Micah

seriously, every time you read a “nobody will have a job in ten years, it’ll all be AI” prediction it’s coming from Sam Altman or some AI agent startup exec trying to sell you on the damn things

AI is absolutely damaging the job market, largely because executives are desperate to pretend it can do things it can’t, but I would feel more apprehensive about apocalyptic predictions of the end of all white collar work if they weren’t all coming from people trying to sell chatbots

Kids used to have to change entire school districts to escape rumors about them that were vastly less embarrassing than the shit these dweebs freely admit to all the time

there are exceptions to “let people enjoy things”

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

we have had to drag them kicking and screaming to this point but they are, at long last, starting to Get It

keep yelling, and don’t forget to call and tell them they’re doing a good job when they actually do something good

oh god I’m so glad I’m not dating in this day and age

“the pretty blonde one is harmless”: not a safe assumption on the Discworld

(or in real life, speaking as someone who married one)

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

"I cannot afford to live in NYC, so I am forced to leave" - a thing that happens to people

"I can afford to live in NYC, but they slightly raised my taxes so I no longer want to live there" - not a thing that happens to people

the point gets made over and over, but there's an extremely obvious reason the rich complain but don't leave: it doesn't matter how much money you have, you cannot buy Living In New York City in Florida or Texas

you can stack a mansion on top of another mansion, but it'll never be the same

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

I never remember what Conor Sen actually does, I just see screenshots of him show up periodically with absolutely dogshit takes

Liz Warren to her absolute credit shows up on CNBC and is willing to call everyone a stupid piece of shit in a way that even Bernie would refrain from

she's got that disappointed teacher vibe and it's extremely funny to watch her apply it to Business Dipshits

kathy hochul correctly reading the political moment and going hard on Fuck Republicans was not on my political bingo card but I'm not mad about it

this is literally the single best thing about reading as a hobby

no matter how much you love books, no matter how fast you read, there are always - always! - more books

you'll never be able to read them all and that's a sad and wonderful thing

god I can’t believe that’s true

I remember learning it and my brain has continually rejected that fact to this day

no wonder he got into podcasting

the human brain is absolutely incredible at adapting

it deals with the abnormal by rapidly making it normal

no matter how much you tell yourself the Nazi soup isn’t changing you, your brain is churning away in the background normalizing it until it doesn’t bother you as much as it should

happy birthday trash

yes! literally one of the first things that attracted me to my wife is that she’s very driven and we could spend hours talking to each other!

“but he was legitimately elected”

yes he was, and he immediately followed it up by committing a lot of crimes and otherwise attempting to destroy our entire system of government and replace it with autocracy

just because people made a mistake doesn’t mean we can’t fix it

definitive proof that all those miserable spam texts you hate and can’t get rid of aren’t even raising money for the candidates they say they are

shut the entire machine down immediately

Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery

“The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.”

but the meme stock, nick

sharon I don’t know that the world needs woobified SBF, that’s a dangerous thing to bring into existence

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win

I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

I mean this is pathetic, even conservative finance bros who otherwise hate the guy are probably reading this and going “haha, rock on man”

“don’t vote for this guy, he was really cool in college”

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that