this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Martin Luther blowing off the legacy codebase and refactoring the whole thing from scratch, only to end up with a thousand equally incomprehensible forks

RTO was designed to accommodate vampires ✅ Doesn't appear on camera, making Zoom meetings challenging ✅ Comfortable working with no natural light ✅ Permission to enter, granted by employee badge ✅ 1hr commute meaningless; eternal life ✅ Office culture discourages strong smelling foods like garlic

The robots are literally killing us. Not because of hyper intelligence, but because they're shit

99% of stakeholder "ideas" is just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest. Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.

I'll meet you all back on IRC

Yeah, I have FOMO Five Ounces of MOzzarella

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The difference between Gnosticism and early orthodox Christianity is also somewhat arbitrary, as both were influenced by the same Neoplatonic ideas, ideas which Tolkien would have been familiar with and very much played up in his work.

This is Smartwashing AI. Many know that the econ & political conditions that enable the tech industry to infiltrate every sector of public & private life are unsustainable & dangerous. But bc resistance is cast as emotional or archaic a cottage industry of wishful thinking from the left has emerged.

*touches timeline* something has happened. i can feel it.

they don't call it grotesque for nothing

Your account now requires two-actor authentication. We have sent an access code to Chris Evans

Divorce is not enough. This calls for trivorce.

Now THIS is pod racing

The Onion CEO posting this may make you wonder, but unfortunately this problem is very real — 42% of Lays customers don't know that it's potato

For $180 I could prepare you four individual burgers, shaped in a way that you could actually eat

Boss: did you finish the mayo ad? Graphic designer: yeah boss Boss: did you make it real horny just like I asked? Graphic designer: There is no sex in the Soviet Union, boss

Be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together 💛

Media depictions of gamers are stuck in the last century. For example, whenever you see a character who is coded as a gamer, they are always playing a video game. While in reality, there is nothing gamers hate more than video games.

Due to a small typo in the spec, the kill switch did not end up turning off the evil robots like we'd hoped. But on the plus side, their joints are completely clogged up with all this krill

Over-empowered superstars can promote groupthink just as much or even WORSE than an on-average lower-skilled collective (!!!) because in a cutthroat kind of hero culture people glom onto and mindlessly follow the superstars One of the costs that only emerges when you look beyond individuals

Me in school: the two things I hate most are homework, and presentations Me today: *writing a conference talk in my spare time* I sure love doing homework for this presentation

The way capitalism backs us into a corner where we start to see scale and speed as goals is so depressing

99% of stakeholder "ideas" is just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest. Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.

When the apocalypse came, their stockpiled guns and gasoline didn't save the preppers. Desperate, they roam the wasteland for one thing everyone now treasures most: the twist ties I saved from every product I bought in the past 20 years.

Does anyone have a recipe similar to the bakpo galbi from Lim Seong-geun and Brewmaster Yun on Culinary Class Wars? I must make this: youtu.be/JzjQ9PIaJJU?...

you say 'new on my substack' and I say www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

I don't know, but when the time comes, I will make one of those fuckers.

I use this as well github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

A lot of very inspiring replies. unfortunately mine is this

Yes, and: this is what "data driven" means everywhere it is used, because determining how "data" is generated is a political decision

I saw at least one for gambling on medical debt, and several for AI doctors, but surprisingly no AI gambling yet

"greatest thing than sliced bread" is a capitalist slogan. Factory-sliced bread is preventing you from living the life of a god: cutting a loaf the long way to make a mightier sandwich.

Good morning from the harbor seal factory! We got several working harbor seal families ready to challenge the establishment! Here you can see a mother teaching their baby about the union. Get em started young! #UnionsForAll #SealSky 🦭 🦑

If you have a LARGE follower count, pls know that Scott Horton is a chronic thief of posts. He also gets things very wrong and won't take posts down. No matter how nicely you ask. Please unfollow him and do not repost. Although he steals everything, Horton was recently verified by Bluesky.

Me: why does that name seem famili- Ohhhhhh wait the guty who kept stealing my threads across multiple platforms. Then got angry when he got publicly called out for it and claimed he was "doing me a favour". Yeah fuck that guy. 😆

OMG my brother in law, the gift that never stops giving, was tired of being sent to get rice every day so he decided buy in bulk, talked to the shop about it, wires got crossed, now there is a literal TRUCK FILLED WITH RICE outside the house and my sister is losing her shit lmfao

If there's a point to this thread, it's this: cherish the ridiculous, expansive dreamers in your life. They illuminate the world. Warm yourself in the glow they cast and never discount the value of imagining something stupidly impossible together. The alternative - not having them - is worse.

Unfortunately my kitchenaid is too big to properly stir dough for 1 loaf of bread, and I must suffer the misfortune of making two

m-dash? You must be joking. This is a w-dash.

"Friction is where the heat comes from. Friction is where the life is."

The power of the placebo effect is that even though the brooms don't do anything, the stones still slide further because they *think* they do

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

Scholars envisioning a radical progressive future enabled by LLMs.

Wake up babe, new dinosaur just dropped

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