I set up my mom with Linux and she was happy with it for years. LibreOffice Calc. Firefox. Set up the printer for her. Everything just worked. If you have simple needs, Linux just works, I don't know what to tell people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ASMR but instead of audio triggers it's reading communication protocol pinouts

A part of me will be sad when the unit coal/coke trains stop running

Why tf do I keep going to see PTA films. I figured I was going to get a father-daughter character piece. Instead I got world building in the John Wick tradition paired with action scenes that end before they start. Who goes to see a 3hr John Wick movie with no action??

Posting this here because if I post it elsewhere people will get annoyed at me for insinuating Trump and Stephen Miller are fascists (they are)

The genocide of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is one of the great tragedies in the history of this planet — and may have been a cause of the Little Ice Age! #history #climatechange #colonization #genocide #indigenous #naturalhistory #iceage #forests #forest #earth #colonialism #nature

A lesser known aspect of Steam is that it has an entire social network built-in to it. I've friended random users over the years but never chatted with or played with them. Our interactions are entirely confined to shitposting on each others screenshots. It's the most wholesome social media I'm on.

A movie-esque life of adventure is still readily available if you're willing to eat enough shit

LLMs are already better at understanding whatever amount of code can fit in context. Tools like Codex are decent for understanding today. And it's only going to get better. I wouldn't bet against AI becoming able to ingest and convey understanding for codebase sized amounts of data

I wonder if the haters will get to write the history of big tech

The opposite of "the scriptwriters are getting lazy." The slow burn introduction of Fuentes is going to make for compelling storytelling when this is all done. Something of a Hans Landa figure

Abundance talking points have already taken over the technocratic left wing. It's hard to turn the tide against horseshoe populism though

It's going to be funny in 3-5 years when the articles start coming out about how companies can't find enough qualified junior devs because the AI isn't fully there yet but too many students switched majors on the assumption it would be

The debate around Emergency Medicaid for undocumented pregnant women has me wondering: from a pro-life perspective when should the fetus be considered a US citizen?

The mystery of black cherry decline has puzzled scientists for decades — but now the consensus is that a big part of it is the loss of the nitrogen from acid rain. #tree #trees #plant #plants #ecology #ecosystem #forest #forests #woods #nature #outdoor #outdoors #forester #forestry #stem #cherry

It's a great cosmic coincidence that the decline in porch smokers as a means to deter porch pirates coincided with the widespread availability of Ring cameras

I forgot that Blue Jays could a sweet call. I'm so used to them making that harsh corvid call

Am I the only one who gets acute road rage as a pedestrian? Overwhelming majority of encounters are great, but the remaining few kill the simple pleasure in walking

The most pronatalist thing you can do as an individual is to take kids into mixed public spaces and make it look easy

I wonder if the “you can't trust AI” talk will age as well as the same kind of talk from when Wikipedia came on the scene

My least favorite part of reading tweet screenshots on Facebook isn't that I already saw them 2 months ago but that they have to flip the quote tweet ordering to make them legibile to genXers/boomers

We're all golden age weavers now

Back in the day you had to set hardware IRQ settings for every game. DirectX fixed that. Now you simply configure window resolution in every single game. Much more civilized

It's ironic that we're having a genuine "video game (culture) is to blame" moment and everyone is so caught up with emotionally charged partisan thinking that the fight is over whether "they" means the "left" or the "right"

The rage porn machine is operating at full steam. Blue tribe has been busy with it since the inauguration. Red tribe has taken the lead in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. They feed off each other and it's only going to get worse going into 2026

NEW Economist/YouGov: Personal finance % saying that a year from now they and their household will be better off financially Democrats Jan 26-28: 18% Sep 19-22: 13% Republicans Jan 26-28: 67% Sep 19-22: 36% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec... d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Oh hey, I just noticed that Matt Damon who talks to me about trees is on here

Where is the Brian Potter of Ag who does a deep dive into why Sorghum and Millet have resisted productivity gains www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/food-proje...

NPC checking in

‘Sneak by crouching’ has to be one of the dumbest video game-isms. Up there with drawing a bow indefinitely

It's quaint that writers still refer to the thinkers behind MAGA as alt-right

Super impressed by the Gavin Newsom podcasts from earlier this year. I passed on them at the time but am going back now It takes vulnerability (Brené Brown sense) to embrace that kind of epistemic humility. You can tell he's genuinely trying to figure how Dems fucked up 2024 election so badly

The more I think about it the more the $100k petition change seems fine, other than being illegal. Consider: the number of h-1b visa holders won't change (previously it was basically a lottery system)

Rn I think they're overplaying their hand. If a new flashpoint occurs things could break badly. But in the absence of that my read is there will be a thermostatic backlash against the red tribe for what they're doing now

Are Blue States or Red States better at preventing crime? Neither. Here is percentage black plotted against murder rate, with states colored blue and red. Race is the overwhelming factor here, and there's no evidence partisanship has any role. www.richardhanania.com/p/beyond-the...

I wonder if the people of 1914 considered whether the power enabled by the Clayton Antitrust act would eventually be used by a gangster presidency to shakedown companies and subvert the 1st amendment

the fascist president declaring antifascism to be terrorism

Canceling public figures over celebrating political violence is both fine and not the same as the cancel culture that persecuted people like Palmer Luckey (false equivalence)

The Bsky haters are right about one thing — Ezra Klein is mistaken for thinking Ben Shapiro represents anything about where the red tribe is going. Nonetheless it's an interesting conversation throughout! Recommended

Depressing that on top of everything this is what is going to make Nick Fuentes a household name

Super cringe out there in the blue tribe feeds for the boomers at heart. Lots of online extremism "experts" out there explaining with 100% confidence that memes are the exclusive language of groypers

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Neither red nor blue tribe has a monopoly on political violence and recent attempts to spin it as such are odious

That's a striking graph e360.yale.edu/features/lau...

It has been 6 years since the Trump administration was ordered to stop seizing the children of anyone who applied for asylum at the border, and over 1000 of those children have never been reunited with their families. They probably never will be.

Statistical gun violence is inevitable given 2nd amendment + US culture The problem is *high profile* gun violence which is traumatizing the psyche of this country. We can't stop it but we absolutely can reduce the incidence

Enjoyed seeing data b/c this contradicts my experience. In my bubble I know many talented males who supported their simple lifestyle with low-end jobs, and only pivoted to a high paying career or small business owner tracks when kids became part of the picture