all of the 'MLS nerds who are also (for some inexplicable reason) Spurs fans':

shoutout to everyone who learned this factoid from the 2022 documentary 'Moonfall'

Like, if you're not gonna listen to free speech advocates, civil rights advocates, LGBTQ folx, or anyone else desperately trying to convey how DUMB these proposals are, maybe you'll listen to the one website everyone still kinda likes...

I'm not sure if I've found a better argument against all the brain-dead cries of "b-b-bu-bu-but it will hurt big tech" than Wikipedia loudly screaming, "HEY THESE BILLS WILL FUCKING KILL WIKIPEDIA"

wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/06...

the way that he became a fucking folk hero to a bunch of crypto haters AND crypto true-believers always made me chuckle.

I've followed Ryder's career for several decades at this point, and that guy has never believed in anything ever.

The whole world's a bit to him.

In 2022, I was part of a group, including Jeremy Cahen, aka PaulyOx, that created, promoted, and sold a collection of NFTs known as Ryder Ripps Bored Ape Yacht Club, or RR/BAYC. We intentionally used the BAYC name and designed the collection to look like Yuga Labs' BAYC in every way we could. We wanted to confuse people. We wanted to rip off the BAYC collection, stir up chaos in the community, antagonize Yuga Labs and its founders, manufacture controversy, and manipulate mainstream media. We wanted to use all of that to get attention for ourselves and to make money off RR/BA YC. We shouldn't have dragged Yuga Labs or its founders into an unprovoked fight. I want to apologize for the harm we caused to Yuga's founders, employees, and their families. And we should not have used members of the NFT community as pawns in a contrived feud. I've changed since this started. In 2021, I thought it was edgy and funny to throw around false allegations of extremism and hate. I don't anymore. I sincerely want to apologize for all of it, and put this chapter behind me.

"oops i did too much of a bit and now im several million in debt due to legal fees because while it was always a bit i am incapable of admitting my whole persona is just one giant bit"

ahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahaha and now on IG Ryder is apologizing for calling them racist ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha im fucking dying

when QAA inevitably does an episode about this, i cannot wait to hear Julian get bleeped more times than ever before. like a solid 5% of the runtime is just gonna be bleeps

okay but think about the progress it would represent: from swearing in the first openly Catholic president to "Civil War 2: Papal Schism Edition" in just 65 years! Heartwarming really...

by the way, when I say "technical level" I don't mean "you gotta learn to code to discuss politics about da internet"

I mean that I don't think you've read those bills and thus don't understand what they're doing to accomplish their stated goal.

you cannot earnestly believe social media is "evil" while racking up over 26k posts. Sorry. This is the online equivalent of flying your private jet to Davos to give a talk about the dangers of climate change. You're saying fuckall.

I know it's a little "we live in a society", but I simply do not believe anyone who is posting on bluesky in support of repealing sec. 230 or enabling ID verification laws. Either you're full of shit for clout OR you're ignorant about those laws on a technical level

"social media is one of the worst and most evil inventions in the history of human suffering and should be nuked from orbit ASAP"

- person making their 139th post on here since 9am

> social media is one of the worst inventions of all time

> 26.4K posts on bluesky

"I cannot see how the leopards could possibly eat my face, a thing I like an enjoy several hundred times a day"

AGAIN: if you want to hurt "meta/x" then write legislation that targets "meta/x" not "all networked computers everywhere"

anyone who blogs frequently is either lying when they say shit like that OR is continuing to show their ass because they don't remotely understand the technical ramifications of what they're advocating for...

I am just begging anyone who supports these bills because they imagine that eventually it'll hurt Facebook or Google to STOP GETTING ABSOLUTELY DOG-WALKED BY MARK ZUCKERBURG AND PETER THIEL

tboteproject.com

the number of people loudly showing their ass by supporting bills like this are getting DOGWALKED by Thiel and Meta. It is very frustrating to watch people yell about how this will "hurt Facebook" when Facebook has been shoveling money towards this project for years now...

Green Day's most experimental thing was making a rock musical 14 years into their career, The Clash wrote both White Riot and Straight To Hell within 5 years of each other

also re the High Fidelity scene: I still bristle at The Clash comparison because The Clash was a band that tried a lot of different things in a very short time whereas Green Day was p. much a one-note act when that scene is supposed to happen.

learning that Green Day's first show was opening for Operation Ivy genuinely made me reevaluate the band. I still don't really care for them that much, but I don't think they're "posers" either.

I do hold them directly responsible for enabling Good Charlotte

KTP cosplaying as Dick from High Fidelity trying to hit on someone

another screenshot of the Hotline Connect client running in mac OS9. This screenshot includes the context of the OS, showing how all the windows could be separated and/or minimized.

you cannot be a software person and tell me you DO NOT see utility in this! Look at all those lil peep holes that could be used to view relevant content in other apps!

<< their own floating window that can be the full width of my display but the actual code window would just be 80cols wide?

reject the tyranny of the box. rectangles, squares, trapezoids, idc, just give me more than 4 sides damnit!

im working on a feature right now that touches like 5 or 6 different components, so I have all of them open in my IDE, but I keep getting the tabs lost, so I keep making the window bigger, but then I lose the browser window I need to see the result of changes I've made and why can't the tabs be >>

a screenshot of the Hotline Connect clinet running in what appears to be Mac OS9 or maybe slightly older. It has 3 separate windows: the Userlist, the Server list, and the client as separate windows that can be re-positioned independent of each other

one thing that was cool about programs like Hotline Connect where the ui split all the high level components into separate views was that it allowed the user to arrange the interface as it fit to their specific use case.

the box is a UI prison we must escape

Michael Douglas looking super cool wearing transparent be goggles doing a cyber hack in the 1994 disclosure

we’ve turned The Epstein files into the VR system featured in the 1994 erotic cyber thriller Disclosure

we've turned the Epstein files into an interactive adventure game in the style of Myst

Meme mocking Nvidia’s awful DLSS generative imagery nonsense. On the left, JC Denton from “Deus Ex” with the label “DLSS 5 Off”. In the right, a really shitty and bloated Steven Segal with the label “DLSS 5 On”