Brian H
@armstrongrgm96x.bsky.social
Don't rush to work, don't be late to lunch. He/him
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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among all the sports coverage of trans women in swimming, you know what I didn't see a single time?
stats.
sports reporting is obsessed with stats. until its a trans lady then suddenly they forget swim times exist
because it showed that they were swimming slower than other women
stats.
sports reporting is obsessed with stats. until its a trans lady then suddenly they forget swim times exist
because it showed that they were swimming slower than other women
when Michael Phelps was dominating US swimming there was endless coverage of all his genetic advantages. His wingspan, the way his body processed lactic acid, on and on and on. Nobody, not one person, floated the idea of kicking him out of the sport for genetic advantages
“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
among all the sports coverage of trans women in swimming, you know what I didn't see a single time?
stats.
sports reporting is obsessed with stats. until its a trans lady then suddenly they forget swim times exist
because it showed that they were swimming slower than other women
stats.
sports reporting is obsessed with stats. until its a trans lady then suddenly they forget swim times exist
because it showed that they were swimming slower than other women
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
AND THEY WERE BOTH BANGERS
in the mid-00s, Testsuya Mizuguchi saw the DS and PSP and said "okay, guess i gotta make one tall puzzle game and one wide puzzle game"
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
AND THEY WERE BOTH BANGERS
Love how directly this channels the toy. I can feel this illustration.
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Love how directly this channels the toy. I can feel this illustration.
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
😭
The Haro From The Sunrise Logo Has Been Laid Off
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
😭
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dorothy
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
dorothy
I keep thinking of things I "forgot" to do when I first got home, and then I realize that I didn't forget, I just only got home from MA today and immediately went back out to a Newtype Challenge because I'm stubborn 😑
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I keep thinking of things I "forgot" to do when I first got home, and then I realize that I didn't forget, I just only got home from MA today and immediately went back out to a Newtype Challenge because I'm stubborn 😑
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Animal Crossing (GCN, 2002)
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Animal Crossing (GCN, 2002)
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if NPC dialogue in a game is unimportant or boring, one of two things is happening:
1. someone did a bad job writing it
2. you didn't appreciate it, for whatever reason
don't put sawdust in your bread on purpose for fuck's sake
1. someone did a bad job writing it
2. you didn't appreciate it, for whatever reason
don't put sawdust in your bread on purpose for fuck's sake
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
if NPC dialogue in a game is unimportant or boring, one of two things is happening:
1. someone did a bad job writing it
2. you didn't appreciate it, for whatever reason
don't put sawdust in your bread on purpose for fuck's sake
1. someone did a bad job writing it
2. you didn't appreciate it, for whatever reason
don't put sawdust in your bread on purpose for fuck's sake
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So a lot of us woke up this morning to an email informing us that OMENS OF CHAOS (have you pre-ordered yet?) had been pushed from February 2026 to April 2026. People are understandably confused, not thrilled, and expressing both these things to me. So here's what I can say.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So a lot of us woke up this morning to an email informing us that OMENS OF CHAOS (have you pre-ordered yet?) had been pushed from February 2026 to April 2026. People are understandably confused, not thrilled, and expressing both these things to me. So here's what I can say.
Proposing the term "badgering" to refer to "when an application puts up a badge on its icon indicating an unread notification, but fails to make it clear where the badge originates from and/or fails to remove the badge when all obvious sources of the notification have been checked"
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Proposing the term "badgering" to refer to "when an application puts up a badge on its icon indicating an unread notification, but fails to make it clear where the badge originates from and/or fails to remove the badge when all obvious sources of the notification have been checked"
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November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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may we all be this blessed
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
may we all be this blessed
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Testing a JavaScript one-liner to return a date one week from the current date is not how I was expecting to realize we're a week away from December.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Testing a JavaScript one-liner to return a date one week from the current date is not how I was expecting to realize we're a week away from December.
With how much I've done today it's frankly unfair that I'm somehow not tired enough to fall asleep at a reasonable hour
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
With how much I've done today it's frankly unfair that I'm somehow not tired enough to fall asleep at a reasonable hour
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Finally finished this one!
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Finally finished this one!
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Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
4+ hour Defunctland video coming up, we have never been so back
November 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
4+ hour Defunctland video coming up, we have never been so back
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If you could set aside 4 hours and 18 minutes today for my new video, that would be much appreciated.
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you could set aside 4 hours and 18 minutes today for my new video, that would be much appreciated.