Self-Portrait against a Green Background, by Edvard Munch, 1905

“Miami will likely be an underdog against Indiana for the national title,” he said, pouring himself a pint glass of pure ketamine

I don't even watch college football. But I am watching all these Alabama and Oregon fans get mad because Indiana hired a coach that cares if his O-Line gets paid, and treats his players well, so they followed him through the transfer portal to his new school. College sports is a civil rights issue.

oregon has been desperately trying to scrape and claw their way to a seat at the big boy table for like 25 years only to be completely eclipsed by a school that decided to give a shit about football 18 months ago bc they hired a scary guy

Bengals pls

View of Antibes from the Plateau Notre-Dame - 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10337

"look the problem with people in tech is that they don't have a humanities education, they don't have a materialist analysis and so they are inherently reactionary as a result"

no, absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies

Clean coders would literally rather give functions misleading names than write informative comments

me: to chill out a bit I'm going to watch The Hunt for Red October (1990), the only good Jack Ryan movie which I've loved since I was ten years old the Red October's cryogenic plant: *breaks down* me: welp apparently Chernobyl is my new comfort watch, get rekt Comrade Dyatlov

it is 2006. i am reading thucydides. i am distressingly aware that my incredibly basic knowledge of military history apparently makes me more clever about this than the people running the country it is 2026. people are referencing thucydides...

We cannot see the origins of this system very clearly, but what we can see is even wilder: tributum - the tax - started conceptually as a military investment loan. You paid tributum which paid for the army, but you got paid back out of the loot if the army won big (which it only sometimes did).

Which brings us around to my ultimate thesis, which is that the Roman Republic conquered the entire world it knew...because of woke.

Meanwhile the function of the system, because it is wealth-proportionate (but infantry wages are not) is to push resources *down* the socio-economic spectrum, whereas most ancient extraction works like rents, pulling resources up. Which gets more households able to produce an infantryman to serve.

Cortana Halo is just Clippy after she transitioned

"but that limits your interactions" yes that is exactly what it is supposed to do, you're not for everyone and don't have to be

You can eat whatever food tastes good to you whenever you'd like. You can have pho for breakfast & an egg sandwich for dinner. It doesn't matter.

industrial safety and resilience engineering, which is kind of job related but I go way too hard on it, I'm the kind of person who will break into USCSB Narrator Voice while watching Chernobyl and I nearly have a favourite youtube video about the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse

dried beans are a minor cooking miracle, for the price of a bit of scheduling and a tiny amount of hands-on work you get something that tastes impossibly better than what you'd pour out of a can

if you want to read some on how the roman republic became haha heavy infantry printer go brr, hunt up @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's replies in this thread

Hot dish, with homemade cream of broccoli and cheddar soup. 🍽️🍜

sportsball appreciators stay winning

Incredible. Wisconsin-River Falls wins the Division III national title, upsetting the North Central Dynasty. UWRF had 19 straight losing seasons until 2021, when they built the most prolific offense in CFB. This was their first playoff since 1996. ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/693...

Let the Sunday Funday begin! 🍽️🍜

"run north and south!" "no, no, I take it back, just north!"

judging by my internal monologue this morning I might be 10-20x more annoyed by "LLM coding assistants are like interns or juniors" than I am by "monads are like burritos", just a fundamentally tragically bad perspective

appreciate u

ridiculously overprovisioned kitchen. high-output gas range, plancha, steam oven, ten feet of uninterrupted counter space with fridge and freezer underneath

I have a much more optimistic take right now: tech has massive massive cultural problems but it did before AI. An explosion of *active learning* is potentially a really positive thing

I'm reminded of david hines writing "anthropomorphized years" twitter sagas and then stopping because it got too depressing, but of course the years keep coming and they don't stop coming

Cowboy Bebop: not actual cowboys, title is lying Firefly: they do transport cows at one point Learn the difference

have we poked fun at those pauldrons yet or are we still chuckling at the "corinthian helmet" with The Fast And The Furious vibes

thinking about the time I saw someone say “Christopher Nolan cannot imagine a world without injection molding”

so this is gonna cement "slop" obviously

To start out the new year, I wanted to share my rant from our last newsletter: At this time of the new year, you'll be reading a lot of experts telling you about this superfood or that newly-named dietary poison. Set up your defense mechanism and remember that so much of this is click bait. (1/4)

Other pro-civil rights and inclusion people used to get mad at me because I pointed out something really obvious about Paul Graham when he ran Y-Combinator: He invested in more Black and Latiné and women founded startups than most VCs. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Not because he loves us. Because he loves money and value.

(this is not a dunk, I can't reply in the original thread) I wonder how much of this is about feedback loops. like, claude code isn't going to magically give you (say) jittered retries if you don't know to ask for it, which means your human-engineered code is probably gonna be brittle too

I haven't said it like this before I don't think, but I do believe it. Slop peddling is a human failure. It's bad ends from bad means, usually through inattention (underspecification -> hallucination), incuriosity (inability to discern good output from bad before releasing it), or malice.

I continue to fail to enjoy zucchini. maybe I'll get some on sale and shred it for fritters, that seems like it might be legit. otherwise, if I need cheap soluble fibre I know where to get beans and cabbage

The semifinals are set!

tfw your uncle, who is probably also a Tylenol Beneficiary, apologises for infodumping on your !!shared!! special interest 😭 lotta hurt people out there

"Give me back my tablet" is the #1 nephew phrase which was probably also hollered four thousand years ago by a babylonian merchant

hi, I'm being born a month premature

throw another flag, ref. put a second on the clock. this has been such a fun game and people want more. you'll be a hero. i'm not telling you anything you don't already know

it is maddeningly of-our-time that Kurt Fucking Warner is doing youtube film study of how to beat Quarters coverage over the top, a thing that predates Steve Spurrier popularizing Mills in the early 90s that's only relevant because a bunch of assholes want to be racist and sexist and ball-ignorant

this is an utterly fantastic review of the last decade

I got a sticker

man I remember crêpes being way more idiot-proof last year. maybe I'm just a more advanced idiot