If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) ⭐ 7.2 | Comedy, Drama 1h 53m | R

boy do I have the movie for you: m.imdb.com/title/tt1838...

getting my mandarin back for a big trip in may! 🫡

desperately need to see the rest of this

thanks mr kingfisher

me: no machine will ever penetrate my many layers of cognitive security

also me: hearing the dishwasher go off and humming its little tune for the rest of the day

Material Honesty on the Web Material honesty—the idea that a substance should be itself, rather than mimic something else—has guided everyone from Ruskin to Charles and Ray Eames. How might material honesty apply to our immat…

I feel like you've probably read this, but, same energy: alistapart.com/article/mate...

putting aside everything else the webapp experience is loads better here

thinking about using "the devil's lettuce" in reference to any detestable thing

zzz

https://youtu.be/vnug6i5SkQQ

transfer is available to the F☺️ and R🙄 trains

I can't stop thinking about using modern speech synthesis and LLMs to give every MTA subway service not just a personality but its own set of rivals and allies

I'm about to knock this thing out the fucking park. they're going to out in their kayaks trying to catch it

my goal for the rest of 2023 is to be very, very still

basically there's a "feel bad for no reason" checkbox in my brain that I can reliably find within 15-20 minutes and there's a dastardly PM somewhere who loves moving and resetting it

you want to be on the computer, but you also want to be outside [97% can't solve this riddle]

hmm yeah, like if your world-model is closely shared by other people you can make spooky things happen with very subtle signals.

I do basically believe that this is possible but it's a bigger leap than some of the hard-tech stuff

I'd say it starts squishy and gets soft. partway through you have to buy into the idea that humans have latent, async, nonverbal communication+coordination channels that we aren't using (and something else is moving in 😬)

rn I'm revising to telegraph and scaffold that idea earlier in the narrative

👋 I am admitting to myself that I can actually interact with the people I admire on the internet. long time listener, first time caller, hello QC!

the other project is a big honking science fiction novel

I’m writing AI flop scenarios as a public service

bookmarking this as an act of faith

readers have some context that they'd like you to know

it's so crazy to me that melatonin is a corruption of «miel de Tonín» and it comes from a colony of special bees in the southwest of france

mfw none of my favorite birdposters are here yet