"I should have liked to produce a good book. This has not come about, but the time is past in which I could improve it." I love that line so much.

when everything goes up in smoke i want to go live in the woods and write. i am holding this hope against the constant low level anxiety i feel.

Today’s (poetic prologue): Anne Carson, “Red Meat” #lunchpoems

I am opposed to using critiques of a person's appearance as if looks were an extension of their character. ...but Mar a Lago face is really creepy.

i don’t remember who asked for a bear flag theme in my (grid based grabbable task tracking) app Grask, but your wish has been granted

Today’s poem: Anne Carson, “IX. Space and Time” #lunchpoems

normalize defining “success” in terms that capture whether your actions have added anything of value to society.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · yesterday

Ramaswamy made his money through a scam. That's not success; it’s corruption. This election is the big chance in our lifetime to do something about the people who think politics is just there to enable ever bigger personal grifts.

OpenAI offered me a free trial month. I hate OpenAI and never use their products. But I signed up, downloaded codex, and my god this sucks. I am now wondering if half the codex fanboys on HN are just astroturfing.

shoulders ✅

yes, and this applies to me too.

☀️@vamospeat.bsky.social · 2d ago

genuinely one of the worst mistakes we made as a society was social media making very very stupid people believe the world needed and wanted to hear their opinions on anything

“i don’t care i lose as long as it’s not me again” this person needs to get their chalk stick revoked.

new favorite coffee shop (alas it’s in the heart of the east village)

I think the stronger version of this is: every video game will be customized to morph in response to your specific behavior. To use minecraft for analogy: less "everything is creative mode" and more "the mobs become smart enough to hunt you"

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 4d ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

"hey claude, make an app icon of a bodybuilder trapped in a box." claude:

arms ✅

few things give me a sense of cosmic well being like getting to banter with someone about whether logic is “real”

i want to do a bulk but i have to lose all this belly fat first. glurg.

This isn’t the predicted inflection point yet (OAI isn’t the leaderin enterprise usage) but it’s a data point.

Elliot@1t2ls.bsky.social · 2mo ago

- Enterprise billings will hit an inflection point, further increasing pressure on the valuation story. - There will be more security incidents of increasing gravity associated with the frontier labs as they continue to push toward autonomous super-intelligence.

i’m sorry, bub, you’re saying that ivy league schools are conspiring to undercut the wages of American residents? can you even hear yourself talk? this is incoherent and delusional.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Vance: "Some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut wages of American residents. There are 9 universities in particular we believe merit an investigation. Those are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburg, UC Davis, Cal Tech, Arizona State, and MIT."

the hot water is broken in my building today. feeling brisk after a cold shower.

Today’s poem: Anne Carson, “VII. Change” #lunchpoems

Today’s poem: John Clare, “First Love” #lunchpoems

i have become a stevia person, and i was rewatching Breaking Bad recently, and now i think of lydia. 💀

i am pretty over waking up.

back ✅

forgot to pack gym clothes so today’s workout is in jeans and a long sleeve tee.

When it comes down to it, if you get close enough and stick around long enough, you realize that most conservatives don’t actually believe anything. They don’t have “values” or “principles”. They have resentment and partisanship, and that’s it.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6d ago

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

it is tuesday.

you can tell catholicism is cooked because EWTN thinks a single grad student converting at princeton is a news story. how did the gospel get this weak, guys?

The sexy cool guys all agree: reading is chic

Jenni Tolls@jennitolls.bsky.social · last wk.

Reading while you wait for something is soooooo fucking chic