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Context is everything. Look up.

Cool, well, prove away! This is a nice immutable forum.

This is the most facile bothsideist strip, even for SMBC. As though if we could all just take a minute to figure out what fascism does right , we would see the humanity in those wh…

Some of us are on visa and have our online presence routinely scanned these days. Asymmetric vuln. If that's not you, why are you upset when it is acknowledged?

Quick reminder to my fellows that if you discuss this story here, it will end up immutable and available to law enforcement and, e.g., H1B eligibility deciders. Dark forest

because, intentionally or otherwise, your joke is 'too on the nose', as comedians put it, and 'will the oceans boil first' is, unfortunately, not an unreasonable question to ask, a…

Ah, yes, an urbanist telling me to sell the thing that allows me to live far enough away from the metropole such that I can afford a home, which, in turn, is now the only alternati…

Give the author their flowers. Honestly there are worse things to write about. I too am a hard nerd who migrated from backend to frontend and dabbled in design. The discovery of ty…

As someone who has been describing things as 'load-bearing' as something like a signature phrase for about twenty years, I'm beyond miffed that Claude has ruined my whole gimmick. …

So you're saying companies correctly estimated the need to cut staff to remain competitive and did so -- or at least, some state of affairs empirically indistinguishable from this.…

So did typesetting. But now nobody wants me to ink pages with my bins of moveable type, so I have to go be smart somewhere else, in another field, where everyone is leagues ahead o…

Depends on the bigco IMO. I'm not sure what kind of layoff numbers for Year Three of genAI would grab your attention, but I assure you, hundreds of thousands have mine.

Fuck. If the tea is true, this is such a gross way of handling it. I get that they're in an existential battle rn, but they have just Streisand-Effected their own technological pus…

"Normal" here requires a time bound. I would say it's pretty abnormal if the window is "the last thirty years", and pretty normal if it's "the last thirty days." Because of the thi…

Ads first, then surveillance, as always. Also, recall that there is no confidentiality privilege when talking to an AI; any proprietary cloud-hosted model gathers text to be read o…

The barrier to getting a traditional therapist is enormous - for some problems you're looking at years, maybe decades of treatment, at anywhere from $150-250 a pop. In the USA tech…

You have a great narrative there, with villians and deception, and sensible heroes who dismiss the nonsense with fresh air and clear heads. But do look at the actual data. The AMOC…

Trust me, the climate is in as rough a shape as those so-called extremists would have you believe. You can quite literally read it off the veniers, or at least we could until we hi…

The spa is brilliant. Think of corporate rec days that also cut insurance costs. Good lord, its like you're new to hypercapitalism :)

I forecast that you will not be bored, and may have other, stronger feelings. Ask Ukrainians

Was thinking similarly. "Fable" is not the name I would have chosen for a product that has to argue for the fact of its own economic viability but it is the correct mood. Perhaps A…

Thank you for this Prattfall

I've been thinking lately that what underpinned the FOSS golden age was not actually decentralized VCS and high-quality forges, nor even ZIRP, but rather peacetime. After a period …

'Barring the invasion of Taiwan' might actually be quite a lot to bar in mid 2026. My hot take is that it's now or never for Xi, and from the specific things he is reported to have…

History is long and never over, so he could easily be right both times before this is through.