Concurring with everyone else that this is a 10/10 read. This article lays out a very reasonable theory that explains why tech maniacs are the way that they are.

Woke: pile driving AI advocates

Bespoke: pounding prediction market peddlers

Apparently Jan Marsalek worked for the GRU. Trashfuture is going to feast:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/wirecard-fugitive-jan-marsalek-financial-fraudster-russian-spymaster-2025-03-07/

Is it praxis when you put theory into inaction?

Something you said got me thinking:

I don’t think I’ve heard of a story that does the deeper elements of storytelling without doing the basics of English writing.

Narrative predated literacy by quite a lot, so I could see that working! Conversely, ai slop is unsettling because it is literate without narrative.

Small domino: being passive aggressive at a guy named Norbert

Big domino: resurgent fascism and widespread economic collapse in the 21st century

checks the news

Well shit

This guy is a real self-licking ice cream cone (flavor: pralines and dick)

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Don’t make tap the sign:

Don’t feed the bears!

There should be a weekly periodical called Business Idiot.

as if a mere child could criticize the Imperial Wardrobe

–Kevin, probably

Me, a Nashvillian: I would like one bonaroo please

God: sorry I’m fresh out of bonaroo, have some weird nazis instead

If tptacek weren’t a chicken he’d go ask Ed directly. Ain’t like he’s hard to find.

Copilot is the olestra of software

Someone got ampersand in their shorts

He complains about feeling dumb, but like is it any wonder when you’re attaching your reasoning to an llm like you’re a male angler fish.

Magnificent sneer

Funny thing, the sawzall vanished right before his catalytic converter went missing

They say that you can’t destroy the master’s house with the master’s tools, but what about hammers?

The basilisk we have at home