Punxsutawney Phil finds himself in Epstein files; six more weeks of winter

DATING TIP: dress nicely, being mad at the world is a dead end, you need to grieve the past and let it go, your bitterness IS your loneliness, you must seek out the estranged great mother within you and accept her love, the whole world is waiting for you to love it back, you nee

The big tech experience is spending all morning discovering that you need to use Bludgeon HFC Init tools for the Metastable migration w.r.t. the Zombo Lite rules Then you find the documentation for the stack and it's a My Little Pony picture and a message saying the page has moved

I'm here to share news of the X dot com the everything app clown fire. Nikita copied Bluesky's starter pack feature but made it worse by centralizing curation without understanding any of the communities involved (i mean, how could he?)

All music streaming services should have two sliders: novelty and obscurity. Cranking up the first should give you more new tracks and cranking up the second should give you deeper cuts.

Someone who never responds to your requests is an "ask hole."

What just happened? Was there a mass exodus? Was I tagged somewhere?

Dada-driven decisions

Did you hear about the guy who bought some Moogs from the '70s and, in doing so, paid for the synths of his father?

Both the dating and the job market feel so cursed because technology has drastically reduced the cost of applying.

Found a good person on online dating. Now I have to figure out what I'm going to do with all that time I used to spend going on online dates.

I turned down a job working on steam engines. It was a mist opportunity.

Forget meeting her dad, the real trial is meeting her rescue dog

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, never mind how comical

I told my brother about this comic I had ChatGPT draw and he said I have too much free time

Merry Catmas

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations

Groundhog Day is a movie about an empty man who breaks out of his life of crime, mayhem, and nihilism by sleeping with his coworker

The existence of Madlibs implies the existence of Angry Conservatives

Very soon, "not writing like an LLM" will become a class shibboleth

I didn't sleep very well last night

Seeing like a state machine

Man, these AI generated recaps are getting harsh

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

My parents in Texas said they read a good book on AI and they'd send it to me

When styles from 2017 are looking noticeably dated

My uncle is a really good lead guitarist who is in a band with the Aerosmith drummer and was invited to play with Foghat

I mistook "allowed" for "aloud" and was accused of being homophonic

I want to go to a tech conference and assert I'm a trans-HUMANT-ist (not trans-HUMAN-ist). Sorry guys, I'm not interested in enhancing humans, just being a nomad and herding goats.

I wish I could just capture all of my favorite moots still on X and bring them here

Reasons to date: ❌ Companionship ❌ Intimacy ✅ Finding someone who can accurately tell you the ways you're screwed up

Unlike the masturbatory fever dream of Roko, this one already exists. It’s here now. It’s simple: You must strip cost, friction, and redundancy now, or you lose to someone who will.

sloptimization: solve just enough of the problem that the output is usable for its context class

Godspeed You! Slack Emperor

Never argue with a defensive lineman. He'll never take accountability for ANYTHING.

Idea: make a podcast with friends but don't publish or even record it

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This sounds like a Goo Goo Dolls song lyric > You can't fight the fish that ain't comin' > Can't ye see the world where you stand > When everything looks like the white whale > I just want you to know I'm Ahab

Found this old video of my dog listening to me play piano. I swear to God she's enjoying it and even waiting for the chord to resolve at the end.

"No updates from my end"

The world is an overstuffed toy box and we are spoiled children too jaded to appreciate the toys

Who wore it better?

We see so many terrible reddit posts about relationships. Here's a fantastic one (on love).

Foreign adversaries worried that Bluesky is not well suited to corrupt the minds of our youth

The craziest thing about meditation is you'll just be about your day and realize happiness is just an internal state you can visit whenever you want, and your problems spring from the poorly fitting role you're playing which can easily be discarded

"This social media site is an echo chamber" is a separate issue from"this social media site is a battlefield." I would like to see a site that is neither an echo chamber nor a battlefield, but X is doing is a worse job than any other site I've been on because it boosts controversy.

This is about Twitter refugees, isn't it?

They're offering a very low price

Briefly logged into X and almost QT'd Andrew Tate within five minutes. Deleted, logged out, locked myself out of it. The site is pure brain poison now.