i often think about this review

Nominative Determinism would be a beautiful name for a baby, depending on how their life plays out

I use Firefox, kagi search and protonmail now and am working on changing other stuff. it takes awhile but it’s worth it.

This is honestly so good in so many ways that are, whether by design or no, a rebuke to the aesthetic tyranny of the big budget, the phantom “general public,” etc, public access is strictly better than what we decided instead to pay for. Stop me before I thinkpiece but honestly though

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

an unfinished online novel called She Hates My Futon. I remember nothing about it except the URL it was at and the fact that the protagonist’s job was writing movie synopses for blockbuster video

never forget 🌊

not only will I not repost anything that has images without alt text, I won’t repost anything that has images with poorly done alt text. the other day I saw a skeet about how terrible something in the attached image was, and the alt text was “look at this shit.” I…no? that’s not what alt text is for

little hats for dogs

I would ask many questions such as what is the destination, what are the abort points, what is our DV margin, what is the ECLSS flight legacy, will there be a toilet, does the toilet have flight legacy, are there any deltas between this and flown toilets, what preflight tests has the toilet passed,

I read the article to see what crime this is and it’s “operation of a vehicle in a closed section of park/lake, no valid boat registration, and numerous water safety equipment violations.” NO VALID BOAT REGISTRATION lmao

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

Every single show in this 25-year-old promo has either been recently revived or never stopped airing

no, you dipshit, before you get on you ask SAY, WHERE IS THIS ROCKETSHIP HEADED

the real tricky bit about speaking truth to power is the fact that power is incredibly stupid, and also shady. they don't like what you say which of course always puts you directly in the path of danger or personal loss. but by fuck someone has to do it so every goddamn day that's what I do

🎵 i'm with mister mountain king, mountain king, mountain king / i'm with mister mountain king in his big stupid hall 🎵

the way to understand their complaints about the party being too woke is that it’s a bunch of half-dead octogenarians who can’t live with the reality of their complete and utter failure as stewards of the state and so have instead decided to blame their own voting base. i can’t wait for them to die

a gender crisis I have been having 1998-present is: group activities I’m invited to with The Ladies do not sound fun, but I don’t always feel comfortable admitting that to them. meanwhile things my guy friends talk about doing with The Boys sound great!!!! but I can’t be invited. so where do I go

Omg, Amazon Prime inserted an ad for Febreze in the midst of the most famous match cut in the history of cinema (in Kubrick’s 2001, when the ape-thrown bone turns into a spacecraft). I don’t know whether to laugh or cry (rn, it’s both). [bsky.app]

1997 or 2024

"let people enjoy things" well i enjoy rigorous cultural criticism how about that

me after I sow:

I recently bought a used electric car and omg there were SO MANY teslas on the market. you could not pay me any amount of money to take one of em tho

You could build a world where everyone has access to a wide variety of nutritious foods, and enough leisure time for and access to many forms of movement - and fat people would still exist, because fat people have always existed.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

never forget

in my corner of the world this is classic boomer behavior

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

Maybe it's maybelline.. but perhaps it's perhapselline

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

Likewise, an oligarch buying his way into high society at the behest of his social climbing wife by paying for a lavish ball is a very, very familiar plot to anyone who reads, say, Wharton, James, Tolstoy, Austen, Flaubert etc etc. Not to mention fans of Bridgerton and eleventy million other dramas.

Ah fuck, just when I needed my Ted turned

It’s on OpenClaw. It’s literally on RunPod. It’s on Hugging Face Spaces with demos. It’s literally on Gemini CLI. You can probably find it on Cursor. Dude it’s on Modal. It’s a Replit model. You can run it on Devin AI. You can go to Lovable and run it. Log onto v0 by Vercel right now

Hard to read major publications when the only article genres are like: - "Is this criminal thing that harms the world bad? We asked the guy doing it" - "Bigotry is warranted if I'm upset about life" - "Stop being poor so loud" and - "What Does It Mean: Debating horrible thing he said very clearly"

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

99% of it is utterly devoid of meaning

This product should not exist. www.wsj.com/us-news/chat...

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Men be like "wow, I talk to this object just like I talk to human women" and conclude the object must therefore be human, and not that they treat women like objects

The reason you'll never be able to stop LLMs from "hallucinating" is because they don't hallucinate. They output pattern-matched responses, things that appear similar to answers based on a database. It can't know what's in that answer because it doesn't know anything.

I really want to trade my 2010 Fit in for an electric car, but I come from a family in which you only buy a car when the old one has died so thoroughly that you have to have a local charity haul it off while you take a cab to the car dealership. so if I buy a car before that, then I Have Failed.

One of my neighbors has the last name of Pope, and they keep missing their FedEx package so the delivery driver apparently has time on their hands

We all need good news and that's why I'm here to tell you the children have a new challenge where you run as far as you can into the scientology center on hollywood Blvd. They're making maps. Scientology removed the outside door handles.

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory