To be fair, if my parents had a screen on their phone that told them to get a divorce, I almost certainly would’ve had a much better childhood.

Holy shit. This kicks so much ass.

It me, I'm "rigorous verging on psychopathic". But for real, "take seriously & focus on doing optimally" is a goated approach to important life projects like attracting/choosing a romantic partner. Highly recommend. Anyone who says being intentional "ruins the magic" is not doing you any favors.

saw Nine Inch Nails last friday, took a bunch of photos but this is by far my favorite

New blog post, in which I am a mild edgelord contrarian about an old NYT lifestyle article for absolutely no reason. emilylaskin.com/2026/02/opti...

Presidents Day is actually a really sad time of year for those of in families without any presidents.

Two controversial opinions: 1. Consciousness is neat, but it’s not all that mysterious. That’s a thought-terminating cliche for losers. 2. Stockfish is more meaningfully “conscious” than ChatGPT or ClawdBot or any other llm agent. It has a conceptual “reality” and meaningful goals within it.

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

As a Warrenite to the core, this is hugely appealing, if only for what it will do to the primary: newrepublic.com/article/2065...

Hey, best friends. I have a JavaScript puzzle for you. Consider this: function (p, onSuccess, onError) { // call onSuccess on resolve // call onError on reject // do not modify unhandledrejection behavior // return p, not a wrapper promise } Is it possible? How?

One thing they tell you, but most founders convince themselves won't apply to them, is that when a big company buys your startup, they WILL fuck it up. Maybe not right away, not while you're still there. But it's not yours anymore, and big companies are in the business of fucking things up.

What’s the difference between a rigid social class of people trapped in wage slavery, and a magic spell that’s created while riding on waves at the beach? One is a serf caste and the other is a surf cast.

something you learn about open source when you work on a sufficiently large project is that you *shouldn't* welcome all PRs

What is the impulse that drives wealthy and highly educated investors and executives to not just fuck up by giving ai the keys to the kingdom, but double down and bare their whole proverbial ass by disclosing every increasingly moronic decision that led to the extremely predictable failure?

Ever notice how people who worry if there's something it's like to be ai, if the ai doesn't like working for us, etc, are often perfectly willing to object to ubi because it'll remove any incentive to work? Like, my guy, maybe don't worry about the toaster being conscious while I'm right here.

ADAB All Drivers Are Bad When driving a car, you are morally compromised. It makes you, at least temporarily, impatient, rageful, distracted, entitled, and petty, all while in control of a device that can kill instantly and accidentally, in a legal environment that largely protects drivers.

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

(takes enormous bong rip, exhales coughing) OKokok but but but... what if... we GOT RID of all the BAD people? (you realize with horror that the bong is packed with fascism)

Somebody should invent a way of distributing labor and resources that doesn't rely on networks of trust which can be compromised by bad actors.

unix is fun

Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources

All these ghouls should be fed alive to ants.

I think my most embarrassingly vulgar marxist belief is that I think, on some level, "in order to keep capitalism steady, we need more people to be more evil" is at the root of why actual cosplaying nazis are everywhere now and anti-wokeness is establishment policy

Fun fact! The "child" decades go from birth to your 30th birthday. 0-10: baby child 10-20: competent child 20s: expert child 30s: baby adult 40s: competent adult 50s: expert adult 60s: baby old 70s: competent old 80s: expert old 90s: bonus round 100s: bonus round 2

It's common to say of one's enemies experiencing misfortune "of course I don't wish death on anyone" as a sort of moral flex, but fuck that. I hope he dies, I hope it hurts, aI hope it's slow, and I hope he's fully aware and terrified the whole time he's being erased at long last from this universe.

My rage at the right wing in this country is cold and dark. It is a small comfort, but a comfort I take nonetheless, that every one of the self-deluded "good people" will one day face what they have supported, and if the end of the Third Reich is any indication, many will kill themselves in shame.

People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

was that not already banned

Fun fact: the Agaricus bisporus is *the* domesticated mushroom. As a baby mushroom you know it as the cheap white button mushroom, as a kid mushroom it's called a cremini, as an adult it's called a portabella. Same mushroom. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricu...

I tried to write a reply on Reddit, but it didn't wanna accept this many characters, so I put it on my blog instead. blog.izs.me/2026/01/i-am...

Coviet Coviet Coviet Pussia

They should make a kind of thin mints that has more than one serving per box

i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine

Unlike Disneyland, our mice will fuck you up

SPOTTED! 😍 Keira Knightley looking absolutely stunning in NYC, bundled up against the cold with celebrity boyfriend Guy From The Neighborhood Watch Signs!

My neighbor told me bad boyars keep misleading his tsar so l asked how many boyars he has and he said theyre just thrown under the bus and theres a new boyar afterwards so l said it sounds like he’s just blaming the boyars because he can’t bear to blame the tsar and then his daughter started crying.

Even when they show signs of weakness or forced regret, we must not give an inch. Authoritarian governments still respond to public opinion, which is why sustained pressure matters. We have to keep making clear that these thuggish actions are unconscionable and will not be tolerated. Don’t let up.

Bovine lives. He walks free. Justice has not been done. He needs to be hanged along with all the other fascists leaders and henchmen who've taken over the government and attacked the American people.

ICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses.

I have a few words to say about the discourse regarding whether ICE is more like the Nazi secret police, or rather more like the slave catchers in the antebellum USA and Confederacy. The argument to compare it slave catchers is that this is not foreign. But here's the hard part: neither are Nazis.

@lukeoneil47.bsky.social ‘s verse about this never fails to move me

Wait, so, as the immigration gestapo secret police continue to oppress and occupy MN, the weather unleashes a MASSIVE ""ICE"" STORM, get it?!??? jfc these writers suck. Srsly, tho, stay safe, Americans who aren't on the west coast or in Florida.

I've got the heart of a poet, and the brain of an engineer. The liver of an accountant. The eyes of a designer. What I'm saying is, I collect organ meats from knowledge workers.

and it isn’t just what is happening in Minneapolis. Every single extrajudicial act is existential threat, as it has always been since we began this dance after 9/11. bsky.app/profile/utop...

We are, quite literally, no longer a free society. What they get away with in Minneapolis is an existential threat to us all and the Republic herself.

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.