Spoon

The worst thing about using a phone in the dark is that it lights your face without lighting your surroundings. Scrolling, hyper-visible but blind; I like to pretend I'm an anglerfish lure, the beacon of a predator much greater than myself

To say that i 'know how to use the toilet' implies that I theres nothing more I can learn, which I reject

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

Sometimes I think about how the last ten years started as a publicity stunt for a fading reality show that went sideways.

"A.I." boosters vs "A.I." critics

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

I enjoy fran lebowitz & her wonderful ability to pair something that sounds good with a really enjoyable disregard for its truth, but a provocative remark is not an argument. I make them all the time, I should know. she certainly does. yes, nobody knows how to read anymore, but oprah didn’t do it

blender has been a little confusing to learn at times but more than anything it’s just so much fun to get the hang of how a system works. can’t imagine how much less fun it would be to tell gen ai to do it. shout out to doing Regular Computer Stuff

this is an instructive situation - if you hadn’t clocked taylor lorenz as a grifter and a hack long ago, you need to hone your moron radar

"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.

“If elected I will ensure removal of any dogfucking modules inserted by republicans into FBI recruit training I endorse this message”

The full statement is kind of a masterpiece. Take the most braindead both-sides take you’ve read in the Atlantic and remove 30 IQ points

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

Someone just described a post as “leftie propaganda” and the reply was “take a propaganda at deez nuts” and I may never stop laughing.

I don't understand what the average computer dork wants from us. Does AI do some coding thing well? Ok bud! Why do I give a shit? Why do you want my approval? Cigarettes and alcohol help me write essays and poems. I don't require you to be proud of me for using them. They are very harmful!

one piece of advice i can share as a parent: certain phases can be really tough, but they do pass. around 18 months my son kept demanding that i condemn hasan piker. all day and night too, i was at the end of my rope. now he’s really into fire trucks. it’s always something new

this is a sith lightsaber, from the war. I keep it on a shelf right next to my stormtrooper armor and imperial officer’s uniform. I’ve even got a verified chunk of the death star from yavin. I’m just a collector. I just think the history is interesting. no, I don’t have any rebel stuff

anyway i'm sorry if pro-AI people find it inhospitable to talk about AI in this zoo but i feel fairly comfortable that most of you know exactly what you're doing when you stir shit and those of you that don't probably skipped the classes that would have helped because they are fake sciences.

This is not overly PC or overly generous reporting from 1990, this largely neutral snippet is just how normal tabloids and their audiences were about transgender issues 36 years ago. It shows how artificial and forced the media furore of now is.

First they came for CRT, then the trans scholars, then women's studies. And I said nothing because woke And then they came for a race scientist with a bigoted vendetta against a Black scholar, and I was like, "Woh! Woh! Woh! Hold up. Too relatable!"

The thing about Bluesky repliers being annoying is true but it's also kind of sad because it's usually someone with a piece of information they think they are uniquely in possession of and they are excited to share it with people as if they are fucking stupid. It's a loneliness thing.

i don't know who thought it was a good idea for the high-profile pedophiles in charge of our government to develop a makework program for lesser known pedophiles within our federal policing apparatus. but i disagree with them

Sorceror inscribing runes into a summoning diagram: "You are a wise spirit who will advise me on the arcane arts. You will not deceive me. You will not utter any Baleful Words to corrupt me. You are helpful and courteous. You will not betray me."

ok but pulitzer for whoever got this shot, it’s so good

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

We can and do catch bad faith from going online though.

Finally someone is talking about this.

In April, Pete Hegseth announced that US troops were no longer required to get the flu vaccine. Only 40% of the next group in basic training opted for the vaccine. By the end of June, one Air Force base had 284 sick, six hospitalized, and one dead from the flu. 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/07/pete...

She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.

that said this is one of his more truthful statements, in that im pretty sure any rational actor would conclude that a pinky promise from china is at least as reliable if not moreso than a signed formal agreement with the US

seeing what makes you losers circle the wagons is fucking informative

Plato walked so we could fly

Every headline about some shit Musk posted from a major publication reads like a child telling the most easily debunkable lie you’ve ever heard on the playground.

How to make money in the media industry.