I'm very hard on the broader Internet these days but the fact that someone thought of this extremely niche content, made it, and I saw it reminds me there's still magic here

also RIP James Avery

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

CHARLIE BROWN: Yes mistress, you're right, mistress, I'm a blockhead! a hopeless blockhead!

DOMINATRIX: wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah

A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s

Looks we love

black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

LMAO at her trying not to lose it

Me in 2001: the Internet is so fun! I wish it were more popular and mainstream, so I didn't feel like such an outsider for spending so much time on it

the rest of my life: unlimited monkey paws curling

they fucking Legolas and gimli'ed the Anglican church?????

Tech too, extremely

To use a metaphor, AI can't train in McDonald's or The Cheesecake Factory, it's a million little home cooks in their family kitchens. I always thought that gap would be hard to close but markets find a way

As powerful as AI seems to be for coding, it suffers because most code it can be trained on is things like tutorials, documentation, Stack Overflow. Open source is predominantly artifacts apart from continuous operation, and other non-business code

Damn lol a decade of this and we might see AIs trained on proper production code (at least for small-scale companies)

it reminds me a bit of how most teenagers, if you ask them what they want to be when they grow up, they say influencer or video content creator. way, way fewer of them look to go to TV or the film industry directly

people watched Millenials grow up with computers and thought the "good with computers" would carry over, but that didn't turn out to be true (we smoothed all the surfaces; kids don't know what a file is)

but this is what real "digital native" generation looks like. guitar too hard

like, to develop talent with an instrument or as a singer, you either need to invest a ton of work OR have a media machine behind you already. DJs go on the computer. the performance is bopping + pressing buttons

(a bit reductive, I don't mean to diminish all DJs lol. but it's different!)

kind of a nascent baby take (so it goes on this site), but

a friend of mine observed that Coachella's lineup has never been much DJs/electronic, but now it's about 30%?

and I think it might be generational? like "analog talent" is too high a wall; if you want young artists, you need DJs

We all have days like this

no this is amazing. in their own analogy it’s “step 1: you get something that probably doesn’t work and is likely to kill someone. Step 2: do the same amount of work you would anyway without having endangering people. Step 3: step 1 added nothing to the end result.”

unironically a beautiful and effective way to keep grifters out. if you get filtered by an anime catgirl popping up for 2 seconds because it's too cringe and gay for you was your heart really in the systems programming?

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax

NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

www.foxla.com/news/pete-he...

Compare this struggle meal to Hegseth's recent $93 billion splurge on lobster, king crab, pianos, etc.

Of course it's going to choke. It took us nearly a decade of practice to get high-volume, data-intensive services very reliable. Maybe less since we've already done it before, but I think we're gonna need time for the new tools + practices

LLM are great at generating average code. But "generating code" is only one part of "using software to do something valuable," and LLMs aren't as good at standing up a system, or keeping it standing

A system falls because some of its code is wrong. People are deploying reams code they never read

I would consider myself more skeptic than outright hater, but my sincere belief is that this is going to happen a lot more for the next decade or so

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

10+ years of tracking biometric data has led me to the stunning insight that I feel better on days I don’t work

I built a Silksong umbrella! 3D made with help from @aerocreative 🐜 #silksong #indiegames #gaming YouTube video by Juniper Dev

www.youtube.com/shorts/m9d29...

She 3d-printed a Hornet head for an umbrella

this is gorgeous, man. she's the protag of another, also incredible comic

alternatively, she's the next actor to play Disco Elysium's Harry Dubois after the first actor aged out of the role