HASTINGS: I say, Poirot, this vial’s labeled “hyaluronic acid”! Is it a poison? SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: Non, mon ami. This acid, it replenishes the skin’s barrier naturale HASTINGS: So this is a gal who takes care of her skin. SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: *irritated* The gentleman may use it as well

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing humans the other 364 days of the year are not fools’ days.

Jesus Clarifies Return Will Be Strictly Limited To Carpentry Business https://theonion.com/jesus-clarifies-return-will-be-strictly-limited-to-carpentry-business/

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

This iron age man buried in Sussex was so proud of his awesome helmet that he developed an archaeologically detectable neck injury from wearing it so often.

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

every once in a while I remember that between ublock in my browser, adguard on my phone, and youtube premium, I live in a entirely different web from most people. if I ever saw an ad I would collapse like a victorian man hearing black sabbath or seeing a woman's shoulder

i still remember learning this in school and finding it absolutely magical. imagine you and a person you’ve never met sit down at a bar, surrounded by mathematicians. you speak random numbers to each other. in a few minutes, you have agreed on the same random number, and no one else knows what it is

"everyone you know is fighting a battle you know nothing about" isn't a reminder to be kind it's acknowledging a failure of military intelligence

ore. huh. yeah. what is it good for? smelting into ingots

“Worst she can say is no” Bro, she said I look like someone tried to draw President Taft from memory

"One of the aspects of Trumpism that is most difficult for people to wrap their heads around is the degree of overlap between the channels that the regime uses to communicate with the public, and the channels that the regime uses to communicate with itself."

that "fundamental constants astrophysics of life map" ( @moultano.bsky.social ?) but for argument space of arguments that are "too strong" (prove humans can't understand, reason, aren't conscious) or "too weak" (allow that machine intelligence can ˚, ø, œ), and then the shrinking cope simplex w/

I think my AI beliefs are quickly becoming ‘this has enormous positive potential if implemented responsibly. it will not be implemented responsibly and like maybe five companies are even trying.’

I think I come down to the "you put your name on it, you vouch for it unconditionally, every word, regardless of LLM use" side of the debate rather than the "you should explicitly say if you used an LLM always" side. Too much potential to use the machine to dodge accountability

hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

the problem with writing about 'the purpose of a system is what it does' is that it makes you realise that the purpose of open protocols is to have protocol wars, people fucking love to argue about their protocol as a teamsport

An insult to every non-Christian, as well as every Christian whose God is bigger than a slogan that fits on a Wehrmacht belt buckle

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

The ability to buy anything on account of having too much money wrecks a person's brain just like a zero-gravity environment destroys muscle mass and bone density. Human bodies are designed for resistance and they liquefy rapidly without it.

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

more folks on the left are okay with extremely antisemitic rhetoric than I would like and that’s all I’m going to say about that because I do not trust this website on the subject replies extra limited for the same reason

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

Wat Fatima zegt. If you can’t take it from there, you can’t take it at all.

Fuck wat een compleet verschrikkelijke en doodenge shit dit www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/d...

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

It’s uncanny how well Peter O’Hanraha-Hanrahan predicted in the 90s how modern LLMs work youtu.be/pnS07NS8110

Toad who lost his wife in the seventh war against Bowser: oh hey I guess they all decided to play tennis together ok that’s fine that’s ok

"opposing AI on quality is a losing fight" is a very nice way to put what I've been trying to say for a year a) a read on current quality based on free ChatGPT is 6-12 months out of date b) quality just keeps improving with no end in sight c) higher quality is potentially *worse* socially

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her

conversely, if the codebase is kept in a good state (simple data flow, good constraints at boundaries), claude can make way better progress within it and introduces less incidental complexity with each change. the problem is, if you don't know what "good" looks like, you won't be able to maintain it

having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing

The history of fitness is really fascinating and it's why I have no patience for the idolization of the physicality of people in the past. As a general rule, people were not in great shape for most of the past 4,000 years; there were plenty of exceptions, but by and large? You're better off now.

“At the root of so many of our moral and political crises today is what Simone Weil, describing life under European fascism, called ‘the adoration of power in its most brutal form’.” Our editors on the Iran war: www.equator.org/articles/epi...

This is a radically different idea than the advocacy I’ve seen for “data portability” and ”data sovereignty”. It’s a *restructuring* of power rather than small adjustments to existing structures. atproto and local-first, both in their own ways, demonstrate what such a restructuring can look like.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive