why does she look so frightened? (wrong answers only.)

i have seen more Mr. Beast footage in just one of Dan Olson's latest videos than i have in the rest of my life combined. thanks, i hate it.

i'm not telling anyone anything they don't already know but so much of corporate america has been in the producing slop for profit business for so long, no wonder they think LLMs are revolutionary. it's the people that actually like and defend slop games, movies, and shows that i worry about.

every time i actually answer my phone it teaches me to never answer my phone.

remember when they were angry about Critical Race Theory? cuz they don't.

one small nitpick about the way we talk about the AI bubble: nobody is "burning" money. it isn't just disappearing. it all goes somewhere, HAS to go somewhere.

"Her" seems like the touchstone for the bizarre chatbot times we're living through but honestly that gives techbros too much credit. a better one is Jurassic Park, where they created something that doesn't really work, couldn't possibly work like they hoped, and the experts are like "fucking duh"

even setting authoritarianism aside, American government is so fucking weird, dude.

nothing gets me to distrust a new brand, product, or service faster than first hearing about them in an ad on YouTube or Instagram

Morning friends. There are still those amongst us that need to wake up.

if the UX community was what it was supposed to be, it would be in open rebellion about all of these hype cycles. it's divided at best.

ok that's it. we're locking all the tech bros in the asylum and not letting them out until HAL-9000 says it's ok

my summary of the "AI era:" rich, often times cultish assholes got absurdly more rich by convincing slightly less rich, often times very stupid assholes to "invest" their money before The Future™️ leaves them all behind. basically, it's a long con.

on the one hand, UX teams caving to the idea of "synthetic users" have lost the plot. on the other hand, they're probably not that much worse than the terrible personas most teams have.

Without saying your age, post your favorite film that released the year you turned 18.

i think my dishwasher is trying to tell me it got something stuck in its butthole

exactly how bad do you have to fuck up for Florida to say "uh uh, this ain't right" centralflorida.substack.com/i/194030260/...

i just heard someone accidentally misspeak the phrase "kill two birds with one stone" as "feed two birds with one scone" and that's it, that's the phrase now. sorry, murder stone, it's been a good run.

can't fkn wait for the Drumeo vid where they make someone play Angine de Poitrine for the first time.

i got this feeling like YouTube been vibecoding their bullshit lately.

it's pretty petty but i'm prickly 'bout people preserving public participation by purely posting pizza pics

companies should not be allowed to get big enough that saving 5 cents per unit is a Big Deal.

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this unappealing-looking pile of red-brown slop tastes HEAVENLY.

i finally know how to describe Angine de Poitrine: they're a shmorgasbord of all the weirdo, out-there ideas in music over the last 60 years but also make it groovy and danceable

you'd think the Trump regime and the Catholic church would make natural allies but no honor among pedos, i guess.

people that have lost their pets.. i get why you post about it but please please please BlueSky stop showing them to me. i got enough shared grief in my timeline as it is.

the sudden popularity of Angine de Poitrine made me expect something corporate and pre-digested but... was pleasantly surprised! their songs get a little repetitive for my taste but i think they're a ton of fun and i'm delighted that music this far off the beaten path is getting a moment in the sun

Q: "why is your bedroom always so messy?!" A:

the "look how stupid this rando on Bluesky is" is my least favorite category of post. i get the need for validation - i really get it - but c'mon.

sometimes when i get a follow it's an actual person. that's nice.

i barely know how to code, probably couldn't teach a computer class... and yet i've installed Linux successfully on at least 4 devices while LTT can't seem to manage it once. even use the CLI routinely. either they're performing monkeys for the capitalists or they're clowns. (or both, i guess.)

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the republican party is the party of death. death for democracy. death for society. death for you.

he still needs to be dragged out of office in chains btw. nothing has changed

i'm never as cold or calculating as i am when dealing with dipshits on Facebook marketplace.

sometimes a dude just wants to play some Burning Wheel or some Mouse Guard.

Trump's messages and actions over the last 3 days has been an all-you-can-eat buffet of rage no matter which side of the buffet you stand on. anyone who's not pissed at Trump right now for SOMETHING isn't someone you should take seriously.

the entire Western world - all of it - has decided they are ok with Iran being wiped off the map. not all governments lust for it, but the rest seem fine with standing on the sidelines while it happens. the entire Western world. what the fuck do we do with that?

look it's not that any of us think that Piers or Tucker or MTG are actually good guys now. just like... when all these broken clocks have stopped at exactly the same, miraculously correct time, its worthy of notice. and is maybe even a useful tool for saving some rotted minds. (emphasis on maybe.)

i wonder if the Artemis crew will be able to see the nuclear explosion from space

any sense of "oh thank god" should be reserved for Trump completely chickening out. "he didn't use a nuke" is not the bar. (this is largely me talking to myself.)

if we do what I fear we will do tonight, it would be just for the retribution from the rest of the world to be swift and terrible. I fear the retribution, and also fear that it might never come.

i ran out into the streets of Seattle in November of 2008, crying and hugging strangers as we celebrated the election of Obama, so it really brings me no pleasure to be so down on the modern Democratic party. but their response to everything going is to... run to the right. what the actual fuck.

the timeline where MTG makes sense is somehow more weird than the one where she was raving about space lasers.

One Dead Poet

i've been fairly doomer lately but... it's helpful to remember that there can always be joy. even in the darkest corners, in the most brutal circumstances. because we can make it ourselves.

it's looking more and more like taxing the rich is not just good policy, but the only hope of rescuing our precious Western civilization. and yet, so many of our politicians are unwilling to do it. to even try. some worried about the expensive boots on their necks. some lusting to wear the boots.

i'm usually less judgmental than this but... all the people in the giant trucks and gas guzzling cars, all the people who go 10-15 mph over, all the people who tailgate me when I coast to a stop... rising gas prices are gonna hit those people first and hardest and I have no problem with that.