Modern People: Haha those old movies with married couples in twin beds!

Also Modern People: The grape suspect was unalived when he drew a pewpew…

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose PALO ALTO, CA - A group of Silicon Valley tech CEOs assure North Americans that job losses from artificial intelligence could easily be mitigated by universal basic income, while also adding that they...

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by Universal Basic Income, which they will violently oppose

thebeaverton.com/2025/11/tech...

just had an extremely cursed thought. what if elder millennials are just unleaded gen x

Born to die! New York’s New York! The Turn of the Century! All Crime!

Debbie Dawn, Debbie Day, and Debbie Dusk

Bumped into myself at 2fort the other day. Flash-fried my ass without a second thought. [muffled cheer]

Well this cant be realllloh lord it is.

next phone background

Kunio & The Night Tunnel

RIVER CITY RANSOM
TECHNŌS JAPAN 1989
NES

Hey now, “Killer” is a legit banger

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

liberate me!

Never forget, that voice doesn't know shit, and done is better than perfect.

Next year will be the 10th anniversary of this joke still not being dated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssj_...

“Trapped you, didn’t I, Chuck?”

Yes, it’s good. I started watching during the TV writers’ strike twenty-odd years ago and kept watching after the strike was over

Thank you for the explanation. I had originally jumped to an Event Horizon-style demonic singularity conclusion. Libera te tutemet ex inferris!

two related thoughts: i suspect that many tech companies get away with utterly ratshit, incompetent leadership because you've got a fat middle section of competence holding up the roof

AI is an existential threat to that middle section of the workforce, and will lay bare a lot of incompetence

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement:

catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

I didn't previously know of Najwan Darwish's "Who Remembers the Armenians?" so here it is for anyone who was similarly unaware

This 1 is second only to “who remembers the Armenians” in my poetry canon

how could I have forgotten this

Damn I gotta read The Widow’s Son

Just occurred to me that the Prophet Muhammad's injunction against destroying fruit-bearing trees during war (and the exceptions he ordered) takes on new meaning in this context

Destroying an oasis' palm trees doesn't just take out the tree

It destroys the ecology that allows the oasis to exist

feels like Marvel tentpoles are becoming more like the Lou Ferrigno/Bill Bixby Incredible Hulk TV movies rather than vital can’t-miss cinema spectacles

Source: I watched Trial of the Incredible Hulk (featuring Matt Murdock/Daredevil!) on its first run in 1989 AND put it on DVD in 2003

I don't want to shoot videos
I don't want to post tutorials
I don't want to show my process
I don't want to pour varnish
I don't want to turn my canvas
I don't want to record my screen
I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships
I just want to make pictures and shitpost

@jparish.bsky.social got my copy of Super NES Works Vol. 1 today. Good stuff! I never knew about Carrier Air Wing, the not-a-sequel to UN Squadron. Also I had forgotten the joy of reading a full-color book with actual publication design in this Kindle-and-iBook world. Molte grazie!

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is