The stuff I write about is so nuts that I find myself quadruple-checking the facts with pen and paper. For example, in 2020 Andreessen Horowitz led a $12 million investment round in the Clubhouse app (at a $100M valuation). It had 1500 users. It reached $4 billion valuation in 2021, then...poof.

I tried to rectify the defaced piece some years ago...no one was interested! Some typist (back when print pieces had to be manually entered into databases) clearly didn't like my story, so they changed a word to reverse the meaning of a key sentence.

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Guaranteed Status Quo at best

What do you say to a funeral home that blames #AI for fucking up your parent's obituary?

Big @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social vibes at RIOT MOM in St Paul

This meeting could have been an all-expenses-paid trip to a Caribbean island.

Hardcovers last way longer!

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I mean, a Democrat party whose entire platform was “We’re going to focus on not hurting people in the name of computers anymore, and not throwing human lives into the money furnace, that would be good,” would be a real start.

Growing up, I feel that the game of Operation did not prepare me for reality in the way that I assumed it did

I once again proved to myself and others that AI can't do things. "Find a restaurant within 10 miles of [address] that has a [very notable feature]." AI: "[The search] did not find results that met that description, so here are other results [at least 50 miles away]."

every time someone is like "the pharmaceutical industry just wants to make money" they leave out that the Wellness industry is way way bigger and entirely unregulated

My self-care regimen would be non-existent if not for sharpening my dark, self-depreciating humor every day.

The rampant cynicism in this country which enables this kind of straight-up deceit: People like Musk and Altman know UBI will never materialize, and while they have unbelievable amounts of political capital to enlist in making it happen, they will not, and the press will not call them out on it.

It’s like the Boring Company being created solely to impede public transit investment by saying they’ll “revolutionize” public transit and then not doing that.

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A thing learned this week: Neanderthals are named after the Neander Tal (Neander Valley) which is named for 17th century poet Joachim Neander whose original family name was classicized into Greek from the original "Neuman" which means "New Man."

Pretty sure I’ve seen this X-files episode

When the update everyone expected needs to get rolled back

I am not having a Baja Blast with technology lately

Before anyone suggests "use python", my colleague admits he needs more lines of code just for importing modules than is the entirety of my MATLAB data processor.

How did you f*ck up reading text files, MATLAB? How? Same script, same file: works in 2024, doesn't work in 2025. I finally had methods to read all the labyrinthine data formats my never-met engineering predecessors created in the 90s.

This is what it's like trying to update payment methods in Patreon

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I thought this was from @nightvaleradio.bsky.social

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel.

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restoring balance to my gut biome by reintroducing gray wolves

Getting big "The Stuff" vibes. #horror #horrorsky #coffee

I asked my developer friend: how long would it take you to write a script that sends emails to every social media company demanding they take down the account of @massgovernor.bsky.social by claiming that I am her mom? About 30 min. How long if i also want a fake birth certificate? About 40 min.

"Interest payments on the U.S. national debt are set to surpass $1 trillion in 2026, some $88 billion a month—equal to spending on defense and education combined." fortune.com/2026/04/23/n...

Inspired by my complaints about Project Orion, James Davis Nicoll complains - with more equations - about classic Heinleinian torchships! reactormag.com/the-science-...

Oh, NOW they want a conversation. After: Stealing our shit without a conversation. At the same time, telling us our shit is of no value. (Schrodinger's shit) Stuffing their plagiarism machine into all our devices without a conversation. But now it's our fault for not wanting to talk.

@bsky.app being DDoS'ed again? It's derping out on images.

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It means there are too many investors who have no idea what to fund.

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The only way it would be better is if Jeffrey Goldberg somehow got added to the group chat again so The Atlantic had it as first hand

There is only one person who can get Bluesky working again.

Be the temporary & insignificant lump of organic material you wish to see in the world.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

In stranger eons death may be finger licking good

@bsky.app can you manually revert all your code to whatever it was two weeks ago? I stress manually, not "agentically, because your AI code tools are 💩'ing the 🛏️.

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