's almost a guarantee that you, as a relatively good and decent person, should be for it.

New awareness campaign

Art is not real life. Art is a reflection of life. It is, at its best, a distillation, in pieces and fragments, of what it means to be alive. Protect art.

They want to keep you dumb, giggling at videos, and buying stuff.

Maybe the problem with billionaires is that there aren't enough of them. After all, everyone's only going to get a little bite.

For years, we've been accustomed to corporate owners doing a decent job in media and news, all in the pursuit of profit. That pursuit of profit (and power) is now leading to damage. Now it's up to those who care, whether about art or entertainment or news, whether you're a maker or the audience.

One thing i’d sure like to see the supposedly altruistic supposedly progressive rich people do is start new online news sites with powerful firewalls protecting journalistic integrity and freedom. The model isn’t broken, the model has been systematically shut down.

My son has two clocks in his room, and one is set an hour behind the other, and I've been after him for like a year or more to "Fix your clocks!" but he figures he just has to remember which one is right depending on whether it's daylight saving time or not.

I sincerely need people who have built LLMs into their daily routine to consider the implications of how they’re being fucked with

"Maybe they'll get tired before they come for us" has never ever been a winning strategy.

Apropos of nothing — www.fadeinpro.com/kb/content/1...

Contrary to popular belief Canadians don't spend *all* their time talking about healthcare, but even so I had two separate conversations this week re: people finding themselves suddenly in serious medical circumstances and the (public) machinery that immediately kicked into action to help them.

We need to teach email management in schools.

If you're getting a "beta version expired" message, please re-install the latest update from your personalized download link. (If you're using the demo, just re-install the latest demo.) (The person responsible has been fired, then beaten.)

There goes the universe putting a hat on a hat

It's America's Bathroom.

^near

Boy is this the truth.

Businesses model how customers should view their products. That's not to say it always works, but studios treat 99% of movies like they're just more content. Why wouldn't casual audiences treat them accordingly?

When you stir the water in the bathtub real, real fast, to a toy boat bobbing on top it sure looks like waves.

One may be tempted to say well, this doesn't have anything to do with me. Except eventually it will.

I’ve played with LLMs a fair amount and noticed something that these studies that show using LLMs degrading intellectual performance may not be picking up: What if having pretty good critical thinking skills makes LLMs less appealing/satisfying to use in the first place?

Rich doesn't mean you're smart. Rich doesn't even mean you're good at anything. The only thing rich necessarily means is that you're rich. And the fact that our system is expresssly geared to accelerate the growth of the wealth of the rich at the expense of everyone else is genuinely fucked.

In this photograph we see an unnamed man caught at the exact moment he realizes "Wait, I'm old and I'm rich, what the fuck do I care?"

I'm always amazed at how in Really Big Companies there's, like, one specific department that deals with one specific little thing, and if the issue you have bleeds outside of that purview it requires a Whole Other Specific Department to deal with it.

Some people have objected to Fade In Access being presented as an Open/Save location option in the new version 5. There is now an Preferences option as of v5.0.1 to disable Fade In Access integration.

You can tell a lot about a person by how easily money changes their mind. Sometimes everything.

Fade In v5.0.1 is finally available. I made it, right? It's still the weekend?

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

One should not have more than, say, 8-10 individual images in one's email signature.

Sometimes I think the differences between Linux distros are based on nothing more than the fact that someone realized, man, this will be so annoying for someone to have to deal with on two different systems.

I'm downgrading the OS version used to build the Linux packages so I've just rebuilt a new installation from scratch and it's so clean and perfect I don't want to touch it and ruin anything.

Put on PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE for family movie night last night. I've seen it probably, I don't know, a half-dozen times. Loved it last night more than ever. Tonally just a perfect tuning fork of a film.

There’s a reason there’s a cottage industry of videos called like “WHAT DID THE END OF FIELD OF DREAMS MEAN?” And it’s not our fault

Also I know I promised the 5.0.1 update within "a couple days". Look, I lied, all right? As it turned out, I just plain lied. Unless you are one of the people who thinks "a couple" means 4-5. This weekend, I promise, or I die trying.