Andrew G. (formerly marginoferror@twitter)
@petterofcats.bsky.social
Perennial native to PNW. Needs drainage, shade. Prickly and difficult to transplant. Harvest hot takes promptly and shelter indoors in winter. He/Him
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Everyone wants to make “sense” of things, but we are all currently hostage to an irrationalist epistemic environment. You might as well just read the entrails of a slaughtered goat to divine where events are headed.
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Everyone wants to make “sense” of things, but we are all currently hostage to an irrationalist epistemic environment. You might as well just read the entrails of a slaughtered goat to divine where events are headed.
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Klingon High Council,
I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails.
Worf
I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails.
Worf
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Klingon High Council,
I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails.
Worf
I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails.
Worf
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I am 100% pro Larian doing whatever pervert shit it wants and I can’t wait for another game where you can like, fuck a squid or whatever, but it really does further drive home the two-tier system of enforcement on storefronts. Bg3 contains basically everything small games get banned for
December 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I am 100% pro Larian doing whatever pervert shit it wants and I can’t wait for another game where you can like, fuck a squid or whatever, but it really does further drive home the two-tier system of enforcement on storefronts. Bg3 contains basically everything small games get banned for
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This is an interesting version of cell-derived eat. Instead of trying to grow meat from cells, they just multiply pork fat cells, without killing any animals, then add it to otherwise vegetarian products. missionbarns.com
Mission Barns
We're making meat that's better for you and the world.
missionbarns.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This is an interesting version of cell-derived eat. Instead of trying to grow meat from cells, they just multiply pork fat cells, without killing any animals, then add it to otherwise vegetarian products. missionbarns.com
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I don’t know if it only makes sense without the periphery stuff, but Nier has books, stage plays, etc. I once asked Taro about this and how are English fans supposed to keep up and he looked confused and asked “Why would you need to keep up? Who needs all of that?”
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I don’t know if it only makes sense without the periphery stuff, but Nier has books, stage plays, etc. I once asked Taro about this and how are English fans supposed to keep up and he looked confused and asked “Why would you need to keep up? Who needs all of that?”
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In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
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Potentially a big deal for space. SpaceX had a monopoly on this trick for about a decade. None of the national agencies have caught up. Now, there are two players.
Breaking News: Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, landed a booster from its New Glenn orbital rocket, matching a feat so far only achieved by SpaceX.
Blue Origin Lands Booster After Rocket Launch and Matches SpaceX’s Feat
The lower half of the New Glenn rocket set down on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean after lifting a small NASA Mars mission to space.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Potentially a big deal for space. SpaceX had a monopoly on this trick for about a decade. None of the national agencies have caught up. Now, there are two players.
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i don’t like him, but, man, turning down $10M in favor of haterdom is an all-time, world-class, heavyweight champion hater move
according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
i don’t like him, but, man, turning down $10M in favor of haterdom is an all-time, world-class, heavyweight champion hater move
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check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby
That's funny because the number one product I need is a system that identifies and blocks low-quality, high-engagement content.
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities. www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities.
www.wired.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
That's funny because the number one product I need is a system that identifies and blocks low-quality, high-engagement content.
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Tragically, once you introduce costly signaling, all mathematics is impure.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Tragically, once you introduce costly signaling, all mathematics is impure.
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/signal-4
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
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It would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening
March 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
It would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening
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"they're being so damn weird about it" is such winning messaging on so many topics tbh. people don't want to get lumped in with The Weirdos Who Obsess Over People Just Hanging Out
dudes rock this guy rocks
dudes rock this guy rocks
guy who brought the trans flag we iwo jima’d described himself as “yeah i was pretty neutral about trans people, think i still am honestly, but these people are being so goddamn weird about it that i gotta get off the fence”
October 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"they're being so damn weird about it" is such winning messaging on so many topics tbh. people don't want to get lumped in with The Weirdos Who Obsess Over People Just Hanging Out
dudes rock this guy rocks
dudes rock this guy rocks
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When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
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About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
October 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
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baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other
October 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other
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several Watergates-per-day
Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.
I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.
I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.
October 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
several Watergates-per-day
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Free trade worked basically as advertised - the problem is that anti-traders get to argue from an imaginary world of 1920s ads and free traders have to defend the real world
October 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Free trade worked basically as advertised - the problem is that anti-traders get to argue from an imaginary world of 1920s ads and free traders have to defend the real world
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The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.
October 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
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I knew they’d come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than “Our Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!”
“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”
October 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I knew they’d come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than “Our Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!”
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feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.
buff.ly
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak