The biggest betrayal of my life is what these assholes did with the internet.

Orange stake plasma deck is driving me insane

As bad air travel takes go its up there with stephen bartletts claim that he would rather fly additional legs than take a direct flight without internet access.

Come on, that is not the only difference. The empowering potential of the internet was clear to all from the beginning. The allignment of AI with human flourishing is much less clear imo, and the potential for harm much greater - by the AI ceo's admission!

"competance porn" is a brilliant phrase.

My eldest daughter has inexplicably taken a liking to this song and put it on her playlist so I hear it a lot. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn...

BELGIANS IN THE CONGO!

I have seen a lot of NIMBY selfishness in my time, but "my convenience matters more than cancer care" is a new low. Quite seriously tempted to email them and tell them as much.

Hi JD Vance. I think Nigel Farage and Reform could definitely do with your help in the May elections here

We all knew he was a peer.

It's deeply annoying that all of the people who promoted and backed Trump will blithely carry on making prouncements and grifting away without any consequences.

There’s some cool recent research on this phenomenon! It turns out vision language models excel at image benchmarks *even when the actual images aren’t provided,* because the answers are implicit in the questions!

arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687

Street art mural by Marquitos Corvalán depicting Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons painted on a white brick wall, with thick green hanging plants above cleverly forming his wild, spiky hair. The character stands with a smug expression, wearing a green shirt and blue pants, while the natural foliage blends seamlessly into the artwork, creating a playful illusion where nature becomes part of the design.

Sideshow Bob by Marquitos Corvalán. <3 When Nature Become Art (17 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/03/30/n...

Doesnt this just move the convention problem though? If my prompt was just "increase retry timeout by 5 seconds" the conversation is no more enlightening than the code change.

The Onion is here to stay. It is going to disrupt everything. We are living in the The Onion era.

How are you using The Onion to turbocharge your productivity? Your answer will affect your annual performance evaluations.

General Motors Reports Record Sales Of New Disposable Car DETROIT–In a report released Monday, General Motors announced 56 percent growth for the first quarter of 2001, a profit increase company officials attributed to February’s wildly successful launch of ...

Also this theonion.com/general-moto...

Showing my age here, but I still think this one is hard to beat theonion.com/coca-cola-in...

Little bit of interesting news this morning, scientists have discovered how it is, in colonies of tens of thousands living in the closest proximity, ants never become ill. Apparently, they all have little anty bodies.

Talking to someone who went on the same European city break as you except they took in all the culture while you just got hammered for 3 days

Big Amish

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free

2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

The book that inspired me to take a trip to Durham and, ultimately, to make this St Cuthbert coaster at a pottery painting cafe. Truly a fantastic and inspirational work of art. The book, not the coaster.

On Radical Sincerity Irony as domination, meaning it as defiance

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There's a through-line from trolling culture to the manosphere and government rejoicing in its own cruelty. The common thread is the weaponisation of irony, making it cringe to care, risible to object.

The radical response: reclaim sincerity.

open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

yes. totally feels long it could have been an awesome low budget indie film (or even play) I bet the original idea was totally butchered by some big studio exec ☹️

second half: oh no, not like that, for the love of God. who did this etc

first half. man this is quite an intense and dark psychodrama on the body of a Hollywood blockbuster. I wonder how they are going to stick the ending...

Watched the film "Passengers" over the last two nights and talk about a film of two halves, yeesh

oh also not knowing what GTD and New Bank Health even were initially was a bit confusing, and the reasons for them always being selected isn't clear to me