It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir

Faramir: "You wish now that our places had been exchanged. That I had died and Boromir had lived." Denethor: "Yes. I wish that." Pippin (sotto voce): fuck

Bolsonaro makes me believe in god bc something out there with cosmic authority clearly enjoys toying with him

Reminder in the face of all the angry gaslighting propaganda.

can you imagine being the federal agent assigned to bluesky, just getting scolded by deep space nine experts while all your buddies get like challenge coins

Every novel in the past five years has the same ending: all the characters turn out to be aspects of the same person, who is in turn a sliver of the subconsciousness of a cosmic mollusk. ENOUGH. Not every novel needs the gestalt cosmic mollusk ending. I'm sick of the obligatory dreamslimetrail.

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

bearing witness means registering a moment on more than one heart so the truth isn't unknowable. you do not need to personally bear witness when you are being told the absolute truth.

inescapable conclusion is we have no laws, just cops

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

this is the key problem with continuously executing random members of the populace: you can’t kill everybody, and the ones you don’t kill are more likely to start squaring with the possibility of it than fleeing in terror

We love Socrates don’t we folks

Typical crow behaviour: part 1 Steal fur 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ #Gamedev #gaming #indiegame #crow #crows #corvids #gamedevelopement #indiegaming #cozy #games

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

To all the homies who live in my phone,

ME, DYING: please... remember me GUY WHO DISMEMBERED ME: no

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Now is the time for all eepy men to come to the bed of their comfy

Paige Bueckers (Dallas Wings, Breeze FC) is donating $50,000 to relief efforts organised in response to ICE raids in her hometown of Hopkins, Minnesota. On Monday Bueckers won $50,000 in the #Unrivaled free throw competition after successfully scoring 13 free throws. (Source @brwsports)

I just thought everyone should see this

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

paradoxically, the minute you accept a job as a pundit, you become unqualified for it. this is because punditry belongs in dive bars and union meetings and the like. the only good pundit is some mouthy fuck with nothing to lose

It has not been lost on me that the two preeminent contemporary uses of LLMs is the infinite generation of 1) CSAM and 2) media that serves no purpose other to publicly denigrate, humiliate, and dominate women and minorities.

I beg to differ

miss oranje disco dancer

News flash: MIT rediscovers coupling and cohesion and the idea of a well-structured distribution of responsibilities.

my coworkers are weaving flowers into my hair and telling me how much they love me. theyre leading me over to a big table. everyones wearing white

such a lovely thing to think about

Yes. The suppurating rot currently infecting the United States is not, unfortunately, limited to us: there is a global network of fascists in many countries. Do not make our mistake of telling yourself "it can't happen here." It can. It may already be.

there are too many posts on here about "world events" and "AI" and not nearly enough about "Mitsibushi Delica"

(guy who lived through the blizzard of ‘96) getting some real blizzard of ‘96 vibes rn

Oh yes, oh yes. Let’s let this trend catch on.

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By emphasizing an ethics of care, the Queen’s Gambit replaces the frigidity of rugged individualism within the archetypal chess story with the warmth of collectivism. In this essay, I will … 🧵

little kids all think trash collectors hang the moon and moreover they’re right. why on earth do people grow out of that?! in a sane civilization they’d be worshipped as gods

I frequently bring this up as people ask why so much product innovation feels terrible these days. Product managers are chasing an ever-shrinking segment of the population who have ever-growing discretionary income.

Gentleman's repose

This. Fuck, this so often

Adding this to my "Squirtle is honorary black" thesis because clearly Blastoise is Dominican.

I never thought I would walk away from Star Trek. I’ve written about it for a decade and I’ve eagerly shared it my entire life. But given who owns it now and who stands to profit from Trekkies’ loyalty, I can’t keep promoting it. The Trekkie in me won’t allow it. Here’s why I’m beaming out.

What none of you seem to comprehend is that while you’re all arguing about stupid shit online, I am running THOUSANDS of complex calculations in my head, and ALL of them are wrong as hell.

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

In the early days of the internet every pastor had a sermon like "What if God e-mailed you"

every time i log on something horrible is happening but also people are trying really hard to help

Here are some nice mushrooms

Just divide by zero who gives a shit anymore

My planet Arrakis is so beautiful when the dawn’s light is early