hardest part of switching back to my work pc is after a few days on my mac i got used to the keys showing up on the screen at the same time as i press them. i appreciate that the dell reminds me to slow down and take it easy. why do i need programs to open instantly anyway? stop and smell the roses

i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle

hey girl are you brick because i wanna make a home with you

i think sports and its need to produce actual results could provide a useful heuristic here. which teams do we think are most likely to heavily integrate AI into their front office right now between... let's say the dodgers, the brewers, the nationals, and the white sox?

Actually Your Honor my client’s terms of use explicitly prohibit using its product to drive oneself insane, so,

this is chilling shit, man

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

I keep coming back to this

big dawg new warm mountain i believe in you

doggy desire for praise intersecting with work habits a biiiiit too much for comfort

real ones know there is only one correct way to travel from NYC to DC (Amtrak northeast regional cafe car)

this is how the interview starts and it somehow just gets worse and worse 😬

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

thing: [occurs] me: this is in some ways about catholicism, which I don't condone, of course,

This Girl Is POISON!! (Source.)

I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.

Rashomon but it's the worst journalists you've ever read in your life discussing how their engagement fell apart

i cant believe you still need two years of real life experience before they give you the hrt that makes you a dog this is 2025 what are we doing

I was just handed this puppy.

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.

having spent the weekend with the physical edition of lux, I feel confident saying cutting focu ranni was not the move. jeanne I could take or leave, good song but arguably blunts the album’s momentum. novia robot is fun and silly but feels so out of place, like a motomami leftover, good cut.

the democrats want to be the moderate republican party so bad.

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

Muelsyse wearing the traditional garb of her hometown, Trenton, New Jersey Commission for @senomy.bsky.social !

The deliberate misreading of the actual campaign Kamala Harris ran in 2024 means we don't actually learn the real lessons we need from that disaster of an election.

There’s literally nothing more tedious or counter-productive than the smug “look, the future has to be like the past bc nothing can ever change so why try to change it” posts. You don’t know the future. None of us does. But I know it’ll be bad if we internalize this sort of preemptive defeatism.

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

no one is writing for lapsed catholics like @jpbrammer.bsky.social is writing for lapsed catholics

NYT coming out hard against her for lack of pedophile connections

This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly. NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!

I wrote about Rosalía's "Lux," martyrdom, and our collective gastrointestinal health johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/eat-me

Sif - watercolour and acryla gouache

lol wut....oh, yes, ofc

Every single time! Epstein will write: "porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no" and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying: "You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."

dell laptop i got in 2022: fans screaming at max volume 24/7, file explorer crashes daily, battery dies if unplugged for longer than 20 minutes mac laptop i got in 2022: works fine. a little slower than i remember when i'm running graphic-heavy projects in after effects

lately

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

from: Jeffery Epstein <[email protected]> to: Donald Trump <[email protected]> Subject: BROTHHHHERRRRRR!!!!!

The first time I read about this case, I cried. The second time, I was angry. The third time, I remembered that RBG and Scalia were fast friends, and it changed the way I saw the court forever.

i truly think that the average person could become a decent lawyer if they had the resources, but the average person could not become a decent hair stylist

fire in the taco bell

every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

This is a good example of why it is important to remember that politics is about power, not aesthetics. Your party ID, who you vote for, etc.? They are about the compromises necessary to enact the policies you want and thwart the ones you don’t. They aren’t style choices, esp in our system!