i also do that

enormously hot take: the reason a bunch of midwit software dev people are in their feels about agentic tooling is that it proves that good requirements specification and technical project management were the hard problem it's important for a human to be able to solve all along, not Coding™

society if pinboard was good

programmers have so much weird scar tissue around hiding email addresses on the web to avoid spam. gmail is almost 20 years old, you don’t have to worry about spam anymore!

the master’s tools are kept from you because they’re awesome and powerful and he’s afraid you’ll use them to blow up the master’s house

what

type of guy who thinks that phineas gage was a p-zombie but only after the iron rod thing

i was going to say that bluesky suggested accounts are truly the worst of the worst but then they showed me “twink obsession iii” which may make up for all of the “liberal. mom. hoa president” accounts they’ve put in front of me

i’m currently reading “gravity’s rainbow” and i might have to drop it tbh, the prose is just so delirious

recommend me sci fi books about consciousness :) i liked blindsight and permutation city and i loved that one chapter in the middle of fine structure

everyone talking about consciousness is like i know that i am conscious because i am. and i know that computers aren’t because reasons

i cant download my dang tumblr export because their cert expired and they have hsts enabled lol

i watched “the lord of the rings” for the first time. it was ok

i must not scroll. scrolling is the mind-killer. scrolling is the little-death that brings total obliteration. where the scrolling has gone there will be nothing. only rss will remain.

stay tuned for my thrilling return to social media. next i will describe in extremely vague terms an obscure sweater designer whose sweaters i once saw, and then i will feel mildly betrayed when nobody knows their name

whenever they invent a social media without a timeline tab i’ll be in on that shit

social media as a whole is still really dire it seems but ive been pleasantly surprised at how may of yall hit me with instant follow backs… u remember lil ol me? 🥺

ok