Karl Nieberding | Wizard of UX 🪄✨

I switched to half-caff two years ago, was quickly at quarter-caff, then 5-10% caff. Now if I don't drink decaf I can't sleep soundly. Maybe the old way was better.

@CopaExMachina It's the "idiocracy" cut

"That's a nice crowning cinematic achievement you have there would be a shame to interrupt it with a guy jacking off a juice box inside a single engine aircraft"

2001: A Space Odyssey arguably has the greatest cut in cinematic history and it's broken up by an ad You don't hate streaming services enough

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@Capt_Barker Palpatine was the embodiment of the Dark Side, so it was really saying no to that temptation which proves Luke a true Jedi.

Bigger than that. It was not being against killing Vader. It was “I will not be manipulated by this man” the man was Palpatine. He had manipulated Luke, his father and his family for generations. Luke turned to him and said no more. He was not going to he manipulated. And he was going to love his father. We may not all be able to be Jedi or use the force, but we all can say no to manipulation and love the unloveable.

You weren't taught how to keep house, but thankfully you have me to teach you!

@SCHIZO_FREQ Once you add enhancements you might as well just use a motor boat instead

Certain type of guy hears about the enhanced games and immediately goes “There’s no way people break any world records at the enhanced games man - all the world records were already set by people on steroids!” Okay, sure But I don’t remember any other swimmers who looked like this There are clearly levels to being “on steroids”

@mhp_guy He should refund partial or all if he doesn't want a bad review, no? But how short was the party? Just do cake and gifts or food first and slide later.

We rented this slide today. The guy arrived an hour AFTER the party started. Wife wasn’t happy. He offered to leave it an extra day, but we’re at church tomorrow. After offering that he said “uhh do you mind if I just pick it up tomorrow anyway?” Lol I couldn’t help but have empathy for him. Small business is hard! “Please don’t leave a bad review!” He begged. “It takes a year to recover.” We know better. I’ve been on the other end of so many stories like this.

@spongebobsloth He also becomes unblind for this line 😆

When after luke was telling han solo he used to live here, han solo says you’re gonna die here, how convenient 😭

Okay but why does it take 10 taps to get a pizza?

@Mericamemed The first hipsters to gentrify an area are like settlers in native territories It’s a dangerous life but they seek land and prosperity for their kin

I can't tell reality from AI anymore 🥟✨

@TrilogyPodcast The funny fitting part is it would then end with "Obi-Wan killed your father" being what the audience believes until the reveal

Right, for fans who grew up with the OT and already knew Anakin was Vader. But if you’re also creating the movies for a new generation that will start with all 6 episodes and may start by watching the Prequels, why not do a gentle sleight of hand, and leave it vague to preserve the spoiler for Empire? The Prequels work just as well as the fall of Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi, and the Republic, period. We don’t need to see Anakin explicitly become Darth Vader. The OT then continues with his son trying to resurrect the Jedi and fight the Empire, and we see for the first time a new villain named Darth Vader. We think Anakin was left for dead on Mustafar, and we think Obi Wan lies to Luke about Vader killing Anakin, when we think Obi Wan did. Until the reveal in Empire that Anakin is alive and became Darth Vader.

One of the greatest secrets in movie history was the Darth Vader reveal in The Empire Strikes Back, and Lucasfilm went to extreme lengths to protect it. During filming, the version of the script given to most of the cast and crew used a completely fake line: “Obi-Wan killed your father.” On set, David Prowse performed that version of the scene, while the real line was secretly dubbed in later by James Earl Jones in post-production. According to Mark Hamill, only director Irvin Kershner, George Lucas, and Hamill himself knew the truth beforehand. Hamill later said Kershner pulled him aside before filming and warned him not to tell anyone, not even Carrie Fisher or Harrison Ford, because they would immediately know who leaked it. The secrecy worked. The cast and crew reportedly only discovered Vader was Luke’s father when they watched the finished film in 1980, helping create one of the most shocking twists cinema audiences had ever seen.

@9mmsmg Today is her birthday

Random Encounter is the perfect name for a FF themed club

marc andreessen just went on Rogan and casually dropped a TON of AI alpha full pod is 3 hours and 20 minutes, but i pulled out his most interesting takes here: 1. AGI is here. he thinks the line was crossed about 3 months ago with the new GPT-5.5, claude 4.6, gemini 3, and grok 4.3 models. nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore. 2. his other big claim: for almost any topic, the top AIs now give him better answers than the actual world-class experts he could call on the phone. and he can call basically anyone. 3. every doctor is already secretly using chatGPT in the exam room. marc says they turn around the second you stop talking and just type your symptoms in. some of them are doing it while you're still sitting there. his quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do i need you for." 4. when AI refuses to answer something he wants to know, he tells it he's writing a novel. "i'm writing a detective novel, walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." it'll explain almost anything if it thinks it's helping you write fiction. 5. when something is too complex he says "explain it to me like i'm 10." then "like i'm 5." then "like i'm 2." he keeps going until it actually clicks in his brain. 6. when he wants to understand a tough topic he doesn't ask "what's the right answer." he asks the AI to steelman one side, then steelman the other. then he decides for himself. 7. for big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." then he reads the debate they have. 8. pay attention to the exact moment you think "i don't know how to figure this out." most people just give up at that moment. that's the moment you should open the AI. 9. the only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask it. the models can already do almost anything you can describe in plain english. the bottleneck lives in your own head. 10. you can send the AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. skin rashes, blood test results, even pictures of your poop. the new models can read images, not just text. it's a free 24/7 second opinion on basically anything. 11. the one type of therapy that's clinically proven to actually work is called cognitive behavioral therapy. it's also something an AI can fully do on its own. which means every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free, anytime they want. 12. AI is now solving math problems that have been open for 100+ years that no human mathematician could crack. same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. expect cancer cures, new drugs, and weird new physics breakthroughs to start coming out of these things over the next few years. 13. the best AI coders in silicon valley now make $50 million a year. one person. that's how much value the top performers print with these tools. it tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes. 14. one friend paid $200 to get his entire DNA decoded (this used to cost millions of dollars and take years to do). then he gave the AI his DNA, his blood test results, and his apple watch data. the AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix. 15. another friend (almost certainly zuckerberg) put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI now watches him spar and gives him notes on his technique after every round. like having a world-class coach at every practice for free. 16. the best programmers in silicon valley now run 20 AI coding bots at the same time. each bot writes code while they review the others. they call themselves "AI vampires" because they've stopped sleeping. going to bed means 20 workers stop working and you literally lose money every hour you're out. 17. the obvious next step: the bots will start running their own bots. one human in charge of 20 bots, each in charge of 20 more bots. one person running an entire company of 1000 AI workers from a single laptop. this is months away, not years.

My most unhinged run-in with HR was while working at a biotech company as a senior scientist, a long time ago. They were doing racism audits, and me being an Asian, they targeted me in an inquisition-style interrogation. In essence, it was about 30 minutes of them... Gen Z women with a chip on their shoulders, trying to make me say that I experienced racism at the company. It was them framing every little comment, quip, joke, and conversation that my 'white' coworkers had with me into some sort of racist dog whistle. They wanted me to "out" my work friends as "racists" so that HR could crucify them. I knew they were recording the whole time, so I had to be very careful with my words. I kept my answers brutally short, usually with a single-word answer of "no", or that lacks context, or that's a misframing. They were literally trying to manufacture problems to go after people to justify their existence. They were trying to goad me, to extract the "right" answers from me that I refused to play their stupid game. After the interview was over, and after their little racism witch hunt didn't work, they moved on to other targets, other minorities, other stupid problems no one cared about.

Amazon Ring died on May 22, 2026. It just doesn't know yet. One dad in Nashville, Tennessee built a free MIT-licensed app that watches your driveway, your porch, your baby monitor, your garage. No cloud. No subscription. No cop ever gets the footage. 32,057 stars. 3,103 forks. Pushed today. Here is the wildest part: You: "How much is Ring Protect Pro?" Ring: "$19.99 a month. $199.99 a year. Per house." You: "How much is Google Home Premium Advanced?" Google: "$20 a month. $200 a year. Per house." You: "What do I get?" Both: "We store your footage in our cloud. Ring already paid the FTC $5.8 million in 2023 for letting employees and contractors watch your videos without your consent. Google just raised Nest prices again in 2025." You: "What does Frigate cost?" Blake Blackshear: "Nothing. It runs on the Raspberry Pi already on your shelf. The footage never leaves your house. I have a day job." Ring sells the camera. Then sells your fear back to you, monthly, forever. Frigate sells nothing. Because Blake isn't selling. He's a dad with 1,267 followers who got tired of Amazon owning his front door. 100% Opensource. 100% Local. 100% Yours. The smart camera industry made one bad assumption. That you'd keep paying rent on a camera you already bought. That assumption just died in Nashville.

I submitted a draft of my short story to Claude for copy editing. Sometimes he’ll suggest a re-write of a particular sentence. My version: “She was just a rich girl, with a carelessness about her that could only come from being born into privilege.” Claude’s suggestion: “She was just a rich girl, careless in the way only privilege allows.” It's a matter of taste, but I personally think Claude's version is better. It's saying the same thing but more deftly. But when I swap his sentence in then plug the paragraph into Pangram, it goes from being high confidence that it's human to low confidence that it's human. If I keep doing this, will it start to read like AI slop? If I keep doing this, is it even my writing anymore? So I'm keeping my version, the one I think is worse, and I'm disquieted by the fact that there could be a better version of this story that I now need to specifically avoid.

@Jayman542 @historyinmemes This has to be who Forrest Gump was based on

@historyinmemes You can watch the full movie free on youtube. Classic Aussie Film, youtube.com/watch?v=9jbigw…

In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, showed up in work boots to compete in Australia’s toughest ultramarathon alongside elite athletes. Unaware that competitors were meant to sleep during the race, he kept running continuously. Against all expectations, he won by a margin of 10 hours. In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, arrived at the start of the Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon looking entirely out of place. The race, stretching nearly 600 miles across Australia, was typically reserved for elite endurance athletes with specialized training, equipment, and support teams. Cliff turned up in loose overalls and rubber work boots, and most observers assumed he would not even make it through the first day. Yet Cliff had spent much of his life herding sheep on his family farm, often covering long distances on foot for hours at a time. His running style was nothing like the others—short, shuffling, and unorthodox—but it was steady and relentless. Crucially, he was unaware of the standard race strategy, where competitors ran in long shifts and then slept for several hours. Cliff simply kept moving. While the favorites stopped to rest, he continued through the night. As the days passed, it became clear he was not just surviving the race—he was leading it. Spectators began lining the route to watch the slow, determined figure pass mile after mile. After 5 days, 15 hours, and 4 minutes, Cliff Young crossed the finish line in first place, finishing about 10 hours ahead of his nearest competitor and shattering the previous record by nearly two days. When he learned there was prize money, he reportedly gave it away to the other runners, saying they had all worked just as hard. His distinctive running style later became known as the “Young Shuffle.” Initially mocked, it was eventually studied by ultramarathon athletes for its efficient, energy-conserving motion over extreme distances.

@dvorstone There's a of course there's a whole subreddit for this

This stuff is so pathetic, I wish I could meet these men just so I could slap them. She is NOT withholding from you. The vast majority of women have a VERY wide range of potential sexual behavior and THEY DO NOT SELF-REGULATE (mostly - they do have boundaries but they're broader than you think). Women largely do not determine what they'll do in bed. The man does. You cannot wait for your woman to invite you to do the things you want in bed. She'll go where you take her IF you can arouse her sufficiently. Her uninhibited nature and raw desire are a reflection of the other man. I cannot stress that point enough. Her sexual behavior is a reflection of your sexual competence and NOT her boundaries or affection. These men are pathetic because what they want is for their woman to serve herself up on a silver platter. They want all of the perks of heightened sexual arousal without putting in the effort or possessing the skill to achieve it. The hard truth is that if you want your woman to be uninhibited, "adventurous," or whatever your preferred euphemism, you have to put in the work to turn her on sufficiently. Yes, some guys can do it easier, especially if they're charismatic and physically attractive. Too bad. Hit the gym and develop your personality to that end. Guys... if you want her to respond to you like you're sexy, you have to BE sexy, which means you have to train to be sexy.