Thomas Fuchs

Bonus Macintosh Color Classic

Watson, a handsome black and white cat snugly draped over a pillow and looking at me demandingly

“Pet me, human”

A parody of a jeans ad showing the mutated guy from "The Fly" and the text: "American Eagle Seth Brundle has fly jeans"

Good morning this is all I have to contribute to the discourse

Digital Twins: Simulating Humans with Generative AI. Title of an article on Nielsen Norman Group's website by Raluca Budiu, posted on August 1, 2025. The article summary reads, "A digital twin is a genAI-based model of a particular individual that can be used to predict both individual and population-level preferences and behaviors." Cropped screenshot.

Nielsen Norman Group has completely lost the plot.

Fwiw nation states weren’t a thing until the mid-17th century (tho there’s considerable debate what exactly a nation state is).

I for one welcome our new bacterial overlords

In my opinion, a lot of religious beliefs deserve to be made fun of. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There’s some good ones though too.

And yeah makes sense that it can serve to unify.

A lot of it may be based on made-up bullshit, but general basic rules for life most religions proclaim (“don’t be a dick”) are mostly solid advice.

“What is the content that a curious 13-15 year old going to read? Just old books? There's a supply problem even if the demand is there.”

Normally attacks don’t cause casualties only on one side

Perhaps related: bsky.app/profile/mark...

There must be non-horrible people in this field, no?

I mean, yes, but we could collectively believe in not-bullshit too :)

Perhaps, but often the bullshit is actively very harmful to the people believing in it.

Maybe it is on average an advantage?

Like I could think of a few, such as preventing a species to be too dominant and thus helping life to be more diverse and resilient.

But I wonder if there's any actual research on this, because human behavior right now is completely unhinged; even more so than usual in history.

Is there an evolutionary advantage to mass-believing in complete bullshit?

Mostly yes

Both alternatives in a dichotomous choice can be bad at the same time

"analog" is not an antonym of "digital".

What Apple lets into the App Store these days as “productivity” app

A Hackers VHS tape case made into a RGB lamp and a Nixie tube clock showing “13:37”

Hackers turns 30 next month

Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

This should be fun

Same popup as in OP, but in the "Presidential Alert" meme as a modal dialog on an iPhone.

KARE 11 covering an article giving the public information about a local missing child with harassment about using an ad blocker, which they can fuck right off about, and I say that with my whole cybersecurity professional chest

Missing child? Oh, you know what’s REALLY important?

I call it "Vibe Interface Design"

macOS Tahoe dialog box with a checkbox that is practically invisible

Finally, whimsy and light-hearted designs from Apple’s Liquid Glass team! They have included delightful games like “find the checkbox”

I knew this in abstract but for real eugenics has gone very mainstream

👀

Iirc most cats have blue eyes when born and then it mostly changes later (often green for cats)

Morphine Potatoes is incidentally my stripper name