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POV: You're 16, believe being in advanced placement math class means you're a once in a generation genius, and have just discovered Reddit.

submitted 3 days ago • 330 comments

People literally died from Covid while claiming it doesn’t exist. There is never going to be a wake up call for some people. A lot of people. It’s not about convincing them if they can’t be convinced. IMO it’s about overwhelming them entirely with opposition.

submitted 7 days ago • 90 comments

This is a shocking thing from AI discourse online. People say to me "AI is the only thing helping me learn physics, I can't follow the textbooks. I know it's wrong a lot though." Babe, you have not learned physics. You used a garbage tool and now you think you know something. Which is worse!!

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Just as it did during the rise of the Nazis a century ago, the New York Times is twisting itself in knots to avoid calling fascists fascists. Germany’s AfD is not a “party that downplays Nazis.” It’s a neo-Nazi party.

submitted 11 days ago • 62 comments

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

submitted 17 days ago • 464 comments

So the kid who didnt know what version control was is rebuilding the national payment system, the kid from kiwifarms has your SSN, the "kid" with the Twitter account from apartheid South Africa has your address and the kid who wanted an llm to convert a pdf has your tax return, did I get them all?

submitted 19 days ago • 53 comments

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

submitted 28 days ago • 350 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 26 days ago • 510 comments

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

submitted 28 days ago • 993 comments

leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block

submitted 30 days ago • 126 comments

An odd thing with both the "is it a Nazi salute" and "did Trump believe his own lies / election" stuff is this reflexive need by tons of people to believe something can be bad only if it was understood by the person as bad, but since we cannot know to metaphysical certainty their mind, it can't be

submitted 36 days ago • 67 comments

the very first thing he did was pardon hundreds of people who directly tried to overthrow the government and people are out there talking about “bipartisanship” do your FUCKING jobs

submitted 37 days ago • 30 comments

What the fuck?

submitted 48 days ago • 232 comments

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

submitted 49 days ago • 619 comments

How it started. How it’s going

submitted 49 days ago • 860 comments

i feel sad when i think about the small, personal uses of Chat-GPT. i feel sad about the 19-year-old getting a valentine's day card that has a GPT-generated poem in it. i feel sad about the bereaved person getting a dozen GPT-generated emails each pretending to say something about their loss.

submitted 70 days ago • 20 comments

“Is it okay for a social media platform to be an echo chamber” back in the day we had websites and websites were generally focused on a single topic and if you were into that topic you would visit that website and if you weren’t into that topic you just didn’t go on that website and it was fine

submitted 71 days ago • 303 comments

I wrote up the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of the Mac OS X Dock at Macworld Expo, from the perspective of a scared twenty-something engineer. It's me. I'm the engineer. tla.systems/blog/2025/01...

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments

I've completed "Race Condition" - Day 20 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/20

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

I've completed "Linen Layout" - Day 19 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/19

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Tired of people "addicted to sarcasm"? "foulmouthed"? use hashtags like bluecrew and RESISTANCE and post nothing but facebook quality memes of trump kissing elon? who are also, via followback schemes, undoubtedly either dumb or malign? i got a block list for ya bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 58 days ago • 39 comments

This is garbage framing. Y2K is a perfect example of advance planning and not putting heads-in-the-sand. In the aftermath of proper execution of critical planning, many people will think it wasn’t required.

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

Homelessness is a choice: It’s a choice by the wealthy, politicians (but I repeat myself), and society at large to allow people to have nowhere to go.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Kind of interesting that Google has simply stopped being embarrassed by this sort of thing

submitted 60 days ago • 98 comments

Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...

submitted 61 days ago • 251 comments

STEM is so cool. Science is amazing. Kids should develop curiosity about how the universe works and proficiency in uncovering its secrets, so that they can most effectively optimize clickthrough rates on banner ads at the bottom of VC-funded website-apps.

submitted 62 days ago • 32 comments

I've completed "RAM Run" - Day 18 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/18

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

the foundational myth of the tech industry is that smart people can't be evil

submitted 66 days ago • 254 comments

I just completed "Chronospatial Computer" - Day 17 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/17

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

can i just remind everyone that when i worked with this bozo in the early 00s, he was too dense to understand the idea of javascript animation not the code. the idea.

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

this goes to my other pet issue, which is that "kids safety" has become synonymous with social media use, when their safety in reality is most threatened by guns and cars

submitted 67 days ago • 69 comments

the most embarrassing part of being a “100 tabs open at once” guy is when you inadvertently close them and don’t even notice and there are absolutely no negative consequences

submitted 67 days ago • 186 comments

Disney/ABC paid Trump $15m it didn't have to, joining LA Times, WaPo/Amazon, Meta, etc. in displaying deference. Bad for the country, but they're for-profit businesses. Worse are the Democrats who, instead of acting like a real opposition, are normalizing Trump and Elon Musk. My latest (in MSNBC):

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

submitted 69 days ago • 478 comments

yesterday I came across a tweet I made, recut and edited into a meme without credit, after a friend shared it after seeing it somewhere! i got to reply to her with "actually that's plagiarized from me lol". and that led me to looking it up to see what else people have stolen it for!

submitted 72 days ago • 16 comments

I'm not good at anything. I dont do anything. I dont know anything. But I know this: Certain forces are out of control

submitted 71 days ago • 92 comments

I just completed "Reindeer Maze" - Day 16 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/16

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

It gets worse...

submitted 90 days ago • 44 comments

This writer follows twelve (12) people on Bluesky. They've been here a month and posted twice. It's like writing about how mid the food is in New York compared to your hometown and not revealing that the only food you ate in New York was a bag of chips you bought at the airport during a layover.

submitted 74 days ago • 103 comments

I just completed "Warehouse Woes" - Day 15 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/15

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I just completed "Restroom Redoubt" - Day 14 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/14

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

don’t be this guy 👍

submitted 75 days ago • 15 comments

i can't get over how stupid this is on a business level. protocol aside, bluesky is a social media that has primarily gained users by actually moderating, a novelty these days, with users who have stated their intention to give bluesky money because of this. now they're declaring they won't moderate

submitted 75 days ago • 29 comments