Block away

I think exporting terrorism is mostly when the U.S. and Israeli governments bomb children and babies

facebook is solely for flaming your hometown peers

The most annoying part of hearing "bullshit jobs don't exist" is that people with those bullshit jobs will tell you their job is bullshit.

I would really appreciate an initiative that said "Okay, let's stop goalpost-moving and stop pretending that data centers have 20x the heat output of power plants. The actual problem is disruption of existing career paths and a risk that power/wealth becomes more concentrated. Let's address both."

Omg I have replies in my notifications; is that good?

Finding out what Kohl is (not Kohl's) has become really difficult on the internet; golden age is over

newly having to activate and then deactivate my env for it to work. python dependencies -- god such curses handed down on our heads.

if it isn't worth long-form and it isn't a sweet joke, it isn't worth poasting

trying to find the most insane GPU options available on the bidding site. i'm not just thinking 2 a100s with a kilobytes/second connection. i'm talking an rtx with a handful of titans. 16 mid-level gpus all hooked up together. too rare to die types

if you don't like what a company does, iteratively turn it into a million other companies until one that you like rises from the ashes instead of requiring a special license to browse ao3 or whatever

so basically sometimes generated things are content, which is slop, and sometimes generated things are media, which isn't slop. /tedtalk

Look, I understand the defensive impulse but code is "content" as much as anything else is "content." Better to embrace that sometimes generated things are great as opposed to making very very clearly contrived distinctions

Vital

My broccoli has a snout

Hillbilly Apostasy

I remember first encountering narratives that weren't at their root moralizing, didactic in the form of short fiction. Super formative

oh fuck oh shit attie got me an --- WaaaaAAAAdvadnoun

I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION FOR ATTIE AI TO USE ANY OF MY PERSONAL DATA TO CREATE AN EVIL PALETTE SWAPPED “WA-“ VERSION OF MY PROFILE AND POSTS

sort-of entering hermit mode. have not been this disillusioned since, like, being an adolescent. the median person is so deeply fucking lazy

learning there are people, even smart people, who I know irl who listen to Zitron & it's forcing me to think about whether this speaks to deep human fallibility or really abysmal media literacy or both

unfortunately “it's all corrupt girl” will be entering the lexicon

The BLEATS ideology — Biological chauvinism, Luddism, Essentialism, Anthropocentrism, Techno-pessimism, and Status protectionism — represents a loose but interconnected network of thinkers united by their commitment to a neo-substrate hierarchy of cognition rooted in pre-Enlightenment Great Chain of

i'm gonna take a pass on this one here lol

okay so not bad

US making huge strides in exporting people with a PhD

MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore

did you know that the Thomistic Institute used to have mugs about your dog's soul being annihilated upon death?

saw some loooooong analysis about why there's been a shift in silicon valley towards grindset nonsense that didn't mention interest rates in the first ten minutes so i stopped watching

I was considering not packaging up this one portion of my side project because "well, Claude may be able to replicate it in a few hours" but decided I should because: - I may save someone some tokens, - Claude would probably eff up some small portion & need help,

I need an evil sinister MILF to feed me ice cube

I expect so little of every thread tangential to "AI" on every website and I'm still amazed by how they read like the worst writing on wikipedia from 2004 or from the dawn of the telephone or mechanized horse

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The shipper... (takes off glasses, pinches bridge of nose) The shipper chose DHL. (unable to look you in the eye) We don't know when your package will arrive. We may never know.

Achieves Pareto improvement over baseline!

This is in fact the political platform that would fix the country. The thing is I increasingly have a hard time seeing it accomplished. For all his faults Mao's greatest accomplishment was breaking the interlocking parasitic status ladders strangling the Chinese economy. That's how bad things are.

Depending on the number of guys

Ha! I already RT’d OP. But yes, GAIBPo27 is on its way!

okay, okay timeline, you got me. will try 🫡

literally i don't think i have it in me

wowing all potential partners by letting them know how many legs this chicken has with 100% accuracy

as it turns out, shepherding LLMs actually involves the same core skills you develop from managing undergrads

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

abnormal sensorium makes me immune to this yay

two days ago I would not have suspected that if you ask "do you also see the time coil in your mind" a significant number of people would respond, "oh yes, the time coil" or "it gives me existential dread"

he is come

Love reading web sites

my asthma is so bad today that i washed my sheets early. so it's really very bad.