Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreams to find the tech world is abuzz with a prediction that, 3 years from now, OpenStink will achieve AGI and perform bullshit work at *TWICE* the speed of a modern bureaucrat!

I contain multitudes. Or, as we say in science, a microbiome.

"There’s just too much wealth concentration. And what do you even do? What’s the purpose of that much wealth? What do you do with it?" — Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood on how we can use guaranteed minimum income to lift Americans out of poverty denver-frederick.com/2025/06/24/t...

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

This is awesome and if anything does not go far enough. Don’t be afraid of your awesomeness. Shine David, shine like a star!

I used to believe, there’s no “i” in Teamwork. Google set me straight.

Everything is a curse

As Shakespeare says “There are sermons in books, stones in the running brooks,” or rather, the other way about, and there you have it, in a nutshell. — Gussie Finknottle

@hotdogsladies.bsky.social I feel like this re-surfaced Jerry Lewis film is something you’d have thoughts about. (I checked your timeline briefly, apologies if I overlooked an existing hot-take) www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture...

True in more ways than one. Given a choice between *doing* a “good” thing or *watching* an “entertaining” thing, Americans choose the latter.

I bet the person who invented copy and paste kept it to themselves for a couple months and got a bunch of pay rises for being so damn productive.

The way technology advances is that someone builds a hack of some kind, let’s call this “a banana” — and then others build further bananas on this banana, until the entire banana tower collapses into a mushy layer of decaying banana matter.

Why is “WORDLE” 6 letters?

My flight plan is needlessly obstructed by so-called laws of “physics”

Life is suffering. Death also no picnic.

Just thinking about "Linear A", an undeciphered writing system from the Minoans of Crete, thought to have been used between 1800 and 1450 BCE. My theory: the reason this language has not been deciphered is because the Minoans invented writing 500 years before they invented reading.

Is a human just an economic agent, a unit factory converting hours to labor-service, sold to capitalist to produce identical widgets, in exchange for a wage with which to consume further widgets, barely scraping by, a tiny broken cog in a vast machine that inevitably destroys the earth?

I bet the person who invented copy and paste kept it to themselves for a couple months and got a bunch of pay rises for being so damn productive.

I bet the person who invented copy and paste kept it to themselves for a couple months and got a bunch of pay rises for being so damn productive.

Mt32 MIDI hat #mt32

So much fun

After about 1 third of a year

I made a tune! It’s for anyone who is a fan of 1. “Disco” *and* 2. Arthur Miller’s play — “Death of a Salesman” www.bandlab.com/post/ddfe38f...

Just saw a guy with a t-shirt that said (in huge letters) “Harden The Fuck Up” …seems a little… combative doesn’t it? He didn’t look particularly tough or anything. Not even a neck tattoo.

To be in the world you have to keep your heart open to love

“Dire-wolf” you say? Seems to have a suspiciously large amount of amphibian DNA for a “dire-wolf”

they may be heating the food with crypto mining rigs

Is it POSSIBLE those mysterious Gallo-Roman DoDecaHedrons are for: holding the cords of up to 19 Gallo-Roman sled dogs, the twine long since perished. They transported the family’s gold or coin safes in the Roman empire’s north west European settlements, during the “little ice age.”

I bet the person who invented copy and paste kept it to themselves for a couple months and got a bunch of pay rises for being so damn productive.

you cannot bend on trans rights because maybe you're next, but also you cannot bend on trans rights because they are human beings with dignity and inherent value and throwing them or anyone else to the wolves is abhorent

Breaking news regarding the strategic defense initiative, live clip.cafe/robocop-1987...

Coding horror’s Jeff Atwood is putting a heap of money into demonstrating how Guaranteed Minimum Income can rebuild communities from the ground up. I’ve always enjoyed picking on Jeff any chance I get, but check out what he’s actually doing here: blog.codinghorror.com/the-road-not...

A career in tech is a career in continual retooling. Embrace it.

Dunbar's number (~150) is a limit (from anthropology) on the number of people you can maintain stable social relationships with. Business people LOVE to apply it directly to organisations, wilfully disregarding the possibility that employees have family and friends outside of work!

Here’s a big and helpful idea: Locus of control — internal or external focus? When you’re focused on all the big bad bullshit “out there” in the world, you’re trapped in thoughts about events with an “external locus of control”. It’s a VERY depressing/anxious place to be!

PLEASE do not CUT the CABLES at TESLA charging STATIONS. It’s having a very negative impact on the Tesla stock price.

I’m waiting for the grocery industry to have their EUREKA moment, where, instead of using cameras to monitor which products you take, instead of using giant scales to weigh your trolley, they simply immerse each customer, with their trolley, in a bath of water, to measure the displacement volume.

Write to your elected senator to ensure they know how to get involved, and the Ides of March is almost here.

Who is archiving the internet archive? And who is archiving the archive of the internet archive? And who is archiving the archive of the archive of the internet archive? #projectTurtles

Trump didn't pay attention during Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and it shows

four Cybertrucks burned overnight in Seattle, authorities say it's still too early to say whether this was an act of politically-motivated arson, or the Cybertrucks simply self-immolated to protest the cruel mockery of god and nature that is their very existence komonews.com/news/local/f...

For every cognitive bias there is an equal and opposite cognitive bias.

Not sure if my response is: Oh shit! Or No shit!

It’s a curse to have thoughts

Instead of obsessively watching weather tracking apps to see the cyclone heading our way, I can look at more global issues and relax while looking at how World War III is heating up nicely.

I’m currently building a datawarehouse for a small business. This is a lot of fun. Pulling together bits and pieces that import all sorts of data sources. Looking after scheduled tasks that keep it all running (via hangfire). Making react front end. Build custom integrated reporting stuff. Fun!

In 1954, Woody Guthrie wrote a song protesting his racist, discriminatory landlord; Fred Trump, “Old Man Trump” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man... open.spotify.com/track/153xTF...

I doubt I'm the first person to make this observation: I would not be one bit surprised if, some day soon, during a live appearance, Donald Trump peels down his face to reveal he was Andy Kaufman all along, just doing a "bit". T'ank you veddy much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBUP...