Seems silly to pretend socialism is why the Russian imperial successor state was flawed - rather than the only reason it was at all progressive, ascendant, and pluralistic.
January 18, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Seems silly to pretend socialism is why the Russian imperial successor state was flawed - rather than the only reason it was at all progressive, ascendant, and pluralistic.
You’ve heard of inflation, shrinkflation, tariff caused inflation, price gouging - but what about AI-inflation?
Regardless of value added - this bloat will drive up costs of all SaaS. Soon rippling to dependent businesses and the wider economy. AI will directly be a drain on everything else now.
Regardless of value added - this bloat will drive up costs of all SaaS. Soon rippling to dependent businesses and the wider economy. AI will directly be a drain on everything else now.
January 17, 2026 at 11:07 PM
You’ve heard of inflation, shrinkflation, tariff caused inflation, price gouging - but what about AI-inflation?
Regardless of value added - this bloat will drive up costs of all SaaS. Soon rippling to dependent businesses and the wider economy. AI will directly be a drain on everything else now.
Regardless of value added - this bloat will drive up costs of all SaaS. Soon rippling to dependent businesses and the wider economy. AI will directly be a drain on everything else now.
One of the greatest dangers in the future will be not looking truthfully at how blunderous all this is. If any of this gets white washed as an inevitable macro consequence or sign of times - and incorporated into mainstream centrism it’ll be another cognitive distortion in American psyche.
January 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM
One of the greatest dangers in the future will be not looking truthfully at how blunderous all this is. If any of this gets white washed as an inevitable macro consequence or sign of times - and incorporated into mainstream centrism it’ll be another cognitive distortion in American psyche.
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“Did you guys learn nothing from [previous example of US criminal imperialism]”
If they learned lessons they wouldn’t be liberals
If they learned lessons they wouldn’t be liberals
January 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
“Did you guys learn nothing from [previous example of US criminal imperialism]”
If they learned lessons they wouldn’t be liberals
If they learned lessons they wouldn’t be liberals
So Taiwan’s days are numbered now, after this Venezuela business, huh?
January 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
So Taiwan’s days are numbered now, after this Venezuela business, huh?
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Now do the blinding headlights
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Now do the blinding headlights
America’s imperial decline is mirrored in its inability to produce real new art. Change risks the integrity of the system - it’s true of government, media, anything - there’s no room for newness, and a changing of the guard is as apocalyptic to them as total collapse - so that’s where we’re headed.
December 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
America’s imperial decline is mirrored in its inability to produce real new art. Change risks the integrity of the system - it’s true of government, media, anything - there’s no room for newness, and a changing of the guard is as apocalyptic to them as total collapse - so that’s where we’re headed.
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Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?
wapo.st
August 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
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God damn, Stella. Absolutely savage.
May 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
God damn, Stella. Absolutely savage.
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Holy shit. This is sick. I was not prepared.
Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995
May 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Holy shit. This is sick. I was not prepared.
as a user I love to turn off all notifications once a brand has annoyed me with even just a little bit too many - once I'm in the settings they're all going off not just the banner ones; I'm so sorry
May 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
as a user I love to turn off all notifications once a brand has annoyed me with even just a little bit too many - once I'm in the settings they're all going off not just the banner ones; I'm so sorry
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The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.
April 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.
I’m pretty sure iPhones aren’t good anymore; there’s been like a decade of cludged friction and the apps keep changing even though the problems and taste haven’t. The entire experience of a phone seems played out unless you can sacrifice some UI sacred cows or bust open the App Store.
May 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’m pretty sure iPhones aren’t good anymore; there’s been like a decade of cludged friction and the apps keep changing even though the problems and taste haven’t. The entire experience of a phone seems played out unless you can sacrifice some UI sacred cows or bust open the App Store.
Matt Damon has three modes that make his career: questioning, bluffing, and exasperated yelling. No one touches his anxious bluff game.
May 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Matt Damon has three modes that make his career: questioning, bluffing, and exasperated yelling. No one touches his anxious bluff game.
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Reading this and gears turning
- clerics are just warlocks with better PR
- divine magic should be transactions with extraplanar beings
- the extraplanar beings should have an interest in changing our world
- clerics are pawns in a proxy war between forces they don't understand
- this is a spy movie
- clerics are just warlocks with better PR
- divine magic should be transactions with extraplanar beings
- the extraplanar beings should have an interest in changing our world
- clerics are pawns in a proxy war between forces they don't understand
- this is a spy movie
Clerics shouldn’t just feel like wizards in a different type of robe. I write about how to make clerical magic feel more divinely inspired
#osr #ttrpg
#osr #ttrpg
Divine Magic Works in Mysterious Ways — Prismatic Wasteland
I’ve spilt so much digital ink about making a wizard’s magic feel more arcane, but now it is time to think about how to make a cleric’s magic feel more divine.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reading this and gears turning
- clerics are just warlocks with better PR
- divine magic should be transactions with extraplanar beings
- the extraplanar beings should have an interest in changing our world
- clerics are pawns in a proxy war between forces they don't understand
- this is a spy movie
- clerics are just warlocks with better PR
- divine magic should be transactions with extraplanar beings
- the extraplanar beings should have an interest in changing our world
- clerics are pawns in a proxy war between forces they don't understand
- this is a spy movie
interested to see if small toy brands, hobby product companies, especially individual artists making handmade stuff that can’t touch price on pass produced toys will have new opportunities. Hasbro probably feeling great about the digital end of the Wizard’s lines.
Mattel CEO says toy manufacturing won't come to America, but price hikes will
Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz says toy manufacturing will not come to America, but price increases will.
www.cnbc.com
May 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
interested to see if small toy brands, hobby product companies, especially individual artists making handmade stuff that can’t touch price on pass produced toys will have new opportunities. Hasbro probably feeling great about the digital end of the Wizard’s lines.
i feel like wittengenstein is spinning right now
No one knows what the hell an AI agent is | TechCrunch
AI agents are all the rage. But no one knows exactly what an agent is, partly because companies define them radically differently.
techcrunch.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
i feel like wittengenstein is spinning right now
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(trying not to think about how state capacity can be destroyed instantly yet takes decades to rebuild) video games are all about using four fiber to make cloth
February 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
(trying not to think about how state capacity can be destroyed instantly yet takes decades to rebuild) video games are all about using four fiber to make cloth
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Someone get the Firelock 198X guy on Bluesky , ASAP. This shit rules.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QMfU...
drive.google.com/file/d/1QMfU...
December 3, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Someone get the Firelock 198X guy on Bluesky , ASAP. This shit rules.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QMfU...
drive.google.com/file/d/1QMfU...
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It's gonna take me awhile (may do a post daily), but this inspired me to do a thread on why each of Yemen's twenty-one diverse governorates is awesome and cool to show a different side of the country
August 21, 2024 at 10:35 PM
It's gonna take me awhile (may do a post daily), but this inspired me to do a thread on why each of Yemen's twenty-one diverse governorates is awesome and cool to show a different side of the country
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Yeah, Burger King sounds cool and all until you say the words Hotdog Emperor
April 24, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Yeah, Burger King sounds cool and all until you say the words Hotdog Emperor
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The moment when you realize the song that was playing when you lost your virginity is now being used to sell life insurance
April 23, 2024 at 5:34 PM
The moment when you realize the song that was playing when you lost your virginity is now being used to sell life insurance
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Y2K, the Ozone Hole, and Acid Rain should be constantly highlighted as models for successful coordination to solve a shared problem.
We learned the wrong lesson from Y2K.
We should have learned that if we anticipate a crisis then coordinate and work hard, we can avert that crisis.
Instead we learned, "why are these people freaking out? It's no big deal."
We should have learned that if we anticipate a crisis then coordinate and work hard, we can avert that crisis.
Instead we learned, "why are these people freaking out? It's no big deal."
April 22, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Y2K, the Ozone Hole, and Acid Rain should be constantly highlighted as models for successful coordination to solve a shared problem.