1) "Aluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuvium"
(this was a running gag/quote in geology grad school)

2) "I Feel I Was Denied Critical. Need To Know. Information."

went to advanced screening of Serenity, chock full of die-hard Firefly fans.. it went to black instead of finished credits, I ad libbed the zombie "grrr... argh..." sound from the Mutant Enemy production company credit that comes at end of every Firefly episode... entire theater burst out laughing

we are so cooked

(assuming this is related to the AI doll parroting PRC talking points on Taiwan, but that might just because that's what this is juxtaposed with in my feed?)

if it makes you feel better - this morning witnessed the cashier at local gas station pour an entire glass jar worth of sugar into their coffee (e.g. lid came off)

and it touched on Ross D.'s slop interview with Peter Thiel... and like... my dude... you are the avatar of religious conservatives in our republic of letters... how can you let this tech bro do self-insert Revelations fanfic without doing any pushback on the heresy of it all? /2

just listened to a podcast about Peter Thiel's buck-wild exegesis of Revelations / how Greta T. is the antichrist / how making AGI can stop Armageddon (JFC - I miss the days when Transhumanists were just atheist libertarians in denial that their central meme was the techno-rapture)... /1

reminds me of the LEGO guy I had coming out of a coffee shop - I named him "exactly the kind of douchebag who would order {google result for longest possible Starbucks order which couldn't fit in a BlueSky skeet}, and then berate the barista for getting his order wrong"

yes