I’ve talked to SO MANY construction workers in the process of commuting with a toddler and it totally changed my perception of them. They understand that they’re heroes and they take that responsibility seriously

lust is too low-hanging fruit here. get back to me after she’s written Duke of gluttony and i might be interested

Spend as much time at the lake as possible! You don’t necessarily want to go in most of the time. But walking along the waterfront, hanging out on the sand, even just driving on LSD and admiring the view is a huge perk of living here.

Me, every time i teach polynomial long division:

I haven’t read ”The lust crusade “ but I’m looking forward to getting hold of it soon!

I once saw a guy riding BART with a falcon on his shoulder. I asked him about it and apparently the falcon is a BART employee whose job is scaring pigeons off!

I’m coming around to the point of view that the number one purpose of (LLM) AI is deception. As in, it’s engineered to deceive you into thinking you’re talking to a person. That’s all it does, that’s all it’s designed for.

Send it to “ wait wait, don’t tell me”!

It’s not the cost, it’s the hassle! They never give me the car i requested, it’s hard to get to the rental site, etc. And then every car is set up differently and it stresses me to drive it without feeling confident i know how to work the windshield wipers instinctively, etc

Or United airlines

@handtotheneedle.bsky.social i think you need to see this

What. WHAT. WHAAAAT.

Also i get it that bacteria are not scary the same way a tiger is scary but like — we‘re not a post-biology species. Bacteria and viruses are still killing us. (Probably fungus too, shudder)

Weekly massages, oooo

I put off choosing a pcp for like … a decade, because i was trying to optimize it. Eventually needed one urgently, went with “find a doc who takes my insurance and has appointments in the next week” and holy shit, best decision.

Idek, who are these people who need help figuring out what to order at Starbucks? And didn’t Starbucks recently shorten their menu by a lot because (they claimed) too many custom orders were taking too much barista time? It’s almost like they don’t have a strategy, just an appetite for publicity

“I’m a nomad” BRO. That’s a lifestyle not an identity. You could choose differently.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

I think that audiobook narrators should be allowed to skip “he said”, “she said” and it’s simplest variations at their discretion, and have it still count as unabridged.

It’s like the joke about outrunning a bear: you don’t have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the guy you’re hiking with. I think a lot of nerds assume that they can beat the other gamblers even if they can’t beat the house.

They made marble, pink and gold menacing and … i love it?

In 2015 or so, i was like “I’d be a better knitter if i was less afraid of sewing” so i tried to pick up some hand sewing projects and yada yada yada now i do embroidery and EPP and i own a sewing machine and a serger 😆 i guess what I’m saying is, go for it!

Not fair to share this when i need a new hobby like i need a hole in my head and yet

Pink bricks 4ever

Post-gender utopia, hell yeah!

Why is “so what’s your job?” living at the top of the small-talk charts when people are gonna take whatever you say weirdly personally? Number one response to “I’m a mathematician” is people telling me how much they hate math.

My BIL works for Microsoft and feels morally superior to his peers who took jobs working for roblox because hey, AI might be slop but at least it’s not gambling for kids.

AI companies advertising during every sporting event: use AI to save your failing business! It can make spreadsheets and advertising campaigns and new recipes and manufacturing decisions!

AI companies in the fine print: “Please acknowledge that this product exists for entertainment proposes only”

Density of bad takes approaching the event horizon in one single headline

And also … the guy has less than zero social skills in any realm there’s a reason those couch-fucker rumors took off.