Frankenstein's Monster's Monster

I’ll say it: it shows what disgusting pigs Americans are that they eat their cheesecake right there at the factory instead of waiting for it to be delivered to a store or restaurant

THREE FUCKIN PROGRAMS this Grand Prix de France

The ISU Grand Prix series would be improved so much if they'd just ban El Tango de Roxanne from international competition already. Please. The fans are begging (as we have every other year). #figureskating #misophonia #chewbacca

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

since reading that report about how DNC fundraisers just hustle senior citizens multiple times a day, i've become far more acutely aware of when a PAC email is intentionally in large print

Hot take: what’s happening in cyber security now is basically the answer to the question “so what if we built a fuzz testing farm with 100 billion dollars worth of hardware”

Telling my kids the eMudhra private keys were 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42

IF IS GOOD

Paul Grice came up with the Cooperative Principle. Robin Lakoff added the Politeness Principle. I think we need to add care. The degree to which everyone in a conversation expresses authentic care changes an interaction, and the appropriate way to do it depends on roles/relationship.

By Taiyō Matsumoto

My 9-year-old is always doing the most understated weird shit. This morning I woke up and she was walking around eating sorbet out of a hollowed out orange. We don't keep sorbet in the house, so she must have made it. But I also can't ask or she gets defensive and mad

"They doxxed the Prodigy crab" is something that will forever live in my brain

TIL that Public Enemy toured with Sisters of Mercy but it fell apart halfway through post-punk.com/black-planet...

roman salutes, roman executions

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

WHYYYYYYYYYY

Does this mean that Grok’s porn problem is now the SI Swimsuit Issue?

[youth pastor] you know who trained twelve AI (Apostle Intelligence) models with His voice?

Recession indicator: Shreyas Doshi is posting about how to stay motivated when your job sucks instead of giving product management tips.

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

This is a community note for the ages.

from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

Enterprise software companies had a short-lived run where they competed on usability and product-led growth which seems to be over. Now every SaaS app seems to be converging on the same UX monstrosity, complete with AI features of dubious value.

Spoke to a class a Columbia earlier about press freedom and anticipated having to explain what Gawker was but it did not occur to me for even two minutes that I would also have to explain who Hulk Hogan was

It is astonishing how many people have, in worrying about a nonsense problem, managed to find a way to stake out a position that they’d actually be ok with little slavery as long as the slaves are happy.

this is inexplicably one of my kids' favorite games

lmao, the model guardrails about bulk quoting copyrighted content can prevent ChatGPT from quoting passages of religious texts

I can't stop myself from completing the line, "My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer"

paging @nkjemisin.bsky.social

The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse.

The "woke sniper won't kill Dracula" dril tweet now canonically takes place on top of the Donald Trump Memorial Sniper Nest , sorry I don't make the rules.

Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe.

A cute little addition to Suikoden 2 Remaster was this light pattern added to the west-facing windows in Neclord's sanctuary, a tiny tribute to his quest in the original where you face him at sunset

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 

“AI will kill us all” is how the tech industry, especially rich people in it, avoid talking about real world problems—ones they’re causing, exacerbating, or neglecting—while still thinking themselves good. “I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”

boy dinner (40m) tonight was one handful of each box of cereal in the pantry, poured from box directly into hand

controversial musical opinion: Material Girl is an incredibly Klaus Nomi-coded song, compositionally

pet peeve: when engineers say "side quested" but really mean "chased the macguffin"