Just Another Apocryphal Mess

if you're running MacOS 27.1, and you've used an AI blocking tool like RemoveMacAI or Purge, and the update to 27.2 won't download, you do unfortunately need to temporarily undo the AI block stuff

Current mood

someone at Polymarket is drafting a tweet about how their users accurately predicted the Brazilian election result within one point

“the nazis were creating magic rituals and terrifying weapons that would have brought the world to ruin” actually the nazis were antisemitic klutzes whose teeth were kicked down their throats by milkmen and farmers and teachers and factory workers who wanted nothing more than to go the fuck home

Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

Vivek Ramaswamy is going after the abusive parent vote: defector.com/vivek-ramasw...

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

video games are an actual product that has be created and delivered, which is very upsetting to modern MBAs who believe in acts of Pure Finance in which nothing is actually done but yet share values go up anyway

this is precisely why "Keep Austin Weird" failed on every level

Here's your chance to get every single Gene Wolfe book, and it's all for charity. www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...

showing the US population what military caliber rifle rounds do to the human body via live television would, in a sane world, immediately result in a mass movement to repeal the 2nd amendment we do not live in that world

Why do I keep scrolling. What am I expecting to happen that hasn't happened already

as a teenager, I encountered Savage Henry #7, "Breakfast On The Altar", at random in a local comic shop I had no context for it: it concluded an arc featuring characters and a world that were entirely new to me it completely destroyed everything I thought I understood about the medium of comics

for folks who have no experience with Social Security, SSDI, Medicare, etc this is a little less than half of *one month’s* 2026 Medicare Part A+B premium which has not, in fact, been reduced at all by the current administration: 2022: $170 2023: $165 2024: $175 2025: $185 2026: $203 2027: $210

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

today on birzeblog: two years have passed since Cohost closed; two years of Cohost realism have, in turn, set in. it is now easier to imagine the end of the internet than it is to imagine another website with the promise or possibility that was offered by Cohost. alyaza.neocities.org#cohost

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"star wars is still a profitable corporate-owned intellectual property for children"

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

Just gonna say in 24 hours I have not seen a single apology at any level by anyone who used the article as an excuse to bash Covid cautious people or queer people as a whole. I have not seen a word from people who gleefully referred to disabled people as “wreckers”. Not one single oops.

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

Wheels within wheels.

racists are really fucking stupid, you have to be stupid to be racist and one reason you dont elect racists is because that stupidity will show up in other areas for example, they will start wars with iran and kick people off healthcare for never filing claims. stupid shit like that

the thing about the pokemon scalper discord posts is they are very funny but they’re not unique. that is how the vast majority of investors, landlords, business owners think. obviously you can find exceptions but that is simply your brain on capitalism

Conservatives desperately want cultural supremacy and yet they are incapable of producing art. I don't even mean great or good art, I mean "works that are arguably artistic." Every cultural artifact they produce in any medium is instantly recognizable as vapid, disposable, and unworthy of attention.

comic: keys

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

consider: 1) Elon likely has dozens of children by dozens of mothers 2) He likely does not have a will, because he thinks that he will find a way to live forever 2a) He is wrong about this Upon his passing, a measurable chuck of the world’s wealth is going to vanish into the courts for many years

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

what a curious day to put these on sale

never forget except for donald trump, he can forget

Cat and Girl Versus the Warping Effect of Any Medium Assumed to Be a Description of Reality.

we’re gonna pin every single one of these motherfuckers to this rancid shit. adopting a generational bigotry for no other reason than naked self-ambition deserves a permanent seat in the dunk tank. eat shit

thirty years ago this last July, my father died from a minor injury because he was between jobs, without healthcare, and couldn't afford to stay in the hospital overnight

i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job

Storyboards by Shinji Kimura for Tekkonkinkreet (2006), dir. Michael Arias, Studio 4°C

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

very tired of discovering a new piece of software that looks very useful, and then finding that the commit history is full of "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus" it's like investigating a car that *looks* like it's in perfect shape, but it turns out that the rusted-out frame is held together by zip ties

choose your vibes based ontology... or else!!!