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An interesting hypothetical if you’re wondering if Elon Musk is a genius or not is to compare his behaviour in any situation to what a complete moron would do in the same situation

submitted 5 hours ago • 62 comments

cos he's the richest guy in the world probably

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of elle magazine: thread

submitted 15 days ago • 210 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Sleep Hard With a Vengeance

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

My other favourites from the near-lost art of the newspaper billboard

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

No, and also fuck off.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I was just like plasticine, being moulded into a libertine dream

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is a fantastic point I had not considered before. The _act_ of writing is the actual practice, not the end-result. The refining of so much you do happens in the dialogue you have with the page.

submitted 27 days ago • 45 comments

All the babies in this grocery store are crying and they are correct

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Picard management tip: Don't assume anything is possible or impossible until you've asked the people who will be doing the work.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

i’m in my extremely late 30s

submitted 35 days ago • 24 comments

Four years since my son wrote the best opening to a mystery novel ever written.

submitted 42 days ago • 476 comments

Explain your username. Well, in 1999ish I needed a handle so I could use MSN messenger and my name is Chris so obviously I went with Dave and I don't know you explain it, I was 14, tell me with a straight face you support all the decisions you made when you were 14.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

submitted 44 days ago • 489 comments

on zuck's gold chain open.substack.com/pub/maxread/...

submitted 43 days ago • 37 comments

==Training Lesson== INVESTIGATION NARRATIVE: SSH Kill la Killed 🧵 My job is to solve the Weird Problems as the Final escalation tier. I do this with generalist knowledge and practical experience. New InfoSec/IT entrants often ask what this looks like in practice. Follow below.

submitted 42 days ago • 19 comments

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

submitted 43 days ago • 333 comments

it's time to kill the music it's time to cut the lights it's time to fight the Muppets in the parking lot tonight

submitted 46 days ago • 289 comments

why do people twitter

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

photoshopping the muppets onto iconic album covers: thread

submitted 57 days ago • 48 comments

omg it worked

submitted 51 days ago • 53 comments

Thursday 29th September Appeared on several radio stations. Was very good at it.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up

submitted 55 days ago • 177 comments

omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

submitted 55 days ago • 211 comments

Don't use dodgy illegal streaming sites. Also don't trust mainstream new site that can't even be bothered to run articles through a spelling and grammar checker.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Alarming uptick in followbots over the last couple of weeks :-/

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Kieran Culkin’s characters really make me feel seen because they’re all like, what if the most annoying man ever was also very sad

submitted 70 days ago • 12 comments