Richard Gaywood
@penllawen.favrd.social
Just some guy, I think.
Snark, tech, cooking, greyhounds, TTRPGs. Usually some politics too. I’m a privacy engineer at a big tech firm but I’m not here for work so these hot takes are nothing to do with my employer and are all my own. He/him.
Snark, tech, cooking, greyhounds, TTRPGs. Usually some politics too. I’m a privacy engineer at a big tech firm but I’m not here for work so these hot takes are nothing to do with my employer and are all my own. He/him.
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They are "accused of coercing women into pornography. Andrew was also accused of rape and of having sex with and beating a 15-year-old."
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
They are "accused of coercing women into pornography. Andrew was also accused of rape and of having sex with and beating a 15-year-old."
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
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PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.
The way Trump talks about the problems he caused by unilaterally imposing tariffs is fairly insane, even by his standards.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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I love these snapshots of old training dates, it's about as close as you can get to proving objectively that something is very very wrong with the country.
The machine built by feeding it decades of data and news stories is like "shut the fuck up, that shit can't be true."
Immune to frog boiling.
The machine built by feeding it decades of data and news stories is like "shut the fuck up, that shit can't be true."
Immune to frog boiling.
December 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I love these snapshots of old training dates, it's about as close as you can get to proving objectively that something is very very wrong with the country.
The machine built by feeding it decades of data and news stories is like "shut the fuck up, that shit can't be true."
Immune to frog boiling.
The machine built by feeding it decades of data and news stories is like "shut the fuck up, that shit can't be true."
Immune to frog boiling.
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Also worth noting here are the replies to this of people who've had a similar belief trajectory, I find them quite heartening
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Also worth noting here are the replies to this of people who've had a similar belief trajectory, I find them quite heartening
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ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
the ideology was also laced through with a thick layer of "self reliance" and sneering disdain for the humanities. as a result, software engineers - particularly valley ones - have no concept of class consciousness, are allergic to labour organisation, and completely blind to the power dynamics.
The ideology that was sold to tech workers by tech owners was that the workers were not like other workers, that they were very special boys who were entitled to high salaries and cushy perks due to the STEMy brilliance required to do their job. Easy to see the lie now that it's falling apart.
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
the ideology was also laced through with a thick layer of "self reliance" and sneering disdain for the humanities. as a result, software engineers - particularly valley ones - have no concept of class consciousness, are allergic to labour organisation, and completely blind to the power dynamics.
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This is what the other primarchs were going to give Horus if he won the Siege of Terra
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is what the other primarchs were going to give Horus if he won the Siege of Terra
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SAM ALTMAN was able to BURN THAT in a YEAR with a BOX OF GPUS
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
SAM ALTMAN was able to BURN THAT in a YEAR with a BOX OF GPUS
re: using AI slop for NPC dialog in games:
This is the thing I keep trying to get through to people. Authorial meaning and intention is the fundamental underlying structure of writing, not “a world full of people who can say anything”. We live in a world full of people who can say anything! That’s not what we’re trying to achieve here!
December 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
re: using AI slop for NPC dialog in games:
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This is very good. I like to remind people that headlines in the 80s would (regularly!) talk about people who drank lattes or ate sushi as exotic, self-indulgent yuppies with obscure tastes. Media constantly made fun of “haute cuisine” meals with tiny portions because fine dining was bad.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is very good. I like to remind people that headlines in the 80s would (regularly!) talk about people who drank lattes or ate sushi as exotic, self-indulgent yuppies with obscure tastes. Media constantly made fun of “haute cuisine” meals with tiny portions because fine dining was bad.
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SAP Concur harden your inputs against SQL injection challenge 2025
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
SAP Concur harden your inputs against SQL injection challenge 2025
I got a 3d printer last week and it is consuming my life. Now I am learning CAD. Made an S-hook design that is almost ready for a test print. The idea is that the small recurve of the hook should be tight enough to capture the rail it hangs on, but not so close that you can’t hang or remove it.
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I got a 3d printer last week and it is consuming my life. Now I am learning CAD. Made an S-hook design that is almost ready for a test print. The idea is that the small recurve of the hook should be tight enough to capture the rail it hangs on, but not so close that you can’t hang or remove it.
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
What is an OSR? - The Garden Below
a post about not knowing what the OSR is.
thegardenbelow.blot.im
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
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For everyone visiting their parents this week:
LG calls it The Grim Unending
Roku/TCL calls it Brain Still-Death
Samsung calls it The Life-Worm Unblinking
Sony calls it The Pale Fire That Burns The Way
Panasonic calls it The Darkest Blessing
Amazon Fire TVs call it Acceptance of Bezos' Gray Host
LG calls it The Grim Unending
Roku/TCL calls it Brain Still-Death
Samsung calls it The Life-Worm Unblinking
Sony calls it The Pale Fire That Burns The Way
Panasonic calls it The Darkest Blessing
Amazon Fire TVs call it Acceptance of Bezos' Gray Host
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
For everyone visiting their parents this week:
LG calls it The Grim Unending
Roku/TCL calls it Brain Still-Death
Samsung calls it The Life-Worm Unblinking
Sony calls it The Pale Fire That Burns The Way
Panasonic calls it The Darkest Blessing
Amazon Fire TVs call it Acceptance of Bezos' Gray Host
LG calls it The Grim Unending
Roku/TCL calls it Brain Still-Death
Samsung calls it The Life-Worm Unblinking
Sony calls it The Pale Fire That Burns The Way
Panasonic calls it The Darkest Blessing
Amazon Fire TVs call it Acceptance of Bezos' Gray Host
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺