max mccarthy
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People always tell me that I’m tall. I work on interaction prototyping at Apple. SF; he/they.
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ridiculous that i am just a loose collection of molecules that has somehow decided to "feel bad" this morning
5 months ago
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The Hearse Whisperer
1 day ago
I'm a single issue voter and my single issue is "do you want to feed my friends into a wood chipper", if your bitch ass can't manage a weak little "no" then get the fuck out of my face!!!!
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announcement: i will be using the term "short king" exclusively to refer to men who are taller than 6′0″ but shorter than i am (6′3″)
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David Buchanan
3 days ago
how to deactivate torment nexus torment nexus deactivation tutorial torment nexus deactivation tutorial working 2025 deactivate torment nexus no survey
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David Buchanan
about 24 years ago
what a lovely day, I sure hope nothing bad happens
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☀️ Starshine
4 days ago
idk it sucks to work in a hated industry but as someone who worked security for a decade idk man you need to log off if you're reaction to poor tech critics is seething contempt. like the tech is being used to mass fire people and revenge porn at scale, that means you also get dumb criticism too
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it's a great day to have perfectly neutral opinions about taylor swift :)
6 days ago
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt
9 days ago
HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children
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kavanaugh stop? i wish he would!
9 days ago
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currently visiting beautiful washington, dc and the national guard units standing around in parks or guarding the krispy kreme just look so… sloppy, and embarrassing. literally nothing for them to do, and they know it
11 days ago
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James W
16 days ago
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Ned Resnikoff
16 days ago
One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.
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spookillumi
17 days ago
me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines
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earthquake! really felt that one
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hailey
18 days ago
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the worst thing that can happen to a streaming service like disney+ is that their customers remember they pay for it
21 days ago
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Parker
23 days ago
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
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Jason Kirk
27 days ago
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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vaxxed!
27 days ago
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nilay patel
27 days ago
Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
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sarah jeong
27 days ago
y'all I got up before the sun rose to tune into a press conference that told me charlie kirk was killed with a furry sex meme bullet
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i stand by this take but i simply did not expect to be this livid *at the opposition party*
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28 days ago
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10 try to focus on work 20 get overwhelmed by it all 30 take break 40 check phone 50 get overwhelmed by it all 60 goto 10
8 months ago
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Leonid Baezhnev
28 days ago
His assassination was bad. But he also deserved to be tried for treason, with all the concomitant consequences.
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June Martin
29 days ago
They’ll ask you to mourn the deaths they mourn, and no others. They’ll ask you to cherish the lives they cherish, and no others.
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Prisonculture
29 days ago
I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
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ali alkhatib
29 days ago
probably a good idea to log off for the rest of the day.
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imagine if he had actually died last week. we’d probably never have seen the letter
about 1 month ago
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William B. Fuckley
about 1 month ago
yeah it’s insanely fucked up that this is the warmest, most thoughtful and human I think we’ve ever seen him, and it’s in almost literally the most abhorrent and repulsive context imaginable.
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well that love letter is going to be seared into my retinas forever 🤮
about 1 month ago
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I called the governor’s office today to demand he make good on this agreement and save Bay Area transit. (916) 445-2841 (press 1 for English and 6 to speak with a real person)
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about 1 month ago
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it's just so goddamn embarrassing when an emergency alert from the government sends you a link to x dot com the everything app
about 1 month ago
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there’s nothing stopping anybody from making this right now
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about 1 month ago
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where is donald trump? he’s in the epstein files. we went over this last week; pay attention.
about 1 month ago
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when It Happens every major city is gonna be like philly after one of their teams wins a championship
about 1 month ago
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A K (Bone Coloring, Silian Rail Font)
about 1 month ago
Remember: any time I’m talking about “it happening”, I mean “Radiohead releasing a new album”
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Helena Fitzgerald
about 1 month ago
“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb
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mattie lubchansky
about 1 month ago
being afraid of the subway is so fucking funny. you mean the choo-choo train???
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Ed Markey
about 1 month ago
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
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Gwen Snyder is undead
about 1 month ago
I'm still not a Luddite but it really feels like these days most of the mainstream social internet is exactly this combination right now: AI slop and promos for its offline equivalent (Temu-quality dropship product slop)
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’s Language Machines so far. in particular: “It seems that mental illness, or at a minimum neurosis, should be a criterion for passing the Turing test, but it is equally unlikely that this view will ever be adopted by engineers or journalists.”
about 1 month ago
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The Ass is the father of the legs
about 1 month ago
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
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BeijingPalmer
about 1 month ago
a huge part of the problem with AI and delusional spirals at the moment is that the "AI safety" people were busy with their own fantasies of Skynet, AGI, and paperclip maximization being the danger and seem to have done zero due diligence on the *actual* risk factors of the product.
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Kim Kelly
about 2 months ago
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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one gets the sense that even if we used "artificial intelligence" to "solve climate change" we would simply ignore it
about 2 months ago
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nah dude you were only $50 away from personal superintelligence!! but now it will never happen :(
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about 2 months ago
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yeah this really puts to words what i have been crashing out about for the past six months
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about 2 months ago
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dillo (yakubian mamba)
almost 2 years ago
minimalism is a scam invented by big small to sell more less
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Faine Greenwood
about 2 months ago
another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious.
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Katie Mack
2 months ago
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
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sun's creen
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