there's also something to be said for having "eh" raw technical ability and trying to make art 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺. like, a lot of great guitar riffs came from a player trying to be clever about what they're playing within their limitations rather than as demonstrations of pure skill
a lot of great art was created during its creator's personal progression from okay to good to great, and every time you cheat and try to reach some arbitrary end state prematurely, you rob yourself of that fundamental moment where you learned how to work around your own limits
I never felt bad being the weird kid with an old Sega Saturn because despite being a doomed console, the Saturn had Panzer Dragoon and NiGHTS, two of the greatest video games ever made. Even Mario couldn't compare to Moebius-inspired sci-fi and a genderfluid dream jester.
A tech company that wants to put giant mirrors on satellites to beam down “sunlight on demand” just simulated the concept with spotlights near Mt. Whitney.
being a technical woman in a patriarchal society poisoned by sycophant machines owns
guys will just call you to defer the task of reading their emails, but also expect your explanation to align with their asinine gut assumption as to what the email meant, and get hostile if it doesn't. very cool.
LLM dudes whining about prompt injection is so funny.
"Yeah, I've got a coworker so compliant he heard 'go pound sand' and dropped everything to go find the nearest beach to punch. Dave found him 12 hours later bloody and dehydrated. Anyway we told him to search online for weight loss tips..."
I know that the reason we don't use "babe" the way we use dude is because it feels sexist, but the solution isn't to not use babe, but to instead sexualize dude.
somebody hurry up and invent a small narrow-body lock that can't be casually defeated without tools so we can get our first Lockpicking Lawyer video about a flat cage
I was initially going to say "can't be casually defeated by improvised jigglers", but that feels like a setup for a joke about how most cage wearers can also be casually defeated with a little improvised jiggling
all I need to escape samsara is a low-to-medium gain distortion pedal with high headroom that can comfortably slot between a clean overdrive and a rockerverb, but unfortunately nobody knows what that pedal is so I'll be here for A While
getting cancelled for my sustainable ethically-sourced carbon-neutral data center after sources reveal our power comes from a series of unsuspecting joggers getting trapped on a road-sized treadmill
more than the election itself, I am desperately waiting for the 2026 midterm retrospectives. no matter the outcome, CNN is gonna interview a guy named some shit like Ginch Hoobler who thinks the Strait of Hormuz is in South America and asks why we don't have "Flock cameras but for AI"
we spoke with Brythan Gruttz of Florentine, Indiana, who said his primary issues this election cycle were the alleged presence of illegal immigrants in the WNBA, and gas prices. Brythan's recommendation to congress? "hire Waymo to build an aircraft carrier! then it won't need sailors"