Shawn Adamsson

Give it a minute, Musk will unfix it.

I should have waited until you died?

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.

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A cute baby elephant

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Exactly that. Just like the internet remained, some useful parts of AI will remain. But most of what you’re hearing, and almost all of the investment, is clearly just being propped up by false hope and bullshit promises

1969

Another point that has become abundantly clear since 2016 is that many drivers think this difference in how people move about is okay. They have “achieved” the right to take up this space, while the people who don’t/can’t drive a car get the poor infrastructure they deserve. #ClassMatters

Triangle is such a fun flick.

Parents: Kids are more depressed these days, I wonder why? Kids: You destroyed the economy for us, the earth is literally dying, we are going to work until we die, and on top of that Nazis are back. Parents: It's those pesky iPhones.

Good morning

Drunk girl yelling at nonplussed guy meme

the reason we don’t have discourse about a crisis of femininity is that any attempt to construct one would collapse under the absurdity of its outmoded gender essentialism, suggesting that masculinity is not so much in crisis as the uncritical belief that masculinity even exists is itself the crisis

Life is luck, all the way down.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Couch buddy.

Cover image of Drew Magary’s novel, The Postmortal.

Reading @drewmagary.bsky.social’s The Postmortal and loving it so far. I would never take a cure for aging. I wonder how many people would?

Does Soda Made Without High-Fructose Corn Syrup Actually Taste Better? We Did a Taste Test.

The Pepsi Paradox. “When the participants knew which soda they were drinking, brain scans showed that they liked Coke better. But when they didn't know, they consistently preferred Pepsi.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/d...

And now I do too! 😍

YouTube video by Strong Towns Conversation with an Engineer

All time classic. Worth a rewatch if you haven’t seen it in a while.
youtu.be/P9BUyWVg1xI

Black and white filmstill of Jeanne Moreau in the rain, from L'Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Louis Malle, 1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJw9HXXoXA

When asked if she felt nostalgic for the French New Wave, Jeanne Moreau responded:

“Nostalgia for what? Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place. And I think: they’re dead before they die. That’s a terrible risk. Living is risking.”

YouTube video by Voces8 - Topic Elgar: Nimrod (Lux Aeterna)

I love Elgar’s Nimrod, so it was a pleasant surprise to find a vocal version of it. youtu.be/dJkGsoOPF34?...

YouTube video by Deutsche Grammophon - DG John Williams & Saito Kinen Orchestra - Superman March (Live at Suntory Hall, 2023)

I fell in love with orchestral music when I heard this march at the theatre in 1978. I’ll never not love it. youtu.be/utik6dYSf3Y?...

Hey #BookSky! Quote this with the last book you picked up because someone here recommended it.

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s Annihilation.

Freedom!!!*

I need more of these.

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all