we went along with dunking Romney for his "binders of women" gaffe despite the distinction being incomprehensible at the time, but is that what kickstarted the diabetics vs. people with diabetes-style language policing?

if "online atheists are a fallen sect of christianity who believe practicing christians are insufficiently pious" then Bluesky anti-AI posters are a fallen sect of AGI true believers who find current AI insufficiently miraculous

Devil Wears Prada 2 was so anticlimactic because the original plot was the Sam Altman trick and they reshot it? Andy rallies employees and advertisers behind Miranda, who can start a new magazine that makes Runway worthless in a sale. no benevolent billionaire require; institutional value is people

reading the rules of Banana Ball and it seems like a patch to undo whatever fun was removed from baseball by optimizing for Sabermetrics

boys, did you know girls know who each car in the apartment (and possibly workplace) parking lot is associated with, their general schedule, and when a new one arrives or is oddly missing?

deeply annoyed by the vanishing distinction between bombing and missile firing in space dogfight games. the difference reduces to whether the projectile is powered

paint smells like yogurt tastes

the magazine's vision of the future carried the soft, reassuring tones of the room's surrounding '90s decor

a polished site in the '90s or '00s could look like it arrived from an alien layer. to the unskilled, piracy may only feel like appropriating infrastructure or institutional output, not a person's passion project. i was Mullenweg aggressive with DMCA notices in the '90s and '00s in taking them down

local Indian restaurant struggles with SSL and their ASP.NET online order form. offered my card and to fix it when picking up my phone order. they snubbed me with a sourpuss expression so now i tamper/override errors client side when it's "down" and coincidentally i am the only online order that day

thought i was averse to unfamiliar environments but it's actually unclean environments. most disliked reused spaces? plane and train seats with compact, dirty bulkheads, armrests. uncleanable discolored seams, sticky undersides you accidentally touch. marble-spotless hotel in a new city? no problem

regarding Trump's recent brushes with death: the left appears to invoke conspiracies not as believers in them but as a tool that allows accepting facts as seen but reframing their motivation in a way that dissolves their importance from a level above. right-wing conspiracies are similarly motivated?

celebrities must acquire incredible knowledge of which pens work best on which surfaces

@atls.city !set US-TN-Knoxville

if an infant's breath smells at all like the flower of the same name, being unable to tolerate it from 20 feet away is not selling me on reproduction

all the surrounding townlets are stored in my mind as a scalar with distance inverse of how often i hear about them, so i can tell you about how far away they are, but absolutely not in what direction

the slower piano compositions are, the more they risk pattern matching the pieces i was bootstrapped on like Beauty and the Beast or Mr. Rogers

what is the causality direction of lush Ashleys taking the nickname Smashley?

whoops. the fake cafe i invented (knoxville.cafe) to hustle wholesale coffee prices tricked a real person into pulling into my driveway confusedly looking for it

copyright respectoors when AI buys, reads, and destroys a book: respect the license! copyright respectoors when NBC deletes the Olympics to respect music rightsholders: not like that!

are people really going to church twice a week or is it like medicine where if you miss a dose and your next is less than 3 days away, skip the missed sermon and resume your regular schedule?

new defense strategy for this journalist website always under attack. Claude code, wake up when CPU is over 50%, tail the logs, look for patterns, and use your Cloudflare API key to add firewall rules until it's back under 10%, then go back to sleep

chocolate bar packaging engineers, do better. i don't want to see the outer paper underlap the inner foil wrapper. you saved an assembly line step, but at what cost?

police announcing "the first 24 hours are critical" at a missing person press conference is such an institutional ouroboros. that stat is mostly a result of their time-decaying allocation of effort. don't cite your triage curve as a law of nature and feed its output back in as a rule for when to act

I have never thought about car wheels before but now that I chipped mine doing donuts in the ice, I'm thankful to the nitwits who care about them for creating a highly efficient, liquid, competitive marketplace around them and their installation and lifecycle

coworker was crushed by an elephant she cared for at the Knoxville Zoo in 2011. Association of Zoos and Aquariums noted 3 prior incidents and Tennessee OSHA fined $12,600. a a local review panel of good ole boys (including our fire chief, a veterinarian, and a Zoo board member) said "no wrongdoing"

the more muscular you are, the higher up on your chest you point to refer to yourself

levels of abstraction for Jay Leno Headlines wedding couple names. they… 1. explicitly mock marriage 2. match a known funny phrase 3. invent a funny sounding phrase 4. imply a comic scenario 5. are pure juxtaposition 6. form a sentence fragment 7. sound vaguely naughty 8. are only "Headline" shaped

"eigen" is this for wannabee intellectuals. finally grasp it and think they're at boss level abstraction and can't resist cramming it in their profile

at 13, i was just starting to pivot from know-it-all to politely helpful. in 1996, an IT guy 15 feet away struggled to map a network drive on Windows 3.11. after the third failure cycle, i spoke up. "can i make a suggestion?" > sure! "that dialog box defaults to No, so pushing Enter cancels it"

do the mechanical bulls you ride at the club have a RNG or can you just learn a kata?

never thought about F1 until the movie. a sport that's entirely costly signal of brand reputation. 95% may know you have a team but not whether you're #2 or #10. once on the board, midfield fights become worth it at $10-15m per position. massive gamble to try for #1 with commensurate media reward

excess deaths is such a good measure for getting around misclassification accusations like we had in COVID. i believe 10,000 per cyclone since probably everything is like that: fragile eggshells losing a decade from a change of environment, but YLL is probably a better metric here

the burden of AI is you are no longer calling appliance repair for expertise, but out of laziness

ignoring our shared calendar since I know we have an event coming up purely from the IP-based retargeted ads I get for Rent the Runway

get the feeling the goal here is just to snatch up wunderkind before they go to other labs or start competitors and sequester them until takeoff the way Meta did with established adult researchers

i'm guessing AI doomers don't get LASIK given tail risk is weighted above all else?

if broadcast/cable wants to steal back viewers from streaming, coordinate with still-extant brands to run vintage commercials period-matched to classic Christmas movies. i'd watch low-bitrate Griswold interspersed with Folgers incest, cola polar bears, and dopey M&Ms over my own 4K disc

LLM psychosis cranks developing wrappers to solve fundamental questions have an even bigger blind spot than cranks who believe LLMs are lensing their genius because the former think they've subtracted their ego from the equation

contemptuous of gushing praise for the dead you wouldn't give to them alive. the changed variable is their inability to covert praise into status, so they are no longer a sink but a reflector, inanimately forced to return all of what would empower a living rival into pocketable virtue points for you

every As Seen on TV product being a scam is evidence for Nothing Ever Happens because the medium is perfect for selling products so qualitatively, structurally better they need longform visual description to coax you out of the status quo's local maxima, yet apparently no such products exist

whether a friend sends me AI-generated or human nudes, my question is the same. which model is this?

AI safety charities are incentivized to catastrophize because the typical estate donation is decades away. if you want 20-somethings pulling Bay money to tithe, you need an argument for Now

what is this stupid as fuck @highlight feature Facebook has given boomers to annoy us with their free Winnebago contest entries?

a lot is made of "How Jews Became White Folks" but rarely is it mentioned that if an unaccented Asian man is old and plump enough, he also achieves honorary white status

irregular periods as evolution throwing a fork in the gears of natural fertility tracking to increase births? optimal cadence to trick the human brain is probably more fractal than mast years that only need overwhelm the squirrel hippocampus

Concorde droop nose had the same menacing aura as handgun side grip

my girl as reluctant wingman has incredible theory of mind into competitors. spotted her rival reading my writing would have no use-mention distinction, so object-level "uses" are interpreted as deliberately dropped "mentions" of that term. this read totally escaped me, but it explains a lot

in cities with trams that share lanes with cars, do they have TV ads or something so you know how to coexist with these things?

finitist presentist computationalist physicalist: i am an equivalence class radical eternalist Platonic realist: so i took that literally