Jason Cain
@pointyguitars.bsky.social
Academic. Musician. Barbecuist. Consumer of martinis. Just here increasing the entropy in the universe. Opinions are my own - attack arguments, not people.
@eliotetc.bsky.social @rickyftw.bsky.social Watched the latest episode, and the Sam Altman bit gave me flashbacks to being in a band in the late-90s/00s and having clubs offer to pay us in “exposure.” Lol, riiiiiiiight …
October 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
@eliotetc.bsky.social @rickyftw.bsky.social Watched the latest episode, and the Sam Altman bit gave me flashbacks to being in a band in the late-90s/00s and having clubs offer to pay us in “exposure.” Lol, riiiiiiiight …
Should I eat a sandwich right before bed? Probably not. Am I gonna? Yeah.
August 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Should I eat a sandwich right before bed? Probably not. Am I gonna? Yeah.
I often wonder if the pandemic led to where we are or just brought about the current era faster, whether it created this or simply hastened the inevitable. I tend to think the latter
August 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I often wonder if the pandemic led to where we are or just brought about the current era faster, whether it created this or simply hastened the inevitable. I tend to think the latter
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As expected, Anthropic is introducing weekly limits, after increasing costs dramatically on Cursor in late May/early June, and as I reported a few weeks ago, Claude code was costing anthropic remarkable amounts. I told you!!!
www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is...
www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is...
July 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
As expected, Anthropic is introducing weekly limits, after increasing costs dramatically on Cursor in late May/early June, and as I reported a few weeks ago, Claude code was costing anthropic remarkable amounts. I told you!!!
www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is...
www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-is...
Really sorta memed the life out of that Coldplay thing in record time I feel like.
July 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Really sorta memed the life out of that Coldplay thing in record time I feel like.
Ah, summer. When I get to enjoy sitting on the porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book, and being endlessly pelted by God's favorite practical joke - giving June bugs wings.
July 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Ah, summer. When I get to enjoy sitting on the porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book, and being endlessly pelted by God's favorite practical joke - giving June bugs wings.
Interesting what happens when people can no longer afford to to be blinded by endless consumption.
June 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Interesting what happens when people can no longer afford to to be blinded by endless consumption.
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I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...
ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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June 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...
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Zohran Mamdani having billionaires throwing everything they can at him reminds me of this.
June 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Zohran Mamdani having billionaires throwing everything they can at him reminds me of this.
Deep dish pizza now has a powerful ally in the war against New York style pizza.
May 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Deep dish pizza now has a powerful ally in the war against New York style pizza.
You know, I feel like if the best you can do is tell me "It will be delivered between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.," you could just leave it at, "Today sooner or later - maybe plan to order lunch in if you expect to actually get this today," would suffice, UPS.
May 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
You know, I feel like if the best you can do is tell me "It will be delivered between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.," you could just leave it at, "Today sooner or later - maybe plan to order lunch in if you expect to actually get this today," would suffice, UPS.
So “electrocute” is a portmanteau. I guess I never really thought about it until last night while listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social.
Can’t say that I’m shocked though. . .
I’ll show myself out now.
Can’t say that I’m shocked though. . .
I’ll show myself out now.
May 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So “electrocute” is a portmanteau. I guess I never really thought about it until last night while listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social.
Can’t say that I’m shocked though. . .
I’ll show myself out now.
Can’t say that I’m shocked though. . .
I’ll show myself out now.
Fried chicken is the final boss of addictions it seems.
April 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Fried chicken is the final boss of addictions it seems.
You learn pretty quickly to not stick your finger in a light socket after doing it. No amount of being told seems to teach that lesson like doing it.
Shame that 30% of the country is forcing a collective version of this by needing to rip things down to remember why they were built to begin with.
Shame that 30% of the country is forcing a collective version of this by needing to rip things down to remember why they were built to begin with.
April 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
You learn pretty quickly to not stick your finger in a light socket after doing it. No amount of being told seems to teach that lesson like doing it.
Shame that 30% of the country is forcing a collective version of this by needing to rip things down to remember why they were built to begin with.
Shame that 30% of the country is forcing a collective version of this by needing to rip things down to remember why they were built to begin with.
You know, if you look at human history since the neolithic revolution and the rise and fall of empire, America really blew ours pretty quickly in a spectacularly stupid way. Makes you think that those European powers in the 1800s who saw us as a bunch of yokels pretty much called it.
April 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
You know, if you look at human history since the neolithic revolution and the rise and fall of empire, America really blew ours pretty quickly in a spectacularly stupid way. Makes you think that those European powers in the 1800s who saw us as a bunch of yokels pretty much called it.
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March Madness: Florida wins its third national title and denies Houston its first, rallying for a 65-63 victory.
Florida wins its third national title and denies Houston its first, rallying for 65-63 victory
Florida and Walter Clayton Jr. somehow overcame Houston’s spirit-crushing defense Monday night to will out a 65-63 victory in an NCAA title-game thriller not decided until Clayton’s own D stopped the Cougars from taking a game-winning shot at the buzzer.
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April 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
March Madness: Florida wins its third national title and denies Houston its first, rallying for a 65-63 victory.
It's weird to me how 18th Century enlightenment thinkers are fetishized by a segment of our population, yet they seem to know nothing about them. For instance, if you think this tariff business makes any sense, never use the phrase "invisible hand" ever again. Adam Smith is rolling in his grave.
April 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It's weird to me how 18th Century enlightenment thinkers are fetishized by a segment of our population, yet they seem to know nothing about them. For instance, if you think this tariff business makes any sense, never use the phrase "invisible hand" ever again. Adam Smith is rolling in his grave.
Had three flights cancel on me today and met Cornell West before giving up and driving from Memphis back to Oxford through an hour’s worth of tornado warnings.
What was your Saturday like?
What was your Saturday like?
April 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Had three flights cancel on me today and met Cornell West before giving up and driving from Memphis back to Oxford through an hour’s worth of tornado warnings.
What was your Saturday like?
What was your Saturday like?
Every year since 2010 - "I am going to really get ahead of this conference deadline this year and save myself the last minute freakout."
And every year since 2010 - "Well, guess I'm writing 3/4s of this paper in 48 hours while trying not to devolve into a weeping mass hiding in the corner"
And every year since 2010 - "Well, guess I'm writing 3/4s of this paper in 48 hours while trying not to devolve into a weeping mass hiding in the corner"
March 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Every year since 2010 - "I am going to really get ahead of this conference deadline this year and save myself the last minute freakout."
And every year since 2010 - "Well, guess I'm writing 3/4s of this paper in 48 hours while trying not to devolve into a weeping mass hiding in the corner"
And every year since 2010 - "Well, guess I'm writing 3/4s of this paper in 48 hours while trying not to devolve into a weeping mass hiding in the corner"
Some days I find myself wondering that if, as a species, we're going to end up extinct due to ourselves, a natural catastrophe, the growing brightness of the sun, or the heat death of the universe anyway, that maybe the whole neolithic revolution was a mistake.
March 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Some days I find myself wondering that if, as a species, we're going to end up extinct due to ourselves, a natural catastrophe, the growing brightness of the sun, or the heat death of the universe anyway, that maybe the whole neolithic revolution was a mistake.
Always fun seeing if I can get a group of high school students to engage with a bunch of German and French 20th century media sociology. They were super into it this year, which was heartening.
March 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Always fun seeing if I can get a group of high school students to engage with a bunch of German and French 20th century media sociology. They were super into it this year, which was heartening.
This is all so stupid. Assuming no one lobs a nuke and touches off the apocalypse, we're about to teach ourselves that maybe our grandparents and great grandparents came up with all of these agencies and systems for a reason by immiserating most of the population for a couple of decades again.
March 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is all so stupid. Assuming no one lobs a nuke and touches off the apocalypse, we're about to teach ourselves that maybe our grandparents and great grandparents came up with all of these agencies and systems for a reason by immiserating most of the population for a couple of decades again.
I feel like these guys must take bets on how far they can go before the base doesn't believe it.
"Yeah, so, say that Canada has been taken over by Mexican drug cartels. No way they'll buy that."
24 hours later.
"Bro! Bruuuh! They totally fucking bought that too! We can just say anything!"
"Yeah, so, say that Canada has been taken over by Mexican drug cartels. No way they'll buy that."
24 hours later.
"Bro! Bruuuh! They totally fucking bought that too! We can just say anything!"
Peter Navarro: “Canada has been taken over by Mexican cartels”
Big if true
Big if true
March 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I feel like these guys must take bets on how far they can go before the base doesn't believe it.
"Yeah, so, say that Canada has been taken over by Mexican drug cartels. No way they'll buy that."
24 hours later.
"Bro! Bruuuh! They totally fucking bought that too! We can just say anything!"
"Yeah, so, say that Canada has been taken over by Mexican drug cartels. No way they'll buy that."
24 hours later.
"Bro! Bruuuh! They totally fucking bought that too! We can just say anything!"
Employing the rope-a-dope strategy to preserve some sort of democracy here as we, the most powerful military power in human history by an order of magnitude, are pulling the whole world to the eve of 1914 is a bold strategy, Cotton.
Let's see if it pays off for us.
Let's see if it pays off for us.
March 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Employing the rope-a-dope strategy to preserve some sort of democracy here as we, the most powerful military power in human history by an order of magnitude, are pulling the whole world to the eve of 1914 is a bold strategy, Cotton.
Let's see if it pays off for us.
Let's see if it pays off for us.