I really strongly dislike physical books and never read them anymore.
No ability to control font sizes and fucking heavy.
Author: Chill
Liter8
I get this dawning sense of gloom that being educated and well-read in America is going to become like being part of those populations of severely endangered species that always have tragic mating failures in zoos. And then they all sort of dwindle until they’re a postcard.
— A.V. Marraccini (@saintsoftness) December 6, 2025
This is already occurring. Neal Stephenson was right. I predict we’ll revert to roughly the historical norm with about 10-20% of the population literate to any degree. The rest will only be capable of watching and sending video and can recognize the occasional word.
What would stop that outcome? Nothing that I can see.
Grim
I suspect the majority of the reaction against AI is akin to when factory workers were first substantially replaced by machines followed not long after by most of the remaining jobs being shipped off to Mexico and China. It feels the same. It’s just the first time knowledge workers and “creatives” have been hit in a really large way.
And they’re not reacting well. I understand, though. I just wish they’d had more sympathy when their “inferiors1” had their livelihoods eviscerated years ago.
They cared little and did nothing. Now the reaper is coming for them too.
Wilderado – Surefire
I like the song, but holy hell why is the actor who plays the waitress uncredited? She’s great. She says so much without saying anything at all (that we can hear). She should get a credit, at least.
I figured out who she is though: Alyssa Brigiotta. Too bad she’s not done more acting, though she’s a songwriter and performer herself.
In Out
To those who say AI isn’t a substantive advance (or even more absurdly, a “plagiarism machine”) you’re wrong. No, it’s not a tech Jesus and it’s not the end of the humans on earth as the AI cultists imagine, but it’s at least the equivalent of gene sequencing + editing or other tech like that.
Most of you have a GIGO problem with AI — garbage in, garbage out. And here’s the thing: you’re the garbage in that equation.
Vimp
People who claim they cannot see any difference between 1080p and 4K screens — I just don’t believe them. It’s so insanely obvious I think they are just saying that so they don’t have to spend more money on a better monitor.
Unless you have, like, 20/100 vision the difference is like looking at a pebble and boulder and claiming they are exactly the same.
Surely people cannot be that vision-impaired and still read without glasses?
Good Victory
The primary accepted upper-middle class paradigm in the West, currently, is Prey Morality – i.e. failure.
"Masculine leadership is bad."
"Our history is disgusting."
"Our ancestors were filth."
"What we did can never be forgiven."
"We are uniquely evil."
This has to be… https://t.co/23xXZMC5PK
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) December 7, 2025
Yep. Here’s my land acknowledgment: We took your land. You weren’t powerful enough to keep it. What’s done is done. Deal with it.
That’s really all you need to say.
No Vote
And no, I didn’t vote for Trump and I wouldn’t vote for him if he somehow ran again.
I just hate hypocritical clown liars on either side. That’s all.
L &S
Matt Taibbi was talking on his podcast about how no one flinched during Obama’s presidency when they’d carry out the ‘double tap’ drone strikes:
They’d drop a bomb on some ostensible terrorists.
And then they’d wait and drop another bomb on the first responders: maybe some more…
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 7, 2025
Indeed. Obama started this. That doesn’t make it right (or wrong). But it was a precedent. Pretending like this began with Trump is false and makes (as is typical lately) the liberal side look deranged. After all, they cheered like mad when their lord and savior Obama did exactly the same thing.
Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water.
ACIP Decides More Newborns Do Need To Catch Hepatitis B.
Children with better musical skills may benefit from a prolonged window of brain plasticity.
Growing Fear of Nature: Study Reveals Causes of Rising Biophobia.
For small businesses hit by soaring costs, layoffs are painful and personal.
Leibniz’s Monads Are Weird Quarks.
America’s economy is at the mercy of crony capitalism.
Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and get ready for war with Russia.
Electron Zoomage
Gawdamn I love having an absurdly fast network that makes other people’s seem like a clownish joke network.
Poof Water
Something I realized during the utterly-moronic AI water usage “debate” is that a lot of progressive degrowther types believe that when water is used somewhere, it literally disappears. Like, they think it poofs into hydrogen and oxygen or just evacuates the universe altogether.
And…dang. I have no words for whatever is going on there. But here’s some anyway: Water is nearly infinitely-renewable. No, this doesn’t solve the problems of cities like Tehran or a lot of India. Though those are in fact soluble (see what I did there) problems. Other than water that is de-molecularized in a few industrial processes and relatively-rare chemical reactions, there is as much fresh water on planet earth now as there was when humans evolved. Yes, of course, how we use it matters. And we could do a lot better at that.
However, when I realized that very many prog types believe that when water runs through a data center loop for 30 seconds it is somehow annihilated and vanishes from the universe forever, I was both disappointed and agog.
Not Progress
Me too. I cannot believe how insanely and weirdly prudish they are. What clowns.
Portal
Be the teleportation accident you wish to see in the world.
Glazes and Hazes
I fairly commonly listen to bands called Fazerdaze, Glazyhaze, Sungaze and Honeyglaze.
That gets a mite confusing.