Rick Ward
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AI is merely a tool, in one sense of that word.
The people and corporations who push using AI for everything are tools in another sense of the word.
The people and corporations who push using AI for everything are tools in another sense of the word.
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
AI is merely a tool, in one sense of that word.
The people and corporations who push using AI for everything are tools in another sense of the word.
The people and corporations who push using AI for everything are tools in another sense of the word.
almost two weeks since Halloween and our neighbor still has his “hanging bodies wrapped in black garbage bags” up
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
almost two weeks since Halloween and our neighbor still has his “hanging bodies wrapped in black garbage bags” up
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Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives.
Hmmmmm
Hmmmmm
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Funny how we all just “have to” accept AI as progress even if it’s janky and either has demonstrated no improvements to productivity or outright tanks it, but we never had to accept remote work despite every study showing it improves productivity AND workers lives.
Hmmmmm
Hmmmmm
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All of this suddenly makes so much more sense to me
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
All of this suddenly makes so much more sense to me
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CVS is best thought of as a kind of interactive museum exhibit where you can experience everything that has gone badly wrong with American capitalism.
You almost have to respect how CVS keeps frantically changing their systems like every other month and each time it gets progressively worse
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
CVS is best thought of as a kind of interactive museum exhibit where you can experience everything that has gone badly wrong with American capitalism.
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big titty Shrek take frozen treats
Part of it is that frozen delivery is so fucking expensive ever since CDLs doubled in value, and frozen warehouses are competing with server farms/data centers for power now lol
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
big titty Shrek take frozen treats
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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I think the thing that really made the Joyce Carol Oates tweet sting so bad is that it's a nerd power fantasy, this devasting, eloquent putdown that hurts worse than anything a bully can physically do to you, and that's the kind of thing he thinks he's supposed to be doing
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I think the thing that really made the Joyce Carol Oates tweet sting so bad is that it's a nerd power fantasy, this devasting, eloquent putdown that hurts worse than anything a bully can physically do to you, and that's the kind of thing he thinks he's supposed to be doing
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predator is a slasher movie and arnold schwarzenegger is the final girl
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
predator is a slasher movie and arnold schwarzenegger is the final girl
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timely reminder, the senate is itself an institution that hates you personally if you live in California
I never see this really emphasized in news about Senate votes so - reminder that the 45 Democratic senate seats represent something like 54% of the population.
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
timely reminder, the senate is itself an institution that hates you personally if you live in California
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"oh but this one is good" who cares, they're not your friends, they work for you. If they're actually good they'll win a tough primary
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"oh but this one is good" who cares, they're not your friends, they work for you. If they're actually good they'll win a tough primary
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Fun fact, for those who liked some of the stuff Target carried before they lost their damn minds? More upscale liquidation shops have been getting truckfuls of Threshold goods, Pattern products, etc for months now...
This is where I am.
All sales are an illusion except for damage discounts. lol
All sales are an illusion except for damage discounts. lol
No one can sell me anything ever at any time. It's not gonna work. I don't care that it's a white Christmas, your sale is a lie, just like Santa.
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Fun fact, for those who liked some of the stuff Target carried before they lost their damn minds? More upscale liquidation shops have been getting truckfuls of Threshold goods, Pattern products, etc for months now...
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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Again just do Universal SNAP, everyone gets a debit card for groceries and greenmarkets that refills every month- hell you’d save money on the red tape and admin costs, send it via the post office
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Again just do Universal SNAP, everyone gets a debit card for groceries and greenmarkets that refills every month- hell you’d save money on the red tape and admin costs, send it via the post office
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you put self-driving cars on the road and you kill a person, you should be scared. if you put a chatbot into kids' hands and tell them to use it and they use it and then they kill themselves, you should be really fucking scared. the idea that the wagons should circle *around you* is unbelievable.
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
you put self-driving cars on the road and you kill a person, you should be scared. if you put a chatbot into kids' hands and tell them to use it and they use it and then they kill themselves, you should be really fucking scared. the idea that the wagons should circle *around you* is unbelievable.
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Puffer jacket snoopy season is upon us
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Puffer jacket snoopy season is upon us
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warner brothers trickster figures explained
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
warner brothers trickster figures explained
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Pop was giddy sending me this.
I don't get it nor the meep meep reference. 🤷🏻♀️
I don't get it nor the meep meep reference. 🤷🏻♀️
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pop was giddy sending me this.
I don't get it nor the meep meep reference. 🤷🏻♀️
I don't get it nor the meep meep reference. 🤷🏻♀️
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jealousy professor
I think this bag is fake.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
jealousy professor