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@thesnarkygent.bsky.social
alias Matt • chaotic good • agnostic, autistic, bisexual • probably playing a board game in his head right now
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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You can see exactly what’s wrong with American online leftism when you consider that people have spent the past few days on here insisting that it’s virtuous anti-capitalism to steal from artists & writers specifically.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
You can see exactly what’s wrong with American online leftism when you consider that people have spent the past few days on here insisting that it’s virtuous anti-capitalism to steal from artists & writers specifically.
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I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
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watching people like Charles Murray be (correctly!) horrified by the rise of people like Nick Fuentes is sort of bleakly funny. uh oh! maybe those hysterical libs had a point Chuck! maybe there was something there to worry about!
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
watching people like Charles Murray be (correctly!) horrified by the rise of people like Nick Fuentes is sort of bleakly funny. uh oh! maybe those hysterical libs had a point Chuck! maybe there was something there to worry about!
"It is the worst kind of failure and disgrace to steal, from people like myself, a world where we can find meaning and love and participation in a human community after we were given the chance to comfortably grasp it."
A sentance for this whole era.
A sentance for this whole era.
In which Zack Budryk perfectly captures the feeling many #ActuallyAutistic people feel in this particular moment of RFK Jr.'s resurgence: We felt like we were turning the corner on autism acceptance. And now we are seeing that door closed off.
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-not-g...
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-not-g...
I will not give up that which I have tasted
Promotion of the myth
www.welcometohellworld.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"It is the worst kind of failure and disgrace to steal, from people like myself, a world where we can find meaning and love and participation in a human community after we were given the chance to comfortably grasp it."
A sentance for this whole era.
A sentance for this whole era.
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About 99.9% of you who pirate books live in an area with a public library, and that library almost certainly has some sort of digital ebook platform. Go get a library card and a Libby account and just wait your six weeks for your free copy to borrow like the rest of us.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
About 99.9% of you who pirate books live in an area with a public library, and that library almost certainly has some sort of digital ebook platform. Go get a library card and a Libby account and just wait your six weeks for your free copy to borrow like the rest of us.
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the degree to which Labour have limboed under my lowest expectations for them is remarkable.
what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
the degree to which Labour have limboed under my lowest expectations for them is remarkable.
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
To me, that's preposterous. Beef smoothies, things of that nature.
Trump: "Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys. They could be fat, but they're still MAHA. They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to allow the smoothies and all the other things they have been eating for this occasion."
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
To me, that's preposterous. Beef smoothies, things of that nature.
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My god I feel like my @theverge.com subscription pays for itself sometimes. Great follow-up, @lopatto.bsky.social!
www.theverge.com/business/828...
www.theverge.com/business/828...
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
The Streisand Effect strikes again
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My god I feel like my @theverge.com subscription pays for itself sometimes. Great follow-up, @lopatto.bsky.social!
www.theverge.com/business/828...
www.theverge.com/business/828...
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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Humans do not react well to being exposed nonstop to upsetting, distressing, and violent things with little agency to affect the outcome of them!
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Humans do not react well to being exposed nonstop to upsetting, distressing, and violent things with little agency to affect the outcome of them!
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So I think it's important, when talking about online radicalization, to frame the problem as a societal one, not an issue with specific sites or specific people. Some groups are *more* effective at producing heinous outcomes, but it can happen through a million tactics.
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So I think it's important, when talking about online radicalization, to frame the problem as a societal one, not an issue with specific sites or specific people. Some groups are *more* effective at producing heinous outcomes, but it can happen through a million tactics.
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My freshman year of college was the last of the Loko years and they sent us all an email saying effectively “Do NOT drink this, it is TOO crazy, it will make your parties TOO wild.” which had about exact the effect you would expect.
they're adding a fifth loko
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
My freshman year of college was the last of the Loko years and they sent us all an email saying effectively “Do NOT drink this, it is TOO crazy, it will make your parties TOO wild.” which had about exact the effect you would expect.
"But they were all of them deceived, for another Loko was made..."
they're adding a fifth loko
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"But they were all of them deceived, for another Loko was made..."
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A thing that I feel has not been discussed enough is that the highly paid IT and infosec guys at any company you care to name all seem to be absolutely insane right-wing freaks with the impulse control of a drunk toddler
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A thing that I feel has not been discussed enough is that the highly paid IT and infosec guys at any company you care to name all seem to be absolutely insane right-wing freaks with the impulse control of a drunk toddler
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AI being half of GDP growth just means we're fucked lol, at a certain point AI capex will stop making sense
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
AI being half of GDP growth just means we're fucked lol, at a certain point AI capex will stop making sense
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Never fall for the scam that letting these llm merchants sink and die hurts anyone except the venture capitalists trying to manufacture consent for everyone else to subsidize their monumental failure at their own jobs
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Never fall for the scam that letting these llm merchants sink and die hurts anyone except the venture capitalists trying to manufacture consent for everyone else to subsidize their monumental failure at their own jobs
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once investment circles are taken over by people who talk about owning crypto/nfts/nvidia stock in the same way that christians talk about faith, you know the stage has been set to create a whole new generation of bagholders
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
once investment circles are taken over by people who talk about owning crypto/nfts/nvidia stock in the same way that christians talk about faith, you know the stage has been set to create a whole new generation of bagholders
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Software engineering needs a reckoning and a professionalism. It needs actual teeth with which individual workers can use to push back and say "no, I won't put my name on this work". It needs the structure in place for software to be held to a standard of quality befitting its societal criticality
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Software engineering needs a reckoning and a professionalism. It needs actual teeth with which individual workers can use to push back and say "no, I won't put my name on this work". It needs the structure in place for software to be held to a standard of quality befitting its societal criticality
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Engineering can be so much better than this and more than this. It's absurd how much we're resigned to this entire area of human work being held hostage by this kind of culture.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Engineering can be so much better than this and more than this. It's absurd how much we're resigned to this entire area of human work being held hostage by this kind of culture.
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There actually has not been enough reflection in the tech community about DOGE
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
There actually has not been enough reflection in the tech community about DOGE