me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers
(if you think this is a right answer no it's not)
A fun thing happens when you kill home equity: it changes how you approach renovations. By factoring out resale value, it makes you want to do renovations that improve your quality of life, that feel yours, instead of trying to imagine what will be attractive to a theoretical buyer with no taste.
A friend of mine has a Limited Equity Coop, the kind where they take a huge cut on sale value to reduce speculation. He loves it. By poisoning the resale value it naturally reduces market interest and makes it so it’s only a good investment for real people that want to actually live there.
Oh I used that on an old OnePlus 6 I have lying around last year
Super buggy but really cool, might check it out again
tbh a huge amount of the decisions of atproto seem to be "because it isn't like Mastodon"
It's good to evaluate the things Masto does poorly, but, like
Sacrificing true censorship-resistance so that you get correct like-counts on posts seems, uh. Fucking dumb.
Like, imo, the ONLY way to do atproto properly, to meet the ideals of the system, is the Red Dwarf approach. Direct PDS-to-PDS comms.
At least as a fallback. I should be able to go on bsky.app and see Link's post because my PDS will query his PDS directly if the heavy metal fails
Actually, a world in which there are 5 full-stack Atproto providers with even usage still doesn't have proper credible exit, since you can still get banned and 20% of atproto can't see you anymore.
It gets better as the number of full-stack providers goes up, but then you're just Mastodon
Imo once Link got straight up nuked, despite being on an indie PDS, the illusion broke for me, and I was already a skeptic
A world in which 99% of the network uses one service defeats the whole point of credible exit imo. May as well just use Mastodon.
Yeah man idk, I run my own PDS on hardware I own and feel zero percent less dependent on Bluesky PBC
I've used all the alternate frontends, appviews, relays, etc. Blacksky is by far the best, but only because they have enough money and talent to run the heavy metal, which is great
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
This has the same problem as "I'm just acting like a fascist ironically", imo
You know that, and parts of your audience knows that, but you're also going to attract an audience that isn't in on the joke, and adopts the behavior unironically
This is what you are doing. By pretending anything else you legitimize marketing bullshit that Claude is conscious or should be used to legitimately answer important questions or be considered a source. It also delegitimizes what you have to say to people who understand.
bsky.app/profile/self...
The way the autocomplete machine structures its response is gross. The way it flatters you is dysfunctional and is a warning sign that it should not be trusted. It cannot confirm facts. It repeatedly cites the website of a lobbying group. It cannot even *pick* reliable sources.
Stop doing this. Stop asking Generative AI for its opinion on current events. It cannot have opinions on anything. bsky.app/profile/chro...
Claude cannot actually feel, it can't think, it doesn't have opinions, it isn't self aware, it doesn't have context outside the immediate window you are using it with. By asking for its comment on war crimes you are legitimizing the idea that it can be used autonomously or for war at all. Stop it.
Soldier low key the weirdest job because in most respects its no different than being any other kind of flunky for a large organization except occasionally you have to kill people because the host of Celebrity Apprentice got bored.
Ugh fuck that guy is so weird
It has never been more obvious that this country is going through death spasms because half of the white supremacist vanguard are dying pensioners who never forgave desegregation.
A Shadow The Hedgehog promotional image with the caption 'SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. I SIMPLY DIDN'T REALISE THAT IT WASN'T ALL YEAR.'
— Babe? You're flashing green, the universal color of poison damage. What's wrong??
— Y-you fool . . . Poison is . . . (cough) . . . purple . . . I'm dying of . . . an acid elemental status condition . . *
Like, to me, making something with Claude isn't making something, insofar as it skips all the parts of making something that I'm interested in.
The better the tool gets, the less interested in it I am, really. Eventually it's just asking somebody else to make something for you
I know it may sound like I'm making value judgements, but I'm really not; I just fundamentally don't understand the latter type, so I have to talk about it as other.
I would personally never copy code from Stack Overflow, because, like, why would I? That misses the entire point of making to me.
On the other hand, there are people who primarily want to make things; understanding is secondary, and in service of things getting made.
Claude seems really great for this second type of person.
These aren't mutually exclusive, but I'd call them the "make thing" and "understand thing" motives.
I personally don't really care if I make things, intrinsically. I make things in order to understand new things, or understand things better.
Like making things is fun, but it's not why I'm here
I don't actually care if people use Claude tbh
I think it just emphasizes a pre-existing distinction that's always existed between different types of people, and that distinction is probably going to have to be codified in rolls more explicitly than it is now
we bag on the boomers a lot, but they dealt with their mid-life crisis in a good and normal way (buying a red sports car and having an affair with their secretary) whereas Gen X is all "maybe this next genocide will finally make them bring back the square spongebread cafeteria pizza"
Mankind has not invented a locker large enough to fit all the nerds on this site talking about whether the spreadsheet is conscious
think about, its kinda gay Not to kiss the homies what? You Got Some Urges You Fighting In There , King ?
