As his work would have been orally composed rather than written, I think it's more accurate to consider Homer an early sort of podcaster

God, a thousand times this. That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis. I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.

"Make shit work the way normies assume it already worked" is a winning platform in all fifty states.

cc @djinnandtonic.bsky.social

For those new to bluesky, if the bell icon says "30+" that means everyone who interacted with you is over thirty

Back when I was young, the question was "will capitalism kill us through its relentless extraction of surplus value from nature-obliterating technology?" Turns out no, it's dumber than that, the capitalists actually want to build solar panels now but that's not ok because it's soy or something.

Detailed like and repost data becomes visible after 24 hours. Real-time notifications for replies and quotes but everything else gets collated into a single daily digest. If you really want to post for big numbers you can, but with some intentional breakage to the dopamine gacha loop.

a big part of the problem for these types, at least the ones i know, is that they have a really hard time thinking in terms of systems and structures, because they haven’t had a lot of engagement with systems and structures in their lives, to the extent that they have, it’s usually one-way

If I hated him he would not frustrate me so much

Not like Georgia's a swing state or anything.

I hate how my immediate reaction to this is "be more specific".

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

I didn't expect a retvrn to the Spartan ethos to include the penchant for mediocre poetry, but apparently here we are.

One of my most moral panic style opinions is the use of “NPC” as a slur is a symptom of a societal sociopathy epidemic.

one of the tensions there’s not much interest in navigating is between child autonomy as a legitimately important cause that we need to support as liberals, and the fact that children tend to be proud members of the No Bedtime Caucus

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy (probably cheating)

genuinely i feel like “the discourse about ai in left-wing spaces is heavily shaped by the over representation of artists defending their class interest” also leads to a lot of motivated reasoning about what is valuable about the service they provide

Ah! The camera roll search got us there 💜

The nice thing is that we don't even need a better DVCS, really. Git, as an underlying data structure, is really solid. `git`, as a CLI application real users actually interact with, is a bunch of shell scripts that only make sense if you're literally the guy who wrote Linux. That we can do better.

Chief Engineer Lt. Commander Five. As in, cast for One of Five through Five of Five and they all show up interchangeably and trade off whichever one speaks mid-conversation.

People don't like to admit it but in addition to all the woo woo bullshit from RFK Jr, he is also an old school environmentalist of the "this planet is overpopulated and we should let the weak die rather than technologically innovate" variety.

this is my politics

Everything is about critiquing sex except for critiquing sex, which is about critiquing power.

Hey @gork.bluesky.bot , is this an example of the Streisand effect?

this is a wild secret that is so powerful my brain frequently fails to comprehend and act on it, but almost nothing we discuss on this site is actually all that important, especially not our meta-debates on how to talk about politics

"I wish I could work in tech during a formative, exciting era of the internet." *monkey paw finger curls, ChatGPT is released* "No no like that"

I think a lot of people thought they were voting against pronouns or expensive burgers or the existence of women or something and forgot that voting for Trump meant they were, in fact, voting for Donald Trump to be president of the United States of America.

If you don't have ethical questions over your engineering work, you don't understand your engineering work.

I'm beginning to understand early 20th century politics. This is not a good thing.

"Yup, there's your problem. You've mistaken arbitrary norms specific to your social group for sacred immutable truths and it has driven you insane."

are you now, or have you ever, been with familiar with the name scott alexander?

I'm a golden door democrat

Not the main thing, but I love how they can't even be assed to use alt text.

If you’re somebody who thinks a lot about “America” writ large and has opinions, this is far from the worst Independence Day we’ve had; it’s far from the best; and it certainly a long way from the last. Presentism is a hell of a drug.

"B list race science blogger leaks hacked data about a mayoral candidate to the press so he can do insider trading on online prediction markets" we really do live in a cyberpunk dystopia now

You, of course, do not need to have seen the original posts to know which story they were about or what the gist of them was.

you ever see someone argue so poorly for a position you think is correct that you're reconsidering your own views

11% is frankly (ba dum tish, I'll show myself out) a pretty small effect size for a daily hot dog habit. Statistically significant but not, like, significant significant.

1) At least 90% of the things you're doing in a skillet would work better in a saute pan. 2) Anyone who says microwaving dino nuggets doesn't count as home cooking is just gatekeeping. 3) Sub the green bell peppers in Cajun recipes for Anaheims or Poblanos.