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Lunch: Huarache - a slab of dough on which is piled refried beans, lettuce, various cheeses and, in this case) chicken.

🚨 BILWISE UPDATE 🚨 I have obtained donuts with sausages in them.

I will say to the people who are excited about the AI bubble popping: if i am correct (nothing I say is financial advice) it will ravage the markets in a way that will hurt just about everybody. It won't just hit tech. Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg must be held responsible.

Work sent us to work from home since the building heater couldn't keep up with the cold. So now, I'm home and warm and working while listening to a record player I won in a raffle thing this past New year. Was listening to Joshua Tree earlier (by U2). Currently Stick Season by Noah Kahan.

Today's temperature near Dallas, TX. 🥶

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

An excellent summary of Umberto Ecco's Ur Fascism which is relevant now for reasons....

I do not believe in any tech product where the devs want us to view it with some form of religious awe, a divine gift redefining human experience and bequeathing knowledge unto us humble land apes. I believe in a tech product where the devs are like “this is handy for planning breakfasts”

Monday. *Hobbit booing* 😤🤕☹️😣🤬

Kat is making a very crucial observation, here. This is the politics of psychological gratification. It's not just about making people feel good—it's about creating a self-reinforcing system where emotional ratification becomes more important than objective reality. 🧵

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Songburrow farewell tea, tonight 7:30PM UK time! We'll say goodbye to our old neighbourhoods before the server transfers. Well met! lostmathom.com/2025/02/06/s... #lotro #laurelin

Musk and other IQ worshippers like to imagine all problems are deductive, solvable by logic from first principles. But so much of life even in tech is knowing stuff that just IS, for no deducible reason, and must be learned piece by piece

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

One of the only good things to come out of the pandemic shutdown was me learning to cut my own hair. Getting better at it.

Lunch: pizza!

If you see this, post a photo from your device without explanation.

Watching the 2003 remake of The Italian Job. It's part of my CD collection.

have u ever been personally attacked by a meme

Huge if true! 🥧

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

By popular demand! ‘Riding Fruity’ is now available on shirts, stickers, totes and lots more! Support independent artists!! www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1683...

Dinner: slow cooked pork shoulder in Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce, a salad and macaroni salad.

me when i have a new book

Here's the latest ep of my iHeartRadio/Cool Zone Media show Better Offline. I explain how DeepSeek, a Chinese AI developer incubated in a hedge fund, has punctured the generative AI bubble, throwing the US tech industry into disarray. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... linktr.ee/betteroffline

No one doing it like @garbageday.email right now. The venom. The concision.

someone who thinks AI companies should be able to scrape copyrighted data to remix for their output explain to me why what DeepSeek did here should be illegal

I am grading a stack of papers from my fantastic undergrads about what 1990s blockbusters tell us about the decade, so here comes a thread of the movies they picked

If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.

Timeline cleanse: last night's dinner: another go at teriyaki chicken.