ominous output from fable

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

in which I get my underclothes in a frightful twist over the concept of "decision finality" backofmind.substack.com/p/the-concep...

truly the worst-titled book of all time, so much so that possters continue to attempt clowns on it a generation later by citing events which constitute uncanny validations of its predictions

there’s a whole part in “orality and literacy” (one of the best and most important books i’ve ever read fwiw) about the moral panic in the early days of writing that we would outsource all our remembering and thinking to writing rather than memorizing everything we needed to know

I'm shocked that this is citing that absolute pseudoscience preprint about brain rot. Its neuroscience was hopeless

the fact that they put out a statement at all and the statement wasn’t some insane misogynistic rant shows that Woke 2 has fully ambled out of the watery depths and is nearing the city limits

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

Eventually every prominent Bluesky poster will have one absolutely phenomenal article in Liberal Currents and I can’t wait to read them all

look humans are social creatures and it’s hard to relate to art without relating to how others relate to art but also striving to develop and maintain independent taste and views is a core part of cultivating character and maturity. sadly character and maturity are out of style these days

that sound you hear is the narrative breaking the sound barrier as it catches up with reality

new dune 3 trailer dropped youtu.be/mqFLXayD6e8?...

me: hey claude fable, how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood claude:

this is silly, people will say whatever they want no matter what. the blue shift thing doesn’t even make sense, why wouldn’t vote-riggers just stuff the ballot boxes that get counted first? or just put out whatever totals they feel like? it’s all just calvinball that needs to be ignored or torched

"Your Honor, you're breaking up I'm going through a tunnel kssshhshhshhs khshshshh"

NEW: Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, the Republican former governor of West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s. By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

wilmot got that depresh

yes, because as all social scientists agree, if something is bad, it’s important we don’t know anything about it

oh so we've all found a new woman to hate just because she's saying something incredibly stupid in the most condescending format ever conceived

Tankies would rather cum in your sink than go to therapy

god this app is gonna be insufferable next week when G’hzarxl the Rancorous plunges Earth into the aeon of Endless Night

I got a new editor and she fucking sucks dude

justinian biopic

the outcome the discourse simply will not process is “dems and indies stomp in the senate, winning in AK FL IA NE KS TX NC OH, also platner wins by 1.7 after every candidate but him and collins is eliminated in IRV” so obviously that’s what’s going to happen

One of the biggest ironies of all this is one of HR's main jobs is to be sin eater for internal issues, so yelling about HR is just doing what management wants you to do.

Lmaoooo

can recommend the following three part approach from experience: -no screens until age 3-4 -only introduce high-quality screens from that point: good movies and tv shows, eventually console games (no phone/tablet except on, eg, airplane) -kid’s color kindle with the subscription to kids+

and starring clint eastwood as mario

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

“You identify as an AI writer because our AIs were trained on your writing, please turn yourself in for reprocessing at the nearest Meat Slurper™️ posthaste”

These images posted by the Claude Code team are so amusing to me not because the perfect architecture is just Claude talking to Claude talking to Claude but instead that you have layers of Claudes whose job is to fix the errors and hallucinations of the other Claudes.

yoshi’s mysterious book, in which a beloved dino guy takes a grand tour of god’s despised and bizarre rejects

Another majority Latino district, CA-13, was redrawn as a Harris +0.4 swing district. Dems have a 55-45% lead with their margin likely to grow 👀

fun fact: scott klug appears to still be an alive guy out there doing stuff, so he gets to do the “me reaping” part of the bit along with the rest of us!

This is a good column on why "Zionism" is a political label that obscures more than it helps at this point in history, and should probably be abandoned except in relation to historical pre-1948 political movements: forward.com/news/antisem...

we can EXCLUSIVELY report on TOP SECRET NEGOTIATIONS in which the eu’s most skilled negotiators asked peter magyar ‘u cool bro’ and he was like ‘ya brah’

The most influential artist you’ve never heard of died a few days ago. John Blanche was hired by Games Workshop in the late 1970s to illustrate the first British version of Dungeons & Dragons, then Warhammer and Warhammer 40k…

What happens when energy security is threatened? In the 2020s, it means speeding up deployment of renewables and electric devices. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I will never vote for Ross Douthat.

the whole middle of the odyssey is ‘some yarn odysseus just made up’ right?

listening to this (s-tier content, listen immediately); having read snd listened to some other books about businesses and capitalism recently it’s hard to escape the feeling that in the last 10-20 years a huge swathe of american capitalism escaped the hard budget constraint to the world’s detriment

[turns baseball cap around, sits on chair backwards]

i understand that australians take coffee exceptionally seriously but the united states is in fact low on the list of countries that merit this directive. this is true even when you exclude the tea-preferring countries. there are some countries that chug garbage coffee all day long, us ain't one.