Jake

Terry A. Davis (TempleOS) had a break from reality and built an operating system to divine gods will through random number generators, and he still made more sense than the majority of tech CEOs huffing that LLM exhaust

They're designing these robots to be cute so that you don't want to kick them, which makes me want to kick it even harder

Computer memory is now 5x more expensive than it was just 1 year ago.

In fact, memory now accounts for more than 50% of the total cost of a new computer in many cases, even though it was a small faction of the total a year ago.

Thanks, Tech Bros! Hallucinating robots were totally worth it! 🫩

Colorblind caveman when the tribe tells him about nature:

Miraculously my wife and I both left work during the daylight today.

We spent a glorious hour in a double hammock reading and enjoying the breeze and it was the best day I have had in a long time.

They don't want you to own a computer. They want you to rent computing power from them, forever.

Average consumer can't buy RAM or SSD/HDD at reasonable rates because they're bought years in advance for data centers that aren't built yet.

GPUs went through this a few years ago because of the crypto gold rush.

I love personal computing. I love PC gaming. I love self-hosting applications and setting my family and friends up with tech that works.

It's too expensive now. There's no good prices for parts.

The right supports corporations that price lock the average consumer out of owning personal computers

'By using words well, writers strengthen their souls...

And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.’

— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Talk to anyone that actually works in technology and they'll tell you a dozen ways that AI companies are largely snake oil sellers overstating their ability of their wundertech

Manousos Oviedo, in the span of a single episode, has become one of my most favorite television characters of all time. #pluribus

Not full on spiraling, but like having A Moment over the idea of not being able to buy a computer again. The thing that has been somewhat commonplace to how we view work and entertainment with the house. Gone! Sorry, that consumer electronic is now a couple tax brackets above you. Tough break, kid

the impossible number of games that release on Steam every day has been discourse for years

why would anybody want to play a game nobody could be bothered to make

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

The professionalism is indisputable, no? An undisciplined and untrained policing agency steeped in this much contempt and disregard of the citizenry can't actually be reformed. Abolish -- before more of us are beaten, killed or detained indefinitely and without legal cause.

JAN:Clair Obscur E33
Finished in 19 days, with about 45 hours of playtime.
Beautiful game. Great story, memorable and outstanding characters.
The combat, which I was very bad at considering the QTEs and timing based dodge and parries, also bored me to tears. Will likely never replay.
Overall, B+

I'm doing 12 for 12 challenge in 2026. I'll try to follow up each month with a single skeets' worth for each game.

Too stupid to understand what classical liberalism is...

This was Alex Pretti at work at the VA honoring a veteran who had passed.

This is who they're trying to falsely smear as a terrorist and assassin.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.

Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction

It can be done.

What I saw was the American Century ending in a pathetic mix of babble and pout.

We are being led into a world of global contempt by morons, cranks and grifters.

This is it.

The reality of our mythologies for America is that we have several. It’s not one or the other.

We pick which one we want to honor and which becomes the warning.

In light of recent events I would not be surprised to learn about some secret internal memo that trains them that violating the 1st amendment is legal.

A screenshot of a tumblr post reading: Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

stuck in my head, for no reason

This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.

It doesn't matter if the intent to invade Greenland is real or not. Damage is already done. The cat is never back into the bag.
America only has former allies now. No reasonable nation will view us as an ally with a constant pendulum swing of left-right faux $$$ influenced democracy.

There are anti-ICE signs on every business, every streetlight, every blank wall, in half the windows. Everyone is wearing anti-ICE clothing. No one talks about anything else, at the bus stop, at work, at the bars and restaurants, at the store.

Total unity around one idea: ICE OUT NOW

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though