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yeah i came here to say this one

Please visit Portland airport we have real trees in the airport

i do actual Computing on my computers that require beefed up devices, so any time i have to use the kind of entry level dell laptop that make up the bulk of enterprise computers in this country i am left amazed that anyone gets anything done at all

internet voice: you're wrong and stupid

email voice: sorry to flag, please let me know if i've overlooked something, but per the attached 3 primary sources and 2 previous communication chains,

coworkers hit different if they laugh at whatever you put in the part of a sentence where a joke would go

these are truly the days of hydroxyzine

my life would radically improve if i weren’t subjected to microsoft products..,. like my days would feel a 1000 x better

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

The Future Is Too Easy | Defector LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously too much in it and not enough of ...

Earlier this month I went to Las Vegas and saw the bleak and lonely AI-managed world of the future at the Consumer Electronics Show. I wrote about that, and other possible futures, and a neat soft-serve machine I'd love to have in my home. defector.com/the-future-i...

This is the first legitimate good use case for generative AI: hurting other generative AI companies

"Deepseek will scare the American government into investing more in AI" invest in what? To what end? Deepseek is open source, and I guarantee you there are already American and European companies planning their own version as Deepseek explained their entire process. This is the race to the bottom!

Trapped in the Maw of a Stillborn God (Pt. 1) Vegas as a laboratory for surveillance and social control, the explosion of gambling as a sign of a degenerate culture seized by despair, AI delusions at CES, and the future.

Wrote about Las Vegas, the rise of gambling, CES, AI propaganda, and the exterminist future we are racing towards thetechbubble.substack.com/p/trapped-in...

well, there isn't and you can't, especially when people who are struggling in spite of the supposedly great economy can connect with each other on the computer. is everyone just gonna keep bashing their head on the same brick wall forever or what

Man goes to doctor. Says his ass hurts. Says it's from sitting at computer all day. Says he sits until his ass hurts. Says he sits at computer during work and after work. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Sit at computer less. Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I love sitting at computer'

oh also the kirkland coastal cheddar. not the sharpest but the texture is so good.

definitely. love a cheese treat

have you had the tillamook aged white cheddars with the specific years on the package? i'm always after the sharpest possible cheddar and those are good for that. i've got some nice 2014 in the fridge rn

The phony comforts of useful idiots On Casey Newton and the shallowness of anti-skepticism.

I wrote about Casey Newton's essay on AI skepticism, the uselessness of a "AI is real and dangerous" v. "AI is fake and sucks" dichotomy, and the limits of AI boosterism. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-...

astrology has got nothing on the space for interpreted meaning created when outlook crashes and your work laptop fans immediately cycle up to 100%

the two-hour YouTube video about all this that I’m going to watch while eating dinner one day is going to go dummy