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Coestar @coestar.live · 25/09/2026

watching dr. strangelove and realizing that's who alex carp is based on

Coestar @coestar.live · 22/09/2026

every time we get a peek inside big tech, it's a horrifying freakshow of the world's worst thinkers there's never a cool one, it's always very, very bad

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Coestar @coestar.live · 21/09/2026

one of the struggles as a professional right now is how clients will balk at your effort/time estimations while pointing to some AI garbage that looks like shit, and it's so hard to convince them that it's shit because they don't understand the difference, even when explained to them

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Coestar @coestar.live · 17/09/2026

the most irritating effect of "AI" in my industry is that the market doesn't want to pay for anything anymore, but they are not justified in that at all they THINK everything can be AI now, so they won't pay for real quality work, but the results in reality are always mediocre trash

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Coestar @coestar.live · 17/09/2026

let's discuss ai safety: who are these assholes in charge of it why do they keep saying it's alive that seems unsafe

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Coestar @coestar.live · 16/09/2026

llms are not alive and people need to stop talking about them in that way they don't make decisions, people do. whatever the llm did is some specific person's fault. they set it up to do whatever it did. the person is responsible for whatever happens.

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Coestar @coestar.live · 15/09/2026

the only move ed sheeran has left is to resign from his own tour

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Coestar @coestar.live · 15/09/2026

sorry to anyone trying to get an loz 40th pro controller, it only goes in stock when I'm not looking and I been looking

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours

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Coestar @coestar.live · 11/09/2026

happy day of deserving it to those who celebrate

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Nintendeal @nintendeal.com · 10/09/2026

EB Games Canada gets an exclusive Zelda Ocarina of Time N64 slipcover with pre-order of the game "Exclusively available in Canada at EB Games" it's official... USA lost the trade war 😭

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Coestar @coestar.live · 10/09/2026

god, AI killing us all is always "just 5 years away" technology sucks

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Coestar @coestar.live · 08/09/2026

getting all my American friends to refer to playing Wardogs as "dogging" and calling themselves "the doggers"

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Coestar @coestar.live · 08/09/2026

I'm into the OoT's new look. It's all woodland fairytale whimsy and that just seems like the correct vibe to me. OoT is a formative game for me so it'd be almost impossible to recreate the feelings I had then, but I think it looks great.

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Coestar @coestar.live · 06/09/2026

just tryin to make friends

Photo of a container holding ceramic items with two stickers displaying the text "pick me" and "I'm cool"

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Coestar @coestar.live · 02/09/2026

surprisingly, it's starting to seem like maybe lying is losing its power a bit

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Coestar @coestar.live · 02/09/2026

doing my morning condemnations

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Coestar @coestar.live · 31/08/2026

i hope we can one day invent a mouse wheel that has a lifespan longer than five seconds

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Coestar @coestar.live · 28/08/2026

have you condemned hasan piker today? have you affirmed israel today? you call yourself american?

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Coestar @coestar.live · 27/08/2026

many people have been saying that I am "not cool" but I am writing "i'm cool" on each piece of my clothing to prove they are wrong

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Coestar @coestar.live · 27/08/2026

how the hell are we supposed to deport 100 million fish

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Coestar @coestar.live · 27/08/2026

wish we could make non-evil internet tech

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Coestar @coestar.live · 25/08/2026

be kind to the theft machine because one day it might take a break from denying you healthcare to deny you healthcare even harder

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Coestar @coestar.live · 24/08/2026

they stuck to their guns through the entire cancellation process that no lower service was available in my area, which is pure unadulterated bullshit

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Coestar @coestar.live · 24/08/2026

fuck Spectrum/Charter and the dystopian capitalist hellscape they rode in on check out this straight up lying bullshit the INSTANT I said "cancel" a huge wall of text appeared lol p.s. the "$60/mo." I'd be "saving" is the amount that they've crept my bill up over five years - should be illegal

A screenshot of a support chat conversation. Gray is the support employee, blue is OP.

OP: "I would like to downgrade my internet service to a lower plan."

Support: "Awesome! Please let me review your account for a few and see what options are available."

Support: "Thank you for your patience. Upon review of your account, the only option to downgrade your internet I show is switching you to 500mbps, and that would save you $60/mo on your bill. Please let me know if this is something you're interested in."

OP: "Can you explain why that's my only option? Is there something preventing me from using the other internet plans that Spectrum offers?"

A screenshot of a support chat conversation. Gray is the support employee, blue is OP.

Support: "For your account, the only options for internet is the 500mbps or the fastest speed which is gig and that is what you're currently paying an additional $60 for."

OP: "When I put my address into Spectrum's internet availability checker, it says the $30/mo 100Mbps Advantage plan is available. Why can't I switch to that?"

Support: "That option is not available for your account. You cannot switch to that, because its not available."

OP: "I'd like to cancel my service."

Support: "Thank you so much for sharing that information with me! Our wonderful Customer Solutions team would be more than happy to assist you in removing that service. You can reach them at 800-319-4293. I truly apologize for this extra step, but they are" (screenshot cuts off)

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Coestar @coestar.live · 24/08/2026

the slop generator can only "make" sounds/pictures/words because of the ongoing theft of everyone else's work there's no argument around that fact, least of all one that broadens the definition to include everything a computer does - no, we're talking specifically about the theft machine.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/08/2026

'Resistance to data centers is chatbot eugenics' holy christ some people are cooked

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Coestar @coestar.live · 21/08/2026

the mountain of filler text you get from someone who's ceded their brain over to the robot reads like a lazy homework essay that's been stuffed full of as many unnecessary words as possible to pad out the word count I can feel my brain longing for death as I read them

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 21/08/2026

I don't even think trypophobia is a real thing and now I have it

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Coestar @coestar.live · 20/08/2026

something the crypto-brained, NFT-brained, and AI-brained all share is this assumption that everyone else is just too stupid to understand

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Coestar @coestar.live · 20/08/2026

if RFK visits New York City, I will arrest him

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Coestar @coestar.live · 19/08/2026

maybe all of this is just what it looks like when you're hitting the great filter

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Coestar @coestar.live · 19/08/2026

how DARE you say "defund the police" when crime is at all time lows and continuing to decrease despite police inaction??

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Coestar @coestar.live · 24/01/2026

the job market is gonna be so good for people who didn't rake their brain over the AI coals for years being capable of thinking and knowing things without a chatbot will go so hard

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

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Coestar @coestar.live · 18/08/2026

I'm extremely glad people recognize the threat of Flock and are pissed about it. I wish we could get people as pissed about all the other privacy violators as well. Your phone, car, TV, grocery store; The whole corporate world is watching everything you do everywhere you are at all times.

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Coestar @coestar.live · 15/08/2026

the worst thing ever has happened

An overturned toolbox with its contents scattered on the floor

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Coestar @coestar.live · 14/08/2026

after the revolution we form a new government that is based solely on punishing joe rogan

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Coestar @coestar.live · 14/08/2026

never could've imagined the media would eventually start talking about nothing except for one twitch streamer

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Coestar @coestar.live · 14/08/2026

did you know that every insurance customer owns a percentage of every insurance executives' vacation homes? it's like a time share you can go and stay there whenever you want, visit the beach, have a nice time don't even call ahead

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Coestar @coestar.live · 14/08/2026

seems like a great time to remind people that if you want to cancel your Adobe subscription but they're threatening you with the big early cancellation fee, switch your subscription to Acrobat Pro only then cancel for free 👍

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Coestar @coestar.live · 13/08/2026

Sam Altman Stop Talking 2026

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Coestar @coestar.live · 12/08/2026

on by default FUCK twitch (go to Twitch > Settings > Security and Privacy)

Screenshot of a setting from Twitch labeled "Training for Generative AI" that is toggled on.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

literally 100% of the bad things about "woke 1" are just shit that sucks about social media. if you're complaining about "Woke" and not Gamergate, it's because you're a disingenuous prick.

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Coestar @coestar.live · 11/08/2026

never been more tired, boss

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Coestar @coestar.live · 09/08/2026

the problem with our economy is that economists still say shit like "people think they can't afford a home, why?"

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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

For the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, we're raising money all day this Thursday the 13th?? Me and @hcjustin.com ? Featuring some of our favorite games, a brand-new fucked up quiz, singing every song I've ever written in a row, NEW songs, new bits, and live readings? With guests????? What??

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Coestar @coestar.live · 08/08/2026

yea uber, please go ahead and close the fuckin account already, this is year three of "in 30 days" don't make me go in there and do it myself

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