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aaron

@aaron.mn

Most importantly, please go vote so I don't have to issue a depressing update here:

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We're in the final hours of my city's mayoral race as I write this. On one side, Zohran Mamdani has run a campaign centered on his sincere love for New York City and the people who make it vibrant. His success has been a rare source to hope during one of darkest years of my lifetime. His opponent, Andrew Cuomo, lazily began his campaign by releasing a housing plan generated by ChatGPT. He's since buried social media in libelous AI-generated ads designed to make you hateful and afraid. AI-generated imagery has been so central to his campaign that it's impossible to separate its aesthetic from his character. If you want a world where political campaigns look like Cuomo's, then again, I'm not sure what to tell you.

November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM

aaron

@aaron.mn

These guys are living my absolute dream life

Staying small also meant eschewing the production practices commonplace at many game-development studios.

"What is Jira?" Gibson said when I asked if they used the task-management application.

"Is it a software?" Pellen said, adding that they'd briefly used Trello before their account was deactivated because they didn't use it enough.

August 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM

aaron

@aaron.mn

You know I'll be quoting this verbatim every time I fuck up at anything, forever. Eighty years old, caught stealing M&M's from the nurse, saying that I just wanted to have one good friend. It's nothing.

"I make a mistake," she said. "I'm so sorry. It's a culture thing. I don't know. I don't understand. I'm so sorry. I feel so bad right now. I'm so sorry honey."

She then called THE CITY back, advising that we call her attorney, Steven Brill, and adding, "Can we forget about this? I try to be a good person. Please. Please. Please don't do in the news nothing about me."

"I just wanted to be her friend," Greco added. "I just wanted to have one good friend. It's nothing."

August 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM

aaron

@aaron.mn

This argument is so dishonest because simulating conversation is low on the list of reasons Duolingo has declined in quality over the last year. Lessons are becoming nonsensical and the app is overrun with annoying upsells even though I pay for the non-AI tier and repeatedly decline to “upgrade.”