any synth heads on here gonna be at Synth East tomorrow? I'll be hanging out @ the Instruō table most of the day, come say hi!

Honk and Bonk (Repost because nice light)

with apologies to mike primavera

it seems obvious in retrospect that the SaaS model was a prequel to HaaS. what they didn’t have at the time was a giant tech money ouroboros rolling up the entire supply chain like an evil katamari

hjorse

its insane that drafting as an occupation used to just involve countless huge rooms of dads in shirts and ties, scattered all over the country, leaning over tables with their asses perked up all day as their 9-5 job

Satya Nadella: Over 30% of our code is AI now! The Code: continvoucly morged back into develop

every accusation is a confession every conspiracy theory is a manifesto

oh yeah that's the good shit right there www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUQt...

IAD 🛫 LHR

Hermeneutic of Suspicion incredible name for a harsh noise act

a huge amount of the harm caused by this tech and the hype and mythology surrounding it is because of its interface rather than its underlying capabilities. these things should not have a UI that pretends it is a person

Presented without context... for now. 🫣

anyway, i drew this for the nib in march 2023 lol

I’m like if Eeyore served cunt

explaining Thad's (who uses that/that's pronouns) Honda to another friend while our second friend with the same name and the same car is present like yea that's that Thad's That's — that Thad that's that/that's, not *that* Thad's That's

prehistoric algorave

excited for our next prime minister, a literal sack full of rats

About those electricity poles in Bad Bunny’s halftime show — the song is “El Apagón” (“The Blackout”) and the official music video was released as a 23min documentary, subtitled “Aquí Vive Gente” (“People Live Here”). [and yes, there are English subtitles from ~4:30] youtu.be/1TCX_Aqzoo4

I never noticed this either.

contrary to popular belief, the Internet is not a telecom center, but a celestial wellspring at a critical Ley line intersection. discovered some time in the 1960s, humans first alloyed manually, then built increasingly complex æromancy machines to move "data", a form of elemental energy, in & out

shot a man in reno just to increase the murder rate for the reno metro area as part of a longterm plan to humiliate the newly elected sheriff who was my boyhood companion until our paths were crossed by a flamehaired girl who laughed like the dawn and how we sparred for her favor until the ague came

the adventures of floaty dog

But there is *so much of it*

jp game developer in the 90's: so we're making a bass fishing game composer: oh hell yeah i got you [adds "drop the bass" sample] jp game developer: no no like the fish composer: what fish?

"desocialization" (like "social deskilling") is a good term for what was once talked about in terms of "social graph" vs. "interest graph," or of "algorithmic recommendation" nymag.com/intelligence...

Happy 4th birthday to this stupid thing I was compelled to create! LONGOOSE FACTS: - Neck - The idea came from a typo - The music is a loop from Bandlab - It has over 3 million views on TikTok! - Those views translated directly into £0 and 500+ NFT bros hassling me 24/7 for a YEAR! - HONK

a reminder that this is a chemical weapon so vile it is banned in actual warfare. awful stuff

Not that any of these connections weren't known already, but it's quite something to see it all laid out so explicitly.

incredible new development in the field of scottish fusion cuisine

sad to see people i have looked up to flailing around with LLMs instead of applying actual skills i know they have.

Brother Gregor is concerned

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

pwetty pwease www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ple...

laughed aloud at this wonderful quotation from james clerk maxwell, describing the vast power of his electromagnetic theory — unifying for the first time the mechanics of light, electricity and magnetism — which connects the powers of distant stars with .... tulse hill, london

Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them

this is rly embarrassing but i hate when it snows in nyc. how do u guys not spill everywhere???

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

need somebody to come over and do this to my brain pls

Would you like to learn a lot of things you almost certainly didn’t know but they’re all about amphibian reproduction?

while this is certainly a lifestyle choice, it is certainly not a vibe

LHR 🛫 IAD

Yeah the thing that immediately pissed me off about this is how IT basics are taught in libraries and are essential to modern living and have huge - like years long - queues but where’s the funding for that?

why is the only available action here "OK"¿¿¿

who up doing crimes with the JavaScript "Proxy" API

wow i really like how this turned out

hobbits are some country ass mutherfuckers man. getting all hopped up on reefer setting off fireworks and shit. the central theory of this story is that the greatest and cruelest army in all history can be defeated by a passel of pothead hillbillies

woah enshittification has come for the automat