The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

The monkey's paw interpretation: if everyone dies from nuclear fireballs due to Trump's attacks on Iran, then all three statements could technically be true! @jonbois.bsky.social how could you jinx us like this

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honestly feels bananas that people have to go to work and live their lives while this is going on bsky.app/profile/sahi...

One Need Not Be a House is one of my favorite pieces from the quake brutalist map jam! The author wrote about his inspiration and process on his blog

The murderbot diaries by @marthawells.com are a fucking blast. And full of queer space future goodness. (Also corporate space capital shittiness, but they're the bad guys, obv)

qui-gon was very wise. one of the more fascinating Jedi masters IMO. I really wish we saw more character studies of jedi who studied the “Living Force” as opposed to everybody else interested in the “cosmic force”

Plot synopsis: Ryan Gosling and his weird talking dog go on a wacky space adventure to save the Sun from feeling sick

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Hey, have you done anything about NYU Langone or Mt Sinai? Have you established trans youth care at NYC city health clinics and hospitals? We don't want social media platitudes, we want action.

It’s been 5 weeks since NYU Langone ended care. Mamdani’s office has not directed H+H to absorb patients or enforced NYC human rights law against the hospitals stopping care. He also has not answered multiple trans journalists questions on if he will commit to doing so.

here's what I taught someone about B2B SaaS today: don't sell that your sword has 10% more titanium, sell the story of the knight who went to slay the dragon only to have his sword shatter on the dragon's scales. and that's why you want your swords to have more titanium in them.

i’ve been asked a few times recently about why it’s so important to me as a journalist to describe things plainly—like referring to the planned ICE warehouses as concentration camps. seeing the term used in a letter to the secretary of defense is proof that journalists’ word choices have impact.

Gonna do a toxin cleanse this week, wish me luck! It’s where I only eat toxins, to cleanse the body using the toxins. Fire fights fire. Something something enemy within something something

This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again

The Atlantic: Help we have nothing to write about now!!!

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explanation 1: the WH is just stupid and the opinion author is smart explanation 2: the WH is intentionally shifting to a governance model where the executive can just Do Shit without being accountable to the market or responsible for the consequences, and these are necessary steps along that path

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

Hey chat what does it mean when the oil graph looks like this

Terrible realization: halo’s spartan program is just One’s Who Walk Away From Omelas but for men

pps. if you don’t have merlin yet you should go get it now merlin.allaboutbirds.org

Anyone have any cool recommendations for books written by fire rescue or EMT folks?

The stars say the world is bad. As do the ships carrying oil. Oil tankers are in retrograde, this is particularly bad for Sagitarius.

idk who needs to hear this but chatgpt is NOT a tax accountant and should NOT be trusted for example, chatgpt thought that COBRA could be an above-the-line deduction for self-employed folks. the IRS says this isn't true. check your facts!

Wow it turns out I had “Messages” notification delivery set to “Scheduled summary” instead of “Immediate” on my iPhone and have been just, not getting pinged on texts from people I like for four months

Whoa hey look, a glyptodon and his little friend! Hello glyptodon!!

iOS corrects thingamabob as “things above,” which I think points at each item’s Divine nature

I'm completely sold on AI tooling making bespoke software and disposable software cheap! but it's a big leap from that to saying that it's going to make all jobs obsolete and 40% layoffs across the board a good idea! and if actually true, AI companies need to fund UBI before the mob comes for them.

Bots in FPS games should have voice acting and different handcoded personalities

Someone should ask Mayor Mamdani at his press conference if he intends to direct H+H to absorb the trans youth patients from NYU Langone and other regional hospitals that illegally ended care, and if he plans to hold them accountable with NYC’s human rights ordinances. He still has no comment.

I kiiiinda want to make a game jam prototype of this. Maybe it’d be like Turbo Dismount

[TED talk hands] The key is to think of trucks... as a kind of boat

daft punk’s Robot Rock is just the youtube poop version of Release the Beast by Breakwater like, listen to RtB, then RR, it feels like daft punk turned the source material intro a @noodleawesome.bsky.social gaslight edit but it isn’t as funny as they hoped it would be youtu.be/KXQ0c_5v3Ak?...

Find a girl who fangirls about you the way God fangirls about his favorite pet dogs, Behemoth and Leviathan, throughout all of Job 40-41

I want to start a blog. I want to write more structured thoughts and longform content. Which (non-substack) platform should I publish on?

wrote a thread on why I think prediction markets are suddenly more common nowadays one missing piece I don’t understand: how did they get from “AI people” into “mainstream news/White House/media” coverage?

The three business models are AI, military, and gambling, and somehow Flock cameras hit all three! > "It's just like scrolling on Instagram or a slot machine, you hear that ding from your computer, and now your adrenaline goes up a little bit," he said.

Cortana should make the windows “device unplugged” noise whenever her chip gets removed in halo MCC

Poke ALL Toads is GOTY 2026

I agree that it’s silly to claim that LLMs Can’t Do Anything (obviously they can do many things). I also think it’s silly to claim LLMs Can Do Everything (obviously they can’t). regardless of how one feels about that, this is a very scary time to need a job and people are reacting accordingly

I think a lot of people who are well-intentioned LLM boosters who have been able to fairly reliably find well-paid work in tech really do struggle with putting themselves in the shoes of people working in other sectors that have been feeling precarious for a long time and now feel WAY more so

increasingly believing much of the communication gap between LLM Enthusiasts and LLM Skeptics on this website boils down to “are you someone who has largely experienced a *reasonable* amount of job security in tech, or are you someone who has not experienced job security and likely aren’t in tech”

this is, all else being equal, easily the funniest thing the director of inside out could have said

Feedback quotes at the top of your resume: yea or nay?