Completely tangential to what Wil's saying here (sorry this'll even spam up your notifications Wil) but it just kind of struck me how bad it's getting when even one of the absolute simplest searches - a basic search for a product recommendation - is now so filled with spam as to be unusable.

Whenever I see someone getting out over their skis on a foreign policy take I remember Caitlin Flanagan confusing Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khomeini and then claiming she was actually expressing a profound truth.

it's the most beautiful time of year

If Maduro is in custody my expectation is the admin will try to hold Dumb Nuremberg. They'll make it a judicial referendum on fentanyl and try to blame Maduro for the deaths from the opiate crisis.

That was the literal pitch: Knock this country over and I will roll over the corpse and let international capital pick it clean. And I will restore respect for the rule of law and human rights – by partnering with Gulf States

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

I really like this joke from @joshgondelman.bsky.social

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a drying rack, must be in want of a wife

I don't think it's fair to start a bunny on a piece of this difficult, remember to start by teaching your rabbits only beginner piano pieces - they can't reach very far with their little paws.

Because again the core issue wasn't actually jobs in these fields going to people 'because woke' but that there were no jobs to be had at all.

“Rain smacked Los Angeles. It splattered on the palm trees, sizzled on the neon, gurgled down the dirty boulevard. The town was sick. They hadn’t seen sunlight in almost a day. But I had the cure. A fifth of magic and a sack full of cold, hard joy. ‘Ho,’ I said once. It was enough.” -Noir Santa

this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

Whenever I'm looking up doughnut recipes I always get either a decent number of if not outright higher number of baked recipes compared to fried, yet I know no one who prefers baked doughnuts. Decided to make a poll to see if anyone does. Feel free to share it! strawpoll.com/ajnE17EG9nW/...

When synthesizers came on to the market, manufacturers actively worked to court musicians into using them. If they'd sold it like a lot of these guys sell LLMs they would have hit the "demo" button on a synthesizer & said "Now you don't need those stuck up musicians (who we all hate) to make music!"

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Boney M: "Oh my Lord, you sent your son to save us/ Oh my Lord your very self you gave us" The Council of Nicea in 325: [Erupts in a brawl]

"Eight Palestine Action activists in the UK are at risk of dying in prison as they remain on hunger strike." They "need specialist medical care that they are not receiving." #UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Protest #Food #Incarceration #Healthcare #Genocide #Weapons #Military

You expect Muslims to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like Harvard University where I might get gangstalked for being myself.

Anyway. This is the gaming industry's consumer base's view on a technology that a bunch of people in the industry insist relentlessly is "here to stay" and we "have to accept"

Just sharing this little thread of mine because this topic (the left is pushing men to the right discourse) comes up enough that I wanted to put my response to it on my page.

This would have to be the one of the biggest electoral wipe outs in just human history if this were to happen, yeah?

The weaseltide never ends...

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

I try to avoid linking to Substacks but this essay is FASCINATING

remember when the Roko's Basilisk concept broke nerd-crank containment and someone effortlessly dismissed it as "imagining in the future there'll be a boot of such enormous size that you have to start licking it today"

It is remarkable to me that LLMs capable of churning out effectively infinite amount of text have existed for several years now and the damning fact is not one of them has produced a text so far that a meaningful number of people wanted to read. Where is the first LLM Pulitzer or Hugo or Newbery?

For my entire life the US has been 'somnambulantly' careening from one disastrous war to the next leaving death, destruction and instability in its wake. If it's true that the global military hegemon has been asleep at the wheel this whole time, maybe it doesn't deserve to be the hegemon. Sorry!

#hourly #wah https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/wahs/photo_524@11-12-2018_19-03-12.jpg

The child lack of socialisation panic is wild when you take even a moment to think about what the life of a teenager is like; it's literally the time in your life you spend the most face to face time with your friends! It really doesn't feel like even 5 minutes thought has gone into this.

The Nerd Reich is one of those terms where the instant you hear it for the first time it strikes you as so blindingly obvious that you feel dumb for not having already thought it. Absolutely brilliant.

I think this fox may be making a soup?

There's an entire plot line in Disco Elysium devoted to answering this question.

Gonna go with the not random option and share this photo of my partner and thousands of bats.

I dunno...Kiki's basically a DoorDasher who needs therapy.