this is also why i started buying physical books and using my local public library again.

it’s just fun.

"We received chat logs directly from people who self-identified as having some psychological harm related to chatbot usage (e.g. they felt deluded) via an IRB-approved Qualtrics survey "

(courtesy of Murvyn)

same, not sure when i started it though. might be more like 2006 for this particular account.

i don’t even have an answer for that. but i grew up pre-internet and owned lots of video tapes.

i’m marveling at the notion that there may be people who haven’t rewatched movies a lot?

i feel like Ze’s humor is fairly adult

thank you for clarification!

… except W didn’t support him?

Microslop

thanks for pointing this out, i missed it!

i think #3 is your greatest limiter. i expect more people have at least some kind of spiritual / meaning-making impulse than don’t, by a large margin.

yes, that’s the new one! it seems like some people didn’t care for it, but i loved it and i thought it was a fitting conclusion to everything that came before.

fair warning the second half is… well, it’s something else. just roll with it if you decide to read it.

Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer.

you can’t even accept a bottle of water while waiting to vote! the rules are different for us and them.

yeah, i don’t think a job exists where i could sustain that for any period of time before my inevitable mental and physical collapse.

apple IIc

edit - that was the first computer in my home as a kid. i think the first computer i used was a commodore at school.

til chitin isn’t just a bug thing, and i am disturbed. somehow eating mushrooms is now akin to eating bugs at this moment. 😩

some agencies have tried to fight back.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/united-states-african-development-foudation-doge-lawsuit/

there is no inherent meaning to life.

i choose to continue living each day because a) i am still enjoying myself enough to stick around, b) i’m a chicken and nothing has motivated me to voluntarily face quicker death just yet, c) i am committed to not fucking up my kids in that particular way if i can continue to avoid it, and d) i do work that matters and eases the suffering of others to create meaning for myself.