Day: November 15, 2025, 11:03 AM

Slip Pill

Chill Evil

Yep, same. My at-that-time substandard social skills would now be in the top 10%. I’d be a social butterfly among Gen Z (were I of that cohort). And that’s all due to smartphones and social media causing complete generation degeneration.

Circa

Chill Amusing, Annoying

If the evidence weren’t so apparent in other people, I don’t think I’d believe in circadian rhythm. Because I just don’t have that.

It means no jet lag, so yay on that. But it means I am always — from the perspective of other people — maladapted for everywhere. The first time I stayed with a friend, she was aghast that I’d do things like go to sleep at midnight and get up at 2AM and then not go back to sleep till like 4PM for a bit.

She got used to it and realized nothing was wrong. Eventually. And no, it’s not insomnia. I always drift off in 5-10 minutes; I sleep and feel fine.

Just thinking today of all the ways I have trouble being like and relating to normies.

Lung Capacity

Chill Amusing, Killin' It

One of the great parts of having basically no capability for being embarrassed is when someone does attempt to embarrass you, it backfires horribly. At least for them.

It means I also have no stage fright, performance anxiety, or anything like that. To me a talk in front of two people is the same as one in front of two million. I just don’t care.

Cry Harder

Chill Political Economy

The H-1B visa program should be ended entirely. Its major purpose is to drive down wages of (mostly) tech workers and has nothing to do with talent. If this were not true, why would companies only post job ads in newspapers no one reads, or on the doors of offices of their campuses (rather than the internet)1?

It’s a scam, a fraud, and should not exist. I agree with Amanda Goodall, though — ending it will just mean more jobs sent overseas. To complement the elimination of the H-1B scam, any American company that sends a job overseas (or is doing work on American account overseas) should pay a 500% yearly tax on that job.

That would pretty much end that.

  1. This is done so they can claim they looked really really hard, but darnit, they just could not find an American for the role.

Chill Links

In 1990, in the last breaths of the Cold War, a delicious act of American subversion unfolded in Moscow. It’s long been forgotten. It shouldn’t be.

Australia’s Shock Defense Wake-up Call.

Microsoft’s $96.5 Million CEO Payday After 15,000 Layoffs Reveals a New Reality in Tech Jobs.

Three astronauts are stuck on China’s space station without a safe ride home.

World’s oldest RNA extracted from ice age woolly mammoth.

France remembers Bataclan attacks but knows enemy has not gone away. Best bet is to expel nearly all Muslims from Europe; might be the last chance.

“AI features” are the new bloatware.

Chinese hackers used Anthropic’s AI agent to automate spying.