learned this week that, for years, i have been conflating Business Insider and Bloomberg

one last job

everyone has a personal robot assistant who lies to them all the time

"It reminded me of the quote that is often attribute to George Orwell that states, 'But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was over. He had won the victory over himself.'"

I'm beginning to think that the eradication of the Irish language, thereby forcing us into an inescapable cultural and political grouping with the Anglo countries, may have been the worst thing the British ever did to us.

it’s going to look great at first: a new era of “cheap” phones and laptops, that are light and slim with amazing battery life - because they’re basically just front ends for cloud services, and do zero local compute added bonus: forget trying to block ads when “your” browser is running in the cloud

Walking to the top of a staircase that is somehow the bottom of the same staircase. hate this shit

both grandfathers were stockbrokers from the 1920s onwards (one of whose partner jumped out of the office window in 1929)

We Sat Down With The First Solitaire App For Heterosexual Men, And Now? We're True Believers. By StraightFlush Staff The world of heterosexual mobile card playing broadens its horizons with a smartly produced, intuitive experience that takes all the strangeness out of playing with yourself.

my grandfathers were both career military, ended up retiring and working for contractors out of the Pentagon. my paternal grandmother volunteered religiously at a hospital, and my maternal grandmother made herself indispensable to her city's political power structure and, uh, Betty Friedan

How long until a university president says they want "a Palantir but for academia"?

This is bad, and part of what makes it so bad is that this is clearly pulling from *genre* understandings of reality, which the statistical linguistic machine seemingly cannot distinguish from other text included in the training data. Truly an ideology machine where every episode of CSI is true.

Is being driven insane by AI discourse without actually interacting with a chatbot a subset of AI psychosis

regretfully this has yet to lose its punch m.youtube.com/watch?v=dTqK...

here's my story "Lungs" heavily inspired, in part, by this album. Glen Hansard told me "you've completely misunderstood Jason", altho of course that was not the point

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

folks keep saying everyone's just going about their daily lives as we commit a generational fuckup/atrocity but i'm wondering if people aren't just outsourcing their concerns to posting and their anxious dread to scrolling

“Pioneer” is the word: lesbian heroine Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote 7 utterly distinct novels which you probably don’t know since they are all so different to each other, 150 short stories, a history of Tudor church music and much else. Her (umpteen) letters are fascinating. Please repost to help.

THROUGH ME THE WAY TO THE CITY OF WOE, THROUGH ME THE WAY TO EVERLASTING PAIN, THROUGH ME THE WAY AMONG THE LOST.

With the Marines invading Iraq in 2003 I mentioned to one that we were close to the supposed site of the garden of Eden, to which he responded, very gravely, that none of us would be able to go there, because the Lord had placed an angel with a fiery sword on guard to stop people going in

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

gas jumped 30 cents in my hood in 24 hours

Israel “virtually emptying out the country south of the Litani River and turning the southern suburbs of Beirut into a ghost town.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Current* conditions near St. Helena Island, MI:

Gibbon on Pope's translation of THE ILIAD: "...Mr. Pope, without perceiving it, has improved the theology of Homer." (In a footnote, no less.)

Remembering @jomc.bsky.social's line about how social media pushes users to issue a press release every time anything happens, ChatGPT3 allows everyone to have their own personal PR rep massaging everything they say into formless cud

Am reminded of Robert Baer telling evacuees (in '83? in Beirut?) that the State Department would charge them a fee for their flight out but that they wouldn't have to pay it & everybody being furious with him

Imagining an AI getting sad as it learns that its accepted academic paper won’t be published until 2030

Today's news on X

you (genuinely) love to see it

two men: the blowjob brothers three men: tonight on top gear four men: weezer

things are so fucked rn "US embassy set on fire by drone attack" got buried

Starting self-centered and mundane and ending with bathos and tragedy is, let’s face it, all of us

cracking up at a truly phoned-in Bowie concert review from '76. "one number led into another...the concert continued, without interruption, until its conclusion."

get hype

heavy bombing with limited intel and using Claude as targeting system turns out to have repercussions even beyond horrific war crimes

Movies are fun but the real Apple Dumpling Gang murdered over 300 people.

one *the first page* of Gibbon's THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: "The principal conquests of the the Romans were atchieved under the republic, and the emperors, for the most part, were satisfied with preserving those dominions"

household argument over which one of us is Frog and which is Toad. I'm insisting I'm Frog even though I know very well I'm Toad (for this is what Toad would do)

this is hell

Trump's War

RIP Dan Simmons, you would have loved war with Iran