aloof wife
@jonchristian.net
Editor at Futurism, horror/pinball enthusiast, lover of weird stuff, as previously seen in the Boston Globe, Vice, Slate, Wired etc. Please DM with tips and/or memes
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i have just been informed that the employer that fired me for this page has gone under. let this be a warning to you all.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
i have just been informed that the employer that fired me for this page has gone under. let this be a warning to you all.
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literally what's happening at a species / planetary scale
getting a more powerful GPU to heat my apartment in the winter
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
literally what's happening at a species / planetary scale
getting a more powerful GPU to heat my apartment in the winter
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
getting a more powerful GPU to heat my apartment in the winter
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i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*
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new political compass just dropped
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
new political compass just dropped
Man Gored By Self-Driving Cybertruck
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Man Gored By Self-Driving Cybertruck
these "beer filled jacket" images are AI, although pretty convincing -- one of them fooled me the other day!!
November 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
these "beer filled jacket" images are AI, although pretty convincing -- one of them fooled me the other day!!
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These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.
NYT committing never-before-seen crimes against em-dashes
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NYT committing never-before-seen crimes against em-dashes
hmmmmm i wonder if that has anything to do with society and the government brutally suppressing it over that exact period of time
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
hmmmmm i wonder if that has anything to do with society and the government brutally suppressing it over that exact period of time
sometimes you frag a hard drive 💔 just to see who will defrag it again 💗
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
sometimes you frag a hard drive 💔 just to see who will defrag it again 💗
kids today don't know about the simple joy of unzipping a huge archive
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
kids today don't know about the simple joy of unzipping a huge archive
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The new lawsuits against OpenAI are tragic and deeply troubling.
One of the plaintiffs, Kate Fox, is suing following the death of her husband, Joe Ceccanti. Ceccanti experienced at least two acute crises following extensive ChatGPT use. He did not survive the second:
futurism.com/artificial-i...
One of the plaintiffs, Kate Fox, is suing following the death of her husband, Joe Ceccanti. Ceccanti experienced at least two acute crises following extensive ChatGPT use. He did not survive the second:
futurism.com/artificial-i...
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The new lawsuits against OpenAI are tragic and deeply troubling.
One of the plaintiffs, Kate Fox, is suing following the death of her husband, Joe Ceccanti. Ceccanti experienced at least two acute crises following extensive ChatGPT use. He did not survive the second:
futurism.com/artificial-i...
One of the plaintiffs, Kate Fox, is suing following the death of her husband, Joe Ceccanti. Ceccanti experienced at least two acute crises following extensive ChatGPT use. He did not survive the second:
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
the guy from the ISP came to fix our internet, determined that our modem must be broken, tried two new modems from his truck, both were broken straight out of the box, plugged the original broken modem back and insisted his job was done
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
the guy from the ISP came to fix our internet, determined that our modem must be broken, tried two new modems from his truck, both were broken straight out of the box, plugged the original broken modem back and insisted his job was done
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what if it just crashes the old net and leads to the establishment of netwatch and the blackwall to prevent rogue AI attacks
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
what if it just crashes the old net and leads to the establishment of netwatch and the blackwall to prevent rogue AI attacks
where i post from
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
where i post from
elon musk has constructed a baby-style world for himself where nobody challenges his beliefs, resulting in total meltdowns when he's even slightly challenged
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Elon Musk's Brain Crashes When Asked Why He Thinks Zohran Mamdani Is a Liar
Elon Musk visibly struggles to explain why he thinks New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is a "swindler."
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November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
elon musk has constructed a baby-style world for himself where nobody challenges his beliefs, resulting in total meltdowns when he's even slightly challenged
futurism.com/future-socie...
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[three months later] "oof, zohran k mamdani's got hands"
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
[three months later] "oof, zohran k mamdani's got hands"