I love it; that’s the sign drawn across the sky itself of progress.
Month: August 2026
Rawls Falls
Certainly, people cannot help which country there were born as citizens of.
But that does not then give them the right to rape and pillage in mine or any other.
Somn
I don’t care about how much I sleep, when I sleep, tracking my sleep, doing anything else about sleep than I already do, having a sleep schedule or even really giving much of a crap about sleep.
I just do not care. It’s mostly irrelevant to how I live my life. Why are people so obsessed with this? Sleep when you need to, don’t when you don’t. Simple.
Taste This
I don’t think I have good taste in music, but just like what the fuck I like and don’t give a flying fuck who knows it.
That radio station that’s showing the tracks in the sidebar? That’s the music I actually listen to. It’s not curated (for the station). It’s just whatever semi-randomly1 pulls from the 11,000+ tracks I have in my main music directory. I don’t edit or block or even pick anything.
Simple as that. Woo-Hah!
๊น๋ป๋ (Meaningful Stone) – ํ๋์๊ฒ (HANA)
If you did not think you needed more Korean shoegaze, you were very very wrong. This is pretty great.
Anaxagoras
I am extremely smart. That is just true.
Still, that is only responsible for maybe 20% of my success. The rest is just pure-ass rhino-like stubbornness. That is the necessary component.
Americaโs small businesses are giving up on health insurance.
Data Centers Didnโt Jack Up Your BillโUtility Greed Did.
DeepMindโs hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists.
Indiaโs Climate Stress and the Solar Power Paradox.
Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age.
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an authorโs style. Moronic.
Lake Mead hits historic low water level as Colorado River struggles.
Fuge
That is exactly right.
Seizing
We really should not have allowed the most neurotic, most socially-debilitated and least normal women in history to seize control of feminism.
That was a big mistake.
Reboot Insult
Anyone else dealing with users who think rebooting is a personal insult?
There are tons of users like this.
I understand that you want your problem examined in minute detail by a team of experts and fixed. But computers are extremely complicated devices. Often, they get into a state that is not and never will be capable of being solved in any reasonable timeframe. Many DLLs and EXEs (etc.) do unpredictable, undocumented things that no one except the vendor can solve when they go wrong. And often, not even then.
Fucking reboot. Just reboot. Shut the fuck up and reboot. Fuck.
A few weeks ago, I had a user complain to my manager — all without putting in a ticket or contacting anyone on my team — that their machine was extremely slow and not working correctly. Why do people do that, contact a manager when they’ve made no effort to follow any process1? It just means I put them at the very bottom of every queue forevermore.
Looked at the logs. They had not rebooted in 184 days. Windows 11 needs a reboot about once a week to be functional.
I do not understand users.
Actual Prizes
Many women: I am the prize!
Men: But you offer nothing. You can’t cook. You can’t do anything adult. You’re dumb as a rock because you spend 16 hours a day scrolling on your phone. You don’t even like sex. What are you even here for?
Many women: The prize! The prize! The prize!
Men: *Goes off and does something away from the crazy*
We have really failed women.
Bottles and Necks
I like Wolf, but this is old wine in a new bottle.
This is just Nietzschean “Overcome historical moralistic baggage that holds us back” from the Genealogy of Morals 1 combined with Foucaldian antihumanism. It’s just accelerationism, in other words, in somewhat different garb. I mean, Nick Land has been writing the same shit since the 1990s. The whole CCRU project was Deleuze-Guattari plus Nietzsche plus cybernetics, with the human seen as a bottleneck to progress.
Regardless, there is no way to credit “what we really are” without an implicit normative story about which capacities count as the real ones and which are historical baggage. There is no way around this; part of any useful philosophy is making value judgments. What Wolf is doing is reinventing the wheel while not even knowing what a wheel is or why there are wheels.
JWST study suggests a handful of 'leaky' galaxies reionized the early universe.
Neanderthal growth hormone receptor increases muscle mass in people today, study shows.
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon.
Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities.
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership.
Americans Are Richer Than Everyone Else.
Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport.
Modernaโs mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review.
Employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in a sign of a wilting labor market.
The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse.
Americans got their biggest raises in 40 years. Inflation took most of it.
A house, a car, a little breathing room: Why middle-class life feels increasingly out of reach.
Big & Tall
In the year 5000, Korean women will be over 25 feet tall! Isn’t the future amazing?
Stack of Horror
It is horrifying on several different axes to think about all the Russians who have died unremarked in some farmer’s field, all their dreams of stealing washing machines and raping Ukrainian women having gone unfulfilled.