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@rainarcana @tenobrus i thought this was a metaphor for working at google

@tenobrus sorry tenebrous was a minecraft youtuber & pedophile and is now serving time in prison afaik i got you for the context

hell nah how did tenebrous get out of prison

@scottjmaddox @tenobrus @tszzl Lmao

@tenobrus @tszzl Tell me you're not an engineer or scientist without telling me you're not an engineer or scientist

okay i actually watched project hail mary last weekend and wanna publicly say i was wrong. contra @tszzl it's quite a fun movie and totally worth watching, in large part *because* it sands down a lot of rough edges for a public audience. you can't tell that andy weir's prose is terrible when you're watching a movie, and while we lose the ratfic puzzle box aspect that was one of the weakest points of the martian, it takes an extremely brave and capable director to actually do anything like that on screen. overall it's a fun ~kids movie, not a work of art, but i enjoyed more than the book! and if i want to see hardcore high quality ratfic style shit i'll just go rewatch Dark

@tenobrus @mister_shroom_2 @tszzl Shit I still ain't read anathem and hyperion

@mister_shroom_2 @tszzl favorite is really hard but here are some i like a lot

@shanaka86 @pangramlabs slop?

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Cheer up. I know losing access to @AnthropicAI models sucks but it isn't that bad.

@tenobrus Unfortunately this works for prediction markets too

at google this was known as "buying the gnome". there's like a billion tweets about this already but basically the story goes back in like 2005 or something they were building out their shopping search system, and it was working pretty well. except for the fact that if you searched for sneakers, the top result was a garden gnome. engineers were going crazy trying to fix the ranking bug, but eventually someone noticed that the gnome listing was on ebay, and there was only one of them, and it cost like $50. so they just bought the gnome and suddenly the listing was gone, problem solved. why bother fixing software issues when you can just change the world to fit your software instead?

@tenobrus Omg buying the gnome mentioned

@stonkmane69 @MSUDev0tee @JonAguiar How are you this evil

@MSUDev0tee @JonAguiar Enjoy eternal fire

I'm glad we can say retard again Because half of you elected a retard as president

"We can't take care of sick people or kids because we'd rather use the money on war" is a hell of a midterms pitch

@dhtikna @LinkofSunshine There's no objective justification for anything. Subjectively death sucks and we should destroy it. If you think that's cringe, that's a you problem

@tinkady2 @LinkofSunshine Bit of a strawman of the religious side Whats the objective justification of feelings of rage and injustice Why not just wirehead or wipe your brain of these negative emotions instead as a solution to death This is literally the stereotypical neckbeard cringe tho

Years after, I still think the Yudkowsky eulogy for his brother is one of the most beautiful things ever written

@tautologer Maybe card games (e.g. hearthstone) or teamfight tactics

I want to get my dad (late 60s) into video games as a pastime, as an improvement over cable TV news and YouTube shorts. he agrees and is on board, but he's tried playing video games in the past and "they just don't grab me." any recs for a novice gamer? maybe map games?

@dhtikna @LinkofSunshine What's neckbeard cringe about it? It's beautiful. We need to take the scourge called death and fuck it up the ass.

@LinkofSunshine I am 1/3rd the way thru and it is proper reddit tier neckbeard cringe. I am reading on in hope

@NicholasD91704 Tokyo = up and out Hong Kong = up and not out Chennai = out and not up San Francisco = can't build anywhere Issa 2x2 grid

@gfodor @DanielleFong Nobody is talking about it? You're in quite an algorithmic filter bubble

@DanielleFong We'll never agree on this of course but I think the claim legal voters ought to be intimidated by ICE if (hypothetically) they're seen near voting stations is ridiculous The fact they're in the airports and nobody is talking about it is also evidence that the narrative is bs

so much of my optimism rests on a fine point. the republicans will fail to sufficiently rig the elections

@gfodor @DanielleFong Requiring driver's license or state ID could be fine, but save is much more stringent than that. It's a suppression bill

@DanielleFong requiring ID to vote is not rigging elections, unless you're talking about something else

@RetroChristians @PrinceVogel lolz

@PrinceVogel God created them with a life cycle involving a cocoon; there was no need for a proto-cocoon.

Can someone explain to the sort of selection gradient that starts an animal down the path to doing this? What does a proto-cocoon look like?

@tenobrus Uh oh I've been cooked

i feel like i assumed everyone else in the world just kinda aged out of watching youtubers at around the same time i did but im starting to worry that may not be the case? are there still people out there who have like double digit youtube hours watched in 2026??

@kodumit @Aella_Girl Oh good point it's probably beff

@Aella_Girl was he saying words like "thermodynamic compute" and "kardashev scale" by any chance?

a long time ago i had the experience of chatting irl with someone well known on twitter, well connected, well platformed, influential, etc. He was smart, seemed to have domain expertise in his technical field. But gradually over the course of the conversation I realized he didn't actually know what he was talking about. He used complicated words, but in subtly off ways, and would reply to questions with things that sounded like answers but actually weren't.He'd confidently reference concepts that I think he assumed I didn't know, but I did know, and I knew that the term he used didn't actually have anything to do with his claim, etc. But his confidence was intense and radiating, and the speed at which he talked and the complex vocabulary he used really disguised what I perceived to be both a lack of deep understanding of the material and also a lack of self-awareness that he didn't have deep understanding! I've def met people who disagree with me online who I think *do* engage deeply with the concepts, but this specific one didn't, and it was a little blackpilling for me to realize that he had such a following from a bunch of people who couldn't tell the difference.

@Aella_Girl @DanielSingerS Are they a person place or thing Are they bigger or smaller than a microwave oven

I shouldn't answer too many yes/no questions about this, so i'm precommitting to only answering a max of three, but No, wasn't Destiny. I think destiny is legitimately quite smart and relatively rational, probably easily one of the highest iq people in the influencer-debater sphere

@digitlartifacts Will waymos bring rave culture by subsidizing safe & cheap off-peak hours transportation

the people who don’t like waymos have never been a girl in a miniskirt heading home from a rave alone at 4AM and it shows