[when my five year old kid and two week old baby let me get a good night's sleep] life is beautiful. I am a link in the eternal human chain. I can die happy.
[36 hours of no sleep later] i bet when Gary Sinise wasa babby he still looked exatcly like Gary Sinise
[36 hours of no sleep later] i bet when Gary Sinise wasa babby he still looked exatcly like Gary Sinise
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
[when my five year old kid and two week old baby let me get a good night's sleep] life is beautiful. I am a link in the eternal human chain. I can die happy.
[36 hours of no sleep later] i bet when Gary Sinise wasa babby he still looked exatcly like Gary Sinise
[36 hours of no sleep later] i bet when Gary Sinise wasa babby he still looked exatcly like Gary Sinise
I'm sure I'm on a million of these block lists because I riled up the Zitron zombies with my "pro-AI" opinions like "AI is taking jobs away and that's bad", but I'll never check, and wouldn't care if I were. if people want to trust others to mass-mute their feeds for them that's none of my business!
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I'm sure I'm on a million of these block lists because I riled up the Zitron zombies with my "pro-AI" opinions like "AI is taking jobs away and that's bad", but I'll never check, and wouldn't care if I were. if people want to trust others to mass-mute their feeds for them that's none of my business!
weird, all the talk that filtered into my feed about the nazi tattoo guy made me think it was a republican with a swastika. turns out he's just one of those hefty dropkick murphy guys who starts the pit for the opener and picked the wrong flash off a wall in Zagreb when he was 18
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
weird, all the talk that filtered into my feed about the nazi tattoo guy made me think it was a republican with a swastika. turns out he's just one of those hefty dropkick murphy guys who starts the pit for the opener and picked the wrong flash off a wall in Zagreb when he was 18
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More and more we're landing on LLMs are incredibly useful if what you're doing doesn't actually matter.
October 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
More and more we're landing on LLMs are incredibly useful if what you're doing doesn't actually matter.
I think on Bluesky the "social media swarm" has self-optimized over the past year into something completely worthless. even if I agree with the crowd's sentiment it's just so tiresome to see the same idea said 800 slightly different ways by avatars of fat sexual raccoons
October 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I think on Bluesky the "social media swarm" has self-optimized over the past year into something completely worthless. even if I agree with the crowd's sentiment it's just so tiresome to see the same idea said 800 slightly different ways by avatars of fat sexual raccoons
thought she was joking
casio just launched an ai rodent
September 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
thought she was joking
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the "cromulent fuckcrustable" guy would have been considered a god tier poster on here
November 20, 2024 at 8:41 PM
the "cromulent fuckcrustable" guy would have been considered a god tier poster on here
clicked the Discover tab, against my better judgement. what is even going on over there? who would voluntarily open an app to read shit like this all day long? wild.
September 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
clicked the Discover tab, against my better judgement. what is even going on over there? who would voluntarily open an app to read shit like this all day long? wild.
tough read, but important read. ensuring LLMs are used by workers to empower them to be more creative, instead of by bosses to further exploit workers, is one of the salient challenges of our time.
and of course it doesn't help that lifestyle hucksters like Ed Zitron deny any of this is happening.
and of course it doesn't help that lifestyle hucksters like Ed Zitron deny any of this is happening.
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
tough read, but important read. ensuring LLMs are used by workers to empower them to be more creative, instead of by bosses to further exploit workers, is one of the salient challenges of our time.
and of course it doesn't help that lifestyle hucksters like Ed Zitron deny any of this is happening.
and of course it doesn't help that lifestyle hucksters like Ed Zitron deny any of this is happening.
the IRL divide about this charlie kirk guy dying is the echo-chamberfication of social media made physical. facebook grandpas used to see his face multiple times every hour. they knew him better than they know their own estranged grandchildren. and I had maybe seen his name twice in my life.
September 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
the IRL divide about this charlie kirk guy dying is the echo-chamberfication of social media made physical. facebook grandpas used to see his face multiple times every hour. they knew him better than they know their own estranged grandchildren. and I had maybe seen his name twice in my life.
toddlers' self-identities are an underreported source of endless parental entertainment & frustration. for about four months our kid insisted on being referred to only as "Passenger", I assume because I called him "passenger!" one time we played airplane in his crib.
My 2yo doesn't consistently sleep through the night, and I often end up sleeping beside him to calm him down. This morning I woke up at the same time he did, snuggled him close, and said, "Good morning! I love you, sweetheart." 🥰
And he stared deep into my eyes and shouted, "NO! I's TRASH TRUCK!"
And he stared deep into my eyes and shouted, "NO! I's TRASH TRUCK!"
September 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
toddlers' self-identities are an underreported source of endless parental entertainment & frustration. for about four months our kid insisted on being referred to only as "Passenger", I assume because I called him "passenger!" one time we played airplane in his crib.
the thing those "explain like I'm 5" redditors get wrong is that no five year old is sitting there silent, letting you go on and on like a shakespeare monologue. the instant you say "they stole a plane" you're getting dragged down a rabbit hole where you end up having to explain how boxcutters work
September 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the thing those "explain like I'm 5" redditors get wrong is that no five year old is sitting there silent, letting you go on and on like a shakespeare monologue. the instant you say "they stole a plane" you're getting dragged down a rabbit hole where you end up having to explain how boxcutters work
one time early in my career Jeanine Wright was brought into my company to get us sold off, and she told all of us engineers we would be "transitioned into hourly employees at a lower rate, but with 10 hours a week of overtime to make up the pay difference" in order to cook the books. awful stuff!
September 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
one time early in my career Jeanine Wright was brought into my company to get us sold off, and she told all of us engineers we would be "transitioned into hourly employees at a lower rate, but with 10 hours a week of overtime to make up the pay difference" in order to cook the books. awful stuff!
wondering, dreading!, whether tomorrow will finally be the day that I, father to a 4 year old, will have to explain 9/11 to a 4 year old
September 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
wondering, dreading!, whether tomorrow will finally be the day that I, father to a 4 year old, will have to explain 9/11 to a 4 year old
2025: "Loan denied."
1886:
1886:
Re: Orator O'Rourke, I'll always love this, which was his response to one of his players asking for an advance on his salary.
(Source: O'Rourke's SABR bio)
(Source: O'Rourke's SABR bio)
September 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
2025: "Loan denied."
1886:
1886:
you simply love to see it folks
Our communities deserve to be safe and free from military intimidation.
Today, a federal court rightly rejected the Trump administration's deployment of troops in Los Angeles.
Today, a federal court rightly rejected the Trump administration's deployment of troops in Los Angeles.
Trump deployment of military troops to Los Angeles was illegal, judge rules in blistering opinion
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s deployment of U.S, military troops to Los Angeles during immigration raids earlier this year was illegal.
www.latimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
you simply love to see it folks
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LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all.
It's time to ground them.
It's time to ground them.
Ground the choppers
The LAPD's helicopter mania is both a policy disaster and a symbol of our malignant, badly functioning surveillance state.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all.
It's time to ground them.
It's time to ground them.
in an interesting turn of events my company is putting me, the Guy Who Hates When Companies Wedge AI Into Everything, in charge of designing the new help request user flow with AI options. prime objective: piss off the fewest ppl possible
August 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
in an interesting turn of events my company is putting me, the Guy Who Hates When Companies Wedge AI Into Everything, in charge of designing the new help request user flow with AI options. prime objective: piss off the fewest ppl possible
this hit me pretty hard this morning. executing a long-running, MCP-calling LLM task via the lowest-tier VSCode Copilot took up like, idk, 1% of the monthly alotment? running a similar task directly via the OpenAI API cost like $0.75. and I'm not even confident the OpenAI API is running below cost!
August 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
this hit me pretty hard this morning. executing a long-running, MCP-calling LLM task via the lowest-tier VSCode Copilot took up like, idk, 1% of the monthly alotment? running a similar task directly via the OpenAI API cost like $0.75. and I'm not even confident the OpenAI API is running below cost!
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the reason The Future never happened is because we're still using shitty ass helvetica (but with inkwells, now) when we should be using Handel Gothic or at least Eurostile for everything by now.
August 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
the reason The Future never happened is because we're still using shitty ass helvetica (but with inkwells, now) when we should be using Handel Gothic or at least Eurostile for everything by now.
I seem to have discovered a random Turkish guy who, against all comprehension, has somehow opened a kebab shop in an abandoned castaway depot on the uninhabited island of Antipodes, one of the most remote places on earth. what.
August 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I seem to have discovered a random Turkish guy who, against all comprehension, has somehow opened a kebab shop in an abandoned castaway depot on the uninhabited island of Antipodes, one of the most remote places on earth. what.