*kisses fingers*

How does this only have 20k views

math hot take: "Number Theory" sounds like a name that some TikTok moron gave to some hopeless misconception they have

lrt Elizabeth Seaport also good

Leonia Teaneck is about as glamorous a name as I can think of. Like this is a woman who keeps separate wine that’s just for throwing in her enemies’ faces.

Everyone Is 38 Theory

this is a weird connection to draw but this is what that quiz brought to mind for me - a purportedly neutral observational thing that ends up being extremely revealing about its creator's ambient background worldview

The Next Banksy? This Street Artist's Thought-Provoking New Work Is Starting An Important Conversation

How exactly are we thinking the housing idea would work

for some reason this reminded me of this tiktok i saw once

high bar, but for my money, the absolute worst content about AI is "🤯 rumors are circulating that [lab] is working on [model] [current version + 1]". like yeah man...what did you think they were doing...

this is so funny, we've got a Bellingcat-level geolocation of a photo taken in front of a building that has a big sign identifying its name and location, and dozens of replies saying only a creepy stalker would identify the Regal Union Square as being in New York www.threads.com/@gasl.ightin...

there's an uncomfortable amount of important low-salience things where the status quo quietly ended up being unimaginably good compared to the catastrophe you'd end up with if the thing didn't already exist and you had to get public buy-in to create it

reading about why we still have carriage horses

Oopenheimer

Get Linux, you can create keyboard shortcuts for just about anything.

this is exacerbated by the carrying-around-a-slightly-open-laptop thing

got this YouTube suggestion and it's funny to think that...

new fav bot

the scene in Oppenheimer when the army guys pack up the bomb and politely but firmly say "we'll take it from here" is such a good combination of overwhelming dread and "yeah man how exactly did you think this was going to go"

Is there a medical procedure I can get that stops me from involuntarily saying shit like “who up scoping they blob”

“GTA 6” -Awl headline about slang terms for Canadian cities

Okay but your mind is gonna be blown when you see the incredible stuff I’ve been 3D printing. For example take a look at all these sick 3D printer accessories

somehow "the president installed an Ultimate Fighting Championship arena on the White House grounds that is larger than the White House itself" doesn't even begin to capture the world-historical degree of trashiness of what Trump has achieved here. it looks so much worse than that sentence sounds

Don’t you hate it when your sharp edge becomes a footgun

say what you will about 2Social2Network but it’s definitely a jeremy strong movie (it stars multiple jeremys)

Last week I got the idea to use this post as a benchmark (does the model understand that it’s a parody of “Greetings, Friends!”) and this week the benchmark is saturated

looking forward to the eventual documentary about the mid-2020s indie film scene called Meet Me In The Backrooms

me hedging about an unreliable metrics endpoint:

Ok look obviously these things are extremely nondeterministic so it’s not like you’re going to be able to get a clean repro of any issue but I can’t help but wonder if the “act really unhinged” system prompts all the cool kids are evidently using could be contributing to the really unhinged behavior

hall of fame parenthetical disambiguation

For a fun time search this guy’s posts for “transplants”

uni = one tree = tree

everywhere I look, something reminds me of him

complete list of names in Star Wars movie titles: - Skywalker - Solo - Grogu

crypto...anarchy...network

the idea of """pinkwashing""" is pretty much explicitly "omnicause (laudatory)" and it drives me nuts how uncritically embraced it is

the Munsell color space is a neat looking object

like four million people ride the NYC subway every day, surely I can't be the only one who thinks "Stan Chera the closing doors, please" every time the train is leaving the station

I don't know how we pulled it off but I'm so glad we somehow managed to elect a mayor who rejects zero-sum provincialism

“Knicks in four!” [crowd cheers] “…President!” [crowd gasps as I pull off the mask and reveal that I am G. Gordon Liddy]

[most annoying voice imaginable] Antifaschistiche Aktion

When u see that measure b is passing in sf

Wait do people pronounce kubectl “cube cuddle” because of the plush Portal memorabilia

does the “blocked for this post” bot take requests

display name idea