It is always wrong to seek or take pleasure in the pain of others. It is corrosive to the soul.

In principle, there's nothing that humans do that AI won't be able to do better, eventually, and in many cases soon. There's no reason to think some ineffable quality protects human ingenuity and capabilities from automation.

I hate it when someone says “that’s a great question” before a scripted answer because by definition that wasn’t a great question

Feels like this should be a bigger deal?

I'm hiring a Storytelling Associate at @southparkcommons.bsky.social! The SPC community is fully storytelling-pilled. It's the foundational skill of -1 to 0. But we have too many stories to tell. That's where you come in. ⬇️

It's not super encouraging that whenever I post something more pessimistic sounding about humanity's chances with AGI, the people who consistently like the posts are from OpenAI and Anthropic.

To understand millennial men you must understand how formative just hanging around for hours playing Goldeneye and Halo was for shaping our idea of good quality time together

Imagining the Helldivers 2 writers reading this and thinking "freedom seeds, goddamit that's good."

Trump's crypto stuff is pure graft but this framing, where our inability to build infrastructure is just a matter of funding, is a disaster for the left & America. The reason we don't have HSR in CA 15+ years after voting for it isn't because of tech investment.

The crypto stuff in Trump 2.0 is just pure graft. More corrupt in dollar terms than all other presidencies combined. If you’ve ever complained about corruption in politics, you should be more angry about this than you’ve ever been before.

Final Fantasy games always have a main villain character who does most of the villain stuff and then at the end you discover they’re not the main villain which is instead something like Death personified Anyway American politics is like that except the real big bad is NIMBYism

My most closely held moral conviction is this: it is always wrong to take pleasure in the suffering of others. That is the surest path to hell.

Make the world better

I'm not avoiding microplastics. I'm doubling down. Chewing the wrapper. Cooking everything in 12 year old tupperware. Contrarian and right. This is how I win.

Cancelling and banning research grants based on forbidden words is an insanely embarrassing move from the “free speech” crowd

Celebrating merit doesn't require you to denigrate anyone else, and the fact those two often go together in Silicon Valley ("NPC") is one of its worst cultural ticks

Getting rid of free e-file for taxes because you don't like Elizabeth Warren is a pretty clear sign you're being reflexively partisan and not thinking critically

Hate to break it to everyone but liberals abandoning Twitter is a strategic mistake that cedes the public commons to the right You can try to build something new here but public conversation is still downstream of Twitter, not Bluesky

I hate that movie trailers have trailers now

It honestly really sucks how much Elon sucks now

Authoritarian recklessly going for autarky, that’s never failed right

The biggest writing miss in TV history was when Game of Thrones had Arya just run up to the Night King and stab him— Instead of having her steal the face of the top lieutenant the show had prominently featured since the very beginning so she could get close enough to stab him

~50 year old dude next to me in the airport lounge is about 30 min into video titled “How to Defeat the Fire Giant in Elden Ring” and he’s studying it like he’s got to perform surgery tomorrow Godspeed sir

tick...tock... https://buff.ly/421cAFW

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The most obnoxious and useless rhetorical redoubt is “I think this person is wrong, therefore they must also be stupid.” That is, ironically, one of the clearest signs of lazy thinking.

The most obnoxious and useless rhetorical redoubt is “I think this person is wrong, therefore they must also be stupid.” That is, ironically, one of the clearest signs of lazy thinking.

In general, the weirder the scientific study sounds, the more likely it’s worth funding

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Applying to @southparkcommons.bsky.social in the next few days would be a good idea for....reasons

A robust egalitarian social welfare system is good, actually

Outliving your obituary writer has to be some ultra rare life achievement, Jimmy Carter probably the only human to get 100% completion on life

Pro-skilled-immigration tech Right running directly into the buzzsaw of Trumpist nativism, oh no who could have ever predicted this

Did I end up on some list that’s leading to all the new follows or what?

Ok honest question do we actually just not make students read anymore? It’s very easy to assume “education probably looks pretty similar to what it did when I was younger” when you don’t have kids, but it sure seems like it actually doesn’t.

It is, in fact, bad for the president elect of the United States to shitpost

Our first Request for Curiosity featured questions the SPC team is puzzling over. The second comes straight from SPC members. See the questions SPC members are exploring:

On flights of ~2 hours the aisle seat is worse than the middle

It's almost 2025. You know what that means. Winter Demo Faire. No slide shows. The latest and greatest live demos from SPC members and alumni. Register to join us in person on Jan. 15th in SF. ⬇️

cringe is the path to glory

Conservative who approves of Biden pardoning his son because it’s a father using every power available to him to defend his family

This Seahawks-Jets game is one of the most entertaining football games I’ve seen in years for all the wrong reasons. It is SO MESSY.

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Every question in our Request for Curiosity 🧵

California has the best trees: ✅The biggest tree ✅The tallest tree ✅The oldest tree All in one state. Buckle up. This is a tree thread. 🧵

It's funny that a large portion of the e/acc crowd aligned with the GOP at the same time as people who believe in homeopathy

Gotta be honest I never expected to be spending as much time on LinkedIn as I do

Hello Bluesky. Who here is in -1 to 0? blog.southparkcommons.com/what-is-nega...

1/ What kinds of consumer experiences are uniquely unlocked by AI? Expanding on the first question I contributed to the @southparkcommons.bsky.social Request for Curiosity. 🧵

Can we all come together and agree that quarter zip sweaters are ugly