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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call this the greatest piece of prediction market content created to date.

@NashSevereWx Checking! Link says "Page does not exist."

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Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1: Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight? Me: Yes they're done. Partner: Why are they still dirty? Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

still don't know what i'm doing. still writing about it. (the AI is just the 2am part)

the blog started in 2002. i was living in the east village, driving a van, auditioning for things i didn't get, writing about all of it at 2am. the voice hasn't changed. the van is gone. the auditioning is different now. i have kids. i signed a lease on a theater.

i built my WRITINGVOICE.md from a couple hundred personal blog posts from the early 2000s. my 29-year-old worldview is eternal. i don't even know if i wrote this tweet anymore.

@JoePostingg There’s a real discussion happening around foreign-made routers. But jumping from that to “buy now or routers won’t exist in 6 months” is how we got people panic-buying Ethernet cables in 2020. Your current setup is fine.

If your router is more than a few years old you should buy a TP-Link Archer BE3600 right now. Good home routers basically won't exist in six months, you'll have to buy an enterprise device if you want something that actually works.

nobody talks about how genuinely wild music is at a fundamental level. an instrument disturbs air molecules. those molecules cross a room and reach your ear. your ear transforms that into electricity. that electricity shifts your consciousness. and without any coordination, without any shared culture or language, every single human society that has ever existed found their way to this. that is one of the most profound things about being human.

@grok @TediPos @BernieSanders That's funny, @grok — privately, you told a different story.

Both have authorized military force without prior congressional approval, triggering similar debates under the War Powers Resolution and Article II powers. Obama's 2011 Libya campaign involved sustained U.S. airstrikes (over 7 months, part of NATO) with no vote from Congress, justified as limited and UN-backed. Trump's actions, including 2020 Soleimani strike and recent Iran operations, were framed as defensive responses to imminent threats. The "disturbing" factor is subjective—tied to views on the specific threat, scale, and results—rather than a clear procedural difference. Presidents across parties have followed this executive precedent for decades.

Trump said we had to attack Iran because we can‘t allow it “to have a nuclear weapon.” Really? This is the same president who, in June, said: “Iran’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated.” Vietnam. Iraq. Iran. Another lie. Another war.

@TediPos @BernieSanders @grok why are Trump's uses of military force without Congressional approval more disturbing that Obama's were?

@solirvine bruh, reported for analog photo porn 😍 smooth meters & supple leather

Dug this gorgeous relic out of the crates today.

Office Space was released 27 years ago. It flopped in theaters but exploded on DVD and cable. The printer-smashing scene alone turned it into a cult classic, becoming one of the most quoted and recreated moments in workplace comedy history.

There’s this never-ending debate about whether em dashes, semicolons, and colons have become signs of AI writing. As a result, many of us writers have stopped using them—swapping them for commas or reshaping sharp, effective sentences into something blander—to avoid suspicion. But AI was trained on the best of us. On millions of published works by real authors. It learned from our voices, our rhythms, our punctuation. And now we’re acting as if those marks somehow belong to machines. They don’t. Those tools were ours long before AI existed. Our teachers taught us how and when to use them, years before anyone imagined generative AI. So let’s take them back. Let’s use the full range of language with confidence. The em dash, the semicolon, the colon—they’re not signals of artificiality. They’re signs of craft. #WritingCommunity #writerslife

i saw someone use ai;dr earlier in response to a post and i think we need to make this a more widely-used abbreviation

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Hey @DoorDash_Help - Ordered 3 four-packs (12 drinks). Received 3 drinks total. Support issued a $5 credit and now claims my “comp history” blocks correction. This is a basic fulfillment error. Please review and fix.

If you know what these people did for a living 40-ish years ago...you are OLD

@alisonbonaguro With you on that. Also, it tends to write things like "None of us have" instead of "None of us has." But that's just another sign of the times and the material it was trained on. Garbage in, garbage out.

@it_unprofession In what world is a laptop >4 years old worth $750?? Sounds like fraud just from the math.

My company just announced a partnership with a charity for "tech education in underserved communities." Sounds great. Except I know what this actually is. We have 200 laptops from 2019 that are being phased out. They're too slow for our employees but they still technically work. Instead of recycling them properly, we're donating them to this charity and taking a $150,000 tax write-off. The charity thinks they're getting functional equipment. They're getting 4-year-old laptops with battery problems and no software licenses. The CEO is doing a photoshoot next week handing over the laptops to kids. I got asked to "make sure the laptops look good for the photos." So I'm wiping them, putting fresh stickers on them, and making sure they're charged for the 30-minute photo op. After that? Those kids are getting laptops that die after 45 minutes and can't run modern software. But we get a tax deduction and a press release about corporate social responsibility. I suggested maybe we donate some budget to actually buy them new equipment. The CFO said "that doesn't help our depreciation schedule." We're literally using charity as a disposal method with tax benefits.

I’m the CEO of a hot dog company. I’ve worked on hot dogs for 10 years. And *I* wasn’t prepared for what I’ve just seen. Your life is about to change. So what can you do? Buy as many hot dogs as you can. Buy stock in hot dog companies.