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I'm on here a lot too but you won't catch me trying to valorize my inability to focus on actual tasks lol

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

lol it's my first day at the bus company and all of these assholes keep telling me i have to go to union station???

new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up

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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

Tonight I watched The Red Shoes (1948), which was a feast for the senses. I realized it reminded me of Hangover Square (1945), in that classical music-making is central to the plot, there’s original music made for the film, and it’s actually really good. Are there any other films that fit that mold?

if personnel is policy, then the most fundamental questions about an institution is not "what are the policy directives" but rather "what will get you promoted" vs. "what will get you fired"

I truly feel like I’m losing my mind with this shit

“Grok apologize” you need to see a mental health professional

People replying to grok like you can change what it “knows” or what it can do or change its rules because of what you said is a form of ai psychosis. You cannot change an LLM’s “mind” because it doesn’t have one

Post 1: *something inflammatory* Post 2: God it's annoying when people are inflamed

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was sitting in a room different from the one you are in now

And The Dude, who DID abide

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, somehow returned

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, met a traveller from an antique land who said “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.“

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Watching the two-part finale of The Studio the day I finished my last gig for December was oddly cathartic. Watching Zoë Kravitz play herself stoned on way too many mushrooms screaming “WHERE IS ZOË????” healed something in me.

It's so jarring to see how truly out of touch executives and upper management are, not just with what the public wants and expects, but with what their organizations actually even do

Finally got back to running after a week of long illness and it’s so fucking degrading how much this shit matters to my mental health. I thought I was stressing about politics and life I just needed to get my zoomies out.

I don't know if this is Reddit or Google's fault, but now there's in-line AI summaries of search results instead of actual text from the page, and adding "-AI" doesn't get rid of it 🤬

Also every piece of human knowledge created between 2022 and the proper regulation of the bullshit machines is going to have to be quarantined with extreme prejudice, to stop this stuff cascading down to information stream forever. Like if everything asbestos touches also became asbestos.

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Not trying to dogpile this person because I definitely felt similarly at times while I still in school, and I get it. But it’s the job of colleges and college-educated adults to know better and save these students get the narrow experience they think they want.

I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?

roses are red, violets are funky,

I’m currently rehearsing a piece of post-minimalist chamber music that is so fiendishly difficult to put together that every professional performance or recording I’ve found has pretty substantial ensemble errors if you know the piece well (including by a multi-Grammy winning group). Wheeeeeee

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile, the world goes on.

Cohen was right

Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)

speaking of the current outbreak of genuine society-wide mass insanity

hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone

and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.

i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things

i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle

With Netflix you at least got to watch the movie. Uber at least did give you the ride to where you were going. With this you get... what? A throwaway email draft? A legal filing full of errors and fabrications? An "epic roast of someone's appearance"? This is pet rocks

Incredibly funny how much political discussion is driven by the four things at the bottom while everyone else is getting cooked on Facebook looking at pictures of AI Eminem opening nursing homes for crying veterans

I think that’s a clear signal of who gets to work in journalism / media and who doesn’t. That you can help elevate a presidential candidate that you’re having a romantic relationship with, advise and strategize for him, and keep your position. But if you so much as post about Gaza then that’s it.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

So I did suck it up and finish the game (basic ending, 77% complete). Unfortunately I did end up having fun but only in the last couple of hours once I had unlocked all the movement abilities and upgraded the nail 3/4 of the way by looking up guides online. Was it worth the annoyance? 🤷‍♂️

Wicked 2 spoilers without context

Went to a science and tech high school, and then went to college fully intending to major in computer science and/or math. I kept up with music because I liked it, and kept doing more and more and waffling on what I wanted to major in.

none of this is interesting enough for me to be continually having to hear about it and everyone involved here is the world's shittiest writer

I saw Hadestown this week for the second time (LOVE it) and was looking for some intelligent discussion of it online to clarify my thoughts but 90% of it is “if it were me I wouldn’t have turned around but I guess I’m built different.”