I know “performative male” is a tired schtick but is there maybe a social signaling component here, where people want to be *seen* reading and so pick a larger book with a bigger cover?

what is with these people and dogs?

I’m not worried about being replaced; if I and the other people on our team could get even 2x productivity from AI we’d be thrilled. If we could get 1000x, we still wouldn’t run out of things to do. We’re not getting 2x yet. Maybe 1.1x.

Coders freaking out that it's replacing them and extrapolating from their extremely weird domain (as in: unusual among knowledge work) to "all of work" is going to be a major theme of 2026 and kind of embarrassing by 2027.

my mom died of metastatic colorectal cancer at 59. she died of it because she lost insurance & couldn’t afford colonoscopies or other screening to detect it early. when she was diagnosed, the prognosis was 10 years. she made it 2. this should never happen to anyone in a supposedly great country.

James Van Der Beek, who starred in the teen drama series "Dawson’s Creek," has died at 48

humanoid girls are always doing this

I moved to Tumbler Ridge ten days ago for a job. All I can say is this is truly awful awful for this small town. My heart goes out to my new neighbours in their grief.

Ugh this school shooting in BC is hitting me hard

There is not a 1 in 10 chance of that. I would put the chance of that at 0.0000% or lower

Does this mean that Irish artists will make more from UBI than Canadian grad students on RAships? (seems to come out to roughly 27k CAD at that weekly rate)

I saw the Pogues in Toronto last year but Andrew was not on the latest tour because of his health issues. Very sad news. COPD sucks.

Aw man. Sad to hear this.

You should see what AI VCs are posting about lawyers and accountants on LinkedIn, it's nuts

Realizing how much of the wellness industry is marketing cattle derived products is a real They Live sunglasses moment

This kind of warrantless police and government access to subscriber information is what Mark Carney is hoping to put in place in Canada by the way (which he initially proposed as part of a bill cracking down on migrants, but would apply to everyone in the country) openmedia.org/article/item...

For a second I was like “Damn, is Threads getting good?” and then I actually read the posts

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

re: discussion on LLM interfaces and the suitability of chat interfaces, I'm beginning to wonder if part of the issue is UI/UX metaphor creep because of programmer familiarity with shell and REPLs

Silicon Valley is very much tweaking a sleeping tiger’s tail these days.

Really cool thread!

Today I tried out "Cinny", an open-source, federated, end-to-end-encrypted Discord alternative. After about six minutes, it made a beeping sound which I could not trace back to any particular event or message which occurred. So as you can see they've already captured the Discord experience

Me in Caves of Qud rushing through the rainbow wood while my companions get eaten by slimes

Wow this design looks awesome

Post-secondary library science teachers makes little sense to me and makes me mad?

me: hey man you want anything from the store 32 year old guy who should've graduated from college ages ago but has over time become hooked up to a Serial Experiments Lain-esque series of monitors but they've all been playing just Major Lazer's 'Lean On' for over a decade: what do they got

This kind of warrantless police and government access to subscriber information is what Mark Carney is hoping to put in place in Canada by the way (which he initially proposed as part of a bill cracking down on migrants, but would apply to everyone in the country) openmedia.org/article/item...

Google has been complying with ICE’s “administrative warrants” which they don’t even need a judge to sign… Just some random mid-level employee at DHS

(The Swiss do not have a Prime Minister)

Just published "Where are all the staff+ Android product engineers?" www.zacsweers.dev/where-are-th...

a proposed scientific name for domesticated cats was "felis daemon". dude must have had a cat

I like that some TTRPGs are just ludicrously good art printed on the best paper you've ever laid hands and eyes on, even if you never play the rules. See also: Degenesis.

this was way more prevalent when i was still on tiktok but it feels like people are getting really weird about alcohol, coffee, anything that might make you happy--even in innocuous amounts! feels like we're re-engineering puritanism as a method of maintaining control (over ourselves, each other)

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I feel like sadism is behind most internet phenomena

It is honestly very cool to see daily confirmation that hipster culture was one of the major creative cultural movements of the last couple decades

Damn, brate, you let the Yugo overheat again, jebiga! #PS1 #ドット絵 #ゲーム制作 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Lake lightning

ahaha, I'm regenerating the map labels to reflect the fact that they are landmarks on a landscape rather than classifications of individuals, but I might need to do another pass (Sonnet may be less diplomatic than Haiku)

In case you missed it: my full, free, open course on accessibility and visualization is out!

coding assistance lets you fast-track important projects that improve your life, such as reformatting every single site you read into the old vbulletin 3.x default template

if america is going to go this way they're going to need a better K/D ratio for banger production - more Sinners, less rushed, overproduced adaptationslop that was never given a chance to be good

I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see

this may draw a lot of mockery On Here but it's true, the u.s. build a mount everest of soft power that it is now in the process of burning to ashes

Well, to talk about something pleasurable for a change: Outer Worlds 2! I've been absolutely loving this game, it's scratching an itch I've had for a while. I've needed some good sci-fi CRPG in my life and it's giving satirical Mass Effect.