i do honestly wonder if there's some kind of horseshoe theory wraparound that happens when sincerity-maxing public radio listeners encounter the work of the irony-poisoned contradictory-inscrutable bumper sticker memers in the wild bsky.app/profile/rob-...

help

been working on my own thing

uh huh

I got Forza 5 on the Playstation and my wife has been stealing it from me because she enjoys it so much. I walk into the living room this morning and see this

let's be blunt: nasdaq made a rule change. this one event is not end of problems with the change, in terms of consequences and in what it says about leadership. it makes sense for institutional investors to re-evaluate their nasdaq holdings because of it. cranberries.medium.com/how-not-to-b...

it's possible this gets over the line with revised numbers but for now seems like we're gonna just fail to eke this one out with a 0.1% decline in Q1; is it time to start figuring out my cover of ghost town yet or, https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/recession-gdp-may-2026-statscan-9.7216352

I don't think I've ever cracked up quite so hard during an explainer video as when @mattbevan.bsky.social starts doing the voice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMzO...

calls into question the UK's plans to invest £12 billion into developing our own wolf

it's kind of amazing that it's reached this level of emperor-has-no-clothes, honestly; like as much as you could make fun of gen-ai in the image stuff and chatbots and claude peak hype as sort of an outgrowth of the same sort of shipping-the-tech-demo as say siri, youtu.be/jzlNhdM7kjc?...

Indigenous Clean Energy Projects Replace 140 Million Litres of Diesel in Remote Canada www.theenergymix.com/indigenous-c...

so i'm reviewing the stats of my twitter archive trying to remember somebody, and a couple of things are striking it's wild to just find people who are still around just on twitter, focused on living their own little lives there but for the grace etc.

I was in the Lego store yesterday looking for something to kill Lego Paul Walker with and it’s crazy how Lego is just for millennial adults now because we’re the only ones with money or an emotional attachment to it and none of us have kids

LRP: i regularly rue the ndp's strategy to try to be an everything-to-everyone centrist labour party leaving us functionally without a social democratic party, but...

Big anti-AI data center protest at City Hall in Vancouver. A lot of different groups coming together – animation union @cag938.bsky.social @bcgreens.bsky.social leader @emilylowan.bsky.social, @copevancouver.bsky.social. Organizers promise this is the first of many marches.

LRP: these are so memorable from back in the day, the last of the anemic 68k machines in the powerpc era, people hauling them around with the godforsaken ethernet dongles attached (they had built-in ethernet but no transceiver)

yeah, that's pretty good

LRP: funny for somebody to bring up ol' melvil dewey apropos of nothing... definitely the most cancellable chud in a discussion reminiscent of fool time

Lol yes remember when everyone booed email at the graduation ceremonies? Me neither. The Dewey Decimalites learned about the card catalog in 1st grade and by 12th grade we were teaching our parents about search engines. All of that shit was useful. AI is for lazy incurious chumps and perverts.

The Guardian right there, wearing its hot dog costume.

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

The lost episode

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

The comparison I heard was data centers using the same amount of water as golf courses, and for that I was all, my brother in Christ, let me tell you what I think we should do with golf courses

like i can understand the existence of ordinarily wealthy flat tax guys who want to make the dollars go further; what's inscrutable to me is somebody at this level of wealth making themselves into a knock knock joke by using their every media pickup to gripe about having to pay taxes

LRP: dig down into this sort of thread and the media get increasingly cursed such that the most recent few video which are all game screenshots will then seem quaint

“think back to your childhood. do you remember when the anxiety started?”

LRP: lol, this is so americanizing. ... on the other hand wikipedia describes pier 21 as "a former ocean liner terminal and immigration shed" which doesn't quite have that ring to it does it

Transgender Ellis Island finally real

LRP: i missed this a couple days ago, but it's so unhinged "paying sales tax on a lot of this prewritten software" like some kind of robot claiming he eats human food he is barely familiar with

Why would your solution not be to download the software at home idiot www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom...

or, it's terrible bullshit doomed to fail and implode whatever depends on it and the people willing to hitch their wagons to it are the true bottom of the barrel dipshits, i.e. exactly the right people to go down with the ship www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

catching up on old eps and it's totally vibes that they just punched in for one prequel and it's this one

LRP: i mean, yeah, but: broccoli? really? that's 'the only vegetable they eat is potato chips' territory

something I firmly believe but can never prove is that a lot of the time when people complain about taco bell or chipotle or chinese food making them shit they're complaining about what happens when you give beans or broccoli into a body that is absolutely starved of fiber

honestly the only way i can interpret this is that ahmadinejad was some kind of sleeper

Which is so crazy right? Kids will talk about anything! For like hours! It's extraordinary that brains that are just a vacuum and repository of insane information cannot find anything to grasp onto with him. The smoothest content.

The fact that they just photoshopped the new product onto the old photo for the Mutation Chamber is very, very, very funny. I have so much to say about these insanely bad toys, I spent way too much time digging into this junk only for 99% of it to get cut from the script.

But like I can't help but be cynical about it a bit because for instance their recent sort of pyhrric win of getting x to voluntarily enforce ofcom's idea of proscribed organizations, like, is that good?

An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba

nostalgic examines the succinctly illustrated ballistic trajectory and wonders why it didn't go in a straight line forever

It's hard for me not to read this overall strategy of incredibly low introductory prices and then jacking them all up as simulated annealing; the question is do all your potential customers just reach a point to treat the AI as prototype to replace with real software before you've paid for the thing

Calling this the “rats and sinking ships” moment for AI. This is when you watch people jump from company to company to whoever is subsidizing that day until there’s nobody left

One of our biggest problems is that we've trained our generations to believe "hero" means "someone who fixes crises and gets rewarded for it," not "someone who can handle a problem without calculation or expectation of reward." And if there are no crises, you have to create one.

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

dave is a little bit past what i normally pay attention to in tech videos on the mainstream dad vibes scale, but I do wonder if there is a mainstream audience for moderately technical thing explainer videos like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4p...

LRP: once you wade through all the nonsense those people boarded the ride for, there remains a problem they bring to light: high prices only matter as much as they matter; framing the iran war as a pocketbook issue instead of the result of an incoherent strategy from idiots is not a winning approach