Being able to read something and *not* interpret it in the least charitable possible way, is a skill. A skill that atrophies if it is never used. This is why you do not want to argue with Nazis, and instead violently repel then from your spaces: they delight in bad faith.

Right right. But what I propose is that AI was secretly a codeword for "nothing" all along Our economy will be based on nothing. Governments and businesses will pay large subscription fees to Sam Altman for nothing. We'll replace white collar jobs with nothing. We'll replace journalism with nothing

we’ve got a new mail guy

there’s some wild stuff in here! Coolidge signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact

my brain fog was so bad i thought i was maybe 2 days overdue for my infusion but it was 5 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 i don’t wanna

Movies have primed us to believe that evil people in power are political geniuses when they’re often just meth-addled tyrants who think God has chosen them but instead just briefly got lucky before their downfall. I’m talking about Göring and Goebbels and all them, who did you think I meant?

bicycle for the mind

He just wanted to control his DJI Romo robot vacuum with a PS5 gamepad. But it wasn't just one robot that answered his call. Thousands of them, all around the world, reported for duty. When he showed me, I couldn't believe my eyes. www.theverge.com/tech/879088/...

did you know there’s a way to collaborate on obsidian docs without using cli version control OR completely fucking your sync ??

sunny and 61 and the quail are out! rocco saw quail and got excited but still listened perfectly to me

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

flagging that the definition of "working class" Marquette used here is "non college graduate" here, but in any case the analysis here seems plausible to me

Remember when we asked you for supplies for folks being thrown out of Whipple in dangerous conditions? You were sending them to St. Paul Corner Drug, who was working to get them out into the neighborhood. They've posted a heartwarming thank you on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DUojPuBDd6x/

it’s always correct to make fun of ai-bros and suits but not their victims

I helped mobilize a group of neighbors to provide direct aid to nearly 50 families who are in hiding from ICE. These folks deserve fresh, familiar foods. So we're purchasing groceries direct from neighborhood Latino markets whenever we can. Venmo @kristina-halvorson to help, and please repost.

thread about llm slop pull requests in open source can't help but parallelize this "servant mindset" to stackoverflow, where you go to get some strangers to serve up the answer you ordered, vs building a relationship, or doing the mental labor yourself to find a prewritten source you can apply

I recommend reading about how the concentration camp was used by the British in the Second Boer War and you'll see why it is impossible not to use the term about what is happening here if you are being accurate and honest

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time. www.tom-cox.com/why-reading-...

These people are shitheads today and they'll be shitheads in 9 months. They control the levers of power and we're going to defeat them. They're going to do whatever it takes to stop us, generally illegally, and we're going to win. Then we're going to make them suffer. That's the plan.

we found a pasta we can eat and a jarred diced/crushed tomato situation as well it appears there may be 1 brand of safe cookie and i may be able to find safe quinoa and buckwheat SO exciting SO pathetic

i hear some dogs hate being towel-dried but rocco LOVES it and think it’s a game we always end up wrasslin and throwing the towel on him and he spins around like a confused, blind bucking bronco

coyotes! the way they somehow stopped yowling the second he zoomed in…

ouchies

over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes

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I don't know how else to describe things from generative AI to meta glasses other than the tech industry producing the grossest means to create the grossest ends

i am gonna create a teardown that is SO THOROUGH, no one will want to admit they read the original

so many families are in awful positions because ICE’s bullshit has collapsed the already fragile social safety net. this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.

hermeneutic of suspicion, derogatory: 1. is this true? 2. does it support its argument? 3. what sources did they use for conclusions? 4. does this essay engage with the field or just one side? 5. does it use manipulation to persuade? 6. does it use ad hominem attacks or other fallacies?

i'm sorry i can't get over HERMENEUTIC OF SUSPICION bc i said: it leaves out information that contradicts its cute claims, it deliberately misleads, it constructs false equivalences thru begging the question, it doesn't seek input from experts

the man who can’t tell when he’s being manipulated with a third-generation xerox of prairie home companion-level jokiness dared to write off my complaints by claiming it’s bc i approached the article with A HERMENEUTIC OF SUSPICION as opposed to blind credulity, which is superior

wish i could search my skyline to find that post i lost on refresh

ah this fuckin sucks. :(

great thread on the social + functional realities of shitty vibe coding pull requests kicker: "… the vibe coder has put the [project] maintainer in the weird position where the maintainer is doing agentic coding through a shitty UX"

I jestermaxxed a man in Reno, just to watch him mog

the joy of funny cat videos is that it’s something improbable that really happened fake ones suck all the joy out, and then some

White folks (the culture) are miserable ... and misery a disease Misery is a special hopelessness

But there has not been a single thing that Trump has done in 13 months in office that has made things better for white people

this hbr piece about ai “intensified work” just positively STINKS of llm-writing

“it’s hard to identify llm writing”

this is true generally. fan service corrupts.

take that new yorker’s fellation of claude — you know, the FUNNY one but it’s NOT a humor or sarcastic piece but it sucks in the gullible bc if you make somebody laugh, like they’re in on the joke, they’ll think you smarter & better than you are basic transference!

i hate when you follow someone bc you loved their incisive, thoughtful books back in the day and they turn out to be brainwormed, incoherent gum-flappers in the now

I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

i have been color-reflective-lcd-tablet-curious for a while but didn’t want to pay the high prices (thanks trump!) found this lil guy on the local marketplace, incredibly, for a fantastic price it seems QUITE nice. very zippy. no front light so it’s got a sharper screen than my other tablet

ok do people not know that lentils are effectively beans if you say you can’t eat beans, people recommend lentils. they’re not different in any functional way

all hail night wave megacat

Tired: be ungovernable Wired: be too annoying to infiltrate

here is the book. highly recommend it. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

the POPUP INTERNET CAFE art show is opening on valentine's day! i personally think it would be a great place to take a date! and of course i'll have computer-themed valentines available! 💘🍒