Jargon
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I just want to make real tech for real people again. Physical media collector. They/them
December 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Tell me Mr. Anderson, what good is an *engineer-replacing AI* if you're unable to *connect* ?
a man in a suit and tie wearing sunglasses and ear buds
Alt: Gif of Agent Smith from the interrogation scene in The Matrix
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Tell me Mr. Anderson, what good is an *engineer-replacing AI* if you're unable to *connect* ?
It's that time of year when all the senior devs are on vacation until January and everyone gets a glimpse of how fragile things are without an army of stressed, overworked, abused tech workers constantly fighting to fix garbage technology.
December 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It's that time of year when all the senior devs are on vacation until January and everyone gets a glimpse of how fragile things are without an army of stressed, overworked, abused tech workers constantly fighting to fix garbage technology.
If you think "talk with the shop clerk" is low stakes, or "the cost of social interactions is cringe", or "run into your ex" is the type of fear involved, you don't understand social anxiety at all.
No one involved in this article has any idea what they're talking about.
No one involved in this article has any idea what they're talking about.
If you're tempted to bail on potentially fun events becuase you feel awkward, read this. Level up your small talk game and practice social courage with six tips from psychologists. n.pr/3MD63M9
COMIC: 6 tips to help you overcome social anxiety this season
If you're tempted to bail on potentially fun events becuase you feel awkward, read this. Level up your small talk game and practice social courage with six tips from psychologists.
n.pr
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If you think "talk with the shop clerk" is low stakes, or "the cost of social interactions is cringe", or "run into your ex" is the type of fear involved, you don't understand social anxiety at all.
No one involved in this article has any idea what they're talking about.
No one involved in this article has any idea what they're talking about.
Wait.. so it doesn't fail safe? Why does it fall? Removing the operator's headset turns off balance control? What about network hiccups?
Is there ANY real engineering happening or is this all just junior dev hackathon junk?
(Are these all just rhetorical questions?)
Is there ANY real engineering happening or is this all just junior dev hackathon junk?
(Are these all just rhetorical questions?)
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 7:41 PM
Wait.. so it doesn't fail safe? Why does it fall? Removing the operator's headset turns off balance control? What about network hiccups?
Is there ANY real engineering happening or is this all just junior dev hackathon junk?
(Are these all just rhetorical questions?)
Is there ANY real engineering happening or is this all just junior dev hackathon junk?
(Are these all just rhetorical questions?)
From a 2004 interview with RFK Jr., all the telltale signs of a budding insane right wing boomer.
Obsessed with the Roman Empire, IQ, free market capitalism, Christianity, and a straight up admission that he's full of mercury.
grist.org/article/gris...
Obsessed with the Roman Empire, IQ, free market capitalism, Christianity, and a straight up admission that he's full of mercury.
grist.org/article/gris...
December 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
From a 2004 interview with RFK Jr., all the telltale signs of a budding insane right wing boomer.
Obsessed with the Roman Empire, IQ, free market capitalism, Christianity, and a straight up admission that he's full of mercury.
grist.org/article/gris...
Obsessed with the Roman Empire, IQ, free market capitalism, Christianity, and a straight up admission that he's full of mercury.
grist.org/article/gris...
Bluesky,
There is at least one
Barry Ancona for every
hobby and they are all
online taking the fun
out of it for everyone.
I just want to enjoy
the crossword puzzles
and other things
with like minded people.
Why does the internet
make everything worse.
23 Recommend Share
There is at least one
Barry Ancona for every
hobby and they are all
online taking the fun
out of it for everyone.
I just want to enjoy
the crossword puzzles
and other things
with like minded people.
Why does the internet
make everything worse.
23 Recommend Share
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Bluesky,
There is at least one
Barry Ancona for every
hobby and they are all
online taking the fun
out of it for everyone.
I just want to enjoy
the crossword puzzles
and other things
with like minded people.
Why does the internet
make everything worse.
23 Recommend Share
There is at least one
Barry Ancona for every
hobby and they are all
online taking the fun
out of it for everyone.
I just want to enjoy
the crossword puzzles
and other things
with like minded people.
Why does the internet
make everything worse.
23 Recommend Share
An economist, finally satisfied with his work, smiles and looks up from his spreadsheet.
Smoke alarm is blaring. The house is on fire.
He turns back to the computer.
File > New Spreadsheet
"Probability_of_Future_ House_Fire.xls"
Smoke alarm is blaring. The house is on fire.
He turns back to the computer.
File > New Spreadsheet
"Probability_of_Future_ House_Fire.xls"
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
An economist, finally satisfied with his work, smiles and looks up from his spreadsheet.
Smoke alarm is blaring. The house is on fire.
He turns back to the computer.
File > New Spreadsheet
"Probability_of_Future_ House_Fire.xls"
Smoke alarm is blaring. The house is on fire.
He turns back to the computer.
File > New Spreadsheet
"Probability_of_Future_ House_Fire.xls"
It feels like the real future of computing is an offline VM running Windows 7 with a terabyte disk image of the best pirated software prior to 2010.
Not talking nostalgia here, just being able to actually accomplish something on the computer.
Not talking nostalgia here, just being able to actually accomplish something on the computer.
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It feels like the real future of computing is an offline VM running Windows 7 with a terabyte disk image of the best pirated software prior to 2010.
Not talking nostalgia here, just being able to actually accomplish something on the computer.
Not talking nostalgia here, just being able to actually accomplish something on the computer.
Now that's some real cyberpunk dystopia. But where's the big crucifix made out of CRTs?
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Now that's some real cyberpunk dystopia. But where's the big crucifix made out of CRTs?
They don't realize pennies are reusable?
It's not weird to see a penny minted in the 60s still around. That 4 cents easily led to 10s or 100s of dollars in commerce.
Slowly eliminating cash and letting Visa middle-man every transaction in the country is a travesty for everyone but the oligarchs.
It's not weird to see a penny minted in the 60s still around. That 4 cents easily led to 10s or 100s of dollars in commerce.
Slowly eliminating cash and letting Visa middle-man every transaction in the country is a travesty for everyone but the oligarchs.
It costs about 4 cents to create a single penny, and the Treasury Department says ending penny production will save American taxpayers approximately $56 million a year.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
They don't realize pennies are reusable?
It's not weird to see a penny minted in the 60s still around. That 4 cents easily led to 10s or 100s of dollars in commerce.
Slowly eliminating cash and letting Visa middle-man every transaction in the country is a travesty for everyone but the oligarchs.
It's not weird to see a penny minted in the 60s still around. That 4 cents easily led to 10s or 100s of dollars in commerce.
Slowly eliminating cash and letting Visa middle-man every transaction in the country is a travesty for everyone but the oligarchs.
Reposted by Jargon
You look at the dice. Rolled a 3. This game of Monopoly has been going for 250 years. Trump is brandishing a knife while his buddies piss in the houseplants. Elon is refusing Monopoly money, rooting through people's purses. Chuck Schumer is re-reading the rules pamphlet "Ok, a three! It says here.."
March 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
You look at the dice. Rolled a 3. This game of Monopoly has been going for 250 years. Trump is brandishing a knife while his buddies piss in the houseplants. Elon is refusing Monopoly money, rooting through people's purses. Chuck Schumer is re-reading the rules pamphlet "Ok, a three! It says here.."
Even with remote human control, these things are obvious going to topple over and seriously hurt children and pets.
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Even with remote human control, these things are obvious going to topple over and seriously hurt children and pets.
You can bet at some point someone referred to the east wing as Melania's Office and it was immediately doomed to be demolished for a bunga bunga ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
You can bet at some point someone referred to the east wing as Melania's Office and it was immediately doomed to be demolished for a bunga bunga ballroom.
I want to understand why every single YouTube video is now 23 minutes long, but I refuse to watch a 23 minute long YouTube video explaining why.
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I want to understand why every single YouTube video is now 23 minutes long, but I refuse to watch a 23 minute long YouTube video explaining why.
Platner and Hegseth are both about my age. Every single male college student in the 2000s saw American History X. We all know the tattoo on Ed Norton. None of us can see an all-black pec tattoo without thinking of that movie. We all know what it means.
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Platner and Hegseth are both about my age. Every single male college student in the 2000s saw American History X. We all know the tattoo on Ed Norton. None of us can see an all-black pec tattoo without thinking of that movie. We all know what it means.
Unsurprisingly this is why AI is going to fail and why tech in general is getting worse. It takes talent, craft, and skill to make software that solves real problems and that real people want to use.
But that's antithetical to Andreessen and the other finance bros steering the industry.
But that's antithetical to Andreessen and the other finance bros steering the industry.
It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...
October 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Unsurprisingly this is why AI is going to fail and why tech in general is getting worse. It takes talent, craft, and skill to make software that solves real problems and that real people want to use.
But that's antithetical to Andreessen and the other finance bros steering the industry.
But that's antithetical to Andreessen and the other finance bros steering the industry.
As a millennial I know there's a movie called The Cider House Rules but I've never seen it. Can't be bothered.
Is it a sorority pledge comedy? French aristocratic period piece? Amish architecture doc? Adaptation of 12 Angry Men with kids in a treehouse?
I'll simply never know.
Is it a sorority pledge comedy? French aristocratic period piece? Amish architecture doc? Adaptation of 12 Angry Men with kids in a treehouse?
I'll simply never know.
October 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
As a millennial I know there's a movie called The Cider House Rules but I've never seen it. Can't be bothered.
Is it a sorority pledge comedy? French aristocratic period piece? Amish architecture doc? Adaptation of 12 Angry Men with kids in a treehouse?
I'll simply never know.
Is it a sorority pledge comedy? French aristocratic period piece? Amish architecture doc? Adaptation of 12 Angry Men with kids in a treehouse?
I'll simply never know.
On Twitter you could instantly block any profile with a driver's seat sunglasses selfie. On bsky for some reason it's dog photos.
See a dog pfp? Block indiscriminately. Can't go wrong. Feed gets better every day.
See a dog pfp? Block indiscriminately. Can't go wrong. Feed gets better every day.
October 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
On Twitter you could instantly block any profile with a driver's seat sunglasses selfie. On bsky for some reason it's dog photos.
See a dog pfp? Block indiscriminately. Can't go wrong. Feed gets better every day.
See a dog pfp? Block indiscriminately. Can't go wrong. Feed gets better every day.