Adam Compton

There is an arcane ceremony known to only a few dozen people in the world that controls and secures the vast, vast majority of traffic on the internet

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) 🐋🌺

Pwn day is a meme gift that keeps on memeing

Change your mindset from “you should be happy because it could be worse” to “demand more because more is absolutely fucking possible.” If I’ve learned nothing from over 25 years of writing about politics, I have learned this.

I have been praying for this kind of pushback from Democrats against Elon Musk for a long time now and I am thrilled that the Talarico camp is leaning into it. Light. Him. Up.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

I think AI is useful if either a) you're carefully verifying that the output is fit for purpose or b) whether the output is fit for purpose doesn't matter (prototypes etc.). If the output matters, then you should be verifying it, and if you're not, you're not doing the job you're being paid for

I have been calling this "fuck them into the sun" energy

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant

Don't mind me, just setting up a puppet config to install prometheus-node-exporter on my RetroPie emulation box, totally normal things that everybody does

Don't mind me, just setting up a puppet config to install prometheus-node-exporter on my RetroPie emulation box, totally normal things that everybody does

you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail

I take issue with your using a word I don't know, even though I could easily guess it from context. No, I didn't read all the way to the end of your post, what does that have to do with anything?

Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW

Just because it's smarter than he is doesn't mean we all have to change the name. That said, I bet Slovenia is excited about the new domain name hosting revenue

Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once

this thread is a very fun ride lol neuromatch.social/@jonny/11733...

Got my official campaign yard sign up!

I think meaning comes from effort in service of something we value. Denying ourselves the opportunity to exert this effort cuts us off from this source of meaning in our lives.

the whole thing of being open-minded isn’t saying all viewpoints are equally valid, it’s subjecting them all to equal scrutiny then rejecting the ones that are evil or backwards or stupid

I need to make this clear: If you (WHOM I AM SPEAKING TO RIGHT NOW) have decided that "The Devil says he'll let us all go if we just hand over the outcast!" You *are* the villain, you *are* the monster, you *are* the bad guy. No questions. No exceptions. Liberty and Justice for ALL or GTFO

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

Former Waymo CFO jumps to self-driving startup Wayve

LLMs are improv machines, and inference is running "yes, and?" in a loop really really fast

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

I know it may seem cruel, but it is time: the normies have to be told about Aella, before it’s too late for democracy. I wish I was making a joke.

Also, these people’s central source text, their Bible, is a Harry Potter fanfic, and I am not kidding. These dorkass weirdos are unthinkably wealthy and powerful now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_P...

"you are the average of your five closest friends" except nobody has friends anymore, just the parasocial relationships the algorithm chooses to inject directly into their brainstems

I'd hire the men's style guy to privately roast everything I wore before I stepped outside every day

The Marin Independent Journal posted a story about the school board seat I'm running for: www.marinij.com/2026/09/08/m...

I feel like it says something about mass media that the _newest_ character on this list premiered 17 years ago (Leslie Knope, 2009). There was a whole TV show about people working at not-Walmart (Superstore) since then! It ran for six seasons! Are there really no newer references to draw from?

The problem with never, ever having faced a single Consequence in one's entire life is that you never build the consequence-facing muscles on the little stuff, and the ineluctable ones thus hit way harder than for people who've actually experienced any before

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

I've been saying it

It's already been mentioned but Encyclopedia Brown taught me that it was OK to be a strange kid who loved books and figuring things out. Introducing him to my kids was a special day

Back to school. ❤️

For Generation X, this was our "Doomsday." A 1990 crossover event featuring Alf, Winnie the Pooh, the Muppet Babies, the Chipmunks, Garfield, the Smurfs, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Slimer, Bugs Bunny and Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

okay this is cool good job wotc

People need something to strive for, something to work on, a windmill at which to tilt. These guys would rather work towards destroying all of civilization and rebuilding it from scratch than giving their money away and planting a garden