I remember reading in the 90s some guy (sorry guy, don't remember your name) who said if the US ever invades Canada it will be over fresh water. I still think this is unlikely to happen, but at the rate they are consuming their fresh water supplies, well maybe...?

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2w ago

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

Crazy to think back that there was a whole Knight Rider arc where Kitt gets basically destroyed by some weird compacter truck and then they rebuild it(him?) and he's got like PTSD and can't do his slick car moves like he used to. 10 year old me was really worried Kitt would never be okay again.

I hate every interface that makes me search for the search.

One useful thing about taking philosophy is you learn you cannot defeat a determined skeptic. There's no assertion you can make that someone fully committed to not buying your argument can't undercut, even if things get pretty wild. The worst of them wouldn't even concede "I think therefore I am."

Not content with strong positions in Ohio, Florida, and California, LeBron makes a bold gambit for Pennsylvania. Pete Buttigieg rumored to be investigating Embiid's doctors. Does AOC know something about Jaylen Brown we don't? Will 76ers in '27 usher in James '28 for America?

Utilitarianism seemed so clearly correct to me in university and now after years in the real world of being bombarded by galaxy-brained utilitarians I'm become the most basic virtue ethicist. Be kind to people. Be compassionate. Be honest and strive for justice. Be a human being goddamnit.

Maybe we'll build the pipelines really big so the submarines can travel through them, because by the time they're done we won't be shipping oil.

Tech bros want everything to be automated and "scalable" so they can reap all the rewards without pesky employees. But anything (and everything) related to information that is automated can and will be gamed, ultimately destroying its value.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

I probably never would have reduced my internet usage of my own accord - but the general experience of almost any online interaction is so terrible now I am moving in that direction - and enjoying life more?

Had the realization today that those of us who spend too much time on the internet and retain some modicum of self-awareness are not "somehow okay." We're functional alcoholics, shaking our heads and saying of others "they gotta get their shit together" before cracking open another tallboy.

Sucks watching the Liberals govern like Conservatives. The only weak silver lining is I get a chuckle every time I think of Pierre Poilievre. He missed his shot and now he's gotta sit on his thumbs until his party gets bored of him. The most pointless man in Canada at the moment.

One pop culture fact I am incapable of keeping in my brain is that Seth Green was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It somehow surprises me every time. But he was there for like, what, three seasons?!

Guess we're about to find out.

Chris Hanney@chrishanney.bsky.social · 3y ago

I am unclear as to how Bluesky solves the "someone has to pay for the servers" problem, but I'm happy to be here until the house of cards collapses!

My "favourite" Giorgio Mammoliti memory was when he was pushing for a casino in Toronto and basically referencing problem gamblers was like "They're our gamblers, they should be our revenue, and they're going down to Niagara." Like these people were an oil well for him to tap.

I'm not really an expert in anything but wherever I've worked the greatest shortage has always been "people who even kind of understand what we do here" and if anything AI is going to exacerbate that problem. If I had any advice it would be hone and protect your ability to understand things.

It is pretty crazy that I can type in the explicit name of a 2FA application I require in the App store and Apple will serve me an ad at the top for a different 2FA product. Like... guys. That's not how this works.

The weird thing about video game companies embracing AI is that, if AI boosters are to be believed, eventually these models will be so good you can ask them to write the game you want for you, at which point, why video game companies at all?

I shouldn't be surprised but this dark pattern where you cancel a subscription, go to a page that asks you to confirm again, and then go to a different page that asks a third time to confirm is clearly designed to make people think they've cancelled and navigate away. I hate everything, thanks.

The doc I'm producing recently popped up on Letterboxd and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't extremely stoked by this fact. Add it to your watchlists, nerds: letterboxd.com/film/legends...

Legends of Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line

From the team behind the Prime Video docuseries Gamebreakers, Legends of Adventure is the new feature documentary about video game pioneers Ken and Roberta Williams and the rise of Sierra On-Line.

letterboxd.com

Most pies are good. The pie takes on BlueSky are mostly bad. File this one (yet again) under my Old Man Stance that everyone should have fewer opinions.

All fathers should love their sons the way Buck Martinez loves Trey Yesavage.

2005: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this can't be a trustworthy source of information 2025: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this is the last bastion of truth on the Internet

Exercising in my 20s: *Do something wrong* Whoops. *Shake it off* Exercising in my 40s: *Do something wrong* Oh God!! *dies*

Coming around to Java having a default toString method for objects. Thought it was heavy handed at first but the number of times I'm like "how can I get a String representation of this?" is changing my mind.

Teaching myself React and like, I'm a JavaScript agnostic, it's fine, but really starting to see why the JS haters lose their minds with these frameworks. "Let's redo the entire architecture of a multi-page website, but all on one page, the user none the wiser, entirely with JavaScript! Muaha ha!"

I hope whoever popularized thin scrollbars has had a lot of minor misfortunes in life. Like I wouldn't wish real calamity on anybody, but this person does need to suffer periodically for what they've done.

I know the correct response is to be slightly exasperated every time you need to use '===' with JavaScript (which is basically all the time), but honestly I crack a little smile. It never stops being a little bit funny to me and you have to find your joy where you can.