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As a way-too-young kid I thought "I could learn Java and make a RuneScape." As a just-the-right-age adult I know "I could learn webdev and make a RuneScape."

(I doubt the world would bear another success story like that, but the making is the point for me, not the business)

I've been on a RuneScape kick again after managing to avoid it during all of WFH. It's been striking to revisit a place where so much of my late childhood imagination flourished. My mind is all aflutter with knights and dragons and elves, and a thought that maybe I could finally fulfill an old dream

Hell yeah, I'll be picking their stuff up for sure. I may wait until the next Bandcamp Friday so my wallet can prepare itself lol

Oh damn. Brings me back to ISIS in the Mosquito Control days! 🤘

the adaptable fuck it we ball ape

im an ai skeptic but some days at work i could make the case that trusting a damn lying machine to do things right is no more or less crazy than trusting some of these yahoos we essentially randomly hire off the streets. such as me

IT IS GLORY TO BATHE IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR ENEMIES BUT TO ALSO BATHE IN THE SHOWER.

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I'm so jealous of Massachusetts for having senators who say cool shit like this

As Henry illustrates here, the tech is NOT useless. But the way it's metastasizing in the tech economy right now has created a vile incentive structure where folks are forced to engage with the Intellectual Property Meat Grinder in order to *maybe* keep their jobs

LLMs are capable of some truly fascinating outcomes, and in the abstract it's a cool technology

For me it's all the theft, despoiling of natural resources, cataclysmic crumbling of labor with no safety net, etc. of it all. And its biggest fans and execs are lunatics or liars.

Judah Friedlander, a silly man in a novelty hat with giant writing on it

Tobin Bell, playing a sickly dying villain who looks like hammered dogshit

Donald Trump, a sickly dying villain who looks like hammered dogshit and is also wearing a novelty hat with giant lettering

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

Bluesky is not a perfect place but the thing I’m grateful for is that it’s really just a website

These rule! You're both quite talented 🙂

There are Israeli settler *influencers* who make this shit into "content" and I cannot comprehend how anybody thinks Israel is anything but a genocidal state which enables a bunch of maniacal racists to destroy people's lives.

The thing I super don't understand about Israel's genocide in Palestine is how anybody could watch one of the hundreds of videos of Israeli settlers wrecking shit and attacking people and think "these are normal people. They are justified in doing these things"

So many inside thoughts being shared on main 😬

I think Vietnam has some experience with this question

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

But the details can literally trigger panic attacks and fight-or-flight spikes. Never before have I seen shit on the internet more deserving of the "NSFL (not safe for life)" label. Please don't fucking share that shit on main

The average person, in my opinion, can only handle "the files are exponentially much worse than anybody imagined," and they should feel that all those involved deserve capital punishment, and that a global revolution against these monsters is justified and necessary

There are folks who are making Reels and TikToks where they read the most heinous shit from the Epstein files and I need those people to understand they are putting people at serious risk by sharing those things

the only reason corporations ever put a woman of color in charge is if that person is going to have to publicly eat shit in a big way. sarah bond has clearly chosen not to be microsoft's sin eater, and asha sharma has taken on that role.

The Roberts Court loves corporations. Corporations are their benefactor more so than Trump. Corporations were not happy with the tariffs. SCOTUS rules against Trump when it's Corporations v. Trump. End of.

Don't let this fool you into thinking this court as any goddamn legitimacy. It does not.

Eyyy go Fisher Cats (I don't follow baseball but I sure do live in New Hampshire)

I, for one, would dearly like an answer to my question, which is "what the fuck is Mamdani thinking?"

Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.