Soon, most of the babysitting video will be AI slop, as an infinite amount can be produced, keeping any baby occupied and out of their busy parents’ hair. That will produce a generation of children with impaired causal reasoning faculties, if not object permanence.

“Trump is not a cunt. He doesn’t have the warmth or the depth” - a sign at a protest

In 1922, Case established the School of Ageless Wisdom in Los Angeles, which later evolved into Builders of the Adytum (BOTA), an organisation that remains active today

BOTA? These nuts?

The security is dubious, and Durov is not exactly an exile: he travels to Russia regularly, and Telegram have had (and might still have) development offices there, suggesting some kind of accommodation with the authorities there.

Vibe-coded, I see.

Do Substack next

Most of these are bought as going-away gifts for coworkers

Don’t think Australia has announced its new spiders for this year yet

The people crushed in the martial-law crackdown that would opportunistically follow would probably mind

Vibe coding, the crystal meth of software

and/or perverted

Charles Petzold the Windows API guy?

And so is the SIM card in it. And your credit card, and car key. And each of them has more computer power than the entire world during the moon landing.

From what I remember, e/n sites were like personal blogs only with more of an incel vibe. They seemed to be by guys who referred to women with misogynistic slurs, while lamenting their lack of a girlfriend.

“Our god has balls”

Some day, someone will teach a goose to play the bagpipes.

Capybaras, hands down.

So glad my TV is a dumb-as-shit model from the early 00s I bought secondhand for about $30

This Caligula has a horse for every office of state

Presumably it started as chemistry done badly, and did come up with some discoveries, but as the scientific method got refined and principles were uncovered that didn’t correlate to celestial bodies or folklore, it diverged from the practical and became metaphorical. A bit like Freemasonry starting with stonemasons’ guilds and then gentrifying.