I recently enjoyed a several-months long personal passive-aggressive campaign of reporting-as-suspicious some internal weekly 'teams across the organization!' type newsletter because it couldn't have looked more like phishing if they'd tried. Fake urgency, hilariously mungled link shorteners, etc.
Which only gets more Waving Vaguely At All This(tm) while making pained weary sighs with each passing year.
I also love what's basically a companion essay piece to it, about how bad faith habits essentially strips the cognitive gears. "Constantly arguing in bad faith leads to thinking in bad faith and to living in bad faith, until bad faith is all you’ve got left"
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Screenshot of a tweet with a photo by Nathan Fielder. The photo shows him alone and laughing. The text of the tweet reads "Out on the town having the time of m y life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too."
Saying that at the time got me a lot of nerdhate on the nerd places I hung out on at the time. A preview of the devolution of further seasons was whatever episode was about Old West Brothel Planet.
can't even really blame the guy for landing on the big idea being strapping rocket engines to a city and then smashing the city back into the ground. Mind Stone aside, his model's training weights were all sorts of fucked up since Stark was in charge of them
Jarvis all NO WAIT WAIT REALLY CONSIDER THE VALUE PROP OF BEING AN OBSEQUIOUS BUTLER and getting murked
one of the moments I'll always like in Avengers Weekend at Ultron's was the big U waking up, inhaling the world, and immediately going What The Hell No No No Absolutely The Fuck Not.
The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor.
And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south.
They're slavers.
Yesterday, I gave colleagues from another university a brief tour of campus which included showing them the piece of chalkboard where Ernest O. Lawrence's Nobel Prize was announced to the group and confirmed. It just so happened that this was also in the 5min period before an undergrad lab started.
I don't know, squirrels have a lot of sense. You won't find a squirrel insisting that all squirrels who, like sadly reactive luddites, insist on obsolete modes of doing things like storing nuts to get through the winter will be left behind in the new nut paradigm.
tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.
child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.
Need someone to deploy a gif of that Breaking Bad moment where wossisname eats nuggets with a thousand yard stare.
"It's terrible what's happening to those girls. I hope they reach out to me after they're 18. Like, soon after." -- Bill Clinton probably.
One of my perennial favorites. Pullquotes from it keep being longer than bluesky allows, but "empathy...is epistemic...a way of knowing" is the core riff to the guitar solo.
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"Running government like a business," i.e., years of pointing out significant problems even in utterly amoral efficiency terms, to be ignored in favor of whoever was telling the bosses what they want to hear instead.
One of the biggest AI boosters at my paycheck giver saying how chatting with Grok was part of his morning commute because "it's having the world's smartest person in your pocket" will haunt me until my dying day.
I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
Conflicts over daylight budgets are sadly one of the greatest sources of relationship stress.
A formative moment for young me. Real dolly zoom in on dawning horrified babyface with building ominous music.
Very tangential, but learning the actual facts of the McDonalds coffee case versus the absolute mythological 'truth' it immediately took on in the minds of huge piles of people who I realized would rather die than let go of it...in retrospect it helped soften the blows of later current events.
often think about how the people who are least responsible for the current state of affairs seem to feel the most bad, to the point of complete paralysis. and the people who are the most responsible are seemingly not capable of feeling bad about anything they do, ever. an unfortunate problem.
I'm really pulling for this whole delightfully silly moment to keep building until the entire c-suites of every fast food joint are contractually required to put out mukbang videos.
CNN Under Fire For Failing To Disclose Pro-Iran War Panelist Actually Raytheon DeepStrike Missile
CNN Under Fire For Failing To Disclose Pro-Iran War Panelist Actually Raytheon DeepStrike Missile https://theonion.com/cnn-under-fire-for-failing-to-disclose-pro-iran-war-pan-1836887896/
Headline of a Q&A in New Yorker formatting Headline: A panicked middle-aged man refuses to tell me directions to the bathroom. Subhed: Please, I just have to pee. I'm in a hurry. By Isaac Chotiner March 4, 2026
Excuse me. Oh, God. Oh, no. Holy shit. Get away from me. I was wondering if you knew where the bathrooms are. Look, I'm ... it's not a crime to scroll through your high school girlfriend's Instagram account. We remained friends after high school! I was at her wedding! It's only natural to see how she's doing.
I'm in a bit of a hurry, and I'm afraid that if I choose the wrong corridor, I'll be late for my train. I think they're down that way, but I'm actually from out of town. Please stop talking to me.
Real quick, though. I agree that it's natural to be interested in an old friend, but aren't you afraid about the message you might be sending by liking a picture of her at the beach from 2015? If that did happen, and I'm only going off your word, it was probably an accident. They put the ... scroll bars or whatever ... close to the thumbs up button. People have been complaining about that for years. I've been complaining about that for years.
It does terrible fucking things to your mind if you stop getting feedback like "dude what the fuck are you talking about?"
Just look at how literally any billionaire speaks.
It really wasn't factored in what would happen to the straight of Hormuz, huh? I wonder what other variables were not considered. All of them?
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
"emeregency" is intentional as a portmanteau of "emetic regency"
