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writing, editing, existential dread

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RFK, Jr. is basically a medieval peasant burning a time traveler as a witch

06.08.2025 12:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œThe deaths of the tourists in the millionaireโ€™s shoddily built hubris sub were totally preventableโ€ you donโ€™t say

06.08.2025 11:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

06.08.2025 01:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7458    ๐Ÿ” 2637    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 76    ๐Ÿ“Œ 67

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

06.08.2025 02:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3267    ๐Ÿ” 882    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 88    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30

mRNA vaccines are so close to magic as to be basically indistinguishable, and the administration is stopping them because they worship death.

05.08.2025 22:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1131    ๐Ÿ” 318    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

Curing cancer is woke

05.08.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump still chasing the โ€˜80s like a jock who peaked in high school

05.08.2025 21:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you have a newer Apple Watch don't worry, they're slowly rolling it out to all devices

05.08.2025 01:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This sucks but then again, autumn

05.08.2025 01:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My favorite older Apple Watch feature is "screen is always off." It's not a setting; the screen is off because you've been wearing it for 4 hours so the battery is dead

05.08.2025 01:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I hear the AV Club is a good place to work these days.

04.08.2025 22:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Shit, I'm so sorry to hear this Erik.

04.08.2025 22:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is what we are doing instead of a social safety net? Moon nuclear reactors?

04.08.2025 21:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

His jeans are stupid looking

04.08.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

After 15 years or whatever, I'm shocked that OMWF wasn't already in the canon! I could've sworn, but I was thinking of The Body

04.08.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No one prepared me for how much of my 40s would be spent fielding calls from my dementia-addled parents complaining about how their phones don't work

04.08.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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04.08.2025 14:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The DOJ says it will investigate a US citizen for saying โ€œfuck Isr**lโ€ to a guy in an IDF shirt.

Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.

01.08.2025 21:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3560    ๐Ÿ” 928    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 119    ๐Ÿ“Œ 132
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a man in a military uniform has a badge that says ' u.s. army ' on it Alt: Admiral Piett being afraid Darth Vader will force choke him like all the ones before

New director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics

01.08.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you miss the disgustingly hot, humid weather NYC experienced last week you can just go stand on the Union Square Q platform

01.08.2025 19:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Best Digital Notebooks You Can Buy in 2025 Digital notebooks are the perfect marriage of low-tech (writing by hard) and high tech (everything a tablet computer can do)โ€”but there are a lot of different options to choose from. From Boox to Super...

The way my wife rolls her eyes when another e-ink device shows up in the mail

01.08.2025 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Shutting Down After Federal Funding Rescission The recently signed tax cut and budget bill took back $1.1 billion in previously approved funds.

Fuck every last ghoul in Washington who voted for this action, and every last one of you who thinks that the undeniable public good of public media shouldnโ€™t exist.

01.08.2025 17:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 169    ๐Ÿ” 62    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

I think this show has been largely boring and terribly plotted this season but I'm still sad I won't have Carrie Bradshaw to kick around anymore

01.08.2025 17:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They are going to get in trouble if they donโ€™t unnecessarily attempt to grow unrealistically despite the inherent risks!

I assume. Since every other company does that

01.08.2025 11:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am old enough to remember when a movie character said "PAPERS PLEASE" it was a universally understood signifier of an evil regime

19.04.2025 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6505    ๐Ÿ” 1728    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thereโ€™s little as satisfying as a heat wave finally breaking. Went outside and the air wasnโ€™t soup

01.08.2025 00:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s become one of those regimes

31.07.2025 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 717    ๐Ÿ” 269    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

if your not using ai youre going to get left behind. you gotta use it. guys please use it. we're going to make you use it. your fridge is ai now. fuck you

31.07.2025 21:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1326    ๐Ÿ” 188    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

"Data is their food"

ok now they are just making entire movies in the hopes of creating a meme

31.07.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong".

Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

30.07.2025 06:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5750    ๐Ÿ” 2085    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 61    ๐Ÿ“Œ 140

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