I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

There's something so perverse in the way that Waymo uses San Francisco--and more generally, public space--as their hype ground for a technology that is not ready for primetime, has had multiple high-profile failures, and is poorly supported when infrastructure goes down.

this was literally the tabletop RPG session I just ran lol they befriended the ghost of Christmas present and then used him to spy on their enemies

Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life

The article. The article for Gronk. The article written specifically to talk about Gronk. Gronk's article.

they should categorically ban people with Kalshi and Polymarket accounts from having security clearances

i stand by this statement every year

one of the greatest books I’ve ever read, absolutely mind bogglingly unique and fascinating and absolutely fucking unhinged

This series is astonishing, fascinating, infuriating, and fiendishly complex, and one of my favorite SFF reads. It's also $2.99 on Kobo, Apple Books, Amazon, and other ebook stores today.

Me before becoming a CS professor: "with tightly scoped and heavily regulated use-cases, it's worth developing an extremely limited form of AI" Me after 3 years as a CS professor: "we have to destroy all AI of any and every kind immediately and ban any future development work of any kind"

If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

it’s wild how the instant you criticize waymo people come out of the woodwork to pretend we’re all throwing parties when humans kill people in cars and also to post sociopathic shit like “it’s the dog owners fault”

rewatched MOONSTRUCK (1987) and lemme tell ya this movie holds up the most of basically any movie ever it is a fever dream start to finish in the best way possible

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

Looking at my search history: - books as good as piranesi - books like piranesi - piranesi more how - susanna Clark new book Please someone help me

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

Thank god I grew up with stuffing because if I’d never heard of it before and someone showed up to my house as an adult with wet bread and celery casserole my first instinct would be to beat their ass.

What the fuck is going on here? Did Simon Winchester have an editor? Did he fall down the stairs mid-sentence and have to pick up where he left off after a three month coma? “were thus and most probably still are confirmed to be” is the worst clause I’ve ever heard in my life

feels fucked up that Queen’s Impatience is present in the Sealed Forest in Against the Storm. Lady, I’m not asking you to fund my expedition long term, I’m trying to reforge the fucken seal! Don’t get upset with me for taking my time! It’s not my fault all those villagers starved to death

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Fish have committed credit card fraud

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

this has got to be one of the best things the onion has done in years

one of the things I fucking hate about Reddit and Discord (and really, social media overall) is the way that people treat every statement or discussion as a request for advice. I think that behavior is extremely demeaning and destructive to the capacity for interesting and varied conversation.

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Thoroughly enjoyed Parsifal at SF Opera. Been listening to clips of Tannhauser and Die Walkure all day and I deeply regret to say I may be entering my Wagner Era.

the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.

My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.

I am a machine that turns string cheese into string cheese I just ate

Hey if there are any Uber or Lyft product people around here, I would pay $1 more each time for a “not a Tesla” option. That company isn’t feeling nearly enough pain

played through the updated Hades 2 ending and can confirm that Supergiant did improve things. I didn’t think the old ending was bad exactly but I was afraid the new one would feel rushed or forced or overly fan-service-y, but I think it’s just a strict improvement! Good job, Supergiant!

I’m told that the results of a single election reflect a perfect, unchanging, and inescapable spirit of the Volk, so I will expect us all to start respecting the American people’s desire for Woke Maximalism.

What I'm getting from this photo is that I could love but never tame him, that his truest love is the sea.

"do you know how many industries would go out of business if you re-regulated sports gambling or online betting" idk dog it seems bad to base the foundation of the economy on industries that exist entirely to make young men kill themselves bc of gambling debt

Capitalism destroys all culture with advertising. It destroys our outdoor spaces with advertising. It destroys interpersonal interactions with advertising. It destroys our ability to trust others with advertising. There has got to be a human right to avoid ads.

nothing i love more than heat pump oriented solutions

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

Tomorrow is Prop 50 day for California at the ballot box and I'm nervous af. The polling looks quite good, but here in the Blue Heaven known as California we still voted to keep prison slave labor in effect last year. So. Apologies in advance if we fuck this up.

New awareness campaign

glorious moment at Wildsea tonight when someone asked “do you think we will ever play D&D again” and people (including me) were like “No” anyway thanks @felixisaacs.bsky.social (and @itsquinns.bsky.social) you have given me much joy and Wildsea has been such a treasure of a system and world