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the “you should love ai” line is best outlined by a recent joe rogan episode. he LOVES ai music and always tells guests this. a guest pushed back on him saying “i’ve heard ai podcasts are amazing too” and joe rogan immediately pushes back. losers love it until it comes for them

im a single issue voter and that issue is Imperial Webway

i am a workflow enjoyer and i'm addicted to astrophotography's various workflows, all of which run through a half dozen niche freeware programs i've never heard of before

the best bit of Dukat's character is that he does feel shame for his crimes, and that shame is what drives him to increasingly insane heights of villainy.

Garak just punched the clock at the fascism factory. Dukat needed a constant stream of people telling him "this is good. you're good."

so the only legislative victories of labour, the uk's "centre-left" party are thus far
1. legal to kill grandma
2. all trans people banned
3. like 65% of all adults are now technically terrorists
4. do you have a loicense to read wikipedia

Master and Commander/TNG Intro

this was rendering all day while I was out lol

social democracy is at least partly built on the premise that people pay tax and they get public services. That relationship was weakened under Thatcherism, strengthened again under Blair, but in the last decade has basically… collapsed? The sense that “nothing works” in Britain is so strong.

I really think this goes for national government too. Large numbers of people voted Labour because you can’t get an ambulance to come to your house any more and there’s sewage on all the beaches. If those things aren’t solved, then… where does the electorate go from there?

I have a colony of lepers making rifles for me. If they help me kill the forest spirit, they get the hill!

the thing you could always tell with Penn and Teller is even when they were incredibly wrong it was never out of a desire to inflict cruelty or pain, and once most of the libertarian movement merged with the authoritarian right cruelty was the whole game

Underground Wizard Battles always particularly intense at this time of year.

I happened to mention at work that I dislike the expression "nothing is certain in life except death and taxis", as taxis can be famously unreliable and hard to get hold of at certain times of day. They laughed at me for a solid half-hour and my nickname is now "Uber".

I am going insane. This company will lose $10bn this year! Generative AI has peaked! There isn't a sustainable business model, and the products are mediocre and error prone and don't even do anything cool despite costing billions and accelerating climate change and stealing everybody's artwork!

One of the reasons I moved to my village was seeing this note on a car windscreen when we came here for a walk one day

Of all the parts of WH40k I thought would come true first I didn't have money on 'all engineers begin worshipping the machine spirit and become cultists'

Pre-battle speeches at LARP

Gonklave (2024)

Gonk With The Wind (1940)