Noted Electoral Victory Expert, Will Stancil, has logged on to share some valuable advice

I gave it a go. Was going to take the holiday time off to just laze about and indulge in video games. Played some Songs of Syx. But now it's time to get my flake on NixOS 25.11, integrate my remaining machines into it, and set up a new music stack via which I will fully exit Spotify

look at this interesting wall I found

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

There is power in understanding how things actually work. So what do you think motivates those who insist to you that understanding is old hat, that “good enough” gen AI output is indeed good enough?

Honestly done with anyone using this shit to write code. This is the future they want for our craft, with final honesty, and you’re helping it happen, full stop. And I hate you for it.

I remember taking the mandatory engineering ethics class in college where we learned about how your job comes with serious responsibility; how software that handles medicine delivery can kill people if there are bugs or how the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse happened. No one seemed to care.

Public executions

This should be every day of the rest of their lives, barring the unlikely scenario of a true American Nuremberg

It is a disgrace to our species and a theft from future generations that we are forced to take these fucking morons seriously

Bluesky, the “billionaire-proof” website, will disappear your replies to billionaires if they don’t like it apparently

This reply and all replies ratioing him are now completely hidden for me in the thread, not even in the “show more replies” section

Dwarf Fortress: "Live and drink! *chugs dwarven booze*" Caves of Qud: "Strike the earth! *fires up nanopneumatic jackhammer*"

As a severely left and very anti-gen-AI person, I’d like to see fewer appeals to intellectual property on my side of the AI discourse. I think we will come to find that IP law will be precisely the instrument used to secure the legality and completeness of this mass dispossession of creative works

*to the tune of build me up buttercup" 🎵I need a hamburger, A hamburger baby or I'll kill myself, I'll do it right now, and then Worst of all, Hamburger better come with frenchy fries, Or everyone dies 🎵

Lawrence Krauss posts here and if you’re not blocked by him yet you can do your part at @lkrauss1.bsky.social

Dark Souls game but the bosses are CEOs from various irl industries, and as you play the game the item descriptions and environmental storytelling reveal the lore around exactly why they've got what's coming to them (in the game)

Tutorial levels should be allowed to kill you. Over and over, if necessary. This is the basic premise of Armored Core 6

Wanted to add, I threw together the slide deck last night in plaintext Markdown using Presenterm, which in turn I learned about from the wonderful No Boilerplate YouTube channel mfontanini.github.io/presenterm/ www.youtube.com/c/NoBoilerpl...

I just successfully pitched Phoenix LiveView at this Rails shop. "It's not an 'if' but a 'when'." The key bit of the pitch: I presented a demo that recreated a part of our app, but able to keep working during a simulated outage, during which the database was unreachable. Low/no JS was nice-to-have

ethical concerns notwithstanding, no way spotify can put this bunny back in the hat. good luck with all the ICE ads

some insane people (complimentary) got together and downloaded all of spotify’s library and put it out for downloads lol it’s a 300 TB torrent. if anyone is so inclined

Instructive to compare old futurist thinking about what the arrival of AI would mean (learns at exponential speed, solves humanity's oldest problems) with what LLMs actually do (makes people's jobs worse, puts downward pressure on compensation). Yet they still market it like it's the former

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

This is the best type of article: reads vaguely like an Onion headline, but actually gives you a new insight into a big problem (cars) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You’re all a bunch of fucking idiots and you should be banned if you respond to this post in any way whatsoever!!!

The secret proof-of-concept I've been working on, to persuade the company founder to migrate to Elixir, now fully works as of tonight. Gonna put some more polish on it, and deliver a surprise demo either tomorrow or Tuesday. 🤞

old memes i made of star trek with dril quotes thread

See the problem here is that the rail company ascribed some importance to whether or not these summaries were _correct_. All you gotta do is just not care about that, then bam, easy ROI.

Your freestyle battle raps are destroying this family

Great thread, but also, Cuban here is really just glossing over the fact that _they are extremely often wrong_. Sometimes you will find they contradicted sources they cited, if you bother to look, and if those sources themselves aren't completely made up

And from those tunnels, the turtles' lair extends into a much larger chamber under the street.

An American beast. Tamed. #WorldBollardAssociation

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

I was verging on despair trying to get LiveView working on iOS 9, an unfortunate but hard requirement if I’m going to hoist this app out of Rails and into the modern world. But after a couple hours I did it. Hard to express what a relief this was for me

frodo: "gandalf.. could we not have tom bombadil carry the ring?" gandalf, wincing slightly, sighing pissedly, rubbing the bridge of his nose: "tom is.. extremely high"

AI technology unlocking powerful insights that will transform modern business innovation

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

Gambling crammed into every activity, everyone’s phones increasingly unusable due to nonstop spam calls, the economy’s health dependent entirely on literal bullshit generation technology, the latter used to flood the Internet with fake short form videos to advertise the gambling apps

It's exhausting. It's an Ouroboros of pure fucking bullshit. And ultimately it's not their money they're playing with, it's other people's money. Public employee pension funds.

A savvy politician with the requisite ambition could become tremendously popular overnight, relieve a ton of market pressure for their constituents, and create the legal basis for a massive transformation of the political-economic landscape into something more equitable, with just one weird trick

These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking." It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.

cannot emphasize enough how much this stuff does not belong in a security critical application like a browser. putting intermediaries between the user and the websites they visit should get you classed as malware

everyone's goal for 2026 should be getting into using RSS feeds & readers for updates on everyone's projects rather than relying on social media alone. I don't think "big, badly moderated forums where everyone hangs out and gets cranky" are working great for that.

I think if a single subsector of a single industry single-handedly spikes the price of electricity, they alone should be responsible for paying that increase in average cost. I mean, I think worse things should happen to that industry, but this would be a good general rule to keep in perpetuity.

JavaScript,,, the Most Beautiful language,