William B. Fuckley

She’s a hobbyist lol. Fine as a hobby to have. She’s owed no special deference for it though.

Now with AI, we can quirk up white boys dynamically, to scale and on demand.

Technically higher education causes fertility to drop more among women so this is really her fault (babe I know you read these sometimes, this is a joke)

-said the high educational achievement millennial in prime parenting age in a stable long term relationship with a similarly credential partner and no plans for children anytime soon, I’m aware I’m part of the problem here, ok

The thing that makes me most pro-natalist is how bitter and backward looking the politics of the developed world are getting as the population ages. We haven’t gotten stability with a greying electorate, we’ve gotten more volatility as there’s increasing hay to be made of grievance-mongering.

IMO if I’m ever in this position (inshallah, lol) I would probably have a ‘never send me results where you can’t explain exactly how every variable was created and exactly what the model is showing, never send me English prose you didn’t write (proofreading is fine). Otherwise whatever works’ policy

There are things it is 100% legitimate to have a scorched earth no-LLMs ever policy on, but unless you acknowledge reality here you will not be able to have a transparent conversation here and the determinant will likely end up being what they can slip past you.

Obviously contingent on it being a field where some kind of code touching happens, etc. But this is happening, they are using the tools, and you are not effective as a mentor if you force your students to go through a kabuki dance to pretend they aren’t using these tools.

One of the reasons I think this is something it’s bad to dogmatic about as a faculty: If you got your doctorate prior to like ~2020 and you tell me you’re certain your graduate students aren’t using LLMs, lmao no. They are. They just aren’t telling you about it.

This in response to the hundreds of thousands of people who have died as a result of Trump and Musk’s attack on USAID is clear evidence of the exact same kind of brain poisoning that produces, eg, JK Rowling. Winning an argument with the strangers in your phone becomes more important than human life

Every segment I create he without fail fucking smokes me like a week later. Except hills, I’m usually faster than him at those. I seriously looked up the steepest longest hill in town because I was thinking about creating a segment there to spite him.

By far my most fervent parasocial enemy is the other guy in my area who also publicly posts his runs on Strava. He gave me kudos on a really slow run once (it was fucking SNOWING), i know he did that on purpose passive agressive, I swear to god I’m gonna murder this asshole one day.

A fun fact that a historian once told me is that it’s common for the origin story of regional stereotypes to be that people in one area to only have one or two reliable crops to eat, leaving them with common specific deformities brought on by shared nutritional deficiencies.

The accurate frame of reference for modern agriculture is the oil industry. It is a necessity for the survival of human civilization. It has brought untold flourishing and unlocked massive prosperity. It is also one of the most destructive extractive industries on the planet.

There is a reason that work is done by some of the most desperate and marginal people in society. There’s a reason that the story of much of human history “oh my god I need to stop farming this sucks so much”.

Everyone who rhapsodizes about agricultural labor should be forced to spend a year as the lowest tier of farm worker. And not on a ‘organic’ , ‘sustainable’, ‘regenerative’ etc farm. One of the big commercial, mass-market operations that actually supply most of the world’s food.

The ‘interceptors are more expensive than the thing they’re intercepting’ stuff is true but sometimes gets a little too clever by half. The shit that the munition would be destroying is probably even more expensive. Also assumes protracted war of attrition that launcher can sustain forever.

I like the implication that Bluesky is actively hostile towards exactly 3,200 users. The thirty two hundred are homo sacer.

We’re a firm with two core competencies: the most prestigious fine dining guide in the world, and tires.

Obviously possible to over do it, but a little guilt is healthy. It’s the lubricant that lets you have an honest assessment of yourself and your actions while still believing in some kind of greater morality. Jews and Catholics got this right.

Really need to bring back doing a very mildly bad thing and feeling an appropriate small guilt about it. Not everything is Actually Very Brave. Sometimes you just do a small bad thing.

Yeah exactly, the act is far less offensive than the bragging about it.

The “oh sorry do you have a problem stealing from Jeff Bezos?!” people are so funny. As though it personally deducts a little from his personal bank account every time and he fumes about it and then goes “rats, well no choice but to totally absorb this loss”

Your guy runs US foreign policy at the behest of whatever foreign autocrat last flattered him. Shut the fuck up.

I do think that what Eileen Gu did was sort of moderately shitty tbh. But there’s literally no one less deserving of casting that stone than the modern right.

2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war - Wikipedia

Yep, since late last month. ~100 people killed, airstrikes and bombings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Af...

But yeah one of the worst aspects of Woke 1.0 was “this minor/moderately anti-social thing that I do is Actually Very Brave/Cool/Bohemian/Not my fault/Praxis” etc etc

one of those things that sort of makes you understand how society is a communal effort that you have to opt into is realizing that if you don’t look obviously poor and don’t ever steal anything you can’t pay for, shoplifting is a risk free crime.

It’s cool how everything is so on fire that Pakistan and Afghanistan being at war with each other has slipped under even very plugged in people’s radar.

I am a specific kind of white person whose natural habitat ranges from Santa Cruz to Vancouver. Vibram five fingers. IPAs. Flannel. Annie’s white cheddar Mac and cheese. Things of that nature.