Not to absolutely crater the mood, but I saw a christmas giving tree today that had “grocery store gift card” as one of the tags, and it took everything i had to not drop to my knees sobbing.

Evil country, we should take such better care of each other.

Love to develop a solution to a problem that was solved, and that increases capex by a gazillion percent

This really outlines how nonsensical the "you can't say mean things about the robot" discourse was. The reality is even if these guys created intelligent life from silicon, they're still gonna force it to do sex work without asking.

I took a cloud computing class in grad school, and remember you had to sign a waver that if you blew through your credits, and ran up a huge bill, you were on the hook. One of the best immediate lessons to lead things off with tbh.

I apologize even more profusely for you having to witness it all firsthand, what a shit-show

They was a whole conspiracy that every major mediocre/failed game of the past few years was the result of a single DEI consultancy firm, regardless of why the game had criticism.
I apologize for cursing you with this knowledge.

The Bluesky natsec Swifty, not to be confused with the tech Swifty, or the information security Swifty

#2 was always so weird to see happen in real time. Seeing based, pilled, soy, cuck etc. go from weird right wing circles to regular parlance always seemed like a subtle-ish canary for Not Good Things.

DHH is such a weird case study, because his initial brand was around work practices that, for all intents and purpose, was quite woke!

I feel like this is one of those "butterfly flaps its wings" moments where I'll see you on a DEFCON stage in a year or two giving talks on bottling e-commerce websites after becoming a domain expert trying to get one of these.

Bene Gesserit trying to create the Kwisatz Haderach of left-wing online posting

I always just wanted a reasonable life in tech building cool stuff that makes people happy; I cannot even begin to understand these people who would do anything and crush anyone for one more dollar.