Year: 2025

Chill Links

How the Earth Invented Sleep.

YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs. Corporate power respects corporate power.

ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web.

Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip.

The Decline of Deviance. Great essay.

An Unsustainable Equilibrium.

Amazon Layoffs 2025: Firm ‘Trading Talent for GPUs’ to Protect AWS Margins, AI Analyst Says.

Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible.

Need All the Ks

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Complete bullshit. Reminds me of the days when it was claimed that “30Hz is enough for anyone.” Now any refresh rate below 60Hz and people lose their minds. I can easily see 5K vs. 4K up to about 10 feet away.

I can see 2K vs. 5K at about 25-30 feet.

Sanderling

Chill Annoying

The “before” is way better. That’s what I mean about all the personality being sanded off. I prefer people in their particularity, not some uncanny valley uniformity. Everyone needn’t look exactly the same and be some absurd notion of “hot” to be fun and interesting. Me, I prefer the variation and that they still seem ensouled.

Again, the “before” is infinitely preferable.

Chill Links

Why the New Leisure Class Enjoys Activism and Philanthropy.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me.

U.S. Signs $80 Billion Nuclear Deal With Westinghouse.

Why Bubbles Can Keep Inflating in Plain Sight.

Lithuania Will Shoot Down Balloons Crossing Border From Belarus After Dozens Detected Overnight. Good.

Why men hate short hair. I love short hair.

The Risk of a Radical Escalation Leading to Actual Conflict Between NATO and Russia Grows.

Great ‘Overnight’ Replacement: The (Federal) Express Decline and Fall of Collierville, TN.

Shutdown’s biggest blow lands in Trump-leaning Alabama — 750,000 lose SNAP, 40% disabled or elderly.

The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China.

The West Needs to Come Together. And kick Putin the fuck out of Ukraine.

Samsung makes ads on $3,499 smart fridges official with upcoming software update. Pure evil.

What Amazon’s 14,000 job cuts say about a new era of corporate downsizing.

Bus

Chill Evil

If I have to live in a society where Iryna Zarutska has to die or where they attempt to toss Daniel Penny in prison so some progressive disphit can have a go at expiating their white guilt, I think we should stick aforementioned dipshit in a bus with the doors welded shut. Also present: Decarlos Brown with a Bowie knife.

Let’s see how they feel about it all then. For as long as they last, at least.

Nator

Chill Annoying, War

This is not a good nor fair comparison. The Russian 30mm dual cannon is intended for an entirely different use than the 25mm M242 Bushmaster. The “Terminator” is built mostly for suppressive and area effect fire and generally would send a whole lot of HE-FRAG downrange. The M242, though, is for more constrained fire and is not really intended primarily to be a suppressive or area effect weapon.

In other words, the “Terminator” barrels are supposed to move around like that during operation. This is how the ammo gets spread around when it reaches its target distance. Let’s not allow our hatred of Russia and its actions get in the way of the truth. “Terminator” == working exactly as intended.

Past Echo

Chill Regular-ass Post

This is also when I should’ve left my terrible narcissistic ex who threw plates at my head. Remarkable echo of my own experience. All from this thread. What happened to me is that I’d found out an old North Florida friend of mine had killed herself. Not unusual from where I’m from. She and I weren’t that close anymore — her life had taken many tragic turns and she wasn’t someone I enjoyed hanging around with any longer in light of how much she’d degenerated.

But it still upset me that she’d taken her own life. It’s one of those “we dug coal together” things that people who were not there can’t really understand. I was still pretty young then (24 or so?) and I didn’t realize at that time quite how many of my North Florida compatriots would leave this green earth before they even hit 30.

So I guess I wasn’t being happy enough for my girlfriend that day and she said, “Why are you moping around? You barely saw her anymore and you didn’t even like her that much.” I probably should’ve objected more, but I mumbled something about, “We used to spend a lot of time together in my junior and senior year of high school” and let it be. Anything else would’ve caused her to blow up and I didn’t want to deal with that then.

There were so many signs that I should’ve ended that relationship. That was a big one.