the chair isn't "holding" my ass up, chairs don't "hold" anything. they are merely rigid objects I, the active participant, sit my ass on

spacex: apparently not a space company at all

New for the Vibecession Debate. Working paper argues that using microdata to get household-specific inflation rates (rather than aggregating first like CPI), you find -lotta variation in household inflation -greater avg inflation during price upturns -lower real wages for lower income people

Debt Debt: when there are so many X Debt metaphors you don't have time to synthesize and keep up with them

868-back is really on another level you go so quickly from being a (relatively) normal person to being like oh damn i can get at least 17 legacy without even porting if i loop blit that block of sprites and pull those viruses and cryptogs into a debug stack

ok 868-BACK might be his best yet

nice post about the freaks that are about to become billionaires and how hard it will be to give away all the money they want to spend. I've been wondering about this for a while. it'll be a very unusual set of people to all become extremely rich at the same time: a bunch of CS PhDs and EA types

I would not worry about google's ability to continue making money. whether they destroy the web is a separate question www.google.com/finance/quot...

"When I say protocol art, what we’re talking about is that the site of art making is moving upstream of the media generation or the object creation, to a kind of logic or rule set or protocol that then allows the other things to come to fruition."

There's an interesting conversation unfolding on PubPeer. Inconsistencies were flagged in a paper by a "global keynote speaker on AI&neuroscience" and then the author casually mentions on LinkedIn that she also has pre-post-fMRI for 300 people 👀> pubpeer.com/publications...

lol come on

only thing I am interested in from the otherwise boring google I/O keynote: stats. AI overviews have 2.5B+ monthly actives and AI mode (which you have to click into on purpose) has 1B+ monthly actives www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSn...

lol sorry for this

“What aesthetic is this?” My newest It's Nice That column is about visual trends, the rise of taxonomic warfare, and what gets flattened when culture becomes searchable infrastructure 🏷️ www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eli...

this was apparently already the conventional wisdom lol. "The SpaceX IPO will weigh on the stock by “‘splitting’ the pro-Musk retail shareholder base,” the analyst, who has an underperform rating on Tesla, wrote in a note to clients last month."

hype

pretty good interview, though nothing groundbreaking. "in a Coasian sense, maybe you see smaller firms and more of them because it's easier for them to coordinate with each other."

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I like this very much store.steampowered.com/app/3748520/...

my kids are learning to skate and I've had a real Dad Thought about it: just like people don't get that balancing is the whole thing in learning to bike (and pedaling is nothing), I'm thinking rolling is the whole thing in skating and pushing comes naturally if you can roll comfortably

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I actually think this is quite wrong. his imagined audience was very obviously the students. he genuinely thought he was throwing them a bone by telling them they get to shape AI. he didn't think he would get booed because the students can imagine a world outside of AI and he can't

been trying to switch from Spotify to Apple Music for an embarrassingly long time and I'm unfortunately ready to conclude that Apple Music desktop is one of the worst apps I've ever used. it is a travesty. it's straight up broken and has the most inscrutable information architecture. it's a relic

"C and C++ give you direct memory control and, with it, bug classes - buffer overflows, out-of-bounds reads and writes - that memory-safe languages like Rust eliminate at compile time. We saw consistently more false positives from projects written in memory-unsafe languages."

get in 35-year-olds, we're still doing xkcd

lol great account

and that's why you build your own OpenAPI client generator folks www.stainless.com/blog/stainle...

I heard from attendees about several talks from Bug Bash (including this one) that sounded incredible. a really well-chosen set of speakers with a common ethos www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

this is insane. we are used to it but it’s insane

A favourite chart (from 2024).

To be fair the standard logic makes you sound like a psychopath. “Things are really expensive, why will making my mortgage cost more help?” “Ah, because then you’ll have even less money to spend on other stuff, more businesses will fail, unemployment will rise and hopefully price growth will slow”.

Thanks American public, a thousand economists are crying now.

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me at a podium talking about myself after I buy an Ioniq instead of a Tesla

But they were all deceived for a 5th loco was made

Frinkiac has just had a 10 year anniversary upgrade langui.sh/2026/05/04/t...

only sort of related but sometimes I read stuff in fields I’m less familiar with and I’m bowled over by how weirdly they use citations. “massive claim about the essential nature of human being (Some Asshole 2014)”

my kid is finally old enough to do a withering impression of me and it’s *man voice* “david bowie, david bowie. he’s the goblin king in Labyrinth! david bowie”

watching Avatar with my kid and the face Aang makes while hauling ass away from a sea monster is super funny. didn’t realize it was that kind of show youtu.be/FNCNxnxFBl8

my kids are going to inherit a fixed-up 2025 Oxide rack

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

The fact that the government chooses to leak this to you is an implicit insult although you would have to be self aware to pick up on that so no worries.

This @ft graphic shows that trump suddenly got very interested in trading stocks

the video is 100x funnier than the transcript I read

Here is a figure showing the various OECD countries minimum wages as a ratio of median. Average around 60%. But many at or above 2/3. Then there is an outlier, the US.

I'm despairing but it's unrelated so it doesn't count. I'm like looking *toward* ye works, but not like *upon* them per se