lol in 2019 allbirds randomly emailed me to ask me write a satirical newspaper for them. we had a zoom call and they gave me a ton of information and all this shit. then they asked me for a price and i offered $100 an hour and they never reached out to me again

Sigh… I wrote about the Michael Jackson movie defector.com/michael-is-t...

i’m not haunted. please dont put it in the newspaper that i’m haunted

@mbultman.bsky.social thought you and the other writers asked a lot of good questions of SY/TM today. great work all around. i feel calmer after watching that press conference.

made a local app based off the Bowie/Thom Yorke technique of cutting up poems and pulling lines out of a hat 1. Hit space 2. Get random jotting from last few years 3. Filters for highly dorky fun This is hit #3. No memory of how/why it exists so I wanna create the rest of the character it implies

newly diagnosed, doing some research, and already encountered the final boss

They’re calling him the wealthiest independent musician of all time

i had no interest in watching the pitt and i am now gonna watch the pitt

this isn’t at all what “industry plant” means, that’s a pretty sloppy category error describing a totally different thing than what is described here.

gonna write a diss track for my tummy

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

When the global financial paper of record says the market is fake and being manipulated by the President you just know we are entering the Cool Zone

No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...

"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time

they’ll have to pry the ten blue links from my cold dead fingies udm14.com

Think of the world-altering tech since 1997—home internet, smartphones, social media, streaming, AI—and remember that practically that whole time, the US president has been someone who couldn't reset their own Wi-Fi.

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

need to learn how to monetize being interested in shit.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

you take 6d6 psychic damage every time you hear the throaty millennial whoop in the skyrizi commercial

this was fun www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

they’re calling it the most swagless super bowl of all time

mamdani child podium gave me an idea: we should have a monthly primetime network show where a random American child gets to address the entire nation for half an hour about whatever topic they want

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

The right wing is so fully astroturfed that they genuinely cannot comprehend organic behavior

[Oreo cookie CEO]: People not liking Oreos is destroying society.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

bar after bar after bar

i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

“Kirk did not commit violence, not because he abhorred it, but because committing violence was someone else’s job.” every sentence of this piece is sharper than the last but this one is gonna stick in my head for a long time. one of the most incisive useless wordpiles i’ve read all year.

good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein

Honestly at this point I think Bandcamp would be better served by developing a more substantial social review aspect of the site a la Letterboxd. Where else (that isn't evil) has a better vantage point for that?

spent twenty minutes of my christmas morning putting together my starting 22 of beloved christmas characters

would’ve been an all time sports highlight reel play and instead it’s just another in a long line of METICULOUSLY DELIBERATED ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS

“lions lose by scoring a touchdown” is a new one. i’ll give em that.

the word ‘disgruntled’ implies the existence of a ‘gruntled’ state of being

unlocked a new new parent brain achievement today: tapped an egg for my son’s breakfast on the bowl i’d set next to the sink and then cracked it straight into the drain. incredible stuff.

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

One of the ways you can see this is driven by an industry looking for some way to make itself profitable? No one has shown any concern that students demonstrate basic competency with computers before enrolling (or graduating)—and, many do lack that.

im lucky to know so many wonderful kind people and this fucking country makes life so unnecessarily hard on everyone. it’s beautiful to me that people still retain their beating hearts

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

i’ve had this song in my head since we shot this this past summer. an s-tier pop song. it was so fun to learn/play it live.

i setup a Quicklink for UDM14.com with dynamic placeholders in Raycast so now I can get ten perfectly AI-free blue links as fast as I can type. Highly recommend: "https://www.google.com/search?q={Query}&udm=14"

I've been thinking about media platforms in the #Fediverse geared around artists. I think the network is in dire need of having support for commerce. Not "Big Capitalism" commerce, but the ability for people to buy/sell things, support projects, and commission people to keep making stuff.

hickory dickory dock was the original migos flow

Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K