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Robert Duval was in some very good movies. One of my favorite movies he is in will always be Secondhand Lions.
February 17, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Robert Duval was in some very good movies. One of my favorite movies he is in will always be Secondhand Lions.
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I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary.
It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
February 1, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary.
It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
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Important perspective from Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Important perspective from Greenland.
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
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I can't believe I have to say this, but please do not take revolutionary OPSEC advice from YA novels Cory Doctorow wrote almost twenty years ago.
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I can't believe I have to say this, but please do not take revolutionary OPSEC advice from YA novels Cory Doctorow wrote almost twenty years ago.
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
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Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Good old Woz. Good for him.
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These are the people trying to tell us what masculinity is
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
These are the people trying to tell us what masculinity is
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It has been my thesis for a couple of decades now that people don't read, don't know how to read, don't know that they can't read and the same goes for numbers.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It has been my thesis for a couple of decades now that people don't read, don't know how to read, don't know that they can't read and the same goes for numbers.
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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when your memory fails
October 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when your memory fails
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
"This kind of content is basically the water young people swim in now. "
www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
September 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"This kind of content is basically the water young people swim in now. "
www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
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This is Seiko. He was just adopted. Now that he finally has a human of his very own, he's never letting go. 14/10 (TT: seikotherescue)
September 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is Seiko. He was just adopted. Now that he finally has a human of his very own, he's never letting go. 14/10 (TT: seikotherescue)
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Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
August 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
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For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
August 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
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One of the biggest societal crimes was allowing programmers to imagine they were information scientists and not digital plumbers.
August 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
One of the biggest societal crimes was allowing programmers to imagine they were information scientists and not digital plumbers.
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Mission Pawsable….
So adorable…. 🥰 😂
🐶 ❤️
So adorable…. 🥰 😂
🐶 ❤️
July 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Mission Pawsable….
So adorable…. 🥰 😂
🐶 ❤️
So adorable…. 🥰 😂
🐶 ❤️
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My mom, who has a Master’s in Library Science, taught me indexing when I was a kid, I learned basic assembly language coding as a teen, and I took semiotics in college. And *I* usually can’t get these AI “helpers” to return accurate, useful query results!
Conclusion: they just fcking suck!
Conclusion: they just fcking suck!
"AI can never fail, it can only be failed" seems to be the fallacy taking root in some tech circles. It's not that AI sucks, it's that all of us smooth-brained Luddites who just don’t *get* it www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/t...
Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown | CNN Business
Apple has been getting hammered in tech and financial media for its uncharacteristically messy foray into artificial intelligence. After a June event heralding a new AI-powered Siri, the company has d...
www.cnn.com
March 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
My mom, who has a Master’s in Library Science, taught me indexing when I was a kid, I learned basic assembly language coding as a teen, and I took semiotics in college. And *I* usually can’t get these AI “helpers” to return accurate, useful query results!
Conclusion: they just fcking suck!
Conclusion: they just fcking suck!
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The safer you are in an environment of rising authoritarianism, the more obligation you have to make some noise on behalf of the people who are more vulnerable than you. Indeed, this is the only way you might avoid having the leopards eat your face.
March 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The safer you are in an environment of rising authoritarianism, the more obligation you have to make some noise on behalf of the people who are more vulnerable than you. Indeed, this is the only way you might avoid having the leopards eat your face.
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Headline: WE WERE BADLY MISLED ABOUT COVID!!!
Content of oped: OK, there’s still no evidence of a lab origin and let’s not even mention the mounting evidence it started in the market but here’s a recap of some uneven lab-leak talking points from the last few years
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Content of oped: OK, there’s still no evidence of a lab origin and let’s not even mention the mounting evidence it started in the market but here’s a recap of some uneven lab-leak talking points from the last few years
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid
The same dangerous mistakes. The same lack of candor.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Headline: WE WERE BADLY MISLED ABOUT COVID!!!
Content of oped: OK, there’s still no evidence of a lab origin and let’s not even mention the mounting evidence it started in the market but here’s a recap of some uneven lab-leak talking points from the last few years
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Content of oped: OK, there’s still no evidence of a lab origin and let’s not even mention the mounting evidence it started in the market but here’s a recap of some uneven lab-leak talking points from the last few years
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
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If you thought season 1 of 2020 was off the rails, wait for season 5
March 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
If you thought season 1 of 2020 was off the rails, wait for season 5
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I think about this headline all of the time.
February 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think about this headline all of the time.
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being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)