“Look if you aren’t cool enough to understand the difference between an a simple working relationship and an endorsement of someone’s lifestyle, then you aren’t cool enough to play my new game where the puppies are all voiced by Jeffrey Dahmer.”

Yeah, I feel the exact same way. I want there to be less bullshit too much to consider adding to it.

It legitimately seems like you could make good money doing that if you know how to market yourself and don’t experience cognitive dissonance.

The rapid pace of technological development seems to have broken the brains of otherwise smart people and given rocket fuel to hucksters.

I recently attended a webinar on “Claude Code for Climate Risks.” It was by a consultant selling a $2,500 course to learn how to make Claude Code take a preformatted spreadsheet and turn it into an HTML dashboard, something that can be done with Tableau (or even within Excel, the aesthetics were nothing to write home about!). He bragged that this was saving him weeks of work.

idk, I got nothing

When it turns out the were right all along and the only genuine career path in this space is .

The self parodist is in:

I just tried it on my hand and it feels weird, but it fits.

It used to be traditional to move the ring to your right hand but I guess that’s not a thing any more.

Just sayin’ that it’s reasonable evidence to suggest that she picked “Samsara” without really noodling through the cultural implications.

It does harken back to those halcyon days when the Internet was an anarchic mess of animated gifs and the Gog and Magog of SEO and social media had yet to crest the horizon.

“1 4m t3h p3ngu1n 0f d00m!!!”

I’m assuming it’s a product of the reinforcement learning; it must appeal to the people who rate responses and as a result got artificially dialed up from its ordinary background level.

end of modernity

Oh no, she wants to turn off the orphan crushing machine, guys! We have to stop her!

Stick it to the man by switching to vintage Playboy mags purchased in cash from an antiques shop.

Chemosynthetic ecosystems in the ocean are not a new discovery. The publication referenced in the article is about a new system for conducting experiments on them.

At least you were out of olfactory range.

This is what peak male performance looks like.

Gotta love living in the rugpull economy

Interesting T-shirt choice by the woman on the right:

Are you deep enough in the timeline to know exactly who Aella is? Do you thrive in the weird, wild overlap of polyamory discourse and meme culture? Then this shirt was made for you. It’s bold. It’s niche. It screams “terminally online,” but make it fashion.

This shirt features a tongue-in-cheek slogan that blends alt-internet references, polycule humor, and a wink to the chaos of modern relationships. It’s perfect for sparking conversations (or ending them quickly, depending on the crowd).