Props to Rian Johnson for the scene where they literally are whitewashing a tomb

Shout out to Alan Dye for this setting, which makes iOS look 10% less ass in exchange for any animation involving the keyboard appearing being fucked for 5-500 milliseconds

How AI startup acquisitions work in 2025

Tired: acquire a company including a bunch of now-redundant executives who will play Game of Thrones with your org chart Wired: acquire a company and lay off the now-redundant executives with generous golden parachutes Acqui-hired: do not acquire a company. Only hire the redundant executives

there's vomit stderr already, claude's spaghetti he's nervous, but assures it's production ready

Started a modded factorio space age run to try out 7-8 cool looking new planets. 1. Muluna does a great job portioning out Space Stuff behind a small planet to practice your Space Supply Chain on. Feels like part of the man game to me.

as an experienced systems person, nothing humbles me technically quite like attempting any sort of front end work. I just want to throw a proto at my backend and display the result!

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

Yeah, weird how no one pitched smartphones with "well, this is what phones are now, so get used to it fucko!"

I think it better to articulate it this way: The set of people willing to comply in advance to a fascist have already complied. Now all that remains is the fighting against fascism, so the sense of momentum the fascists had is gone.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

Questions I had at the beginning of The Will of the Many: 1. Who is Vis? 2. What is Will? 3. What are Obitium and Leukeum? 4. What happened to Caeror? 5. How do you pronounce “Islington?”

of course I’m being a bit facetious but honestly the only people who ask that are the ones who really want to say “how do I explain to my kids that I’m a bigot while still pretending to myself that I’m a good person”. because that’s what they’re struggling with.

To implicate these guys you’d have to connect the dot. Sure it’s just one dot but you’ll have to write the names in addition to making the dot and that just seems like a lot of work.

my body is a machine that turns steam sale purchases into just more hours played in factorio

The Daniel J Bernstein award for Not Getting Your Way Graciously

Look, all encryption is end-to-end if you let marketing define the ends.

i hope someone is working on post-quantum chess

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

@nytimes.com: “Here’s how this is a problem for Joe Biden”

I have a joke about legacy code but the person that created it left the company and only a few people truly understand it

Bryan Cranston returns as Walter White for an anti-littering commercial 🚮

Almost forgot to set my OOO message for Space Age’s release tomorrow

Disney owns both The Muppets and Star Wars, and the fact they are not making a Muppet version of all nine main-series Star Wars movies is only explained by the fact that they secretly hate making money.

any sufficiently overly complex system is indistinguishable from me just being too dumb and impatient to understand

how can we say black men didnt bring this one home for the Dems while mark robinson is out there flipping NC by himself

Impedance matching, but for when someone is trying to help you. I’m not going to respond to your emails for detailed instructions you could find online when you haven’t even followed the ones I already gave or performed basic troubleshooting

Excited to discover what happened here

every time I block another stan account called Daily Guy From Some Band and I think “that’s it, that’s the last guy in a band” and yet the very next day

if it weren’t from 2000 i would have been certain that chatgpt wrote the script for The Legend of Bagger Vance

just finished the second Book of the New Sun book and i can’t wait to find out the basic premise of the series

It looks like one of those coffins a dead crew member gets shot out of in a science fiction show.

I was taught that keeping quiet kept the peace until I realized whose peace was it keeping

Instead of focusing on trans issues in general, they focus on wedge issue like the right of trans women to exist in the world.

BAH GAWD IT’S KHAZAD DÛM’S LEITMOTIF! AND IN THE DORIAN MODE

I’ve been told I’m a little *too* good at crossword puzzles

“It is not strength that overcomes darkness, but light. And the sun yet shines”

“In the place where we teach young people ideas, shouldn’t some of them be bad??”

"It will never stop being incredibly funny that in the past 24 months an untold legion of people have emerged from heroic doses of shrooms/LSD clutching a note that just has 'what if u could chat with a pdf???' scrawled on it" - jrflowers

oh neat, they finally made a tailgate where you show up 3 hours early and a robot has already drunk all the beer and eaten all the hot dogs

They should follow Aliens’ lead, call it The Passion of the Christs, and have a whole hoard of Jesuses running around.

RFK Jr’s rapper name should be Lil Mump

if your linkedin about page explains what you worked on in 1995 i will assume that’s the last time you did anything besides talk to people about what you worked on in 1995

“What does the Secret Fire need with you as a master?”

mediocre white man don’t interrupt me making a point to try to make the same point but poorly challenge IMPOSSIBLE

To be completely fair, they did warn us...