Doors close and options narrow. The way you think about the future fundamentally changes.

You have to remember not to project your decline onto culture, society, and the world. You have to remember that many, many things are better now than when you were young.

Hi, you’ve reached my voicemail. At the tone, please hang up and send me a text.

Everybody forgets this. The time when “a single income could provide housing, transportation, and collage for a family of four” only existed for white men. Thinking this was universal is just lefty false nostalgia nauseatingly similar to MAGA.

M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.

The other day, my mother approached me about Office alternatives. Before she retired, she daily drove Office, but feels like it’s changed so much that learning a new program isn’t any more friction than keeping up with AI bullshit.

Dumplings, Sausage, Meatballs, or chicken nuggets.

Spoilers

The game would be severely diminished if it’s story changed. IMO, the “good times” has more to do with Arthur being an “unreliable narrator” than the actual material circumstances.

This is illustrated best by Arthur recognizing Micah for what he was, while remaining childishly blind to Dutch’s character. Arthur’s constant doubt and reluctance was the truth bubbling up, just below Arthur’s consciousness.

The reading that Mica, Bill, and Javier are evil while Charles, John, and Arthur are good depends not on one group being more dishonorable, cruel, or murderous, but rather who stayed “loyal” to Dutch.

I think it’s brilliant the way the story uses the “ludonarrative dissonance” as tension not between gameplay and story, but perspective and reality.

It should be the Battle Hymn of the Republic, just with some of the original lyrics:

John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave

John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave

John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave

But his truth keeps marching on

or

We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a crab apple tree

We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a crab apple tree

We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a crab apple tree

John Brown’s truth keeps marching on.

Wages of Fear (1953) One of the best thrillers I’ve ever seen.

It was remade in 1977 and called “Sorcerer”. I’ve never seen that version and neither has anyone else because it opened against Star Wars.

If you examine closely, you’ll see there is no AI, but Vin Diesel reading a script (written by humans).

It’s really not surprising that the most homophobic are queer themselves. Imagine how much you would resent someone who got to openly express what you’ve worked so hard to suppress.

Debian cut ties in January, so if you quit after that, you’re officially slower to change than Debian.

The number of possible combinations of genes is so large that the chance of a random duplication is vanishingly small. Even twins aren’t exact copies because they’ll have mutations unique to themselves.

Epstein killed himself. (same for Gary Webb)

Too many people think suicide is rare, or extreme act. But it’s common as dirt especially for people who’s life is ruined. It’s a joke in movies that “new fish” looking at long sentences kill themselves, but somehow when it happens to someone notable, it’s mysterious and suspicious.

Also, the idea that there was a conspiracy to murder Epstein in prison and cover it up by powerful people is an extraordinary claim with the flimsiest possible evidence.

Nobody has racist field trip yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oomlb9xm-YQ

A lot of people compare Trump to Hitler, but as apt as that may be sometimes, Hitler was a dilettante intellectual; he was a reader. And as painful as it might be to anyone who’s tried to read it, Hitler did write his own book.

I don’t remember the character well, but besides being a real-estate guy, I don’t see the connection between Trump and Fontaine. Fontaine was evil and all, but he was also hyper competent, organized, and had consistent ideology.

I hate the idea that watching ads or donating money to “support” creators. Youtube gets their content for free, why shouldn’t I?

And it’s not just content creators. Nobody shops anymore, they support business. Capitalism has camouflaged consumerism as political /social activism and it makes me sick!

The TOR project in it’s entirety was created by the CIA for secure communications. It’s public because no matter how secure, if only spies use TOR, then it would be easy to catch them.

I don’t mean to imply that TOR is insecure, it’s open source and the Government has an interest that it be secure. But if you’re going to annoy the US government, you better have good opsec because they understand TOR better than anyone.

For the curious: “War on Science” is a book of essays including Lawrence Kraus (whom “edits” the volume) and Richard Dawkins.

You might think that this book would be about RFKjr or the collapse of US funding for research. No. The ‘war on science’ is when academics are held accountable to woke ideology i.e. being disciplined for having sex with your students. It’s publisher doesn’t usually cover science, mostly selling books about fundamental Christianity.

For those of us who watched the brain-rot of Islamophobia and misogyny take over the skeptic community back in the early 2010s, it’s no surprise that these men turned out to be grifters in bed with fundamentalist Christians over their shared hatred of Muslims and women.

There is so much more to the video. Including specifics about some of the essays and their authors; the Jeffery Epstein connection; and how feminism destroyed the “new atheist” movement.

Alex Karp’s behavior is much better explained by cocaine. He may be neurodivergent, but he was still high as giraffe pussy.