You know, I always used to find it hard to imagine the sort of ghouls that happily took photos and souvenirs of lynchings in the Jim Crow South. But then the last several years unfolded on Twitter and I discovered that they're everywhere.

Earnestly and unironically yes.

Nothing makes me as insane as listening to b school people confidently asserting that software development methodologies are directly generalizable to every conceivable business process.

I love having a single sign on solution where if you didn't keep meticulous records of every password you had before, you're total fucked the first time something changes. Efficiency!

This was only ten years ago? The rare cultural milestone that doesn't make me feel ancient. I would have sworn I was still in college.

Instead of living in the version of the 2020s where we're aggressively decarbonizing and climate proofing our infrastructure, we're living in the version where we boil huge volumes of potable water to generate unsettling pornography and relearning why gambling was regulated.

Once again being very disturbed by the dog in my neighborhood whose bark sounds like Toni Colette screaming in emotional agony in Hereditary.

Heard a very clearly AI voice at the start of a podcast ad say "grandparents, looking for the perfect gift for your grandkids?" and felt my blood run cold.

Love to back to the hilt the only country in the middle east currently trying to pull us into a "seven front war" to prevent Iran from, uh, "destabilizing" the region.

The book in this episode sounds exactly like the extremely embarrassing, overwrought parable I tried writing after reading Emerson for the first time in high school about how we're all on our own journeys in life. Should have taken it to a major publishing house in retrospect.

It's cool that the GOP are openly proposing turning 40 million or so Americans (honestly probably more) into serfs because they use drugs and putting 20 million more into concentration camps until they can be "deported". Their platform is basically "we need to do to the KLx10"

The extent to which AI guys are mostly using it to make pictures of pretty girls and porno in the era where those things are already the most plentiful and easy to access they have ever been is, frankly, pretty fucking sad.

I can tell it's election season because I'm self soothing by reading Richard Evans books about the Nazis and going "well, see, not EVERYTHING lines up exactly".

It's probably not a good thing for this website that seemingly the only ad it has to serve me is the one for the shitty Evony game I keep telling it I didn't want to see

Listening to Richard Evans' book about the Nazi leadership and just heard the anecdote about Goering having a violent episode at a Swiss hospital where his antisemitism was officially commented on, causing me to chuckle at the notion of someone being "medically antisemitic".

The home office is chilly this morning, and I'm thinking this year will be the one where I become a long underwear guy in the winter.

It was literally 90 degrees yesterday.

Always feel bad when I see that this one particular woman I've seen on dating apps in my area for years is back again with a fresh profile, especially now that the listed age has begun to tick down.

It is so funny to me how absolutely right Neil Stephenson was in The Diamond Age about how the tech elite just want to be Victorian aristocrats. I read that in high school and thought it was just a fun high concept, but no, he's just had these people's number from the jump.