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John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social · 10h

escalating fast

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 14h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 13h

It's very bad, I think.

Cogsec is real.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 13h

When I see these I'm reminded of that "vanishing caloric density" trick that processed foods like Doritos use, where the balance of flavors and volume fools your body into consuming much more of them than they would normally.

It's similar for this stuff. It melts into you, maximizing retention.

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 16h

dawg the kirkinator videos are fuckin frying me. the one where alex jones takes him to hyperborea and he meets hulk hogan and aryan kash patel. what the fuck is even going on anymore

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 14h

One thing it is HUGELY helpful for for me, though, is working past an activation energy threshold. I struggle sometimes to start projects because I know all the ways they won't work, and I kinda wear myself out before I even start, this way.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 14h

I like how fast it helps in understanding libraries etc, and it's great to have a rubber duck that can get context quickly. I don't feel anything at all when it generated code.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 14h

Wanna know who I'm talking about?

Here's hints for two more notables:

- Fairly Odd Parents

- Maybe, just maybe, THIS UFO picture isn't real.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 14h

Actually I guess it was more than one, really. A lot of them were only in it because they reveled in a paycheck and in impression the field gives off.

But they both were deeply unhappy.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 14h

It reminds me of a certain AI loving ultraconservative type on Twitter. How he told me how much he hated programming and how happy he was to not have to do it because of AI anymore.

And all I could think was how awful a place software would be if you hated programming, mechanical sympathy, etc.

Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16h

I see this a lot and I think a lot of folks don't understand the idea of, you know, liking what you do or enjoying your job.

I don't use AI for work because I love it. I use it for parts where I feel like I'm forced to in order to keep up.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 15h

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 15h

When I was a kid I had this happen with the mage I had been meticulously raising for my whole playthrough and I nearly lost my shit.

One of the many mechanics that made the first version save scum city.

Saint Riot @saintriot.bsky.social · 2d

In Final Fantasy Tactics if a unit gains too much faith they leave your party to go find God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had Beast Tongue and got a monster unit to maximum faith? Of course you haven't. No one has.

Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16h

I was a professional photographer and that was art, I sold prints not wedding services. I didn't really ever feel what you're describing.

What mattered to me was I loved doing it. I loved the gear, the process, the discovery, the refinement, the journey of it.

I resent every loss of this sense.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16h

I think maybe that's true in the best case. Most folks get paid to make products. Most art folks interact with is products.

That's why I'm not overly mad about being forced to use And n stuff for the boring parts of my job, and I'm resentful about using it for the parts I like.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16h

Now, as I've transitioned into management I've long since given up any opportunity to frustrated at this. The tech industry is permanently a rat race.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16h

I see this a lot and I think a lot of folks don't understand the idea of, you know, liking what you do or enjoying your job.

I don't use AI for work because I love it. I use it for parts where I feel like I'm forced to in order to keep up.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16h

In general a lot of center right people like Matthew are in deep denial about this. The further you are in the pundit class the more you believe you can talk things out. The more you believe that this time the appeasement will be enough.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16h

The more I think about this post the more I think Matthew just fundamentally doesn't understand why the conservatives and MAGA are doing what they're doing.

The idea of "just compromise" won't work, because the end goal is not policy positions. The end goal is the abuse & the feeling of abusing.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 18h

I think that Democrats winning more elections would be extremely beneficial on net for all the relevant groups, even if what it took to get there was some moderation on specific positions.

Justin T. Brown-Ramsey @brown-ramsey.bsky.social · 18h

You’ve been on every major platform imaginable saying in one way or another that the democrats can function by cleaving random marginal groups because doing so would be electorally advantageous. This is the right’s fault, but it is also YOUR fault for trying to get in on their game, too, *******!

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 16h

But the moderate position he's arguing for is literally child abuse and conversation therapy, and the tolerance of unconstitutional discrimination.

Is that what "the Democrats actually require?"

If so, the America Matthew wants to save may not be worth saving.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 18h

I think that Democrats winning more elections would be extremely beneficial on net for all the relevant groups, even if what it took to get there was some moderation on specific positions.

Justin T. Brown-Ramsey @brown-ramsey.bsky.social · 18h

You’ve been on every major platform imaginable saying in one way or another that the democrats can function by cleaving random marginal groups because doing so would be electorally advantageous. This is the right’s fault, but it is also YOUR fault for trying to get in on their game, too, *******!

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 22h

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Combustion is the past, electricity is the future, pass it on.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 20h

He literally says, "I don't get why they can wear it, it doesn't make sense."

Because yeah, no man would ever wear a ribbon that makes him immortal. That's insane and never happens.

And the game is still full of sex based differences. There are *whole classes* that are sex locked.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 20h

J7Jase is mad that they relaxed the gender limits on perfume and ribbons. That's why he's mad. He has to make a shitty joke about that.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 20h

I'm sitting there making coffee and listening to a Final Fantasy Tactics video and then suddenly the shithead tossed in a transphobic joke.

At first I'm like, "Oh, maybe he just didn't get it." But then I see he was doubling down in the comments.

Gamers are awful, as a group.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 1d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Santa Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 1d

Trump really just went "I don't know him" about habeas corpus.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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