Everything is regressing to the man and we've got to get weirder. With our art, writing, programming, behavior. When I make something I want people to think "only a human could have thought of that"

you're gonna have to be more specific

Learn to code because 10 years from now the industry won't have anyone who remembers how at the rate it's going

a not-insignificant problem with christianity is it lets you outsource justice to your imaginary friend

Basically every day I think "wow I have great friends, wow I have wonderful people in my life" 💜

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Admin Lowtax The Dipshit? I thought not. It’s not a story LinkedIn would tell you.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately

Being nice rocks and feels good, simple as.

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years. That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

i can never date guys because my standard for men is aragorn son of arathorn

You know what I’m talking about. bell.bz/wait-it-out/

Making your conference talk slides? Make the font bigger. Do it again. I know the default font looks ok when you’re looking at it on your laptop but I promise no one can read that from the back If you can’t fit all the words you want on one slide, you have too many words. Make another slide!

Western capitalism did not need to be corrupted by the Russians or the Jews into being horrible and murderous, and if you are looking for shadowy outside forces to explain why your ruling class is a bunch of pricks you are massively fooling yourself.

gonna slap a 'i used uv before they got bought by sama' sticker on my laptop

MrBeast Offers $50,000 To Anyone Who Can Survive Seeing What Lies Beneath His Mask https://theonion.com/mrbeast-offers-50000-to-anyone-who-can-survive-seeing-what-lies-beneath-his-mask/

beginning to feel dangerously hopeful about the Greens

Both showers and public transit rides have 3x multipliers to Thinking Time. You'd think stationary bikes would be too because they're both moving and mindless but actually they're 0.5x at best. Long flights have 10x to Thinking Time but only if you're in the sweet spot of tired but not TOO tired

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

something v encouraging to see lately is how clear eyed people have become about assigning fault to institutions rather than individuals. BAFTA/BBC tried to throw that poor man under the bus by seating him where they did and airing what they did but no one’s buying it

update: getting really drunk (religious obligation due to Purim) has helped enormously

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

migraine. my brain is the size of a pea and the consistency of blancmange

Honestly this little anecdote is for me just emblematic of something I really believe: the British public are genuinely much nicer and more decent than either our political or media class are themselves, or would have you believe.

labour has made immigrants, the lgbt+ community, disabled ppl, and progressives who were willing to 'vote for the lesser evil' their enemy. labour have spent years now deliberately targeting all of us. there is no lesson here. no change that can be made that will save the labour party. it's done.

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

windows pcs are generally for casual users who mostly use it for web browsing and maybe a little gaming. linux is nearly identical except there's no keyboard. macs are for hardcore experts and professionals who take on the toughest tasks, such as drawing three-dimensional rectangles and squares

he looks like he’s being taken to the welfare tent at Glastonbury

really excellent thread

Buddy the left position is no borders. Open borders is moderate.

my politics

"Every yes has a tax". So true. www.modernleader.is/p/saying-no-...

It’s a terrible time to be someone who pays attention or cares about other people.

🎯🎯🎯 "When you start to treat an LLM with cruelty, the only thing you're really revealing is what you have in your heart, not whether the machine has one... Practicing this language - even toward AI - normalizes the social patterns that enable cruelty toward humans."

PSA: my flirting writes cheques my calendar _cannot_ cash. i am okay with this if you are.

Releasing the Community & Career Track! From communication & teamwork to creativity and sustainable careers. Talks by @eli.holderness.dev, @paulienvanalst.bsky.social & @hanno.codes. Tracklead @maritvandijk.bsky.social

Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

(writing lines in a chalkboard) ICD10 diagnostic codes are not achievements and I do not need to try and hit 100%. ICD10 diagnostic codes are not achievements and I do not need to try and hit 100%. ICD10 diagnostic codes are not achievements and I do not need to try and hit 100%. ICD10 diagnostic c

FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

If you spend money on anything Harry Potter, you are funding this. If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

This *should*, in a sane world, be a resigning matter. A national scandal, all over the front pages. EQUALITY CHIEF MEETS WITH HEAD OF HATE GROUP and so on. The fact that this won’t happen simply demonstrates how catastrophically far we’ve fallen. I’m so very, very tired.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

"Energy spent on what you can’t change is energy stolen from what you can." Absolute gems in here.