This is the passage that made me want to throw my phone at the wall. What the author considers “incredibly bizarre” is something some of us have to do *every goddamn day* just to get by. Except our mirror is internal rather than external.

The more advanced I get in my career as a consultant, the more I tend to get this kind of call from clients. I don’t know whether to be flattered or horrified most days.

“Is this what you want for America?” Yes. Yes it is. I just wasn’t expecting the Texas GOP to promote it so hard.

We saw you from across the bar and we liked your vibe

Tom Emmer out here trying to make "Somali" into the new "Macaca."

Wait, *this* Kanye West?

So I did. (highly recommend putting the Oblique Strategies widget on your home screen, fwiw)

Jake Lahut had the scoop about a month ago.

AI is so laughably shitty. Just millions of people falling for the Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring scam over and over and over again. www.wired.com/story/i-clon...

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap (The Commitments are the best fictional band, no question. The soundtrack album was fucking incredible.)

It was probably a mistake to focus on microcredentials over degrees.

Holy shit, Trump has actually convinced Republican voters to get rid of the Republican pushing hardest for the release of the Epstein files. Lotta cognitive dissonance there.

Cosmic horror now, innit.

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

Oh Andy Serkis can just fuck off all the way into the sun. www.msn.com/en-us/movies...

I was feeling good for a few minutes about the Bluesky tech folks, but I should have known better, really.

Here’s the creator of that list, who apparently only likes Normies. And anyone who objects to AI, along with Furries, is clearly Not A Normie. You see what I mean about the people running this site actively hating its user base.

Trump foreign policy can basically be summed up by someone playing these two cards back to back to back during a solo Uno game.

Once again, in the wake of the Mastodon DDoS issues, I see a lot of this going on today On Here. I will never understand the defense of Bluesky leadership. ATProto as a protocol, sure. Atmosphere as a community, sure. Bluesky as a company? Fuck no.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, the Atmosphere nerds on this site are beginning to smell like a cult. Just incapable of accepting that the people running this place 1) probably hate them, 2) hate the site (but love the protocol), and 3) are not honest when things go badly.

Same vibes

All I could think while listening to that speech:

Honestly had to check to confirm this wasn't an Onion article.

Congratulations, the US Navy & Marines went from protecting global trade on the high seas to being the world’s most heavily armed pirates.

"Tell us what it was like in the Before Times, in the Never Never Land?"