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The correlation between companies named after the Tolkien legendarium and their CEO/Founder being a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint at the idea of draining the planet of all its resources and then fucking off to a sealed dome in New Zealand while everyone else suffers is extremely high
December 31, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The correlation between companies named after the Tolkien legendarium and their CEO/Founder being a chittering skinwalker fingering his own taint at the idea of draining the planet of all its resources and then fucking off to a sealed dome in New Zealand while everyone else suffers is extremely high
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You also know this little dipshit robostapler won’t even work right — you’ll flinch and reach for a pen and it’ll wheel up and beg for your attention. It’ll staple your hand. It’ll get jammed and shit loose staples. It’ll bark right-wing propaganda and tell you how to build a suitcase nuke.
December 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
You also know this little dipshit robostapler won’t even work right — you’ll flinch and reach for a pen and it’ll wheel up and beg for your attention. It’ll staple your hand. It’ll get jammed and shit loose staples. It’ll bark right-wing propaganda and tell you how to build a suitcase nuke.
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Easy to see the AI industry flailing — each new iteration introduces something altogether more deranged and useless. They’re desperate to convince you of use cases that simply don’t exist.
“A stapler who predicts your stapling needs!” What the fuck who needs that, just reach for the stapler jfc
“A stapler who predicts your stapling needs!” What the fuck who needs that, just reach for the stapler jfc
Also, this just in -> the latest bizarre AI fever dream is AI-controlled trivets, staplers, and coffee cups on wheels. So we'll be chased around by inanimate wheeled objects clamoring for our attention.
![Real news story headline: "Robot Coffee Cups? Self-Driving Trivets? AI Researchers Made It Happen. [sub-title] Scientists found a way to animate everyday objects and predict your next move, so your stapler is always nearby when you need it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wstpte2vzb4ra2iqtnw2d2ef/bafkreibbhk46utcdzm3qb2u2muehbhrndu6x47k5a4v64ef44xdpbgh42u@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Easy to see the AI industry flailing — each new iteration introduces something altogether more deranged and useless. They’re desperate to convince you of use cases that simply don’t exist.
“A stapler who predicts your stapling needs!” What the fuck who needs that, just reach for the stapler jfc
“A stapler who predicts your stapling needs!” What the fuck who needs that, just reach for the stapler jfc
The enshittification of the USPS continues.
And as someone in the comments pointed out - what does this mean for mail-in ballots? Will those in blue cities especially be declared invalid because they were mailed before the deadline but not stamped til later???
And as someone in the comments pointed out - what does this mean for mail-in ballots? Will those in blue cities especially be declared invalid because they were mailed before the deadline but not stamped til later???
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The enshittification of the USPS continues.
And as someone in the comments pointed out - what does this mean for mail-in ballots? Will those in blue cities especially be declared invalid because they were mailed before the deadline but not stamped til later???
And as someone in the comments pointed out - what does this mean for mail-in ballots? Will those in blue cities especially be declared invalid because they were mailed before the deadline but not stamped til later???
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Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing
The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…
terribleminds.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
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Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
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Most woke opinion? Prison terms proportional to the economic magnitude of the crime.
Shoplift: maybe community service.
Embezzle $10k: three months.
Sell a $1M presidential pardon: 25 years.
We must jail rich people when they commit crimes, at scale.
Shoplift: maybe community service.
Embezzle $10k: three months.
Sell a $1M presidential pardon: 25 years.
We must jail rich people when they commit crimes, at scale.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Most woke opinion? Prison terms proportional to the economic magnitude of the crime.
Shoplift: maybe community service.
Embezzle $10k: three months.
Sell a $1M presidential pardon: 25 years.
We must jail rich people when they commit crimes, at scale.
Shoplift: maybe community service.
Embezzle $10k: three months.
Sell a $1M presidential pardon: 25 years.
We must jail rich people when they commit crimes, at scale.
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When you have a super cool secret hangout but then your STUPID YOUNGER BROTHER finds it and RUINS IT FOREVER
December 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When you have a super cool secret hangout but then your STUPID YOUNGER BROTHER finds it and RUINS IT FOREVER
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This just in: most women (most people, really, but most women for sure) don't want to be chums with people who try to literally murder them and their co-workers.
![Tucker Carlson: "What's [AOC] like?"
Matt Gaetz: "Before Jan. 6 she was incredibly chummy with Republicans, she would regularly come over to our side, sit down, hang out... after Jan. 6 she treated us all like we had horns or something."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreiagl3tmxesoqw6lydhcwey52rczco3joc2m4x3kz4yv7ojrekk6ci@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This just in: most women (most people, really, but most women for sure) don't want to be chums with people who try to literally murder them and their co-workers.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
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Merry Christmas from me and mine to you and yours :)
December 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Merry Christmas from me and mine to you and yours :)
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Ideas are, no question, the cheap part. I have SPREADSHEETS of ideas, and if I keep up my current production rate, which is already unrealistically high, I will die before I finish using them all. EXECUTION is the important part.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Ideas are, no question, the cheap part. I have SPREADSHEETS of ideas, and if I keep up my current production rate, which is already unrealistically high, I will die before I finish using them all. EXECUTION is the important part.
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From Christmas past....
December 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
From Christmas past....
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I'm old enough to remember when Republicans claimed to be the party of local control.
Earlier this week, Greg Abbott took to X to call for the creation of a statewide district attorney.
Greg Abbott calls for statewide district attorney to replace 'progressive DAs'
Earlier this week, Greg Abbott took to X to call for the creation of a statewide district attorney.
bit.ly
December 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Republicans claimed to be the party of local control.
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
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This is what the New York Times delivered to my inbox this morning, while the Epstein Files *early* analysis involved the President of the US participating in child-rape & infanticide.
They never stopped shrieking about Biden’s age & Hillary’s emails as history’s greatest crimes WHAT THE FUCK
They never stopped shrieking about Biden’s age & Hillary’s emails as history’s greatest crimes WHAT THE FUCK
December 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is what the New York Times delivered to my inbox this morning, while the Epstein Files *early* analysis involved the President of the US participating in child-rape & infanticide.
They never stopped shrieking about Biden’s age & Hillary’s emails as history’s greatest crimes WHAT THE FUCK
They never stopped shrieking about Biden’s age & Hillary’s emails as history’s greatest crimes WHAT THE FUCK
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The level of plot armor Trump has against, not even things that would sink another politician, but would get any other human set on fire forever, is so total & unprecedented I’m beginning to think the only possibly scientific explanations are genie’s wish, warlock powers, alien, or actual Antichrist
I know, I know, Trump raped kids & was accessory to killing a baby & the source is an official gov. doc they gave us, but have you considered Kamala laughed weird, Biden said the wrong name, Dean yelled too loud, Kerry was boring, Dukakis looked dumb in a helmet, Obama was black & Hillary existed?
December 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The level of plot armor Trump has against, not even things that would sink another politician, but would get any other human set on fire forever, is so total & unprecedented I’m beginning to think the only possibly scientific explanations are genie’s wish, warlock powers, alien, or actual Antichrist
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A new AI tool on Twitter that ruins photographers work in a new and more insidious way. (free post on Patreon)
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A.I Slop in a even more insidious form on twitter | Paul Weimer
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December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A new AI tool on Twitter that ruins photographers work in a new and more insidious way. (free post on Patreon)
www.patreon.com/posts/i-slop...
www.patreon.com/posts/i-slop...
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Merry Christmas Eve Eve, everyone. paulandstorm.bandcamp.com/track/christ...
Christmas Eve Eve, by Paul and Storm
from the album It Might Be Xmas
paulandstorm.bandcamp.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Merry Christmas Eve Eve, everyone. paulandstorm.bandcamp.com/track/christ...
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Perry: The return of the r-word
When slurs become acceptable, so do open hatred and bigotry.
www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...
When slurs become acceptable, so do open hatred and bigotry.
www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Perry: The return of the r-word
When slurs become acceptable, so do open hatred and bigotry.
www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...
When slurs become acceptable, so do open hatred and bigotry.
www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...
Misty, the feral mom of two of our indoor cats, passed today. We don’t know how old she was, at least 7. I’d tried to convince her to come indoors but she wanted nothing to do with it. Her hearing had gotten bad recently and one eye had cataracts. She had a warm place in our garage w/ food & water.
December 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Misty, the feral mom of two of our indoor cats, passed today. We don’t know how old she was, at least 7. I’d tried to convince her to come indoors but she wanted nothing to do with it. Her hearing had gotten bad recently and one eye had cataracts. She had a warm place in our garage w/ food & water.
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You know that Fleetwood Mac song where he wants to lay down in the tall grass and do his stuff? Every time I hear that my brain screams DUDE THERE ARE CHIGGERS IN THERE AND THEY WILL SNACK UPONST YOUR SKIN so I guess you know which song just came up in my playlist
December 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
You know that Fleetwood Mac song where he wants to lay down in the tall grass and do his stuff? Every time I hear that my brain screams DUDE THERE ARE CHIGGERS IN THERE AND THEY WILL SNACK UPONST YOUR SKIN so I guess you know which song just came up in my playlist