Absolutely delicious, thank you for asking. I’ve been very fortunate and had a lot of help.

Left two jobs in the last 3 years because they offered remote and then tried to claw it back. If I ever set foot in an office again it’ll be too soon.

I also tend to check in with myself on Sunday nights as I’m lying in bed. If I feel like I’m walking into a good situation the next morning, with good problems to solve and a decent chance of actually solving them, then I stick around. If I’m filled with dread awaiting the next off-hours disaster, I brush up my resume and flip the flag on LinkedIn.

wouldn’t let him host AI-generated content

Man this thing where people try to generalize their actions into innocence is a trip.

The years have stopped coming.

Do we need strictly objective terms though? Everyone understands intuitively what “blanded” means

an understandable progression from the previous two, but I did not like it nearly as much

I had a similar experience in the genre because I was unfortunate enough to find out about Chuck Person’s Eccojams before I had heard of Oneohtrix Point Never.

deafheaven broke my heart. roads to judah and sunbather are two of my favorite albums of all time, but after sunbather they just started slowly losing their edge like a folding knife you got at the mall. The next three albums were okay, and had flashes of the brilliance of sunbather, but I could see that the band was trying to move away from extreme metal and more toward becoming another shoegaze band. I’m all for artists growing and expanding but I just didn’t care for the direction they were headed. Then infinite granite came out. The thing about infinite granite that stings the most is the song Mombasa, wherein they demonstrate that they’re still perfectly capable of the high flying guitar, low-in-the-mix extreme metal vocals and dynamic rhythm section that I fell ass over ankles for, and that they’re just choosing not to do it for the rest of the album. I even got to see them on a recent tour with Coheed and Cambria (who, it must be said, remain gods astride the earth). I was super hype because the last couple times I had seen deafheaven had been beautiful, intense, Battaile-esque ordeals that shook me to my core. Unfortunately at this show we were about halfway through their third chill, downtempo jazz exploration when I realized that I kinda just don’t care about them anymore. I’m glad they’re doing what they want to do and if this music is the product of George getting sober and growing up, then that’s a fair trade for him and the best of what could possibly happen. But when I saw them on the Sunbather tour I literally rent my clothes with intensity and felt like I was happily under water for like 3 days afterward. I miss it.

For those not in the know, Ermey was only ever meant to be a consultant to teach Tim Colceri, the actor playing the drill instructor, how to do so realistically. It was only after Ermey did a 30 minute demonstration in which he berated and insulted the “troops” of the film while stagehands beaned him with tennis balls and oranges that Kubrick realized that casting Ermey would essentially just be removing the middleman.

Republicans trying to generalize away crimes is my new favorite thing. “Democrats want to make it illegal to have opinions. They’re threatening prison, and all these people did was think for themselves!” Lol

the misunderstanding is in that I don’t understand where defederating is in any way censorship, but everyone is treating it as though it’s censorship. Defederating is just refusing to help spread someone’s speech, which is perfectly fine and reasonable. The message I refuse to signal boost is still there, people can see it, they can even choose to boost it further if they want. The people who originate the message are not locked out of the instance that defederate them either. But everyone acts like this is the equivalent of putting a gun to someone’s head and demanding that they shut up and I’m honestly really confused about it.

who is saying that? who is saying that if you have an account on a defederated instance that you can’t also have an account on their instance?

if he took it to court, he’d go to prison for lying UNDER OATH

Did y’all know that “nimrod” didn’t mean idiot until Bugs Bunny said it? Nimrod was a biblical king who was supposed to be a mighty hunter. In an episode with Elmer Fudd Bugs was like ‘What a Nimrod we got here’ or some shit like that. Nobody got the reference, but everyone picked up on the fact that it was meant to be insulting, and so we all just assumed that nimrod meant idiot and now it does.

he’s right there. he has the pamphlets. he’s giving them away for free. it’s 100% available to anyone who wants it. no one is stopping you from doing anything, they’re just not helping.

If defederation is censorship then refusing to take a pamphlet from someone handing them out on the street is censorship

Both sides committed voter fraud

Okay, let’s take it to court. If you’re right, you’ll win and if you’re lying you’ll go to prison.

Is it wrong to pirate movies…

…lemme stop you right there

Why does being good at the game make you a good host? I’m not saying he isn’t, but being a good host requires an entirely different skill set than being a good player. Bialik was there because her brand is intellectual nerdiness that Jeopardy wants to leverage, but also because she’s been making TV off and on her whole life. That kinda feels more relevant to the skillset required to making TV.

holding the delusion that people are naturally good

Nope! Just recognizing the truth that I, within myself, can be better and that I can accept the idea of being taken advantage of by the occasional bad faith actor in exchange for being able to be part of a broader community of people who do the right thing most of the time.

Cynicism is laziness masquerading as intellectualism. It’s the “step 1: give up!” of philosophies.

runaway global leader for misinformation

I’d really like to see that study if you’ve got it handy