roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

whoops

Picture of a radio tower

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

Some say you can hear him to this day: scrabbling down the slope endlessly like a reverse Sisyphus, endlessly failing upwards.

Picture of seeded grass backlit by sunlight

This article just reminded me of this old tweet

Hell yeah comfy sweaters.

I know you guys have said we didn't allocate funding to secure our systems, so with this event we've hired an outside firm to tell us what to change: we expect you to implement their changes with no additional funding. This will go in your employee records, which you are now securing, so do good.

I don't want to live in a fascist theocracy or a KPI driven technocracy that aliases all humanity out of life what if we did some other kind of way

Yeah sure, Cthulu might not be the most forgiving god, but at least he's consistent. All followers alike will wither their widdle bwains in the harrowing.

Auditing my investment decisions

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you wouldnt download the entire internet and feed it into a big matrix with gpus would you?

Hot take: Gen LLMs serving Internet slop was never the root problem, the society that incentivises Internet slop in the first place is just amplified by the advent of Gen LLMs

By morning, my indifference made you tired.
By lunch, my lack of attention annoyed you.
By afternoon, my feelings of emotion shut you down.
By evening, my interest was rebuffed.

And yet...I am somehow still that one that needs to change?

be ungovernable, i whisper as i reject cookies

end of empire
the jets return to the sea
they are free at last

I heard that the void is full of the discarded toys of the elder gods, but I don't believe it. I'm sure it's really all about social standing: whoever has the cleanest void is obviously the most capable of gathering belief to waste on such frivolous matters as manicured lawns of nothing.

As we float through the grey
zealously guarding the next day
bitter tasting hopes soften molasses goodbyes
still we stare into our flower-colored eyes
spring is flowing dreams at us
and you choose to leave on a bus

#poem #poet #poetry #writingcommunity

There will be no great restoration of sanity; we have always been mad, will always be. Even in times you think might have been sane we were building an arsenal that could burn a world.

Remember: electronic-warfare is a cost-effective and friendly non-kinetic method of waging war! Try it now today with your friends (not available in all jurisdictions).

You (specifically non-directed) could be doing anything with your time. You could even be reading this. Wow! Really makes you think (results may vary, not valid in all jurisdictions).

one if my favorite kind of conversations is with a young kid showing up at gdc talking about their idea, thinking nobodys ever gamedeved before; unaware every one of the thousand people around them is a high elf lord of their domain. A fey world beyond their vision. Its fun to watch them start.

*muttering to myself in public* "don't let the hedonic treadmill get you, that's what THEY want" while wildly glancing at passers-by

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

On the eve, of this, another widely recognized orbit around the sun (unlike those other 365.25'ish orbital anniversaries), let us all remember: there's no problem so intractable that it can't be solved by inventing an entirely new belief system and set of moral values.

Positive affirmation of the day: <TODO: fill in later, before posting; do no forget>

We invented indoor plumbing so we didn't have to go outside when the weather is 2 degrees fahrenheit, and yet here we are trudging through that same weather just to go to work? We have failed as a species, something is wrong with our priorities.