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what if I were a centaur? wow, nonsense hypothetical questions are fun!

just bring back tontines, who gives a shit anymore

I love that even in the scary made-up scenario, nobody gets hurt and actually it’s fine. this is reflective of reality most of the time! I wonder why she didn’t do a realistic scenario about cars instead? 🤔

It doesn’t even seem like companies care about more profit. CEOs resent that they need high-skill laborers who have leverage and want to change that, no matter the cost.

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

talking of media literacy, did you know that the nyt often solicits specific opinion pieces from specific people? do you think that maybe when a publication repeatedly seeks out and pays to publish the same opinions, that might reflect their values in some fashion?

I learned about a good one recently from @scriptingjapan.bsky.social. an anime character is hit with “ぬるぽ”, to see if they’re extremely online and they reflexively give the response, “ｶﾞｯ”. it’s translated as epic/fail, which has nothing to do with the original meaning, but has the same sentiment.

lower right bracket is insanely competitive this year, looking forward to some close match-ups.

a hearty “lol” at everyone impacted by this. so sorry that you got punished for using a website for nazis incorrectly.

if I cared what nate silver thought about anything I would die of shame

I very sincerely respect Kat and her position on this, but just for the avoidance of any doubt: I am coming at this from the position that every ChatGPT user is the problem.

The first “amazed by chatgpt” story I remember is a person bragging about how it helped them program a “snake” game. Ah, cool, I just cloned one of the 5,000 snake game repos on Github. It took 5 seconds, and now we both have a codebase we don’t understand and don’t need.

every time someone replies questioning this guy’s numbers, he blocks them and then makes progressively madder subskeets about it. seems like healthy behavior.

there are no rhyming words in rough, bough, through, though, slough, and two “th” sounds. good luck, learners

i think that if you are a professional political commentator you should be able to accurately describe reality

Musk and Trump are like Kendrick and Drake right now except they're both Drake.

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

individual voters voting when they weren’t allowed to isn’t real. it has never changed an election outcome. Pretending this is anything besides voter suppression is pathetic. stop being a coward and just say you hate poor people.

me, every day forever

Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once

really enjoying the comments from people who think this is a generic complaint about gatekeeping and not a good joke.

Every developer who implements a window where the options are “maybe later” or “yes” should be thrown in a gulag forever.