Ian M Rountree

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Real Genius had it right in 1985: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X...

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this is one of the sweatiest and most desperate documents the the united states government has ever produced

I get why TechCrunch would write it this way, but I largely disagree with this framing. The broad conversation here is about power, respect, control and whether the voices of the vulnerable are taken seriously. This is the story of a leader and a team showing that they don’t get that.

Happy 30th anniversary to treatment resistant depression

Worship changes over time. Before (the event), there was a pantheistic approach, with a panoply of cults and churches and household gods systems.

After, -only- the creator, or its first child the god of order, are worshipped in a more "usual" congregational style.

The creator is a visible, tangible *thing* - a gas giant planet the world co-orbits with. It's easily visible.

The pantheon, before (an event) was embodied as the gas giant's moons. One, the goddess of magic, was slain and became rings around the creator, hiding the other gods within her remains.

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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ITT: This site's CEO explains why they won't ban someone whose sole use for this site is building a system of harassment.

Imagine being the CEO of a company that solely exists, & attracts investment, because a critical mass of people abandoned your competitor over bigotry. Now imagine crashing out publicly & asserting your userbase has no value to you because you don't want to eject a specific & named bigot.

This made me go and reread my (glowing and, sadly, pretentious as hell) review of Average is Over from *ten years ago* and remove it from my website.

AI as wage depression tool is a very useful and compelling framing

Let me try one of these

This is an advertisement. They are so out of money lol.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

I got excited about that (robotics pivot) for like 0.85 seconds before realizing it would inevitably end with Google/Meta trying to serve ads on smart-prosthetic or something awful like that.

I know I'm a broken record about this, but they answer to loneliness is to join a subculture. It's an instant set of potential friends, they have meatspace social events, there's always something to talk about, it's just all upsides

There is no mixed armor allowed in the rapture. Full sets only.

Mimaxing he damned, it's how you get the right set bonus.

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

Are the jobs in the room with us?

Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC local news stations all owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group reading off of the same script

I feel compelled to say if ANYONE brings "AI glasses" anywhere near me, I'm going to be as rude as necessary to get them removed and/or turned off, whichever comes first.

Not to say I won't do subterfuge, that's necessary and important.

I just find the sort of, spineless appeasement approach of a certain kind of bad actor unappealing narratively. It smacks of weak writing or appeals to "reality as grimdark".

Specific flavours of bad faith politics. I'm capable of writing it, but I don't want my books to be 'that way' for lack of a better term.

Honest villainy is as underrated as well-meaning but misguided antagonism.

Smirking, two-faced politicians just don't fit my vibe.

I've only gotten into audiobooks this year, and the performances from those narrators are already some of the most expressive, impressive things I've heard.

A short poem, titled "We Had No Glory Days" It reads: Those of us who came first Conquered no old nations We had no bad habits Left by our forebears Instead we meandered From rich island to rich island Across an archipelago of opportunity Building no bridges We founded the lands you know By accident And forgot to teach you About the dark forest we left behind Now we are the shoulders you stand on But you'll never know it We bowed our heads to hide ourselves From your dancing feet

Thinking about this whole 'computer madness' thing again.

A whole page of it, why not