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The future of the web is AI slop articles apparently.

I'm not sure if there is any use case that could convince me to mount an internet connected device to my head at all times.

To think that previously upon hearing "system so insecure it could be penetrated by a fly" I would have thought it a ridiculous hyperbole

You're giving the government too much credit. They're not even that competent at malice. It's the large companies that control it by lobbying, not the other way around.

There are definitely less in high school, but has college really changed that much? I'm a student right now, and while I'm not involved with it, it definitely seems like Greek life…

Avalon is a social deduction game much in the same category of Secret Hitler, Werewolf, TTT, Among Us, or any such game where there is an informational asymmetry between a small gr…

Wait until this guy finds out about htmx

Genuinely curious--what's a country that doesn't have a barbarous cultural history?

Copied from the study "To determine whether the measured effects were actually due to receiving the basic income and not, for example, to broader societal developments, the Basic I…

I'm one of the people that uses neovim, a tiling window manager on nixos, and a weird split keyboard. It's true that it will lead to healthier wrists and more productivity, but tha…

I would argue is that what we need for healing and understanding is more brave trans and gay people in these spaces. It's a lot harder to hate a group when your kind neighbor is on…

Not just for math kids--good for anyone. I have a "daybook" thats always with me. Each day gets a header with the date. I treat it as a "cache" for what I'm working on. Math proble…

This is probably the worst argument for banning tiktok. You can choose to delete the app. You can choose to not look at your phone. I use the app "minimalist phone" as well as scre…

Linux won't be popular on the desktop because normal people don't change the operating system on their computer. They either dont know how (because they dont need to) or dont care …

Took me 2 days or so

We can take a good thing too far (and probably are at that point). ADHD is being overdiagnosed and medication is being overprescribed, especially in young men.

I was in eighth grade at the start of the pandemic (college freshman now. Insane how the pandemic was 5 years ago). For a lot of people like myself, it was when I got into programm…

Love this book!

This looks awesome!

> uber for blowjobs

Gen Z college freshman here and I dont even know what half of this is

How do you know that you know "enough" on a topic to write a book on it?

By this I mean what project should everyone build not because its useful or new, but because the process of building it forces you to learn something new. Some examples I've heard …

Second company smells like systemic dysfunction.

Regardless of if you're "right" or not, I cannot imagine living in this society as an individual to br anything but depressing.