Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

The X Files is basically the perfect show because it's the two hottest people on the planet doing cool shit every week.

Like I kind of really hate to say this but: if you understand the topic well enough to write a design document you should be able to smash out a 5 page design doc in about 90 minutes and if you can't then that's a skill you can learn

The prevalence of LLM written blog posts on technical subjects is a staggering indictment on our failure to reach people in technical fields how to write

I’m an writer and I don’t use AI because, as you might recall my mentioning earlier, I’m a writer.

If you own a bar or other business that puts up flyers, consider posting something like this

THE PRISONER ♟️Coming to the Criterion Channel in July!

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

every once in a while i will feel a great pressure to exist, but then i just have to sit back and relax and remind myself 'oh wait, you already exist without even trying. GOOD JOB.' i think this realization can be a huge relief

any dude who gives an ai agent their credit card deserves what they get (divorced)

oh hey its the thing everyone said would happen

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially." Aye, if only any of us had been saying this from day one 🤡 www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...

This is one of my long-time personal bugbears as a player with 20+ years and >6 editions under my belt, too. 5e players haven’t really experienced distinct worlds, and I think it means they’ve missed out on something special because if it. 1/

A Taskmaster season where every contestant previously played The Doctor. You’re welcome, Britain.

unpopular opinion: Davies ending with the Piper morph was a really dirty trick to play on whoever has to pick up the series next and maybe it felt like a cool full circle to his run but the IP is bigger than a writers arc and turning it into that is bush league to everyone up next

I’ll tell you what, I’m really really looking forward to reading the messy, burn-all-the-bridges oral history someone is eventually going to write about what happened behind the scenes at Doctor Who over the last couple of years

You know what, I love little guys, I'm gonna make a thread. Will update every time I think of more 🔽🧵: - Faience Hippo (William) Middle Kingdom. Egypt - Amber Bear. Mesolithic or Proto-Neolithic. Poland - Hedgehog holding bowl. Early Cycladic II period. Greece. - Bowl with feet. Predynastic. Egypt.

nintendo announced they are remaking the last christmas you had before the divorce

You are only a real New Yorker if you grew up in the sewers under the city with your Italian-named brothers and were raised by a mutant Japanese rat and trained in the martial arts.

I have very clear memories of sitting in my apartment ~30 years ago and thinking “there’s no way Bill Gates runs this same version of Windows 95/98 I have. What does he have on *his* PC, what does Ballmer run?” I find myself wondering the same thing about Apple’s presenters

I no longer write software for Apple devices (mostly internal corporate stuff, nothing you'd know) and I miss many many things about that stack, but I sure don't miss tuning into WWDC every year to find out what our new tech debt backlog was for the summer

As has become tradition, I see Apple has announced a whole bunch of new features I'm going to have to remember to look up how to turn off on my work rig in 9 months (my personal rigs will be continuing to stay several OS versions behind, thank you)

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

In the real world, enduring progress comes through non-zero-sum cooperation over time, and anyone who has worked in a professional context knows that nothing makes such cooperation more difficult than the presence of egotistical men convinced they are bold risk-takers possessed of masculine energy.

Teaching my daughter and her anemic boyfriend how to skip stones

It’s been almost 30 years since the Fifth Element came out and you still can’t just buy a tank top like this any store. What are we doing.

Whenever I look at where LLMs tend to slot in, it's overwhelming replacing tasks where you could have just asked another person or collaborated with someone. It is a technology aimed at making labor profoundly antisocial.

I see people are talking about speed limiters as a viable tech in America and everything else aside: I need you all to realize that we destroyed civil society because Applebee's was closed for a few weeks in some states during a deadly pandemic. I don't think we're getting speed limiters

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

One of the weirdest things about middle age is the ability to have done things forty years ago

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was released 44 years ago today. It remains the best cinematic adaptation of Moby Dick primarily because it is told from the perspective of the whales.

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

you don't like data centers?? but what if i told you they're actually necessary for every app and/or company making your life harder. what then

Daydreaming of it and mapping it out in your head in its entirety and then not getting to it for several years counts as writing

Honestly more teachers need to be giving that 4.5 GPA talk

all i want to do is drink coffee and close browser tabs. if i close a hundred a day, i can get to zero before the end of the decade. simple goals.

Yes, I use dashes. Yes, I use the Oxford comma. Yes, I sometimes say: “Not… but.” Fuck anyone who thinks those things belong to AI. Who did you think they were stolen from in the first place?

Like, where's its - say - Dinosaur comics or XKCD or whatever? Folks recognising the limitations they're working in, and finding something useful? So may people have used this shit, so there should be something, but zilch.

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

IDK the source either, but I remember someone observing that if you go into a kindergarten class and ask, "Who can draw? Who can sing? Who can dance?" EVERYONE'S hand goes up. A few years later, it's almost nobody. This is, and I'm being v serious, a cultural-scale failure.

Yeah, this is the stuff

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

i have many justifications for hating AI but ultimately don't think i need any besides "they stole the book it was my life's dream to write without compensation, and did not get punished." their hands are literally in my pocket and they can fuck off

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

There’s definitely at least one person in the room pitching hot older lesbian james bond, and I’m rooting for them. Someone is saying Gillian Anderson Bond right this second.

ME: b-but Reverend Mother, we mustn’t, what if Shai Hulud hears the rhythm of our prayer and comes here and devours me?? MY DOMINATRIX: …I’m sorry can you explain all this again please

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.