Eric Wilson
@digitalsimulacra.com
Programmer, dad, nerd, DIY hobbyist, lapsed runner.
God help me, I just liked a post by Bill Kristol...
Insert Gimli and Legolas meme here, I guess.
Insert Gimli and Legolas meme here, I guess.
Abolish ICE.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 22, 2026 at 12:24 AM
God help me, I just liked a post by Bill Kristol...
Insert Gimli and Legolas meme here, I guess.
Insert Gimli and Legolas meme here, I guess.
Anyone who votes to fund this should be disqualified from ever having a seat in Congress again
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Anyone who votes to fund this should be disqualified from ever having a seat in Congress again
OK, but why does Larry Ellison look like he's wearing somebody else's face as a mask?
January 21, 2026 at 12:25 AM
OK, but why does Larry Ellison look like he's wearing somebody else's face as a mask?
I'm not an expert at the stock market... is this good?
January 20, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I'm not an expert at the stock market... is this good?
So in this hypothetical future, if some employee at your company vibe codes a new feature on your product, OpenAI is entitled to 20% (or whatever) of your revenue forever after that?
Sounds like a good way to ensure ChatGPT gets banned from all corporations 🤷♂️
Sounds like a good way to ensure ChatGPT gets banned from all corporations 🤷♂️
OpenAI has absolutely zero ideas. They have no business. This is not a real business line and it’s so utterly vague and specious, I’m shocked at the credulousness to just print it without saying “there is no logical way this works of course” or talking about how the CFO of OpenAI is saying nonsense
January 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM
So in this hypothetical future, if some employee at your company vibe codes a new feature on your product, OpenAI is entitled to 20% (or whatever) of your revenue forever after that?
Sounds like a good way to ensure ChatGPT gets banned from all corporations 🤷♂️
Sounds like a good way to ensure ChatGPT gets banned from all corporations 🤷♂️
"It's not an 'occupying force' and if you don't stop calling it that, we'll send in the army to take over your city"
January 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
"It's not an 'occupying force' and if you don't stop calling it that, we'll send in the army to take over your city"
Was the food critic's name Anton Ego?
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Was the food critic's name Anton Ego?
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January 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Seems to me that the only benefit of having billionaires living in your state (or country) is if they pay their share of taxes and contribute to society
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vowed to block a tax on billionaires, saying that a ballot proposal has already scared off tech leaders.
Gavin Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
Gov. Gavin Newsom said he was working behind the scenes to block a proposed tax on billionaires’ wealth and was committed to defeating the measure if it reached the ballot.
nyti.ms
January 13, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Seems to me that the only benefit of having billionaires living in your state (or country) is if they pay their share of taxes and contribute to society
There's something familiar about 𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙖𝙣...
![Screenshot from Wikipedia
Führerprinzip
Further information: Führerprinzip
One of the Nazis' most-repeated political slogans was Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer – "One People, One Empire, One Leader". Historian Joseph Bendersky [de] says the slogan "left an indelible mark on the minds of most Germans who lived through the Nazi years. It appeared on countless posters and in publications; it was heard constantly in radio broadcasts and speeches." The slogan emphasised the absolute control of the leader over practically every sector of German society and culture – with the churches being formally the most notable exception.[21] The designation Führer itself was initially used only in the context of the Nazi Party, though its meaning gradually sprawled to cover the German state, the German Armed Forces, the German nation, and ultimately all the Germanic peoples.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:57s53wtwtv4crkn2h5wgez5q/bafkreiget7solukhcivazah4kbeanqu7ktqbkou3l6wb4wzxgf3znxz2wq@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 3:25 AM
There's something familiar about 𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙖𝙣...
How much better off would we have been if PayPal had just quietly gone bankrupt?
Why Greenland?
"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."
"Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."
January 11, 2026 at 1:37 AM
How much better off would we have been if PayPal had just quietly gone bankrupt?
Ooh, I know this one!
January 8, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Ooh, I know this one!
That mask looks familiar...
January 8, 2026 at 1:28 AM
That mask looks familiar...
What are the odds he thinks the camel is a giraffe, the rhinoceros is a hippopotamus, and he confabulated the fish?
December 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
What are the odds he thinks the camel is a giraffe, the rhinoceros is a hippopotamus, and he confabulated the fish?
The new letters match the original sign about as well as that sharpie on the hurricane map.
It's going to look like a bad photoshop job in every photo, which seems appropriate at least.
It's going to look like a bad photoshop job in every photo, which seems appropriate at least.
The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy MEMORIAL Center for the Performing Arts?
Huh.
I thought he was just sleepy.
Huh.
I thought he was just sleepy.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The new letters match the original sign about as well as that sharpie on the hurricane map.
It's going to look like a bad photoshop job in every photo, which seems appropriate at least.
It's going to look like a bad photoshop job in every photo, which seems appropriate at least.
Somehow this David Brooks tweet is related to those photos too
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Somehow this David Brooks tweet is related to those photos too
Catching up on the speech from last night
a man in a striped shirt and tie says i have people skills i am good at dealing with people can t you understand that
Alt: GIF from Office Space (1999): Tom Smykowski (Richard Riehle) says to The Bobs, "I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Catching up on the speech from last night
Saw a billionaire ask if people would be willing to pay 8-12% more income tax to get single-payer health insurance, and, like...
I don't think he has any comprehension at all what most people make.
(Source: www.business.com/articles/hea...)
I don't think he has any comprehension at all what most people make.
(Source: www.business.com/articles/hea...)
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Saw a billionaire ask if people would be willing to pay 8-12% more income tax to get single-payer health insurance, and, like...
I don't think he has any comprehension at all what most people make.
(Source: www.business.com/articles/hea...)
I don't think he has any comprehension at all what most people make.
(Source: www.business.com/articles/hea...)
Somehow Verizon always has billing errors in their favor and never in mine...
Why, if I were a suspicious person, I might start to suspect they were doing it on purpose!
Why, if I were a suspicious person, I might start to suspect they were doing it on purpose!
a man says something seems really sketchy about this while wearing a sweater
Alt: GIF from Schitt's Creek: David Rose (Daniel Levy) says "something seems really sketchy about this."
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Somehow Verizon always has billing errors in their favor and never in mine...
Why, if I were a suspicious person, I might start to suspect they were doing it on purpose!
Why, if I were a suspicious person, I might start to suspect they were doing it on purpose!
If you search for "times new roman" on Google, the results are all in Times New Roman
December 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
If you search for "times new roman" on Google, the results are all in Times New Roman
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
In my defense, I'm pretty sure I was too young to watch it (based on its rating) all of the times
In my defense, I'm pretty sure I was too young to watch it (based on its rating) all of the times
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
In my defense, I'm pretty sure I was too young to watch it (based on its rating) all of the times
In my defense, I'm pretty sure I was too young to watch it (based on its rating) all of the times
The people who live at one house on my street apparently shoveled their entire large driveway, but left the entire sidewalk a dangerous sheet of ice (except where it intersects their large driveway, of course).
They also have a couple brand new Teslas (among several other cars)
Just an observation
They also have a couple brand new Teslas (among several other cars)
Just an observation
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The people who live at one house on my street apparently shoveled their entire large driveway, but left the entire sidewalk a dangerous sheet of ice (except where it intersects their large driveway, of course).
They also have a couple brand new Teslas (among several other cars)
Just an observation
They also have a couple brand new Teslas (among several other cars)
Just an observation