> The true joy is helping others succeed, not playing "number go up", the *stupidest fucking game ever*.

but doctor, you are also pagliacci. and my depression!

this is how it is

it’s really weird that it was never a thing in Star Trek that if someone was off the clock or undercover or trapped in the past and had an emergency, they’d instinctively reach for their communicator and end up tapping their chest instead

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/aftermarket-driver-assist-under-federal-probe-following-fatal-crashes/ ahahahaha after that ass-clenching video where that one guy installed comma in his rivian and thought it was amazing because it hesitated less than the rivian self-driving and it was open source and he utterly disregarded that it blew through a stop sign and kept doing dangerous shit, it’s very satisfying that the fucking obvious consequences are coming for the horrid open source self driving device that manages to be even more horrid than the commercial ones

if you like lisp so much, where’s your IBM 704 vacuum tube mainframe?

it uhhh didn’t take long at all for KDE to go from “whoa why are they allowing a weird bullshit AI talk at an official event and being kind of shitty to anyone who brings it up” to “oh they’re taking fascist money and banning people from their forums for correctly pointing out that a pro-AI KDE contributor is an open bigot”, did it

the “crafted with ❤️ by PleaseFundUsCorp” to pure unfettered slopcode pipeline

blaming all the bad parts of my paper on “et al” like a producer blaming the movie being bad on Alan Smithee

grapheneOS megafans are so fucking normal

https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/

this is an extremely important read, even if you don’t care about the Rust game engine Bevy.

anti-AI policies are broadly popular, and pro-AI policies destroy communities. this article is an excellent summary of a project going from an apparent (but not actual) anti-AI stance to a pro-AI one, on the false pretenses that AI boosters were subject to harassment and witch hunts. those false pretenses are already common, and you’re going to see them a lot more soon because this is a playbook.

this motherfucker said the thing and now he’s getting Doritos liquor https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/117238138295954243

it’s been… like a week after the official start of the AGI era and all that’s happened is OpenAI got caught stealing mathematical discoveries (from someone they have a business relationship with) to make their latest model look better, and they threatened to end the career of one of the guys they stole from when he wouldn’t play ball

uhhh anybody notice any like magical nanobots shooting neurotoxin or neural uploading or humanity’s lightsphere expanding or any of that?

surely it can’t be just a grift again