If you’re not jul’kelen-maxxing with your Chelnaq, you’re not gonna make it

This isn’t a setback. This is deliberately thwarting the research and development of safe and effective medicine.

We will live with the shame of this for all time.

made this exact comparison in 2024 in a column knocked as “hysterical”

Plato’s oubliette

Man, fuck this

Starting a promising Caves of Qud run in classic mode: hell yeah, yes! Permadying several hours in: well this fucking sucks, what the fuck.

Giving Leaflet a try by reposting something from my personal blog.

relatedly there's a strong argument that, even if you cannot RUN the models on your machine at home, any model that is based on fair use training and on the public domain should, itself, be in principle public domain and i'd like to see people making THAT argument instead of "sand is evil"

The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.

What the fuck is ai dot com

Drake Maye every time he’s handed the ball rn

I love going to the National Prayer Breakfast and confess that I know I'm going to hell

I asked @leaflet.pub why their oauth scopes were so broad and @awarm.space fixed them the same day. 10/10.

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:

@leaflet.pub I'd like to create an account to publish on your platform but the permissions requested seem extremely broad. Is this a limitation of Bluesky's oauth or do you have an account of what you do with the permissions anywhere?

Wherein we disparage EigenTrust and point to a smaller yet more powerful alternative: rekmarks.com/posts/modeli...

This game is going to kick unbelievable amounts of ass

A good question to ask: what has Steve Yegge actually made with Gas Town?

I saw it too:

Learning about the behavioral implications of my Nordic physiognomy

This is what they took from you

Incredible things are once again happening in China

"You can't just buy things in a consumer economy"

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

@whstancil.bsky.social is there any record of where in the Twin Cities ICE raids have most frequently occurred?

This is what I'm referring to when I say that the economy is doing poorly.

It's difficult to imagine democracy persisting without dispossessing billionaires of our mass media.

A nomenclature for Gas Town that didn't come from a fever dream: www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/gas-tow...

I don't want the regime brownshirts to have better training; I want them in prison.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

Pascal's Rugging: only deathbed converts go to Hell.

in light of the news that Scott Adams apparently pulled a Pascal’s Wager on his deathbed, it’s worth noting that the approach does come with some risks even if the gods turn out to exist after all

A joke that I set up but can't take credit for: What is it that you call service that brings forth its own demand again? A flywheel!

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

Microsoft's initial deployment of Recall is a profound betrayal of its responsibilities as an OS vendor, and its mitigations are far from sufficient. Both users and apps must always be able to opt out from such features.

Baby outgrew the swaddle sack and won't sleep except on my physical person. You know what this means: we're listening to post-punk and having conversations with Claude Code that I'll be too dumb to have in the morning.

Going through my old notes, this quick list of bullets I jotted down 5 years ago, to explain tech culture to someone outside the industry, really holds up.

The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Mixed media works by Iranian American artist Asad Faulwell, 2010s-20s, whose practice explores the histories and legacies of colonialism and resistance movements, including women fighters in Algeria.

Linus has fallen

I was listening to @thebulwark.com's Next Level podcast today and they were thinking through the chance that Trump actually tries to seize Greenland and there was a @jvl.bsky.social sort of 'I kinda hope he does it to drop the mask entirely' and I just cannot scream loudly enough: No, You Do Not. 1/

A (new!) graduated tutorial on message passing with Endo docs.endojs.org/documents/me...

Mixed media ink works by Taiwanese artist Tseng Chien-ying, 2020s, whose practice blends traditional techniques with contemporary sensibilities.

lovely little logic loop here. the left have accurately described reality, but i still think they're wrong, so what if it was somehow in fact the left's describing of reality that perverted history to make them right. quantum politics. no fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!

Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.