I've realised something that seems obvious but it's taken me a while to come to terms with it. I have, quite simply, outgrown tech. I have very little respect for the majority of people in that industry. The ones who could have something to teach me will not do so. It has nothing for me anymore.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

We're spending Christmas with my wife's friend's mother. That's who's showing up for us. Our family didn't invite us to Christmas last year, so this year we're uninvited as punishment for not showing up last year.

Today my kid said "I love you" for the first time. It was more like "Ayayu" but it was obvious what he was saying. We said it back and forth a few times while I cuddled him. We'd had a hard day together, and I was feeling down about not spending as much time with him as I wish. Then this happened. 💕

When people tell you they care about you, that's a signal they're about to disappear from your life forever. They may or may not pick a fight first. That's the only variation.

Everyone’s got a theory about what’s wrong with my soul

It's bad enough now that we asked our family for help with staying alive until this contract starts. My wife's dad sent her a video of him mopping a floor saying "just get a job!" and her sister screamed at me that I'm going to die in the street. This is the side of the family we still talk to.

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

I could have really been something

My boss sits down with a clipboard and asks, "So how do you like to have sex?" He clicks his pen. "It's for diversity, you know. So you feel included. Please be professional and answer the question, all the normal people already did."

Had an interview today where nobody talked about AI. Nature is healing.

I kiss my baby and he leans back into me for more kisses. He makes his little kissy noises back at me as he walks away to play. I love being a parent.

Imagine if Americans cared as much about Palestinian lives as they do about late night comedy

These guys are unpopular and dumb as rocks, they did not discover a secret 'I win' button at the heart of all politics labeled 'mean tweets' or 'cancel elections.' Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.

Your children are refusing to go to school because you let them contract a deadly virus which is now causing them horrible disabilities. They're right to refuse this.

Fun fact: did you know that Long Covid is now more common in children than asthma?

"haha i just got caught up in-" shut up. i didn't get called a bully and a luddite for months just to welcome you dummies back into the fold. i know you're all hoping everyone will forget but not this bitch

My child is going to be made homeless because of fucking gamergate.

I just failed my sixth round of applications, all of which got right to the last stages. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm genuinely not okay. My family will be homeless soon and it's all my fault.

You know LLMs aren't a real technology because there are no furry prompt engineers

I've spent the last 13 years of my life begging these people to tell me what's wrong with me so I can fix it, and being met only with scalding silence. At a certain point, you have to decide that even if you are a terrible person and don't know it, you don't have the information to change that fact.

Getting lectures on resilience and grit from people who've only ever been out of work voluntarily while their parents were paying the bills.

Whenever someone gets mad at me for questioning the net usefulness of AI and says something like “you’re like the people who didn’t want to use the internet”—with love, I was born in 1997, and my life growing up online is all the evidence I need that we should handle AI differently than we are now

"If I were facing impending homelessness I would simply get good at LLMs" is actual advice I received today

"Companies won't hire you because you're so scary and intimidating and controversial and opinionated! Try being a bit more subdued and maybe then people will like you a bit more." Me: a quiet, nice person who's good at computers 🫠

(Mulder tosses Scully a folder) "...have you ever heard about bisexuals?"

Fascism is evil. Fascism is scary. Fascism is awful. But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.

People stranded on a desert island will waste time making SOS signs out of clam shells instead of starting a successful business

A lot of people who keep saying “but people who are really disabled will be fine” are about to find out that “disabled” is a real schrodinger's cat type of label where you’re disabled for the purposes of elimination targeting and able-bodied for the purposes of benefits

Listen to the marginalized people who warned all this would happen when we say what's coming next, not those who told you it could never happen here.

Sometimes someone you trust does something so monumentally shitty that it flips a bit in the universe and every kind thing they ever did in the past to gain that trust suddenly appears shitty too. I've had a few of them now. I guess I'm getting used to it.

Google: We won’t let you use the gmail app until you sign up for AI bullshit you don’t want, or give up existing features you like using. You must choose! Me: Guess I’m not going to check my emails on my phone anymore. Oh no.

im done with walkable cities i want fuckable cities

We’re an ADHD, trans, and chronically ill household in Australia. We keep our AC on pretty much all Summer. There is no shame when the choice has been made for you.

The thing nobody remembers about the nazis is that they were also huge fucking losers and nobody came to their rallies. They had to hire a film crew and stage fake marches to make their propaganda look good.

"We aren't taking your rights away" "We aren't taking your rights away" "We aren't taking your rights away" "We aren't taking your rights away" "You never had those rights to begin with"

someone at the bird place said something like, if you don't feel hope when you see the streets fighting back, you've never finally punched someone who was choking you and that's gonna stick with me

Look, all of us Covid conscious people knew that they wanted to stop protecting us when they stopped caring about chronically ill people that needed protection from COVID. Welcome to the “protect yourself because nobody cares” club

We’re going to lose our home.

You might be hiring, but we both know you won't be hiring me

Tech has won and finally succeeded at destroying my life. It's time to start assuming my career is over and acting accordingly. We'll be spending the next couple of months preparing our home for repossession and preparing ourselves for homelessness and begging friends for money.

"It really does disappoint me that so many brilliant colleagues—whose genuine breakthroughs I’ve profited from for years—would be so quick to condemn this newer, stupider way that I and others like me can make money off your life’s work, through stealing."

The real tragedy of young men today is not that they're being held back from success by a bunch of woke scolds. The real tragedy is that they're being told that success & happiness come through escaping all constraints, dominating & controlling others, & suppressing all vulnerability or weakness.

LEFTIST: Dude, you need to grow up and get a hobby. Start treating women like people and find a useful role in society. RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp. YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice

"But surely a whole industry can't be a scam, right? That's impossible." Homeopathy, which is 100% a scam, is currently a $10 billion/year market and has been around for over 200 years.

A lot of very wealthy people mad that they can buy literally anything Except respect

I will go to my GRAVE screaming that mainstream media pushing this “Trump supporters regret their vote” narrative is to redeem white racists in the eyes of the public and keep the masses from rioting as people are deprived of food, healthcare, and human dignity. It’s to evoke pity & mercy.