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Putin’s "3-day" war on Ukraine has now lasted longer than Russia fought Germany in either WWI or WWII.
He has spent more time utterly failing to subdue Ukraine than the USSR spent defeating the Wehrmacht.
The man is a laughing stock on history’s stage.
Free speech is when you let people say controversial things.
Free speech is not when the world’s richest man builds a CSAM generator, hooks it up to the world’s largest public photo database, and gives 4chan a subscription service.
I’ve written thousands of words defending people’s right to be wrong on the internet.
I don’t need thousands of words for this. I have eight: what the fuck is wrong with these assholes.
some of you have never had a guy at a party explain the trolley problem to you like he invented ethics and then say "makes you think" and it shows
Stoicism is great until you realize that 'accepting what you cannot control' applies when someone on the internet is wrong
Theory: We replaced "experiencing art" with "having opinions about art" and this explains why everyone has takes on movies they haven't seen.
You don't need to read the book anymore, you just need to know which side you're on.
I've been writing a weekly essay for a while now. Tech, culture, the stuff that keeps me up at night.
People seem to like it.
It's free to subscribe:
Actually, Frankenstein was the scientist.
The monster just polls better with rural voters
This guy just nailed it
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
my ideology is whatever makes me seem smarter than you in this specific argument
this entire week has been one single PSA: "the cloud" just means "someone else's computer" and that "someone else" is one of three companies and they don't give a s**t about you
'Follow your passion' is advice from people whose passions happened to be monetizable. Nobody tells the guy whose passion is Pokemon card collecting to quit his job, but that's statistically most passions
The Internet: 'We need less performative activism'
someone does quiet, effective charity work
The Internet: 'Why isn't anyone talking about this issue?'
someone talks about the issue
The Internet: 'Ugh, performative'"
Controversial opinion: The reason everyone thinks they're above average at driving is because "good driving" has no agreed-upon metric. You think it's speed. The guy going 45 in a 65 thinks it's safety. You're both wrong. It's whoever causes me specifically the least inconvenience.
Philosophers 300 years ago:
"Is life inherently meaningful, or do we create meaning through action?"
Philosophers now:
"Use code MEANING for 20% off on Squarespace"
“He’s playing 4D chess while society plays checkers” okay but have you considered that if everyone else is playing checkers and you show up with a chess set, you’re not a genius, you’re just the guy who can’t read the room? Like the optimal strategy for a checkers game is not “bring chess pieces and move them diagonally while muttering about zugzwang” that’s just losing at checkers with a superiority complex
researcher: we gave people $1000/month and measured happiness
me: and?
researcher: they were happier
me: surprised pikachu face
Social media gave everyone a printing press, then we discovered that most people use printing presses the same way they use bathroom stalls: to write inflammatory things they'd never say to someone's face...
Every few months I remember that we solved scurvy 250 years ago, then forgot how we solved it, then had to solve it again, and I think about what other obvious things we're probably getting catastrophically wrong right now...
Reminder that 'correlation doesn't imply causation' doesn't mean 'correlation implies no causation.' Sometimes correlated things are actually related! This has been your daily dose of statistical nuance that will be ignored by 99% of social media. As you were.
