i know it's unlikely to happen but i'd really appreciate just one left-wing billionaire crank. let one of the koch heirs become a posadist or start funding PSL. just think it'd level the playing field a bit

A tremendous loneliness comes over you. Everybody in the world is doing something without you.

been trying to listen to my body more but i am not sure "you should eat chicken teriyaki three times a day" is helping me self-actualize

Deals are my art form. Some people get their kicks in different ways, but for me it's always been doing beautiful deals.

I also cannot ship my work today because it’s too powerful to release publicly

i wrote about claude and craft blog.bront.rodeo/when-good-en...

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

proud to announce after nearly a decade working in software i have finally gotten certified to be a helpdesk technician

can't help but notice a direct correlation between the rise of vibecoding and increasing downtime for critical applications. wonder what could be causing this

does anyone on here know anything about wiring pachinko machines? i have inherited a Project

good

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

"The fight cannot be among laborers who are all threatened by this technology... If generative models are monstrous—and I remain convinced they are—its masters are the enemy of those who wish to end their march."

my brother asked me to roast his new haircut

seeing an uptick in “fake event invite” phishing emails like this that appear to be working on relatively tech-savvy people, since they’re coming from emails i recognize. luckily i know to assume i am never invited to anything. stay safe out there!

blogging again

returning from my social media hiatus because i had too much FOMO about atproto conference :(

upon reflection, as much as i like atproto, the effort it takes to make social media a net positive in my life is not worth it. gonna deactivate for a while, find me on @leaflet.pub or bront.rodeo

Good morning

Quentin Tarantino should have been run out of town for speaking ill of this man

I'm building on atproto because I think that a single social network has essentially no shot of dethroning the current tech monopolies. But an open ecosystem of interoperating apps is so infinitely more interesting than legacy social that it seems almost inevitable it will win

reading "users shouldn’t feel they’re dealing with weird behavior just because they’re on a decentralized protocol" and i feel like we don't really appreciate how radical that is as a concept in the grand scheme of things

New blogpost about atproto It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical. www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...

FYI for anyone considering applying for this position, or halfway through -- initial (simple) application deadline was today but we're extending it to Friday, February 27!

much like the psychopomp or ferryman archetype, you can only quit being the director of Evangelion when you trick someone else into taking the job. from now on if you see Yoko Taro in the street do NOT accept his gifts, as he will do or say anything to rid himself of Anno's curse

gotta hand it to the universe for absolutely wrecking my physical health right as my mental health is the best it’s been in ages

i transcribed a talk i gave earlier this month about why i used to do philosophy, coming to peace with death, and refusing to come to peace with christopher nolan blog.bront.rodeo/live-forever...

not falling for this one. what i do not read cannot hurt me

i close all my tabs after every browsing session and yes, i have escaped the wheel of samsara by following the eightfold path

theres a lot of divisive rhetoric out there but if you just log off and go outside you’ll notice how much we have in common. for example, americans from all over the political spectrum love being driven insane by the computer

i recognize that as a philosopher turned programmer peter watts was basically made in a lab to make me bark and clap like a seal but i do think everyone should read blindsight

One of the most brrrrrr-inducing sequences in modern speculative fiction, for my money

this is going to ruin my life :)

This is an act of cultural vandalism: zombo.com RIP zombocom, 1999-2026. You could do anything at zombocom. Anything at all.

you all think you’re so much better than me just because you’ve never been permanently banned from mcdonald’s over a simple misunderstanding about szechuan sauce

wife is NOT satisfied with “i’m treatpilled and chestermaxxing” as an explanation for why i ate a jumbo bag of cheetos in the bed

atlantic ave-barclays is a unique train station in that i am paying $3 for the *possibility* of a train and only find out if i can actually ride one after entering it. transit schrodinger’s box

claude is a culture ship mind, chatgpt is a weyland-yutani synthetic, grok is AM

this is tomorrow!

after about a year of use i gotta say i’m impressed with bsky’s mod tools. just saw a post alluding to some upsetting trend on here but thanks to my judicious use of the mute button i have no idea what it is.

This is…good. I’m sure I disagree with almost every second order conclusion that Oren would make as prescription but the diagnosis is pretty spot on (if it does necessarily gloss over all the foundational exploitation, but we are talking Econ here).

Guys you gotta take reindeer organs

before anyone gets mad at me on here i think it’s important to know that im one of the youngest people on this platform (34)

Fascinating answer about fascism by a Disco Elysium dev 👌