P.G. Chodehouse

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my posts are all bad

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

our democracy, such as it is, had more or less struck a compromise with them along the lines of, whatever you want thats okay, just leave some email jobs and retail work for us, we will live with precarity and summary state executions, sirs. but for whatever reason they wanted it all

The thing about Kemi Badenoch's purge of any Conservative member to the left of Enoch Powell is that she's so close to a Tory revival if she only realised it. All she needs to do is to lead a party that is not obviously mad and wait for Reform to crumble, but she can't even manage that

remember when a bunch of software companies made a big deal about "returning to the office," citing worsening quality of work? and then none of their products got any better? and then some of them started to vibe code everything? and their products got even worse??

The annoying thing about Starmer in retrospect is that he had a completely open goal, and only needed to do some of the stuff he promised when he got in to be seen as alright. And he fucked it for seemingly no reason anyway, and became massively hated in the process. So actually it's really funny

Alan Greenspan was a hack ideologue who did unspeakable damage to the economy and who created much of the terrible inequality of the New Gilded Age we face today. He also may have had sex with Ayn Rand. Good riddance to bad rubbish. My obituary is here. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/rare...

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Alan Greenspan, iconic economist of the New Gilded Age and capitalist extremist who made the world worse for his ideological running of the economy, is dead at the age of 100. With rare notable except...

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The defining principle of our society is that people who were lucky during the dot com boom or Web 2.0 should have vast and ever-growing individual power over the entire world. The only acceptable check on their power is their squabbles with each other.