As of late I’ve been trying to say “on site” rather than “in person”. And “remote” rather than “virtual”. It’s not serving anyone, I don’t think, to foster the idea that online doesn’t also involve real persons.

Note from HR: Our lion tamer reports increased job satisfaction since we eliminated the lion agitator position from payroll.

But I can already not play the game with existing tech.

Thank you, @pauloffit.bsky.social , for this well-warranted righteous indignation. open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

Trying to implement a no screens policy at home this year but now if I open the window, bugs fly in

I'm so fucking punk, he says cramming two wolves, a judge and Charlie Brown into a tired format skeet joke.

TODAY'S OBSCURE GRAMMATICAL CHALLENGE Make a band subjunctive Would That They Were Giants

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate meat; and the district attorneys, who prosecute meat. These are their stories."

love a good building sign

Compilation error 4726: compound noun is too long

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

Congress: ‘If You Wanted An Expensive Foreign War, All You Had To Do Was Ask’

#earworm If I had an A.I., I'd prompt it in the morning/ I'd prompt it in the evening, all over this la-and/ I'd prompt it with danger, I'd prompt it with a warning, I'd prompt it with love between my brothers and my sisters/ A-all over this laaa-and/ If I had a metric, I'd game it in the morning...

you cannae break the laws of physics, captain! ΔS of a closed system is always positive!

Marked safe from the heat death of the universe

i always thought it was so fun that the decemberists made a music video of the eschaton scene in infinite jest like go ahead and make what you like, even if it's pretentious or doesn't totally make sense youtu.be/ni7T18UUBUI

Josh Marshall on the mistaken assumption that there is “a” reason why we attacked Venezuela. I have an odd perspective on this, since I spent ages fixating on the analogous question about Iraq. It started when I noticed that none of the books about how we went to war in Iraq mentioned a DECISION.

HEAVY BREATHER: <calling the press> The b— is next BORED REPORTER: Is this “John Barron” again CLEARLY T••••: <flustered> No, it’s… Donaldo Tump https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/01/trump-venezuela-maduro-delcy-rodriguez/685497/

Losing an election is the same thing as being hired by the populace to kill the guys who won the election, when will you liberals understand

No, see, Democrats should just do what I - a person who started paying attention to politics in 2019 - think that Mitch McConnell was doing from the minority in 2010.

if i was trapped in an invisible box, i would tell no one but there would be mimes

So it looks like they didn’t fix a single thing about the underlying AI confusion/hallucination/slander, they just turned off the summary for one very specific search. It feels like “don’t be evil” was about three lifetimes ago.

2016: twitter isn't real life 2026: the president of the united states has twitter/X feeds running on large monitors in a makeshift situation room

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

personally I think if a story about an illegal war and kidnapping leaks to you should publish it.

The most junior copy editor at the nation’s worst college paper could find a way to squeeze “which killed an estimated 40 people” somewhere into these top 6 grafs of the NYTimes story. It was a conscious decision to bury it in the bottom half.

"War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country." – Don DeLillo, White Noise

There should be a soup-dumpling analogue for empanadas

Jeremy's meatballs bring all the boys to the yard

Christ is the Word made Flesh. The ai messiah is... What? "The Word made Stochastic Model" does not roll off the tongue

The only proper grocery store name is "[verb1] & [verb2]" where the verbs are chosen from Stop, Go, Shop, Save, Pick

started speedrunning the year a little after midnight and i've already made it to may; totally circumvented tax day

Sobre lo que no se puede hablar, se debe inventar nuevas idiomas para discutirlo.

Marked safe from whatever nonsense this is. 🫠

First #dream of the new year!

It is with regrets and mixed emotions that I block your feed

New Perspectives (rerun)

A wise man once said, boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

Erasure brings only blankness

#dogsofbluesky Daisy found a tote bag

"You don't have to be ashamed to be white [supremacist] anymore!" -- J. D. Vance

but that’s my emotional support misinformation

Bitten by a radioactive large language model, he awoke with the proportional plagiarism ability...

Retconning the #SpiceGirls canon to include Pumpkin

Omg omg omg omg omg

Hey sorry about the whole speaking in ancient languages and levitating thing last night. I had a really great time and would love to see you again.