we're going to "jeff thinks the beans need to take turns" our way into geopolitical irrelevance and I think that's beautiful

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

The Smell of Burnt Toast As you will know if you've been following this blog religiously, I tend to take a jaundiced view of videogames these days. Not all of my ...

Crimson Desert melted my brain (in a bad way) 1999ad.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

"The NEJM refuses to publish my article about how smoking weed is better for cancer patients than chemotherapy!" Gee, I wonder why.

"It's much easier to get something published in JAMA or the NEJM if it's supportive of gender-affirming care." Yeah it's also easier to get shit published that's in favor of vaccinations.

The Importance of Being Earnest Valeria made a great observation in her recent review of Daggerheart : TTRPGs have utterly failed to communicate how lighthearted this hobby...

I remain stupid, truculently resistant to promoting anything or I do or even cross-posting stuff from my little blog but I'm TRYING to break the habit, I swear. Here, I wrote this! People liked it! 1999ad.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

my "it's not that they think LLMs have thoughts and personalities, it's that they think human beings don't" theory stays winning

My hot hot Oscars take is that 2025 was just not a good year for film. I missed The Secret Agent, which maybe should've won best picture, AND No Other Choice, which probably should've been nominated, so what do I know, but the stuff I did see was either mid (OBAA, Train Dreams, Sinners) or bad.

I'm torn between how funny it would be see these chuds get walked off by the Canadians and how satisfying it'll be to see them get mercy ruled by the Dominicans

Gorbachev’s choices made it increasingly inexorable, but at the time he came to power? Could easily have taken different courses (more like China, for instance)

If you’re too ignorant to recognize Korean OR a Palestinian flag AND too lazy/incurious/incompetent to look these things up, how did you even find yourself on bluesky? You should be learning how to tie your shoes, not posting

Or where WW2 is over almost as soon as it begins (with Germany easily defeated by France and allies). Or where the USSR doesn’t collapse. At bottom, most people, even well educated people, seem essentially to think that everything important that ever happened was literally inevitable. It’s weird!

Jeffrey Epstein butchering a Casablanca reference so badly that I barely recognized it

The people who made us put brakes in our cars now say we're not allowed to break the law? Very curious. Concerning!

Unironically would love to write about Quake as socialist paradise and/or about how gay the Quake scene is, @aftermath.site please give me money to do this?

It began that way, but the people seized the means of Quake production years ago and now Quake is anything we want it to be. Poetry generator? Transition allegory? All rocket launchers all the time? All this and more is possible! Quake is a land of plenty.

The two wolves inside me? Radical narco-communism and anarcho-tyranny. They are best friends.

Quake: the People's FPS (but seriously)

Also, Leeds is a proper city. This woman is probably from some Dallas exurb that doesn't even have sidewalks.

My "equivalent" is doing a lot of work there but…naah, I just think you're wrong. The kind of people who are going to be yapping about this stuff on Bluesky are a self-selecting bunch. You won't see many Americans here copping to not knowing what sumac is (AND being unwilling to try it).

It's not JUST personal ignorance, but it is a kind of received ignorance that's found everywhere. If you took some equivalent English yokel from Leicestershire or wherever to the equivalent New York grocery store (or the same London one, for that matter), you'd get the same response.

President Xi please send Dongfeng 61 ICBM equipped with hypersonic glide vehicle payload etc. etc.

Assassinating heads of state and other senior officials of countries we don’t like is a very cool precedent to set and will definitely have no negative repercussions

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

My review of the Mothership module Orphans cites the one @valerialoves.bsky.social wrote at least six times and comes to basically the same conclusions, but I promise it also has original observations in it. And tips! And it's very long! We love a long-ass review, right? #mothership

In conclusion, it is past time both to launch the Butlerian Jihad and to reconvene the Committee of Public Safety.

To them (the bourgeoisie, the Epstein class, whatever we call them), we are machines that can be persuaded (or manipulated, or coerced) to serve their interests. LLMs presage better machines that will do more, better, faster, cheaper. You don't have to feed them for 20 years, as Sam Altman observes.

The fact that LLMs do not exist beyond the instructions they're given (that they do not dream, want, imagine, have inner lives at all) is no contradiction for these people, because they don't recognize that other humans have dreams, wants, imaginations, inner lives, or any kind of humanity at all.

No wonder it's overwhelmingly (rich) men driving this; it's the exact same mindset as "If I say the right things / model the right behaviors / give the right gifts / spend enough money, she'll HAVE to fuck me," only now they can go under the hood and rewire things until they're guaranteed success.