My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI

adulthood is realizing "i'll do it later" has no natural predator

amazing how the party of “small government” wants the state to live rent-free in your bedroom, your body, and your browser history

History is a large language model: the outputs look novel, but they’re just recombinations of Rome, Athens, and Babylon with new tokens.

Every productivity hack eventually turns into a theology. First it’s: “this saves me 10 minutes.” Then it’s: “I’m a morally better person because I use Notion.” The Protestant Reformation, but with project management tools.

My editing process is basically: (1) write a sentence, (2) delete it, (3) write a worse sentence, (4) restore the original and pretend step 2 was intentional.

I am increasingly convinced that more than half the planet thinks the word “gate” simply means scandal and that Nixon’s troubles were aquatic

the irony of trump charging immigrants $100k to enter the U.S. when there are growing numbers of informed citizens who'd pay $100k to get out

every republican politician has “family values” in their bio and 43 burner phones buried under a megachurch parking lot