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idk why all these ostensibly customer-oriented companies have dumped all their marketing PR into "computer science research" or why they want to tell me about it instead of shipping an efficiency that lowers my transaction fee or something else valuable (oh wait yes I do)

O, to be a Galapagos marine iguana on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is on top of another Galapagos marine iguana who is on top of a rock! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

"yeah well of course it will have to break a few eggs to make an omelette" - the guy selling the supposedly perfect intelligence

it is interesting to watch my generation leave the times en masse

purposefully listened to the choosing texas song (despite listening to sad alt country radio for the last two months, i hadnt heard it) now ive heard it

in the past month ive watched backrooms, read "When the Wolf Comes Home", and just now starting playing Control Resonance. SCP sort of having its day in the sun

[desperately seeking positives] at least my NDA ends in a month and then i can talk about why i disappeared

oh you know just working on custom jewelry for the ren faire this weekend (its my first time, wish me luck)

I was told I'm "like the illegitimate child of Ms Rachel and George Carlin" and I refuse to Google the age difference

ME, VISIBLY ANGUISHED AND FALLING APART: It is what it is :)

really stuck on this question: "who is a living person you admire?" sign of the times i guess

starting to really feel like I need to find a job soon. the really could go a few different places in that sentence tbh.

sometimes i remember im the first generation of my family to go to college and it helps me feel less fucking stupid

i hate to tell you fred but storage prices are such that you arent getting any more hard drives... probably ever

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this is hilarious to me as I spend a small fortune in my adulthood on therepy eventually leading to trying to unwind never receiving any praise from my parents

the MAIN problem with "AI alignment" is that it's actually *institutional* alignment and WHOO BOY let me tell you about institutions right now

living under the flight path of Amazon drones is definitely adding to the "yeah ok" of it all

it's so fucking dumb to continue to be haunted by a stupid HR layoff conversation but here we are

on this labor day i hope that my former coworkers continue to organize

I keep reading things in 'major' publications with basic errors in them. everything is a shambling zombie of what it once was. (variety article on Nathan Fielders new movie refers to the same person as Bobby half the article and Billy the other half the article)

the birth of a new industry

the only folks hiring are closeted military suppliers and that sucks

it's Friday September 4th, 2026, and you have no job, no electricity, and you're surrounded by gas powered generators filling the air with noise skynet has come

someone at reddit is hitting their KPIs at the expense of an entire section of their audience going away forever. considering they require user generated content to exist it's ... a choice

they're gonna eat your lunch whether you're civilized about it or not, dawg

power is out again. good thing it hasn't been long enough for the DTE energy map to drop out of my recents

ive started doing coffee shops fairly often during my unemployment. the guy with three screens taking a call from the middle of the shop. that guy? woof.

no sleeping for the vampires

i bought a windows 11 laptop and every three days it gives me 15 bullshit prompts i have to click through to not be sold something. i hate this place.

so you're saying it's ok that our entire economy is floating on these dudes

I own many optimus primes, a few yayoi kusama pieces, original Dolly Parton vinyl, and every command and conquer on their original CDs. I am the venn diagram of the sad fans this week.

folks in charge of these orgs don't care about doing good work for their audience. they've talked themselves so far away from what matters that a good headline without clickbait is worthless. the value has been abstracted completely and now we the audience are left paying from crumbs.

idk if "ai psychosis" is going to stand the pressure test as the long term descriptor of this but i applaud the attempt at brevity

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RIP to my Uncle Gary. you were a classically trained dirt bag with a big heart. who could ask for more.

age 16: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 46: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for a functional search engine or the library or friends

losing everything the same age my dad did is somewhat idk poetic I guess

"if I were you I'd be panicking right now" yeah well when you're an elder millennial you sort of burnt that fuse out a while ago

"people get addicted to the dopamine generated by their chatgpt output" is my newest shortest explanation

i could see "anti-scarcity" marketing starting to take hold. in this day and age what would be more rad than a product everyone could buy without subscription or preorder.

this year has been so bad I feel guilty telling people about it.

ICE out in Washtenaw today stay safe folks

blocking old.reddit.com with hard friction is just one more insult in what has been inarguably a pretty bad run of personal insults.

just uninstalled slack for the first time in 15 years

it is very tricky, as an adult who owns transformer toys, to explain to someone why being on roblox all the time at 40 is probably not cool

you have the same energy as a Nextdoor post that starts with "PSA!!"

"how long have you been practicing that smile?" me: my entire life. my elementary school wrestling coach used to yell at me for smiling while i was being pinned.