Roses are redde Violettes are blue Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future" Ys an ideological move

In the Rich-Stupid Matrix, the numbers continue to go up and to the right. And Andreesen may well be their patron saint.

ZENDAYA OMFG

Can’t wait for Republicans to start extolling the virtues of radioactive oil. “We got both kinds of fuel: nuclear AND petroleum!”

Folks. If you're setting up a test or personal PDS, make sure it isn't set to open registration. Inauthentic / fundraising scam accounts find them fast and are setting up sophisticated coordinated networks of bots to amplify content.

You just know Trump is gonna suggest this change next:

ByteDance is suspending this because it’s a crock of shit. AI doesn’t actually generate the action. It’s a Deepfake-a-MoCap tool that skins a library of actions and puts it in a Unity background. It’s a clever trick, but it isn’t “AI-Generated Video” in the way people would like you to believe.

[Walter Benjamin enters the Chat]

Bluesky is mostly a blow-by-blow account of right wing settlers dismantling the liberal settler civilizational infrastructure, and liberal settlers glimpsing (mostly without realizing it) the beginnings of a destruction endured by first nations to make this culturally evangelical & rapacious state.

I mean, -ish? "I'm going to get this PhD and become a tenured professor somewhere cool!" and "I'm going to ride this to an exit and make a ton of money!" are in some ways very similarly unlikely outcomes

Grad school was a fucking cult, man.

This kaiju denialism will not stand.

“It depends.”

"I don't know what weapons the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be with sticks." "Because of nukes, right?" "No, because we decided logistics was woke."

Solidarity, Comrades.

Could this be a solution? Each bendy straw is 12.8" long when extended. If we assume an overlap of 0.9" on each side, that leaves 11" per straw. It's 67 miles from the port of Dubai to the port of Fujairah. That means we need ~385,920 interconnected bendy straws to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

I know someone else who has an "endorsement" for Jake Paul he'd like to offer...

I think I may have cracked it

I'm a simple man with simple needs. One day I'd like to retire to a little cottage in the woods with a garden where the cats can run free without fear of cars & convert the old garden shed into a little writer's shed where I can enjoy a good cigar and a great glass of bourbon at the end of the day.

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

can this be a solution

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

This is exactly how A.I. works

Strong Fredo Vibes, tbh. youtu.be/5Weaop_aiTg?...

It's almost like we've been through this before with other industries, isn't it? www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/07...

There has not been a single day in the last week where I have not had to encourage my wife to 1) get off Instagram and 2) if she can't do that then to at least assume that every video she sees on it is AI Slop at this point. Meta's platforms are just one big slop factory now.

Did Pete Hegseth write this copy?

Chatbot addiction is merely the other side of the coin of America's gambing addiction. Don't @ me.

When did your obsession with hot toxic women begin? (C'mon, Ali was clearly the source of both Daniel and Johnny's problems for *decades*. And to be honest, some of mine.)

I wrote in my email to them opting out saying that I had no words to express my... But this does.

This may be dating me a bit, but I worry he's more Gary Callahan than Jar-Jar Binks. (Unless we're accepting the theory that Jar-Jar was actually a Sith apprentice, in which case, yeah.)

A DoD spokesperson indicated that all photographers must now sit on the left side of the room & photograph the Secretary using extension tripods so that they capture him from above on his best side. Retouching services will now be provided by the DoD through Who's A Special Little Boy? Photography.

In a better galaxy, we got the guys on the left. In our cursed timeline, the jackasses on the right are being sent to deal with the Trade Federation.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

We need to mercilessly, brutally, viciously cull every single person in tech who does not understand what "garbage in, garbage out" means. They simply can't coexist with human society. They need to go fuck off into the deep forest.

Hell, I can do this is 3 words: "Go Fuck Yourself." Most people being rude never expect their "victim" to escalate. They have the Bully's Confidence. ProTip: this works especially well in "polite" circumstances.

The Austin of 2026 is a very different place than the Austin of 2016. I really loved the city when I first got there 10 years ago, but it's become a sad parody of its former self. Austin has entered its Fat Elvis phase, and SXSW's decline is a reflection of that. Still miss it, glad we left.

What’s a movie you genuinely enjoy that’s known for being bad? I make no apologies for this one. The cast is great and it's a pop song of a class-conflict love story with an extremely dark underbelly.

Workslop has consequences, y’all Good luck to the senior AWS engineers who will now have to be consuming all that. www.ft.com/content/7cab...

Confession of a War Crime, innit.

Wherfor ys the lake that you say was once so large and beautiful now todaye nothinge but a drye and bakinge expanse wyth a fewe small puddles left? Well, you see, my childe, a lot of people reallye needed their emayles summarized.

Man. The world fucking is on fire. So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people. Live whats left of your only life. If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul. Fuck the haters.

Post your favorite “Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.

Anybody want to place bets that Automattic is gonna end up buying Bluesky just so they can get ATProto?

Can’t wait to see what this does to MS365 pricing.

this is how I access bluesky

Where do you see yourself in five years?