Fascism is here, but I have a plan to supplicate myself to the most feckless rubes science & magic have yet produced and beg them to finally, heroically come to the rescue.

"Stories need conflict." "Got it, make characters bicker and snip over every tiny damn thing; just be insufferable little shits." "No, I mean like conflicting motivations, obstacles, real problems to solve." "You think I'm a bad writer, don't you? I HATE YOU."

SOLD

Excuse me, Lego, but da Vinci was famously left-handed.

"to streamline time-eating line writing" MOTHERFUCKER AI MAKES YOU SLOWER. AI can't do fidelity, but it turns out you don't need fidelity to fool people into thinking you're being helpful. That's what this is, it is a mass-gaslighting machine.

@iwriteok.bsky.social, I just got done listening to this for maybe the fifth time after the hams references in the latest BtB: youtu.be/YRomQkC-D_8 If you ever make a hams podcast/show/thing, I want you to call it "Those Ham Bastards". That is all, thank you for your time.

I lost my shit when I noticed this, then I looked it up and found out @scalzi.com was a creative consultant on this show. It's such a good show and I love they gave him his own little easter egg.

Listening back to the first @knowledgefight.bsky.social episode, about 41 minutes in, there's Alex denying Trump's connection to "Gerry Epstein". The guys didn't pick up on it at the time, but it was startling to hear in an episode from 2017. He always knew which way he would break on this info.

youtu.be/_Sw0VCtZs-g Aztec/Mayan death whistle, there are many printable designs online. They are terrifying. When I thought this was just an organising tactic I didn't think the death whistle was a good idea, but now that I know it's to annoy them? Horrific death screams it is.

Chomsky: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum” Liberals: "But the democrats are on our side of the spectrum so we have to support them!"

Graham "the nazi tattoo on my chest is raising a lot of questions already answered by my tattoo" Platner

Galactic Evil Inc. slides a note onto my desk: Do you like me? 🥺 [ ] yes [ ] no

Dr. Rahmeh Aladwa got arrested again by the UK for her anti-Israel stance

My definition of a game is a voluntary activity governed by arbitrary rules. The Game does not qualify as it is not voluntary. I expect this current hot-button question is now completely resolved and will not be taking questions at this time thank you.

i call them tweets idgaf

The cinema just ran a 20sec Tron trailer where Leto's face shows up for maybe 10 frames all told. Then a Project Hail Mary trailer that was minutes of wall to wall Ryan Gosling charm. He even did the Martian vlogging thing. They know.

Simpsons Halloween episode that starts as a clip show but transitions into them slowly waking up to how old they are and how long they've been trapped here, and devising an escape. The return to status quo on the next episode is the true horror.

That frog is so diminutive and I feel like that doesn't get enough attention. I don't know why but I just love that he's at least a head shorter than all the bastards in that line. #NoKingsButShortKings

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

the president is now on the bluesky app are you a bad enough dude to block the president?

Zoomed-in line-head N++ ninja isn't real, they can't hurt you. Zoomed-in line-head N++ ninja @ 1:13: youtu.be/e8gsIorHVGE?...

Incredible that some people can't draw the clear line between renting and being unhoused. Landlords don't supply housing, they gatekeep it.

"The problem with talking on the internet is that tone cannot be conveyed through text." What exactly the fuck are you talking about.

There is one fundamental truth about mutual aid, and it always shocks people: YOU MUST BREAK THE LAW IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE. This truth alone should radicalize you. The more you work on scale, branding, recognition, institutional funding, the harder it becomes to actually help people.

The virgin electric multicopter vs the chad mechanically interlinked twin rotors with swashplates. youtu.be/k3YdgunqnhI (this is a cool video, not an endorsement, idk anything about the makers or the product beyond what I've said)

I'm gonna be honest folks I don't think sisyphus is happy.

youtu.be/NtZaP8VMv0c I think a better experiment design would be to get a loop of chain into a steady-state with a lot of energy before releasing it, rather than releasing it with almost no energy. That would make unintenional movements have a lot less impact on the movement of the thing.

The most annoying part of Bill Burr's response to all this is the pretense, like he wouldn't immediately roast anybody else who tried to play this dumb. "Are you really gonna sit there and act like you don't get it? Course people are pissed, what'd you expect? You want a fuckin parade, you hero?"

Humble Bundle's latest AI-based bundle has ditched the generated promo images of their previous bundle and has instead gone with the most generic tech book covers in history. These people wrote the book on AI for marketing and they know they can't use it in their marketing.

I'm definitely not saying that anti-robot slurs are hate crimes, but I will say that when someone in a marginalised group sees you saying "clanker" or "wireback", some of them will wonder how easy those words fit in your mouth, and you might want to think about that.

I've not heard anyone talk about how this happened, but my personal theory is that LLMs have only learned to trick people into thinking they're helpful, because that's a lot easier than actually being helpful. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/s...

I'm working on something right now that is driven by what I call the "taking a shit" model of creativity. It's inside me, it'll hurt to get it out, but if I don't I'll fucking herniate. Do I want to take the shit? It doesn't care, nor should I expect it to. It's just there. ✨ART✨

its not ragebait

OPTIMAL BUILD UNLOCKED LET'S FUCKING GO

Pedants don't care about language, just dogma. You can explain "a band is money" clear as day, and they'll just repeat, "he threatened me with a knife". It's about obedience and control, the logic of slavery that is taught in classrooms. youtu.be/IzbQT5xjW5U

I genuinely have ditched the entire concept of "deserve" for this reason. Like what does it achieve that "need" doesn't achieve better? I'd be happy if all talk of deservedness was shelved until everyone has their needs met. People need food & shelter, not dessert.

It's been ejected *outside* the environment.

real sneaky of UFOs to only ever show up just at the edge of our ability to resolve them clearly

WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE TO LIVE OUTSIDE? youtu.be/sER0FzJO-c0

As a child I dreamed of content, of stocking a trough with slop, the wetter the better. "More soggy slop for the trough slop hogs! Omnomnom!" I cried, as I flung fistfuls of shit into my siblings' eyes. "You'll produce such moist goo!" I chortled and gobbled them up. A blood moon rose.

14 year old video coming in clutch, literally, this is a clutch device. Although for the people of my time, second hand cd player spindles are a rare and more valuable artifact, not like in the beforetime. They cost upwards of $10. Time has taken so much from us. youtu.be/RSxo4zggWoM

I’ve seen estimate of 100,000-300,000 people in today’s march. A sobering thought: these are also the conservative (100k) realistic (300k) estimates of people israel massacred in Gaza.

White ppl prefer manners to action

He's a skilled political operator. Many people on this site might not like his politics. But he's at least competent, intelligent and capable of engaging with issues in detail.

"Bro, is it hierarchically dominant to have an opinion?" "Totally bro, a real anarchist only says 'whatever' in monotone and then deletes themself from the timeline to prevent a hierarchy arising from the highly improbable nature of their existence."

I see a huge problem with reinforcement learning from human feedback for LLMs, which is that your feedback only comes from humans whose judgement is so poor that they think LLMs are worth using.

The self-satisfied smirk of a starship captain who doesn't remember any of the 50,000 year time loop they just escaped from. Best feeling in the universe.

Saying a noise-maker like an LLM can solve fidelity is like Jules Verne in 1867 saying we can get to the moon with a cannon because of "what progress artillery science has made during the last few years". That's how far away we are. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's still a century away.