There is an essential & extremely generalizable point here. Critical thinking is a team sport. We all need metacognition buddies because human brains. It doesn't matter how quote unquote smart you are. Especially in the slop times. The most pernicious aspect of ChatGPT is how it isolates minds.

If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you.

you can cut down the flowers but you can't stop the spring

hey wouldn't private sector sectoral bargaining be totally rad

the motion itself is worth reading

how would you write this article without a single reference to Italian fascism in the '70s?

this show RULES

I think my take on social media is that being a good person and a nice person are similar in that: both take work; both require a decision on your part; and both are an ongoing process that you begin anew each day. But they are also two entirely different things, requiring two separate decisions.

I'm wrapping up a major contract this month, so: hire me! I'm a writer/narrative designer/systems designer with a decade of industry experience and a lot of experience taming the complexity of intricate systems. Let me build your storylet system or write disquieting prose for you!

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It's Epiphany but alls I sees around here are a buncha wise guys 😒

[exit the Christmas season, pursued by a bear]

I dont know if this is dumb but a thought occurred to me earlier that won't go away Art means leaving space for the audience to inject their own interpretation and meaning Industry means needing to commoditize and capitalize every inch of the experience such that there is no space for the audience

K-pop remake of The Dawns Here Are Quiet

i think about the phrase "anti-bedtime aktion" a lot

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It's good to know we're safe here, living in a western hemisphere country with vast tar sands that has been strong-armed into unfavourable oil trade agreements that eliminated our domestic refinement capacity. it's fine that wacky ol' trump threatens to invade us. Ha ha ha.

Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela. It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

This graffiti is @thelouvreof.bsky.social-coded

[going up to a straight couple] so which one of youse is the coffee and which is the bagel

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

its not think

My resolution this year is to get better at home maintenance, repair, and decorating. The spaces we occupy are a part of ourselves. They can heal; they can harm. I want to be better at respecting my home and not treating them all as a pied-á-terre even though I live in it full-time.

sup fellow history witness you hyped to show bravery

bloom again and again

snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it

When the Grenfell Tower was remodeled and its wildly unsafe cladding added, two companies bid on the project. One bid was £11.3m. The other was £8.7. The Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people. We're looking at a cost savings of about £36K/death. That's your answer, McArdle.

i sent a guy a video of me in a mari lywd costume playing "Last Christmas" on a keytar and he hasn't texted me back :( maybe i should have waited to let that one out of the bag?

this is what Roddy Piper sees when he puts on his sunglasses in THEY LIVE

actually this is great. I am really looking forward to the first time a student turns in a paper on Machiavelli’s The Prince that tries, in the fourth paragraph, to sell me viagra as the fastest path to virtu futurism.com/artificial-i...

he'll yeah

This man showed up on his own knowyourmeme page for his 50th birthday and continued doing the meme without irony. You have no chance of ever defeating him.

Is this why people tell me that I have autism

"im not a nerd! im not a nerd!!", i insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corncob wearing big dumb glasses

The key to a successful relationship is that your SO never finds your Posts

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i don't think software engineers can call themselves that unless they, like real engineers, have a little imprimatur on their code that says "if this code kills someone I will go to jail"

asking a canadian about the fuel efficiency of their car will make their head explode Scanner-style (which is a Canadian movie, you know)

my fortune cookie only had half a fortune in it and it's insanely ominous.

I feel like I'm being a bit of a broken record here, but the Norton Critical Edition of Dracula.

Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira, a poetry novel where Jesus and John the Beloved are fucking :)

Hey smart people QT this with the best book you read this year

the devil mustang of the denver airport looks on, his eyes aglow with infernal delight. like every Serb in the west, you have made a deal with the devil

Tom Hardy is one of those actors who was born to play weird little guys but was gifted with leading man good looks, and that's a pretty ideal combo for Odysseus.

"you have to write [x] words per day." No, some days you have bash your head against the keyboard, take a walk, come back inside, consider taking up smoking, spin in your chair, write two sentences, then quit without saving. Getting stuck is part of the process. Budget your time accordingly.

boar tribe rallies to the side of their embattlled leader