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Bluesky 3-cueing:
1) find a shibboleth in a post
2) search someone’s profile for proof they’re a shitlib
3) feel the way the big account that hates the poster wants you to feel
1) find a shibboleth in a post
2) search someone’s profile for proof they’re a shitlib
3) feel the way the big account that hates the poster wants you to feel
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Bluesky 3-cueing:
1) find a shibboleth in a post
2) search someone’s profile for proof they’re a shitlib
3) feel the way the big account that hates the poster wants you to feel
1) find a shibboleth in a post
2) search someone’s profile for proof they’re a shitlib
3) feel the way the big account that hates the poster wants you to feel
Current right wing trends are entirely about woo and vibes over science, fact, and evidence. We are farther away from what you're describing as being ascendant in conservatism than we have ever been in my lifetime. If anything what you are describing is the reactionary view.
I am beginning to develop a suspicion of national decline based in elevating STEM nerds to dangerously high social positions, because their tendency to believe that "anything that cannot be properly measured should not be argued for" is being more revealed by the day as an inherently reactionary one
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Current right wing trends are entirely about woo and vibes over science, fact, and evidence. We are farther away from what you're describing as being ascendant in conservatism than we have ever been in my lifetime. If anything what you are describing is the reactionary view.
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product managers are lowbies. "product manager" is an oppressive class, like Italian people or Protestant people.
December 22, 2025 at 4:42 AM
product managers are lowbies. "product manager" is an oppressive class, like Italian people or Protestant people.
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this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
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this is the best subway take
Straight people have terrible taste in gay people!! #nyc
YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:54 AM
this is the best subway take
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Does your family maintain any holiday traditions that would seem weird as hell to outsiders?
Every year on Christmas Day I dress up like Ralphie in the pink bunny suit from A Christmas Story (1983). I pretend to be upset long enough for a few pictures.
Every year on Christmas Day I dress up like Ralphie in the pink bunny suit from A Christmas Story (1983). I pretend to be upset long enough for a few pictures.
December 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Does your family maintain any holiday traditions that would seem weird as hell to outsiders?
Every year on Christmas Day I dress up like Ralphie in the pink bunny suit from A Christmas Story (1983). I pretend to be upset long enough for a few pictures.
Every year on Christmas Day I dress up like Ralphie in the pink bunny suit from A Christmas Story (1983). I pretend to be upset long enough for a few pictures.
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A lot of the same people who are gleefully insisting that Thompson “absolutely had it coming” for being a health insurance executive are probably appalled at the Trump administration claiming that due process doesn’t apply to non-citizens (or even citizens in some cases).
December 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A lot of the same people who are gleefully insisting that Thompson “absolutely had it coming” for being a health insurance executive are probably appalled at the Trump administration claiming that due process doesn’t apply to non-citizens (or even citizens in some cases).
Also, you also don't want to make people uncomfortable. I had a lovely woman I really liked literally invite herself over to my apartment one weekend. I was so focused on making sure she didn't feel obligated to do anything she finally had to explicitly tell me exactly what she was there for.
Discussion elsewhere on the internet dot com about male willingness to sleep with attractive strangers and, just, like, speaking as a man - even if I were single, the level of persuading I'd need that a random attractive woman claiming to want to sleep with me wasn't up to something nefarious?...
December 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Also, you also don't want to make people uncomfortable. I had a lovely woman I really liked literally invite herself over to my apartment one weekend. I was so focused on making sure she didn't feel obligated to do anything she finally had to explicitly tell me exactly what she was there for.
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WHAT’s up guys its Plato welcome back to the cave. Guys we’ve got some CRAZY shadows for you today you are not gonna want to miss this! But first I have to thank our sponsor OnX Backcountry
December 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
WHAT’s up guys its Plato welcome back to the cave. Guys we’ve got some CRAZY shadows for you today you are not gonna want to miss this! But first I have to thank our sponsor OnX Backcountry
Ultimately I can speak only for myself, but I certainly have these concerns. Despite lots of talk on funding AI ambitions, it does not seem like funding for retaining old talent or recruiting new talent has followed.
Data managers worry lack of funding, staffing will hinder AI ambitions - WatersTechnology.com
Nearly two-thirds of respondents to WatersTechnology’s data benchmark survey rated the pressure they’re receiving from senior executives and the board as very
www.waterstechnology.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Ultimately I can speak only for myself, but I certainly have these concerns. Despite lots of talk on funding AI ambitions, it does not seem like funding for retaining old talent or recruiting new talent has followed.
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Confidential to drunk obnoxious SF lady: misbehaving in a hot restaurant in SF is the equivalent of misbehaving in church elsewhere, conduct yourself accordingly.
December 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Confidential to drunk obnoxious SF lady: misbehaving in a hot restaurant in SF is the equivalent of misbehaving in church elsewhere, conduct yourself accordingly.
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the llm is basically a backhoe. it will do so many things so much better than me that making a point of artisanally digging the ditch sounds like a joke. there are a lot of things you cannot do with a backhoe
my work product is vastly inferior to the llm for certain things and at some point you kind of just have to accept that. i am never going to out-boilerplate the llm or read a repo to find a specific function i know the logical purpose of but not the name of faster than it does
as usual: no, outside of the SFBA hype circle, nobody believes that
and that is different from whether the work product of a properly managed and directed LLM is superior to the raw work product of a human, which is different from whether the human has other value-adds to the process
and that is different from whether the work product of a properly managed and directed LLM is superior to the raw work product of a human, which is different from whether the human has other value-adds to the process
December 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
the llm is basically a backhoe. it will do so many things so much better than me that making a point of artisanally digging the ditch sounds like a joke. there are a lot of things you cannot do with a backhoe
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"oh, this cruel poster who hates children". No. I love children. But I also love children from the standpoint of knowing that when you have a child, that child will almost certainly bury you. You are not doing them any favors if you are trying to make them your pet.
December 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"oh, this cruel poster who hates children". No. I love children. But I also love children from the standpoint of knowing that when you have a child, that child will almost certainly bury you. You are not doing them any favors if you are trying to make them your pet.
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You have the audacity to doom about the world and then give your kids absolutely no tools to navigate it without you.
December 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
You have the audacity to doom about the world and then give your kids absolutely no tools to navigate it without you.
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I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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the original is a list for babies. here's a real one
1 CUNEIFORM
2 ORACLE BONES
3 THE SPIRIT TALKERS
4 OLD JEB AND HIS WAYS
5 DR MORTEN'S ETHERIC TRANSMORGIFIER
6 THE DARK ARTS OF THESSALY
7 EROTIC IVORY CARVINGS
8 SONGS, SONGS OF THE VERY DEEP
9 HAEMOMANCY
10 'THEM IN THE HILLS'
1 CUNEIFORM
2 ORACLE BONES
3 THE SPIRIT TALKERS
4 OLD JEB AND HIS WAYS
5 DR MORTEN'S ETHERIC TRANSMORGIFIER
6 THE DARK ARTS OF THESSALY
7 EROTIC IVORY CARVINGS
8 SONGS, SONGS OF THE VERY DEEP
9 HAEMOMANCY
10 'THEM IN THE HILLS'
Show your age
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
the original is a list for babies. here's a real one
1 CUNEIFORM
2 ORACLE BONES
3 THE SPIRIT TALKERS
4 OLD JEB AND HIS WAYS
5 DR MORTEN'S ETHERIC TRANSMORGIFIER
6 THE DARK ARTS OF THESSALY
7 EROTIC IVORY CARVINGS
8 SONGS, SONGS OF THE VERY DEEP
9 HAEMOMANCY
10 'THEM IN THE HILLS'
1 CUNEIFORM
2 ORACLE BONES
3 THE SPIRIT TALKERS
4 OLD JEB AND HIS WAYS
5 DR MORTEN'S ETHERIC TRANSMORGIFIER
6 THE DARK ARTS OF THESSALY
7 EROTIC IVORY CARVINGS
8 SONGS, SONGS OF THE VERY DEEP
9 HAEMOMANCY
10 'THEM IN THE HILLS'
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Yeah so the Knives Out films continue to be essentially the only good art that's doing express social commentary on the Trump era
December 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Yeah so the Knives Out films continue to be essentially the only good art that's doing express social commentary on the Trump era
gonna need a power ballad about his cholesterol levels
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
gonna need a power ballad about his cholesterol levels
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It is sometimes genuinely awe inspiring how confident some people are that [thing] Is Not Antisemitism.
Maybe in the aftermath of yet another monstrous crime against Jewish people worldwide it should at least have them reassessing some of their priors.
Maybe in the aftermath of yet another monstrous crime against Jewish people worldwide it should at least have them reassessing some of their priors.
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It is sometimes genuinely awe inspiring how confident some people are that [thing] Is Not Antisemitism.
Maybe in the aftermath of yet another monstrous crime against Jewish people worldwide it should at least have them reassessing some of their priors.
Maybe in the aftermath of yet another monstrous crime against Jewish people worldwide it should at least have them reassessing some of their priors.
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Anyway these movies rock and this is probably the best one
December 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Anyway these movies rock and this is probably the best one
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Daniel Craig IS Libbed The Fuck Out Foghorn Poirot IN Another One
December 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Daniel Craig IS Libbed The Fuck Out Foghorn Poirot IN Another One
I went to see The VVitch with one of my best friends and I think somewhere towards there one of us reflexively prayed out loud a little bit, we were so freaked out. I also went on a dinner date afterwards and got told she'd never seen me so pale.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I went to see The VVitch with one of my best friends and I think somewhere towards there one of us reflexively prayed out loud a little bit, we were so freaked out. I also went on a dinner date afterwards and got told she'd never seen me so pale.
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My mother has this taped to the door of one of her bathrooms
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My mother has this taped to the door of one of her bathrooms
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One of many favorites, with apologies to Weird Al Yankovic, and to my deceased German grandfather djonloved polkas and moodled a bit his concertina. 😉
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
One of many favorites, with apologies to Weird Al Yankovic, and to my deceased German grandfather djonloved polkas and moodled a bit his concertina. 😉