hey man, this sucks

"time to drink exactly one (1) beer and Fix our nation's Divides with one perfect joke" -- how motherfuckers used to be tweeting in 2014 (it's me, im motherfuckers)

the world is too much with us, my good binch

The logistics of human dignity is how to win.

YouTube video by Wheel of Jeopardy Who is ALAN PYKE from Jeopardy? CONTESTANT PROFILE & LIFE, AGE, JOB & FAMILY EXPLAINED!

I thought I couldn't possibly hate ai more than i already did, but I was wrong (also somebody is buying resumes and coverletters from careers sites): youtu.be/4LfuTI96FqU?...

the band Geese are called that because the guy who sings their songs believes that rock music vocals should sound like a large number of geese honking

she was a genuinely brilliant leader, who in some vital moments failed to adapt to shifting reality (but was still way better at that across her career than most/any of her peers in the party leadership tier).

an absolutely incredible career, the downs within which were so noisy that they threaten to crowd out of memory the far more frequent -- and some might argue more important -- highs.

remember: when they pelosi, we pehighsi

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

you simply must visit the monster. i always just ask the monster.

chick deney, imo

I love baseball so much you guys

Vista Theater marquee -- VistaVision screening of One Battle After Another

a few small rewatches

what if other people are real and not, like, 'nodes' or whatever the textbook nobody hit you over the head with said? you fucking antisocial dweebs.

my kingdom for anyone ever thinking about the end-user experience. fucking tech dweebs, man. "but look what I can REACH!!!" yeah dog what if all those people want to stuff your voicebox up your cloaca tho?

anyway. only put money you can spare into shit you believe in. otherwise, put that aside as a down payment on whatever combo of "I should probably own a shotgun"//"I should probably know how to subsistence farm"//"I should probably help my neighbors who are afraid of ICE" speaks to you loudest.

two or three generations of people under 50 who you've taught to think "politics is when some asshole ive never met has my phone number somehow, but Being Cool is when some edgy shit I shared on the Internet gets heart reactions" and you wonder why shit's so broken at macro level.

I got one actual friend of mine reaching out directly on behalf of someone they are in on today (which I super respect and appreciate), and two dozen "please [my dad's name somehow] if you don't send me money you might as well stuff me into an urn with your bare hands" flopsweat garbage automators

happy quarterly block-and-report-spam fundraising deadline text day to all who celebrate

STOP: being assholes to anyone who doesn't volunteer your magic words
KEEP: being rough as hell on your class enemies
START: learning the fucking difference between your class enemies and normal people who just don't agree with you yet

"here's a thought" is a rhetorical mechanism for stoned 26 year old TAs and annoying guys at the bar. I'd rather we had some third category of person in the job held by the guy who pays somebody to write these bad posts. smug money don't make money.

YouTube video by TNT Sports Football Eric Cantona gives a bizarre yet brilliant speech after picking up UEFA President's Award!

I don't expect to ever receive an award where they make you give a speech, but if that ever happens and I *don't* recite Eric Cantona's acceptance speech for the 2019 UEFA President's Award, know that I've been replaced with a lookalike youtu.be/INiT1cA_Eqk?...

China Road Trip Exposes List of Uninvestable Assets in the West Venture capitalists in clean tech are starting to say out loud what they’ve suspected for a while: China’s dominance has left key sectors in the West uninvestable.

to the extent this planet has a (human-habitable) future, Republican Party politicians have guaranteed it will be led by China. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

hmmm maybe the random fire that destroyed all my possessions is evidence in favor of Roko's Basilisk because AI knows I'm America's special smart boy and if my bad luck ended I'd stop the robocucks in their sweaty lil tracks

if I didn't have to spend all free time filing insurance claim stuff through asinine user-hostile web interfaces, I'd spend hours trolling the Roko's Basilisk morons by asking how much human hunger could be reduced if 10, 25, 50 or 75 percent of the capital tied up in AI went to direct aid instead.

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

trillions poured into so-called AI revolution but no smart phone keyboard can recognize that it's and its are different words, the simplest imaginable task for a computerized needs-anticipation system. tech dweebs are so far up their own lonely undatable asses I swear to god.

my next novel, which wryly excoriates the pathetic narcissism and hypocrisy of crusty gen-X european reactionaries, centers of a fallen-star Dutch comedian named Wimmin B. Chopin.

who up waltzing they matilda

Way too many folks talkin' about a Taylor when they should be talkin' about a Carpenter