former experimentalist at CERN (Antimatter Factory), current professional tech industry grump
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latest freakonomics episode: dumbest man interviews biggest hypocrite, never makes him explain his hypocricy, lets him lie without challenging it. ends episode with glowing comment on biggest hypocrite, unaware that he looked like an absolute rube for the entire interview
Elizabeth Holmes posting success memes about lifting in prison is about as close to an actual pale horse in history.
The 'beans are woke' story from Reddit just illustrates how pathetically exhausting living that way must be. How utterly terrified of the world they must be. www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comm...
'his true self hidden behind doe-like eyes' the three examples they picked are the most 'can't shut the fuck up about what they think' motherfuckers possible
i don't think i have seen such ivocative imagery to describe the never trump posters before. thank you
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
me playing eve online in 2012: Goons are ruining everything me living in the US in 2025: Goons are ruining everything
everything is going to shit but i am going to watch omar sy be a magical french thief
Diop for most of part 3 of Lupin
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
yo this guy is cooking
ocassionally podcasts i listen to will offer a suggestion of an idea on how they can improve the 'experience' of their podcast and I am hit with the very hard reminder that they don't actually listen to any, or many, podcasts
The richest in America have spent billions building simulacra of whatever nonsense or awfulness they want to be true. Funding judges to make a nonsense idea treated as historical default, making crypto a thing by propping it despite it failing, acting like dictators when they have no authority to
They want all the awfulness and state violence of the Republicans without having to feel bad about cheering for that
It is hard to express how frustrating Newsom's tactics make it clear that a large chunk of Democrats aren't liberal let alone progressive, with the joyful platforming of police brutality, throwing minority groups under the bus, and criminalising the existence of the poor.
The McKinsey special
i needed a few business cards for an upcoming conference (like 10) but it was cheaper to buy 500 than any other amount so i now have 500 business cards arriving in a week or two that i will have minimal use for outside of just yeeting them everywhere
Late to the party, but Death Stranding was a hell of an experience. Kojima ass shit in places, but somehow it all did come together
I don't think they'll pardon, I think they will just not pursue any justice to the point where sentences would be handed out
Probably not, Dems will say they want to move past and left all the criminals stay in power to do it again when they get a chance
modern devs opting against keeping explosives in proximity to their servers is a troubling signal for the industry
looking forward to CN claiming that he never said inference was going down despite the extensive evidence of him claiming exactly that
I think the pace at which business and economics news has flipped on GenAI and calling it a bubble is going to accelerate the pop. It feels like within a week everyone has gone for a booster to a sceptic and that is likely to spook the situation even more. Looking forward to another recession
c'est violemment français, tellement français que ça ressemble presque à ce que les Québécois pensent être le français
The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**
they can't debug basic errors, the idea that even basic security will be maintained is laughable. I wrote a report about software supply chain security maturity for RedHat a bit ago and basically every one of the vibe apps would score so poorly that it would have broken our scales
Jesus christ this is incredible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...
The paper of Gene Siskel (and Dave Kehr, and Michael Wilmington, and the great Michael Phillips) will no longer have a film critic.
America basically forgot about J6, and has worked hard to forget that a MAGA assassinated a politician and tried to kill a whole bunch in Minnesota. All your country does is forget
literally running into this as a market researcher on developers. no one selling tools gives a shit about the users because the goal is just to convince the C-suite it is required, it doesn't matter a lack of utility, just have to convince them they will die if they don't use it
I forgot about this for a while but the Bryce Elder "Sam Altman's kitchen" piece may be one of my favourite things I've read in business or tech history. www.ft.com/content/b180...
me when i realise i am missing a crucial spice mid cooking
Stalker: Everyone told me, I didn't vibe Bastion: Everyone told me to play it, I liked it fine RAGE: Was a bit of a short experience for the price GTA Pack: Never played Universe Sandbox: I like space, strong starting point
I enjoyed this article, as it was interesting to hear another's experience as well as commentary from the developers. But I never felt any real intuitive understanding or sense of place in Cyberpunk. What Cyberpunk 2077 Can Teach Real-World Cities - aftermath.site/cyberpunk-ur...
JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror theonion.com/jd-vanc...
two thoughts a few episodes in. 1. I feel like bands like this don't exist anymore 2. Either Alison is a genuinely despicable person or she was rude to one of the editors once. She is villainous in this edit. Rude, bullying, gaslighting, and just being a twat
I genuinely wish the hard fork podcast would stop talking about the potential of things when they fucking suck right now. the review of the new Alexa made it sound an abject failure with utterly broken functionality and then still talked about how interesting it could be in the future. Embarrassing
They love quoting Loeb because he is the perfect example of being good in one field (physics) doesn't mean you are necessarily good in another (basic critical thinking)
This encapsulates what it felt like moving to NYC after getting a musical theater degree
watching build a band on Netflix. netflix love putting people in non descript boxes
From podcasts in similar spaces to yours, I sub to the patreons for 'premium series' and more relaxed conversations on things where there isn't enough for a whole traditional episode.
he also seemed like a competent climber. Hard grade and showed proficiency, just no awareness that someone falling on him from 3m up might be bad
had to shout at a boulderer for the first time in like two years. Started climbing under me while I was trying to hang onto a bunch of crimps. He genuinely seemed confused why he wouldn't just stand under me while I am trying desperately not to fall off
I'm not watching a damn podcast. I've seen enough pivot to video periods murdering the careers and finances of people I like that I'm not falling for it again
Blaming everything except running on shitty politics for losing the white house
the images of starvation are harder to ignore now because of the ceasefire news sites and channels began doing their post-war 'oh no, what could have been done to kill less Gazans' analysis when Bibi began bombing and killing again which broke the uncrossable line
my weekend plans have been ruined
The list of jobs is *deeply* unserious but is a reminder that the idiots in charge of these companies do genuinely believe things like this. The utter disrepect that humanities has recieved by developers and STEM bros is an existential crisis at this point.
As a former CERN physicist, there was always intense crackpottery being emailed to me everyday that did a decent job, occasionally, of mimicking the field well. But there has always been an issue with frauds who sound proper while doing nothing in physics
I need to sell some tulip bulbs...
Look at your other agencies address are gleefully helping them, because all law enforcement are bastards. These agencies must be collapsed and gutted but democrats will go back to hating immigrants if they get power back
I spend too much time telling people that the unedited LLM stuff looks cheap and like we don't give a shit. Granted, I know a lot of them don't give a shit but for public facing stuff I'd prefer we didn't like goobers
damn
@milesofgray.bsky.social @jackob1.bsky.social The TDZ subreddit crossed 10k this weekend :) www.reddit.com/r/thedailyze...
“keep politics out of kids movies” disney in 1973:
Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
Fortunately, the in-laws are visiting Vienna this weekend so helped unload the car and take it to the apartment while I tried to return the car on time while stuck in stupid Viennese traffic
Rented a car to pick up a new bed from Willhaben (Austrian Craigslist). Wife managed to also find a wardrobe and kitchen island to collect on the same day. I have spent most of the day disassembling furniture and furiously loading them in to the car
空壺の人
Meta seems to have rolled out some new service that locks you from scrolling last adverts until you watch them for 5 seconds. Absolutely not, done with them now
all these fucking billionaires want to claim they could have been physicists but none of them are or were. They're all fucking goobers who can't be happy with their pile of I'll gotten gold. God they're detestable
My work gave me a Dell XPS (15 I think). Has beefy RAM for work tasks and I generally like it
A bit late to the party, but Witcher 3: really good game. Would recommend, looking forward to 4 whenever it releases now
You just said 'guy', I incorrectly assumed you meant Mahmoud. It's not deflecting. I don't know the details of Hasan's two hour questioning at O'Hare
I was talking about Mahmoud, not Hasan, as I assumed you were aware of Hasan
No, this is the guy that was arrested for speaking out against Israel and held in a detention centre in Louisiana for two months
also, I don't mind people who have disagreements with me or who I differ with. I just don't want to hang out in a Nazi bar with a fuckton Nazis and an algorithm that pushes them in front of me all the time
i am also shook by how little impact the film had on me in any other way. i have little else to say
The F1 movie is such a bizarre experience as a fan of F1 the sport. It is sort of like a bizarro universe version of the sport but all the real people are just floating around in the background
Someone reading House of Leaves for the first time
lol
we quite literally hashed this out 80 years ago.
listinening to the 'Oh God What Now?' podcast hosts get themselves in a tiffy over Bob Vylan's performance with some of the worst defences and comments possible. My dudes, it is not antisemetic things against the IDF because service is mandatory. There is no mandatory participation in genocide
One of the things I see being danced around in the KF coverage is the AI problem, but it is being falsely attributed to execs believing AI is replacing people. It is not, it is that Microsoft needs to do some financial fuckery to hide how much money they are losing on AI currently.
They're also slashing market research spending at a huge rate
Moved to Vienna, after a week of chaos packing, a day of driving, and an evening of emptying the delivery van, all on very little food. We now need to unpack all the boxes, and buy new furniture, all while this move has wiped out my savings
SCOTUS is destroying America, the spending bill makes explicit America as a police state with an unaccountable federal unit, and Democrats are wasting every minute on air attacking a Mayoral candidate that energised the base to support two criminals. Primary every last one of them
Picture reminded of this moment but even he has better discipline about where to point the shooty end
You might’ve heard @audioworm.bsky.social on The Dream a few months back predicting this outcome. Unfathomable until it’s not!
The stupidest option being the most likely is a miserably effective prediction approach with Trump 2 admin
i have been enjoying Witcher 3 so much more playing it on my Steamdeck than when I tried a few years back. I do an hour here or there and it makes the side quests feel like little treats and the main story feel like a nice tv show episode.
all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat
It would be curious and interesting to see what London could do in terms of experimentation and progressive-leading policy, similar to the US Fed and California's relationship. Though I would have to check the relative GDP and population relationships.
he fucking did it. i am so stoked
From a key Mamdani adviser ❤️
Which way western Democrat?
Meta woke up this morning and unleashed some new automoderation tool which has nuked hundreds, possibly thousands, of massive groups. The community is immediately blaming AI, and are rightly furious at Meta. www.reddit.com/r/facebook/
The period of time the Dutch call their Gilded Age is 'oh god you're monsters' yet they keep the name
"mommy why is Teheran a green crater" "well, this one video game about depression got a good review from an ex boyfriend..."
we went from a delulu economy to a labubu economy
I got mad and I wrote about it.
Target Attempts to Win Back LGBTQ+ Community by Announcing Company Mascot Bullseye is a Power Bottom thehardtimes.net/culture/targ...
sometimes i like to remind the cats that they're adopted
A sign sighted at a Rhode Island #nokings rally. I definitely can get behind this.
