Aaron

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

It also helps that you write engagingly and structure your arguments well. And I like the swears.

As they say, you have been Warned. Enjoy the rabbit hole!

We should reckon with the idea that Americans are so fucking dumb that we booted out the party that saved the country after Covid and created the best economic recovery in the world in favor of a con man who said he would use racism and magic to make everything cheaper and jobs plentiful.

My school district is being forced to lay off several educators and a librarian because of a $500,000 budget gap, or roughly the amount spent on the war while I was typing this post.

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

YES @emilytesh.net is amazing

For sure @tkingfisher.com

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

Two weeks until Trump claims the Iran war would never have happened if he’d been president.

The papal interdiction button is right there, and boy would it be funny

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Unless it’s cloudy (glares angrily at the weather report)

I wonder when Bernie and the remaining Bluesky diehards will finally recognize the situation here.

Remember the announcement a few years back that @stephenking was going to have writing residencies at his former home in Maine? They're now open for applications stkfoundation.org/writers-resi...

There is a trope in VC fueled startup companies that are "wildly successful decacorns" or whatever that basically just reduce to "what if federal crime, but with a computer 🤔"

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

I know it’s the pettiest and least important part of all of this but every time I have to read one of those posts from that madman to see what fresh hell we’re in today, the random-ass capitalization is like teeth on a chalkboard.

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

> @covie93.bsky.social

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

For more eloquent quick reactions see also @professormusgrave.bsky.social who is the speed-writing champ: musgrave.substack.com/p/an-unpopul...

A screenshot of an email from an ad agency to Evil Hat Marketing: Hey Evil Hat team, Promised this is the last time you’ll hear from me. We are wrapping up generating content on the house. The AI studio is starting to get fully booked with our paying clients, and I have strict orders to stop promoting this come the weekend. I figured Evil Hat might as well get some work out of us at no cost while you can. Want in before we close it up? Best, [redacted] And then our reply: Hi [redacted], We will never use AI for our games or for our marketing. It's toxic to our customer audience and it's an ethical violation of the hard work put in by the human artists we hire to illustrate our books and the human writers who design our games. In short, it's not "free work" it's theft. Feel free to take me off your mailing list. Hope you turn around your business model because frankly, your current approach sucks shit. -Tom

sometimes you have to be clear about your values

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

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