maybe it's just alberta but people's phone volume discipline in the airport is really bad. 3 diff people sitting next to me have had autoplay videos go off unsilenced!
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
maybe it's just alberta but people's phone volume discipline in the airport is really bad. 3 diff people sitting next to me have had autoplay videos go off unsilenced!
say what you will about dispatch's writing, i do think there's something commendable about how it requires a refutation of carceral logic for its good ending. not just in a totally thin way either. reading the steam discussions for it really reveals how that grates on people, or at least gamers
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
say what you will about dispatch's writing, i do think there's something commendable about how it requires a refutation of carceral logic for its good ending. not just in a totally thin way either. reading the steam discussions for it really reveals how that grates on people, or at least gamers
i thought lin manuel was only on one song on the new mountain goats album but sadly he has broken containment
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
i thought lin manuel was only on one song on the new mountain goats album but sadly he has broken containment
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The Authoritarian Stack: a concise interactive feature on the takeover of democratic institutions by tech oligarchs.
The U.S. may already be cooked, but the rest of the world still has time to shift toward sovereign platforms.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The U.S. may already be cooked, but the rest of the world still has time to shift toward sovereign platforms.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Authoritarian Stack: a concise interactive feature on the takeover of democratic institutions by tech oligarchs.
The U.S. may already be cooked, but the rest of the world still has time to shift toward sovereign platforms.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The U.S. may already be cooked, but the rest of the world still has time to shift toward sovereign platforms.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
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"I was working in the lab late one night"
Let me stop you right there. I am not listening to a song about work
Let me stop you right there. I am not listening to a song about work
October 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"I was working in the lab late one night"
Let me stop you right there. I am not listening to a song about work
Let me stop you right there. I am not listening to a song about work
sitting stunned in my car at the realization that the stanley parable is gen z's hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
October 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
sitting stunned in my car at the realization that the stanley parable is gen z's hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
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This whole series has been great, and genuinely moving, despite (or because of) being polished campaign video.
It is so rare to see those techniques—with that *surety*—used to say things like this, from positions like this, with a platform like this. No hedging, here.
Makes me want to do the work
It is so rare to see those techniques—with that *surety*—used to say things like this, from positions like this, with a platform like this. No hedging, here.
Makes me want to do the work
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This whole series has been great, and genuinely moving, despite (or because of) being polished campaign video.
It is so rare to see those techniques—with that *surety*—used to say things like this, from positions like this, with a platform like this. No hedging, here.
Makes me want to do the work
It is so rare to see those techniques—with that *surety*—used to say things like this, from positions like this, with a platform like this. No hedging, here.
Makes me want to do the work
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
i beat Consume Me yesterday, and i feel like it's story is undercut by the fact it is winnable. in this story about the pressures and pains of disordered eating and academic pressure i could have it all, never go to bed hungry, and ace every test because i was just good at it
September 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
i beat Consume Me yesterday, and i feel like it's story is undercut by the fact it is winnable. in this story about the pressures and pains of disordered eating and academic pressure i could have it all, never go to bed hungry, and ace every test because i was just good at it
folks, you ever notice the slang is when someone is "cooking" they're doing well, but once they're "cooked", then they're doing poorly. folks, it's like we're constantly living in a state of becoming, and to finally rest is to meet death
September 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
folks, you ever notice the slang is when someone is "cooking" they're doing well, but once they're "cooked", then they're doing poorly. folks, it's like we're constantly living in a state of becoming, and to finally rest is to meet death
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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In Mario Kart World, NPCs will park their cars, exit them, and walk around. However, the game does not actually keep track who each car belongs to. As such, a different NPC than the owner may drive away with a car, seemingly stealing it.
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In Mario Kart World, NPCs will park their cars, exit them, and walk around. However, the game does not actually keep track who each car belongs to. As such, a different NPC than the owner may drive away with a car, seemingly stealing it.
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This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.
I remember at the height of the .txt account phenomenon on twitter I became so enamored by it that I wrote a script to download a ton of fanfiction and made a regex to pull out random sentences but it was always the most banal and uninteresting stuff
September 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I remember at the height of the .txt account phenomenon on twitter I became so enamored by it that I wrote a script to download a ton of fanfiction and made a regex to pull out random sentences but it was always the most banal and uninteresting stuff
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A review of an app called "air horn"
August 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A review of an app called "air horn"
if anyone has good resources on opposing anti-trans "fairness in sports" policies i would greatly appreciate it at this time as one is going to hit my university
August 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
if anyone has good resources on opposing anti-trans "fairness in sports" policies i would greatly appreciate it at this time as one is going to hit my university
my manchurian candidate kill phrase is probably "david tennant is bandage oppa"
July 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
my manchurian candidate kill phrase is probably "david tennant is bandage oppa"
"chugging": going slow, "chugging along": going fast??
July 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"chugging": going slow, "chugging along": going fast??
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We’re hiring—join us at our worker-run co-op!! ko-opmode.applytojobs.ca/programming/...
Compensation includes $85,700 CAD a year, health benefits, flexible 4-day work week, and 25 paid vacation days + unlimited sick and personal days!
Compensation includes $85,700 CAD a year, health benefits, flexible 4-day work week, and 25 paid vacation days + unlimited sick and personal days!
July 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We’re hiring—join us at our worker-run co-op!! ko-opmode.applytojobs.ca/programming/...
Compensation includes $85,700 CAD a year, health benefits, flexible 4-day work week, and 25 paid vacation days + unlimited sick and personal days!
Compensation includes $85,700 CAD a year, health benefits, flexible 4-day work week, and 25 paid vacation days + unlimited sick and personal days!
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Last night I read a bunch of posts from women with LLM boyfriends and it made me think of this section from Computers as Theatre
June 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Last night I read a bunch of posts from women with LLM boyfriends and it made me think of this section from Computers as Theatre
my arms are sore today but not from working out, it was from holding my cat up to bugs in my house like a bug vacuum cleaner
June 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
my arms are sore today but not from working out, it was from holding my cat up to bugs in my house like a bug vacuum cleaner
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basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery
June 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery
googling how many semicolons used per annum
June 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
googling how many semicolons used per annum
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I read so many essays on AI's biases + dangers — particularly re: its applications in governance — and think: if you swapped "big data" for "AI," this very essay could've been written 10+yrs ago. In fact, this same essay was written, 100x, 10yrs ago. The think pieces perpetuate the ahistoricism.
June 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I read so many essays on AI's biases + dangers — particularly re: its applications in governance — and think: if you swapped "big data" for "AI," this very essay could've been written 10+yrs ago. In fact, this same essay was written, 100x, 10yrs ago. The think pieces perpetuate the ahistoricism.
a great mystery of life that when it's hot in my bedroom i can't sleep but when it's hot in my car i feel extremely sleepy
May 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
a great mystery of life that when it's hot in my bedroom i can't sleep but when it's hot in my car i feel extremely sleepy