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@tekbog ironically, centralize control in those who control the infrastructure of distribution

vibe coding will do for software what portable cameras have done for cinema

@BlockTopickz @FoxNews @APEntertainment for some reason the blur makes this extra funny

Justin Timberlake when he saw what officers put down as his race:

@patrick_oshag pretty good case to make that the best startup accelerators/venture capitalists etc. might excel at identifying the most promising startups, but aren't benefiting the economy or world on the whole

A crazy image

@JennyENicholson assuming this all takes place in the spoon river anthology expanded universe

Welcome to Spoon River youtu.be/-Gq1P2aaDqM

@realJaredGilman it's a running theme for motern media movies to get a horror sequel

just watched magic spot for the first time a couple nights ago completely unaware there’s an evil spot too. this changes everything

@Seanfrank "I see people on one side saying dumb things, which biases me against that side" is a mind-killing fallacy on the internet, a machine for showing you people you disagree with saying dumb things

The “ai data centers are using all the water” thing was very radicalizing. I saw smart people, respected people, scientists- echo this back. You can not like data centers near you. You can complain they make electricity prices rise… But the water point is a total hoax. Every data center on earth uses less water than American golf courses. And the water isn’t polluted, it isn’t destroyed. It’s a little warm. IT COULD STILL BE USED ON THE GOLF COURSES IF YOU WANT. Your local McDonald’s is using more water than a data center. It’s just shocking how unreal and fake that narrative is. Radicalizing.

@molochofficial an issue with remembering this era is that early internet culture still exists in memes and reposts, but much of it was in response to mainstream TV/magazine culture that's just disappeared. hipsters, "SJWs", the rise of nerds all only make sense in a context that's now invisible

"tumblr anglophilia" was just one of a hundred manifestations of the broad pushback in the late oughts against the "vulgar" pop culture of the Bush years (playboy-bunny reality tv bimbo aesthetic, 50 Cent, Ed Hardy, post-9/11 patriotism, Fergie, Los Angeles in general, etc)

@CosmonautMarcus dune isn't even in the top 10 of things that influenced star wars

Star Wars is inspired by like 0-3% of Dune and would still exist without Dune. If we are powerscaling cultural impact, there is no argument. Darth Vader’s breathing alone mogs any iconography from Dune. Lets be serious

@AdamDraper gail seems cool as hell

accidently typed in gail.com instead of gmail, and its my new favorite website.

@meadandjuniper a small number of guys actually "looksmaxx," the community is kept alive by people who just use the concept as an excuse to not talk to women at all. oh, everyone knows girls only like guys with a neutral canthal tilt so it's actually fine for me to stay home and play video games

@meadandjuniper I think the main issue is that to the extent PUA stuff worked, it did have to tell guys to put themselves out there, be okay embarrassing themselves a little, get comfortable with rejection--and people really don't want to do that

The rise of “looksmaxxing” seems to indicate that many modern young men have little confidence that they can acquire gf through improving their personality or learning social algorithms like the 2000s PUAs, which is curious

the clearest way I have to explain why this is horrifying is that yes, it is sad that val kilmer was struck by disease and died too young, but that sadness is the fundamental part of life that art is supposed to help us with, like the kind val kilmer made

@saffronhuang this is an interesting quote, but mainly because I think it's incorrect! access to demigods will make ADHD brains more stressed!

there are some banger quotes in here

@mjnblack @MattBurtell this is a weird way to respond to criticism of a passage at the end of the article! I don't know why you would assume people who don't like it haven't read it

@MattBurtell I am begging you all. to read. all the way. through this one.

The "truly bonkers hot mic moment" is that the interview is fake, and actually, you were reading slop. Journalists aren't exactly known for respecting their readership but cmon lol

@ettingermentum fascinating blunt rotation

Legendary top five

@Lons *in theory* there is a difference between predicting something which you could use information to figure out, and betting on something random, so kalshi does not allow betting on e.g. the results of a coin toss. in practice yeah it is very very very close to gambling

I personally enjoy wagering on Kalshi. I have no desire to see it outlawed. But it's CLEARLY just gambling under another name, right? All bets are "prediction markets" if you frame it that way. I'm PREDICTING that my cards will add up to 21, am I not? x.com/TechCrunch/sta…

@sama does your gratitude come with compensation

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

@allTheYud imagine how advanced society would be if we focused on stories about superheroes

I wonder how much of Western civilization's collapse is downstream of writers and scriptwriters deciding they were too cool and sophisticated to write about good people doing good things.

@conner_omalley so much of this is brilliant but "100 Man Podcast" had me dying

Irish Zionism

An almost timely, hastily constructed theme puzzle! nautiluspuz.com/2026/03/puzzle…